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Example sentences for "shingling"

Lexicographically close words:
shiney; shing; shingle; shingled; shingles; shingly; shinin; shining; shiningly; shinings
  1. Why can't he go on shingling the chicken coop?

  2. The shingling and plate-rolling mill is represented in fig.

  3. The former is called a smith's forge, the latter a shingling mill.

  4. I am shingling on the broad roof of a suburban house from which I can see the sunny slopes of a meadow and sheep feeding therein.

  5. The ladder they had gone for was missing from its case,--a neighbor had carried it off for the workmen who were shingling his roof.

  6. He talks of putting up a shingling mill, in which Drayton will be of service, and if things turn out satisfactory you will be given an interest in it.

  7. It's not worth milling--a forest fire has wiped most of it out--but we struck some shingling cedar we may make something of.

  8. Just as the bird had come to grief, so Harky was sure to meet misfortune if he tried shingling the chicken house.

  9. But the shingling was still far in the future, and the only future worth considering was embodied in what happened between now and sundown.

  10. The question of shingling was tacitly felt to be outside the feminine domain, but as there were five women to one man in the church membership, the feminine domain was frequently obliged to extend its limits into the hitherto unknown.

  11. We lay that night on the very bed made by such a party, stretching our tent over the poles which were still standing, but re-shingling the damp and faded bed with fresh leaves.

  12. They were elderly men, and had spent so much of their lives at sea that they were not very well informed about shingling their own houses, having left this to their wives, or agents, or some other land-fast persons.

  13. The deplored necessity of re-shingling her roof was the great case in which she threw herself upon their advice and assistance.

  14. Shingling may now be done as described under tennis court accessories.

  15. As the method of shingling has been described under tennis court shelter, it is only necessary to take up the subject of the frame.

  16. Begin shingling at the lower end of the rafters, allowing the first course to project an inch beyond the first lath.

  17. The shingling of Helen's house had been finished.

  18. The shingling must be finished, no matter how it rains," cried Captain Payne, "and every man shall have an extra ration of grog when it is done.

  19. It is made by fastening a horizontal pole to a couple of contiguous trees and then putting on a heavy covering of hemlock boughs, shingling them with the tips downward, of course.

  20. I tried shingling hatchets, lathing hatchets and the small hatchets to be found in country hardware stores, but none of them were satisfactory.

  21. Commence to lay them from the ground and work up to the cross-pole, shingling them carefully as you go.

  22. It is made by fastening a horizontal pole to a couple of contiguous trees, and then putting on a heavy covering of hemlock boughs, shingling them with the tips downward, of course.

  23. I tried shingling hatchets, lathing hatchets, and the small hatchets to be found in country hardware stores, but none of them were satisfactory.

  24. Commence to lay them from the ground, and work up to the cross-pole, shingling them carefully as you go.

  25. The works where wrought iron is produced directly from the ore, or where iron is rendered malleable by puddling and shingling; a shingling mill.

  26. A board extending from the ridge to the eaves along the slope of the gable, and forming a close junction between the shingling of a roof and the side of the building beneath.

  27. Commence at the bottom as you do in shingling a roof and place sections of birch bark around, others above them overlapping them, and hold them in place by resting poles against them.

  28. Shingling hammer, a ponderous hammer moved by machinery, used in shingling puddled iron.

  29. Shingling mill, a mill or forge where puddled iron is shingled.

  30. This is an easy and quite inexpensive way to finish the outside, and while hardly equal to clapboarding or shingling in some respects is a very good way for structures of this kind.

  31. All these pieces having been carefully nailed in place, the clapboarding or shingling of the sides can be done.

  32. The roof can be covered according to the methods already shown, but shingling will be much better.

  33. If well painted, such a roof will last for some time, but shingling is much better.

  34. For the shingling of the roof, see Part III.

  35. Shingling the roofs, putting casing around the windows and doors and at the corners of the houses, and clapboarding or shingling the sides, adds much to the attractiveness of such small structures, as you can see from the illustrations.

  36. Begin the shingling at the eaves and work upward.

  37. If a building is worth shingling at all, it is usually best to use a good quality of shingles.

  38. The shingling is more difficult at the corners than in the other roofs shown, as the shingles must be cut.

  39. It's not worth milling--a forest fire has wiped out most of it--but we struck some shingling cedar we may make something of.

  40. He talks of putting up a shingling mill, in which Drayton will be of service, and if things turn out satisfactorily you will be given an interest in it.

  41. Sounded as if he were shingling a roof, and that's work, you know, which must be done in fair weather.

  42. The carpet was not put down until the morning of the day when the young men started for Vassar, and it was the noise of the tack-hammer which Tom had heard and likened to the shingling of a roof.

  43. Tom Tracy said you were shingling a roof, and Billy Peterkin said Maude was helping you.

  44. Harold is shingling a roof, and cannot come.

  45. Shingling a roof, and Maude is helping him,' Billy said, 'I wonder what he meant?

  46. Maude's sh-shingling a roof, too; the b-best joke out.

  47. Shingling a roof, and Maude is helping him,'" Billy said.

  48. The carpet was not put down until the morning of the day when the young men started for Vassar, and it was the noise of the tack hammer which Tom had heard and likened to the shingling of a roof.

  49. I went to him and asked him for the job of shingling it.

  50. But I had no shingling hammer and all the cash I had in the world was seventy-five cents, which I at once expended in purchasing the necessary hammer.


  51. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shingling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.