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Example sentences for "short pieces"

  • They are attached in the lamp to short pieces of platinum wire which are sealed through the glass walls of the bulb.

  • They were connected by short pieces of bare copper wire; No.

  • Fuses are made of short pieces of wire or thin sheet metal.

  • This was connected by short pieces of copper wire, as shown in Fig.

  • Trim, cut in short pieces, and cook tender in boiling salted water.

  • Scrape, and cut the stalks into rather short pieces.

  • Cut in short pieces; boil in hot salted water forty minutes, drain, pepper, salt, and butter.

  • Short pieces of rope, knotted at each end, for securing the clues of sails or rigging during action, or when strained.

  • Short pieces of rope with a thimble in one end, the other whipped; the buntlines are rove through these thimbles: they are attached to the tie-blocks to keep the sail in the bunt when hauled up.

  • Short pieces of wood are nailed on the center pole about 2 ft.

  • The dumbbells are made of short pieces of 3/4-in.

  • Even in short pieces, when the internal diameter approaches that of the external, this plan is the best, because it is difficult for the moulder to tell when his core is accurately set in position.

  • If wrought-iron cuttings break off in short pieces it may occur from black seams in the work, but if they break off short and show no tendency to coil, the tool has too little rake.

  • Short pieces may be driven by the chuck or between the centres of a face plate (shown on the floor at e) screwing on in the ordinary manner.

  • Season well to your taste, and bake in pâté pans lined with puff-paste.

  • Serve very hot, with rounds of buttered toast, or sandwiches.

  • Take down the meat, brush off the bran, examine closely, and if you suspect insects, lay it in the hot sun for a day or two.

  • It is one of the most superb of MacDowell's short pieces.

  • Although the chords seem to call for orchestral colouring, the effect is always clear and ringing on the pianoforte, whilst the melodies are some of the most noble and dignified of MacDowell's short pieces.

  • Warping or winding of short pieces can be detected by simply laying one straight-edge diagonally from corner to corner (Fig.

  • They are got out in short pieces, lengthways of the grain, and can be freely used in places where they will not show, as inside of the base-board in Fig.

  • You will see that there is no need of sawing out a square hole for the window, as you can put in short pieces at each side of the window-space.

  • The overhang at the ends of the house can be arranged in the same way, short pieces of studding being nailed in the outside angle of the roof and ends, with strips nailed upon these.

  • A continuous narrative, moreover, is about the least suited of all literary forms to bear that process of cutting up in short pieces which is necessary in education.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "short pieces" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    dear comrade; four million; iron and; mental influence; over against; short allowance; short circuited; short circuits; short course; short description; short distance; short laugh; short length; short order; short pause; short point; short rations; short reign; short section; short sketch; short space; short speech; short sword; short vowel; short walk; shortly before