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Example sentences for "single piece"

  • Polynesian drums, and he comes to the conclusion that the upright drums, which were hollowed out of a single piece of wood, were originally derived from bamboo instruments.

  • Mr. Cushing[36] informs us that in order to produce this form of utensil from a single piece of bark, it is necessary to cut pieces out of the margin and fold it.

  • It still for a time retained its ancient form, but gradually became degraded into a single piece of double wire.

  • And Bhrigu's son endued with intelligence beheld her wandering like lightning, without her maids, and wearing a single piece of cloth and decked with ornaments.

  • I accompanied my husband into the woods, comforting the hero clad in a single piece of cloth and maniac-like and overwhelmed with calamity.

  • And attired in a single piece of cloth, his body uncovered, renouncing all his wealth, and enhancing the grief of friends, the king set out.

  • Consisting of a single piece, as a corolla.

  • Spines in the basal part grown perfectly together, so that the whole skeleton forms a single piece of acanthin; a star with twenty equal rays.

  • Spines quadrangular pyramidal, with simple distal apex, in the basal part grown perfectly together, so that the whole skeleton forms a single piece of acanthin--a starlet with twenty equal rays.

  • Spines in the basal part grown together, so that the whole skeleton is not composed of twenty separated pieces, but represents a single piece of acanthin--a star with twenty equal rays.

  • All twenty spines with their central bases grown together and forming one single piece of acanthin--a star with twenty rays.

  • Such skill is rarely attained by the white man, and the art of making a water-proof canoe, even out of a single piece of bark, is by no means an easy task without the aid of tar or pitch.

  • If a single piece of this size cannot be found, several parts may he sewed together to the required dimensions.

  • It will sometimes happen, where large birches exist in perfection, that a single piece may be found of sufficient size for a whole canoe, but this is rather exceptional, and the bottom is generally pieced out, as seen in our drawing.

  • We had not at Chattanooga animals to pull a single piece of artillery, much less a supply train.

  • At points on the San Cosme road parapets were thrown across, with an embrasure for a single piece of artillery in each.

  • This country afforded but little food for his animals, nearly ten thousand of which had already starved, and not enough were left to draw a single piece of artillery or even the ambulances to convey the sick.

  • But he persisted in the declaration that he could not move a single piece of artillery, and could not see how he could possibly comply with the order.

  • This is made of a single piece of pale yellow translucent horn, apparently softened and molded into shape, cut only on the edges and the handle.

  • This is very smoothly carved from a single piece of pine wood.

  • This specimen is smoothly carved from a single piece of pine, and painted all over, except the inside of the bowl, with red ocher.

  • They differ somewhat in shape and size, but each is carved from a single piece of ivory and has a large bowl and a straight handle.

  • Lastly, in Pyrgoma, all the compartments are blended together into a single piece.

  • The leg is formed of a single piece, so that there is but one seam; the tongue or piece to cover the instep may or may not be a separate piece.

  • It is necessary, for greater strength, that each runner be of a single piece of timber.

  • The back or upper portion of the mitten is made of a single piece of black skin, the edge of which is crimped and turned under to protect the fingers.

  • A single piece or subdivision of a series, or of a number of long pieces which may be connected together; as, a length of pipe; a length of fence.

  • A painting on a wall or ceiling; a single piece comprehended in one view, and formed according to one design; hence, a picture in general.

  • A calyx which separates from the flower, and falls off in a single piece, as in the Australian Eucalypti.

  • Of this last sort, one was procured nine inches long, of a single piece of bone, which doubtless belonged to some large fish.

  • In the case of all the teeth of the lower jaw being wanting, the entire dental arch ought to be framed in with a single piece of ivory or tusk of hippopotamus.

  • It consists in almost every instance of a single piece; but an exception to this occurs in Halictus, a little bee, in the females of which it is furnished with a slender appendage[1187].

  • The labium consists also of a single piece, and is only an appendage of the anterior extremity of the breast.

  • Being obviously derived in part from the word stauros, which primarily signified a stake or pale which was a single piece of wood and had no cross-bar, sustauroo evidently meant affixion to such a stake or pale.

  • And it is as thus signifying a single piece of wood that the word in question is used throughout the old Greek classics.

  • The word anastauroo was never used by the old Greek writers as meaning other than to impale upon or with a single piece of timber.

  • The flippers are cut off at the joints, and thus the whole skin is drawn off in a single piece.

  • The right and left sides of a whale's jaw are frequently used for shoes, as they are of the proper size and permit the shoe to be of a single piece.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "single piece" 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:
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