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Example sentences for "sized"

Lexicographically close words:
sizable; sizar; sizars; size; sizeable; sizes; sizing; sizzle; sizzled; sizzling
  1. This quantity will make one dozen good sized cylinders.

  2. If you do not have a freezing cave, pack a good sized tin kettle in a small tub or water bucket.

  3. Cap the top of the dish with a good sized sprig of fresh mint, and sprinkle capers all over the salad.

  4. What pity could befall a heart, To think about these hard-sized warps!

  5. But the moment he touched the ground, he became a full-sized partridge.

  6. He stayed at the Kurhaus, a hotel of more pretentions than the village inns, for it had a good sized garden and did not entertain peasants.

  7. However plain it is you can use it partly as a sitting-room, because a sofa and a good sized table in front of it are considered an indispensable part of its furniture.

  8. Here there were good-sized loopholes commanding a view of the north and east fronts of the stockade.

  9. Only one was in sight--a fair-sized buck.

  10. You have, however, managed to catch a fish (any sort will do) about the dimensions of a good-sized sprat.

  11. The slides A and B B are adjustable so that any sized picture can be inserted and the sides closed round it to shut out the light from behind.

  12. When the photographs have all been pasted on and dried the whole is sized and varnished.

  13. To make this experiment we require two large-sized mirrors, and they must be so arranged that they do not reflect the camera and the photographer, but give only multiple images of the sitter.

  14. Under the ruins were found the remains of the master grasping in each hand a large-sized drumstick.

  15. A party of some fifteen persons, not by any means all gentlemen, was sitting round a medium-sized table, spread with cups and dishes.

  16. It took more than a full-sized man to stop it.

  17. Even this necessity will hardly arise, because two medium-sized steamers are sufficient to carry the fifteen thousand tons, and things would have to be very bad, indeed, if these did not succeed in reaching a British port.

  18. In between his frequent trips to oversee Hector's work, Leoh had jury-rigged a rather bulky headset and a hand-sized override control circuit.

  19. It was, in reality, a good-sized city with its own markets, its own local government, and its own way of life.

  20. The weapon he had chosen was simplicity itself--a hand-sized capsule of oxygen.

  21. He started up, only to have a good-sized stone slam against his shoulder, and knock him flat again.

  22. The inner room was scarcely large enough to admit a middle-sized bedstead used by the parents.

  23. In the course of a few months it has reached a third edition, though it is a fair-sized octavo and not an over-cheap one.

  24. They'll have been down two days and should yield some good-sized ones.

  25. That little cove on the northeast corner's the Sly Hole; you mightn't think it, but a good-sized schooner can ride there at low tide.

  26. Occasionally from a single one three or four good-sized lobsters would be taken; occasionally one would yield nothing at all.

  27. If we could get some fair-sized fish, it'd be worth our while to take 'em into Rockland.

  28. The set yielded over two thousand pounds of fish, principally good-sized hake.

  29. Some large kinds of Pine Apple plants require three seasons to grow before they can bring large sized fruit, such as the black Antigua, the Jamaica, the Ripley, &c.

  30. He contrives to produce tolerably sized fruit, and to have such a degree of vigour in his suckers, as that they are able, in their turn, to throw out other vigorous suckers to succeed them.

  31. Pots for fruiting plants 11½ 10 I wish it to be understood that the above dimensions are only used for full-sized plants, at their different periods: plants below the standard must have less-sized pots in proportion.

  32. The leaves of a dark brown, inclining to purple in the inside; fruit middle-sized and tun-shaped, and the pips or protuberances of the fruit larger and flatter than in the other kinds.

  33. I then put such plants as are intended to fruit the next season into second-sized pots with fresh mould entire.

  34. If the above directions are strictly attended to, the plants will be grown to a large size by the beginning of August; when they should be shifted into the largest-sized fruiting-pots, with their roots and balls entire.

  35. Great Salt Lake maintains a steamer or two for excursion purposes, and the waters of California had at one time a fair-sized fleet of boats that navigated San Francisco bay and the streams flowing into it.

  36. A hundred pounds is considered a sufficient load for an ordinary deer, and it is only the very best of the animals that can sustain the weight of a good sized man.

  37. The dust would all have gone into a good-sized coffee-cup.

  38. There we took coach, as the locks at Carillon are not yet large enough for full-sized steamers to pass.

  39. It was a fair-sized town, with many beautiful buildings, and fine old houses in the Flemish style--so I was told.

  40. It is found westward to Louisiana where fair-sized timber grows, but in small quantities.

  41. It is said that as much as two tons has been known to flow from a medium sized birch in a single season.

  42. It is yellowish-green in color, as large as a good-sized olive, and looks much like it.

  43. Take a good sized stick about 4 feet long, drive it well on a nice flat piece of land, then tie what you have dragged to this stick about 20 inches from the ground.

  44. The dog will then catch him; after the hound has pinched the 'coon a couple of times, throw the line over a branch of some good sized tree and help the 'coon to climb.

  45. Set a trap where you see 'coon signs as follows: Take the skin or part of a good sized green codfish, tie it to a string and drag it along the bank of a creek or place where you see their signs, to the place you wish to set your trap.

  46. The size doses mentioned here are for good-sized dogs as grown hounds.

  47. The British territory of Weihaiwei being rather less than 300 square miles in extent is equivalent in area to a small-sized district-magistracy.

  48. It sometimes happens that the larger or the smaller sized workers are the most numerous; or that both large and small are numerous, while those of an intermediate size are scanty in numbers.

  49. That the small size of the egg is a real case of adaptation we may infer from the fact of the mon-parasitic American cuckoo laying full-sized eggs.

  50. He hinted concerning a good-sized contribution toward a parish house, something the society needed.

  51. They had a spyglass, and a good-sized dory was ready for launching.


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

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    sized onion; sized onions; sized pieces; sized potatoes; sized tree