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Example sentences for "small aperture"

  • A small aperture; a hole or passage for air or any fluid to escape; as, the vent of a cask; the vent of a mold; a volcanic vent.

  • To let out at a vent, or small aperture; to give passage or outlet to.

  • A disk with a small aperture, to direct the sight forward, and cure squinting.

  • All at once a flag is seen to make its exit through a small aperture, then a shot is fired from the interior; the ball is certainly inhabited.

  • The fulcrum of the lever is on one side of the wire; the extremity on the other side, at four times this distance from the fulcrum, carries a vertical plate of opaque mica, having a small aperture.

  • The tube, E, is of small aperture, and is bent up, in order to retain the last few drops of rain, so that the only opening for the escape of vapour may be closed as long as possible.

  • A small aperture is left in which a bear skin is hung in lieu of a door, and a space is left open at the top, which answers the purpose of window and chimney.

  • Within, they are capacious, but dark, being lighted merely by a small aperture at the top, which serves both as window and chimney.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "small aperture" 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:
    small arms; small boat; small bodies; small circular; small clearing; small detachments; small fishes; small force; small groups; small knife; small mammals; small onion; small part; small parties; small pieces; small post; small rock; small saucepan; small steamer; small telescope; small valley; small value; small voice; small white; small work; smaller size