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Example sentences for "small hole"

  • Drill a small hole in the shaft, draw the cord taut, and fasten it through this hole.

  • The compass saw] One end of the turning saw can be released from the frame by removing a pin, passed through a small hole.

  • Make a small hole in the covering, pass a cord through, and tie it to cross the stick at its centre.

  • By digging in the gravelly bed of the channel, where the natives had scooped a small hole, we got some tolerable water, and were enabled to give as much as they required to our horses, but it was a slow and tedious operation.

  • They sometimes enter a dwelling-house through a small hole, and literally take possession, proceeding across the floor, over the walls and ceilings.

  • I left only a small hole, through which I could just creep in and out.

  • Presently I saw it run along the ground, when it entered a small hole which I had not before observed.

  • Looking down to the ground, towards which she was directing her alarmed gaze, I saw that it was covered by countless numbers of white ants, which came swarming in through a small hole in the wall.

  • The egg-cavity is very small compared with the size of the nest, some of which, look like balls of grass with a small hole in the centre.

  • To vignette bromide prints, the printing frame must be covered with a piece of cardboard in which a small hole (about 1-1/2 inches by 1 inch for a cabinet head and bust) is pierced.

  • The simplest means for getting an image is a small hole in an opaque screen.

  • When boring a small hole, the largest tool that will enter it without interference should be used to get the greatest rigidity possible.

  • This principle of dividing the error when setting work can often be applied in connection with turning and boring.

  • The cutters are so arranged that they all cut on the center; that is, the cutting edges lie in a horizontal plane.

  • When the thread tool has been fed in far enough to form a complete thread, the screw is then tested for size.

  • The fuse hole of the cannon is counterbored as shown and a small hole is drilled at one side to receive a small piece of copper wire, E.

  • When you do not have a graduate at hand, a half egg-shell with a small hole pricked in the end will serve better than a funnel.

  • Bore a small hole D and E in each end of the wood handle C and fasten the button parts in the holes with glue or sealing wax.

  • Cut a small circular plate of copper seven-sixteenths of an inch in diameter, and drill a small hole in the middle of it.

  • This can be done easily by first drilling a small hole, about an eighth of an inch in diameter, near one corner, and then putting a fretwork saw through it and fixing it in the frame, and sawing the metal away just inside the lines.

  • It would be better to make a small hole in the shaft for the point of the screw to enter.

  • Drill a small hole in the shaft for it, and put the screw on the end of the shaft and fix it by tightening the screw.

  • A small hole is then chopped with a tomahawk through the side of the stump, level with the ground and opposite the pit.

  • A small hole is bored near its top for the reception of the end of any hollow tube you can get; this is also secured with clay.

  • In a mound excavated a year or two since near Lower Sandusky, Ohio, upwards of twenty oval plates of mica of great beauty were discovered, each perforated with a small hole at one end, evidently for the purpose of suspension.

  • Each piece is perforated with a small hole, such as would be formed by thrusting a blunt needle through it.

  • From one of the ends, and communicating with the hollow of the bowl, is drilled a small hole, which answers the purpose of a tube; the corresponding opposite division being left for the manifest purpose of holding the implement to the mouth.

  • Some boys were playing on the mountain, when one of them found a small hole which he thought was a rabbit hole, but, pushing his arm down it, he could feel no bottom.

  • The son then takes up on his right shoulder an earthen pot full of water, at the bottom of which is a small hole.

  • At the Muharram they tie a red thread on their necks and dance round the alawa, a small hole in which fire is kindled in front of the tasias or tombs of Hussain.

  • Make the handle and drill a small hole in it where the wheel is to be screwed on.

  • Drill a small hole exactly in the center of the end of the ramrod, then drive the nail thru the center of the cork and into the ramrod.

  • Illustration] The principle involved in the simplest and most refined forms is the same, and may be illustrated by the following experiment: Let a small hole be cut in an opaque window-shade, and the room darkened.

  • At the window (if there are more than one) commanding the broadest prospect have a perfectly tight, opaque screen fitted, with a small hole cut in the lower part for the insertion of the lens.

  • We intercept it with a screen perforated with a small hole, so that the diverging pencil which falls on the mirror may not spread too much.

  • The handle is hollow and air-tight, and at its upper part a small hole is drilled where the thumb or finger can readily cover it.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    she saw; small and; small angle; small arms; small army; small bird; small circular; small diameter; small dose; small extent; small figures; small octavo; small parcel; small percentage; small plain; small portions; small pots; small price; small schooner; small share; small species; small spring; small steamer; small telescope; smaller proportion; somewhat resembling