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Example sentences for "square hole"

  • How to Bore a Square Hole [179] You would not consider it possible to bore a square hole in a piece of cardboard, yet such a thing can be done.

  • To make these bearings, cut a square hole in the wood as shown, making half of the square in each half of the bearing.

  • Below the shelf E, a square hole, H, is seen, which serves for admitting air, and for extracting the ashes.

  • It is formed of steel not hardened, and is fixed upon a handle 6 inches long, which passes through a square hole in its centre.

  • When the furnace is a single one, a square hole is left in the side of the fire-place opposite to the door, through which the rakes are introduced, in order to be heated.

  • The drill may then be rotated through F as a guide, when it will drill a square hole.

  • Near to the lower end or cutting edges of the drill, there is fixed above the work a metal guide plate F having a square hole of the size requiring to be drilled.

  • The rolls are driven by a socket bolted to the lathe face plate, and containing a square hole, in which fits loosely the square end of the roll.

  • Obviously the bolt may have a solid square head, and a square shoulder fitting into a square hole in the plate, the whole being bricked in.

  • In England we have a proverb which speaks of a round man in a square hole; might it not almost be applied to you?

  • When the nipple is fixed in, make, at about one and half inches from it, a square hole in the block, six inches deep, and one inch in diameter.

  • Make a frame with your hand, or, better, cut a square hole in a card, and look through it.

  • The card with a square hole in it will do the same.

  • You will find it very useful as a help in seeing pitch as well as color to have a card with a square hole cut in it to look through at your landscape.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "square hole" 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:
    another called; chief good; common enough; deep water; dread lord; great cities; musk oxen; nature herself; not being; people were; small bits; square deal; square foot; square form; square inch; square kilometres; square knot; square meal; square meters; square mile; square miles; square piece; square root; square tower; square yards; technical education