If this part of the constitution really confers no power, it at least, according to this opinion, strips it of that attribute of perfection which has by these gentlemen been ascribed to it.
You mean putting two metal strips in an acid solution so as to produce an electric current.
Some long strips of metal, a heavy base that had once been an engine support--here was a start on the antennae.
When this core was measured and cut, Lee began to wind it smoothly in the strips of tough brown wrapping paper that he had already prepared.
The only feasible method of procedure seemed to be to get aerial photographs, piece together the long strips of film, and from a study of these get an idea of the lay of the land.
Some metal strips wired together, their bases banked in snow, lifted their slender height above this tiny camp on a drift-island of ice.
The paper strips had been easy to handle, but managing the lively, wriggling wire was a very difficult task.
He wired thestrips to the base, then wired them together at the top to insure stability.
To the centre of this fasten, by means of strips of black linen, a small, semicircular piece of cardboard, which will thus be hinged to the other piece.
Upon turning one of the strips I often discovered voles in close proximity.
The disturbance of repeatedly raising the strips and exposing the voles' shelters soon caused them to desert the sites; consequently the information obtained by this means was limited.
Although it was not feasible to study the home life of the voles underground, clues were gained from those uncovered in runways and nests beneath large boards and strips of tarpaper, previously distributed for this purpose.
The bark for the shell came from paper birch, threads for sewing the strips of bark together were tamarack roots, resin for stopping leaks was a product of balsam fir, and the light framework of wood was northern white cedar.
The bark separates into thick strips a foot or more in length and three or four inches wide.
Bark is prepared for this use by soaking it in water, by which the annual layers of the bark are separated, long, thin sheets are produced, and these are reduced to strips of the desired width.
The wood splits readily into thin strips which are employed in making baskets for harvesting cotton.
Strips three or four feet long and five or six inches wide curl up at the lower ends--sometimes at both ends--and adhere to the trunk several years.
It is dark and contrasts with the blocks or strips of maple or some other light wood.
Composite panels are manufactured by joining narrow strips edge to edge.
Have ready some stripsof toast and put the oysters on two or three of these on hot plates.
As the strips of bacon grew a little brown and curly, Jack took them up one by one and kept them hot till the cakes and coffee were ready too.
They bound his wounds with strips of the skins that the boys wore that day.
Sometimes when the children were hungry, Chew-chew let them tear off strips of partly boiled meat.
Often the Cave-men left stripsof meat hanging from the trees.
The rolls of cloth obtained from the village were about fourteen inches in width, and the biggest of the three sails was made with seven strips of the cloth.
When the strips had been sewn together, the edges of the sail were hemmed.
Those among them who have acquired a slight knowledge of Mohammedanism use verses of the Koran written upon narrow strips of paper by the Mohammedan priests of Ceram and Tidore.
These mystic words are raised in embossed letters on the exterior of the cylinder, and are closely written on strips of paper inside.
Captain Lyon then observed a couple of bunches, each consisting of two strips of white deerskin and a long piece of sinew, attached to the back of his coat.
These strips are placed inside a cylinder, revolving on a long spindle, the end of which is the handle.
So saying, he started to conduct his guests across a field which consisted mostly of moleheaps, and in which the party had to pick their way between strips of ploughed land and of harrowed.
We have seen in some few places small Houses set apart on purpose for the Oblations offer'd to the Eatua, which consists of small strips of Cloth, Viands, etc.
They say that his scalp was peeled away in strips and strings!
Wayside stripsof green were turned into cocoanut shies, wherever a man might wish to shy at nuts; clowns on stilts stalked in chequered blue; bare-legged boys and girls turned amazing Catherine wheels.
Take two stripsand lay them side by side on the table, with the commencing ends of each towards you.
Having finished your strips you have to join them.
These strips are twice as long as the bag is deep.
With a little piece of thread, fasten off very neatly on the wrong side, sticking the hook in the middle of one of the strips before finishing off, to make it quite firm.
In the centre was a log hut, thatched with long strips of bark, which were pegged down to the timbers beneath.
The remainder had many wounds, but none of them were very serious; and later, when the overworked surgeons had a moment to spare, a few small dressings and strips of plaster were sufficient.
Strips of dense woodland, alternating with open and some hilly country, gave good opportunity for planting and masking artillery, and it was necessary to approach the rebel position cautiously, it being difficult to develop.
He had no wheelbarrows; but the men nailed strips of boards for handles on old cracker-boxes, and brought out the earth in these.
Heavy rims, reinforced with appliedstrips of clay beneath external projection of rim.
Reinforcement strips are secured with thumb impressions or square impressions made by end of flat tool.
She snatched a long stone knife from her belt and cutstrips of venison steak from the smoking mass and gave to Ang and Om.
On his feet he wears pimmies, which reach up to the militza, and are generally made of sealskin with the fur cut into strips to form an attractive pattern.
These bundles are two and two and one-half feet in length, and are wrapped tightly from end to end with strips of rawhide or elk skin.
They were busy tearing off strips of the fat, called blubber, that lies under the whale's skin.
Their boats (or kyaks) were of seal skins sewed into a water-tight sheet and stretched over a frame-work of whale rib bones and long walrus tusks, tied together with sinews and strips of leather.
The fourth end of the quadrangle was formed by a corral and a big wooden scaffolding on which hung hides and strips of drying meat.
Among the marsh plants were fields and strips of the great caete rush.
With a sharp instrument they cut lengthwise strips through the stalk, put these strips together edge to edge, and on them at right angles, placed another layer of shorter strips.
Sometimes the spikes fastening the iron strips to the tops of the wooden rails worked loose, and these strips curled up and penetrated the bottoms of the cars, greatly to the annoyance and fright of the traveler.
Instead of the old wooden rails with their strips of iron, there is a double track of solid steel rails all the way.
Strips of iron were fastened with spikes to the tops of the wooden rails.
Impressions are then made from this type onstrips of paper.
Later strips of iron were nailed on the tops of the wooden rails.
Lay the strips lengthwise, from ridgepole to eaves, and fasten down each strip on the old boards.
Then he took up his corslet, with a glance of pride, for it was of choice and costly workmanship, cunningly fashioned of thin strips or courses of metal.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "strips" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
