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Example sentences for "suitable size"

  • As fast as the cucumbers attain a suitable size, they should be plucked, whether required for use or not.

  • When the young plants are two inches high, thin them to four inches apart, and cut or draw for use as soon as the leaves have attained a suitable size.

  • The early varieties should be dug for use as they attain a suitable size; which, in warm exposure, will be about the beginning of July; and thence till the middle of August, in less favorable places.

  • A sowing should be made the last of April, and another from the middle to the 20th of May, and the plants set out as soon as they are of suitable size, in the usual manner of Savoys and other winter greens.

  • If sown too early, it may be impossible to plant out when of suitable size, and the consequent arrest of growth at a most important stage may result in a disposition to flower the first year, instead of waiting for the second.

  • Provided that the spawn is good, it has but to be broken into lumps of a suitable size, and inserted in the bed, to impregnate the entire mass with the necessary white films.

  • Seed should be sown during August or September in pots or pans placed in a cool frame, the seedlings being pricked off into other pots as soon as they have attained a suitable size.

  • Thermometers of suitable size can be bought in either brass or nickel.

  • A very handy way to moisten the die is to use a pad made by tacking two pieces of blotting paper and one of [Illustration: Blotter Pad] cloth to a wooden block of suitable size, and saturate the blotters with water before using.

  • The materials necessary are a board of suitable size, two screwhooks, four screweyes and a pair of rods for braces.

  • It consists of a rod of suitable size which is bent in the shape shown in the sketch after the rod is inserted through a hole bored near the edge of the door.

  • It consists of an open frame, having two side pieces provided with slots down the center, sufficiently wide to allow an ordinary wood screw, of suitable size, to slide up or down freely.

  • Perhaps the best way to support them is to fasten them to a very thin plate of mica of suitable size by means of a needle and very fine thread.

  • All specimens permanently preserved in fluid for a museum should be placed in jars, bottles, or tubes of suitable size, each vessel containing, as a rule, only one.

  • Stir in the flavoring, and turn into a pan of suitable size.

  • Put into a granite or enameled baking-pan of suitable size.

  • Stir thoroughly; butter a pudding dish of suitable size, line with browned crumbs, press in the cabbage, and bake in a moderate oven.

  • Turn your tambourine upside down on a smooth-faced log of suitable size, and, with a small hammer and your little punch, proceed to perforate the parchment until the head is covered with small round holes.

  • A forked tree of suitable size is chosen, and sometimes, but not always, the fork or fluke of the anchor is strengthened by a cross lashing to the shank.

  • Next cut four strong wires of suitable size, one a little stronger than the others and somewhat longer than the whole of your skin, including brush.

  • It is this: Procure a box of suitable size, which, for greater efficiency, may be lined with zinc.

  • If, however, the oily matter has spread to the thorax and the bases of the wings, the whole specimen must be soaked, using a basin or jar of suitable size, covered with a plate of glass.

  • If you select a box of suitable size at the grocer's, cut out large pieces from the lid and sides with a fret saw, and fix in the glass and zinc, you will have a cage that will answer all purposes.

  • Another System= of masking frequently made use of is one in which an aperture of suitable size is cut in a piece of cardboard, such aperture being, say, 2 mm.

  • Several scrapers should be provided of various lengths, so that one of suitable size may be always available to suit the particular work in hand.

  • Sterilise an all-glass syringe of suitable size, and when cool draw into the syringe some sterile sodium citrate solution and moisten the whole of the interior of the barrel; then eject all the citrate solution if less than 5 c.

  • The rabbit and the guinea-pig are confined in cages of suitable size, made entirely of metal (Fig.

  • Sterile filter flask of suitable size, for the reception of the filtered fluid, its mouth closed by a cotton-wool plug.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "suitable size" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


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