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Example sentences for "syphons"

Lexicographically close words:
syphilis; syphilitic; syphilitics; syphon; syphoned; syre; syren; syrens; syriaca; syringa
  1. Some time since Sir Robert Christison condemned the use of syphons for lemonade, owing to the action of free tartaric acid upon lead, and the rapidity with which waters containing any free acid become charged with lead in syphons.

  2. The Symbol represents the unknown; the Rite is the ceremony of worship.

  3. But he was too biassed to apply this warning to Christian thought.

  4. St. Augustine believed the trinity is referred to in the opening verses of Genesis.

  5. Soda water syphons and flour; hunting, cricket and making love.

  6. Starting from this point, all the body of the Teredo is enveloped by the shell and mantle, which form a sort of sheath communicating by two syphons with the exterior.

  7. Its mantle is closed in its whole length, and only open at the ends at one side for the passage of the food, and at the other for the passage of a tube formed of two syphons united together.

  8. The syphons are extensible, and attached the one to the other for about two-thirds of their length, the upper part being longer and thinner than the lower.

  9. Its mantle, which forms two symmetrical lobes enveloping the body, is open pretty nearly in all its extent, but it is united posteriorly, and terminates in two syphons or nearly equal tubes, as in Fig.

  10. All bivalves that live in the sand have shells which gape more or less, apparently to enable them to push their syphons through the sand to the water.

  11. Sandy beaches and banks yield many of the most beautiful specimens, but only with experience will the collector be able to identify the marks of the syphons of the various shellfish.

  12. They may be emptied at pleasure into lower receivers, called crystallizers, by means of leaden syphons and long-necked funnels.

  13. In this state, the liquid supersulphate is run off by leaden syphons into large oblong leaden cisterns, rounded at the bottom; and is there exposed to the action of ribands of copper, like thin wood shavings.

  14. For this system two syphons will be required near the head, regulating bridges under all the embankments, and an escape weir back into the river.

  15. Syphons are generally made of copper, but gutta-percha would answer exceedingly well.

  16. Syphons are bent tubes for drawing off liquids from cisterns, butts, &c.

  17. Will you put out syphons and whisky and explain that I shan't be coming.

  18. One by one they melted away, and Lonsdale marked his contempt for their pusillanimity by throwing two syphons and his gown into the Warden's garden.


  19. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "syphons" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.