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Example sentences for "tandem"

Lexicographically close words:
tan; tanagers; tanah; tanbark; tand; tandems; tandis; tane; tang; tangan
  1. The industrial sector is small, and agriculture is severely limited by a lack of suitable land.

  2. But the tandem split and the ball went again to the big full-back and again he charged, head down, straight into the centre.

  3. Kenwood lined up quickly, put her backs in a tandem behind her left guard and the signals piped once more.

  4. I have trotted a tandem from London to Windsor, at twelve o'clock at night, in the midst of the darkest and most tremendous thunderstorm I ever witnessed, with little chance of safety but what I owed to the docility of my horses.

  5. During the time I served in the army such a thing was unknown, and the only opportunities officers had of driving were when travelling by stage-coach, or when a tandem was improvised in the barrack-yard.

  6. Tandem = One behind another: The scholars sit tandem in school.

  7. We started at cock-crow, and reached Spa for an early breakfast, having "tooled along" with a spicy tandem the thirteen miles in an hour.

  8. The tandem is at the door, sir, or will be by the time you get downstairs.

  9. So the two tandem horses and two of Mr. Garley's hacks were clothed in the splendors of the new harness, and attached to the great vehicle, whilst a dozen officers mounted to the lofty outside places.

  10. Before his colonelcy he had been contented with a tandem, and his tandem was horsed from the four ordinary carriage-horses which were regularly kept at Wenderholme.

  11. I'm going to take the tandem this morning to Stanithburn Peel, to see young Philip Stanburne and get him to accept a captaincy in the new regiment.

  12. While the fixed cylinder forms of engines, having the cylinders in tandem in the four- and six-cylinder models as shown at Figs.

  13. The weight of the engine is lessened because of the reduction in crank-shaft and crank-case weight and the elimination of a number of intermediate bearings and their supporting webs which would be necessary with the usual tandem construction.

  14. Six cylinder vertical tandem and twelve-cylinder Vee engine crank-shafts usually have four or seven main bearings depending upon the disposition of the crank-pins and arrangement of cylinders.

  15. But you weren't driving a tandem with a restive leader.

  16. I was about fifteen yards away--and the tandem was just approaching where Octon stood.

  17. Approaching this road, I saw Lady Aspenick's tandem coming along on my right.

  18. The tandem whip, I suppose--hereditary feud and that sort of thing.

  19. Five hundred and twelve 'cyclers, including forty-one tandem tricycles and fifty ladies, ride in procession at the Barnes Common meet, making quite an imposing array as they wheel two abreast between rows of enthusiastic spectators.

  20. Immediately back of the aviator is an extra seat and an extra steering wheel which works in tandem style with the front wheel.

  21. These tandem wheels are also handy for passengers who may wish to operate the car independently of one another, it being understood, of course, that there will be no conflict of action.

  22. Yale seemed ready enough for that, and the way she cut through and broke Harvard's line showed immediately that the tandem was not likely to prove very effective.

  23. Then came Harvard's turn to see what she could do, and the first attempt was a try at the tandem play, made famous by Pennsylvania.

  24. I refused eighty guineas for him from Dunham of the Guards only a month ago; I shall have my new tandem cart home, and no horses to run in it.

  25. Because I intend to back the tandem into it, and break my neck," was the unexpected answer.

  26. I think the tandem has been here some time," interposed I, coming to his assistance; "the horses will get chilled standing.

  27. Burton, however, and some other lawless spirits resolved to go all the same, and a tandem conveyed them from the rear of Worcester College to the race meeting.


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