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Example sentences for "tapes"

Lexicographically close words:
taped; taper; tapered; tapering; tapers; tapestried; tapestries; tapestry; tapeworm; tapeworms
  1. What's the difference if I send him the ship's record tapes of our conversations, or he talks to you himself?

  2. He spent the rest of the trip studying the tapes DeLayne transmitted, including what teaching tapes he'd transcribed for Odeon, and brushing up on Roman Catholic theology of the mid-twenty-second century.

  3. Beckets must be put in the bottom of each seam and the door, the same as in the A-tent, and strong tapes sewed to the door.

  4. To clinch the elimination of sunspots as a cause, their record tapes showed no burst of radiation when sunspot activity had been abnormal.

  5. For the next three months the scientist and his group kept their radiation equipment operating twenty-four hours a day, but the tapes showed nothing except the usual background activity.

  6. When the "rock hounds" checked the recording tapes in the shack they found that several of the Geiger tubes had been triggered at 10:17A.

  7. Tin in blocks, mats, and tapes is used like non-cohesive gold foil, but absence of cohesion prevents the pieces from keeping their place as well as the gold.

  8. Always use tapes narrower than the orifice of the cavity; they are preferable to rolls or ropes.

  9. The old method of using rolls, ropes, and tapes or strips is the same, but we will describe one method of using tapes.

  10. Tapes can also be made by folding part of a sheet of foil over a thin, narrow strip of metal.

  11. The tin foil should be cut into strips and folded into tapes proportioned in width and thickness to the size of the cavity.

  12. I saw the tapes of your rulers' Audience, Lieutenant.

  13. Tarlac, of course, is already dead; we have all seen the tapes of his assassination.

  14. Tapes aurea] The same family (Veneridae) contains the large genus Tapes, so called because many of its shells are marked in such a manner as to recall the patterns of tapestry.

  15. When the boards are affixed to the volume by passing the bands, strings, or tapes on which it is sewn through holes made in the boards, they are said to be laced in.

  16. Neither strings nor tapes need to be laced into the boards on ordinary library work.

  17. Paste ends of tapes on top of lining papers.

  18. The first two methods are generally used with books sewed in the ordinary way on tapes or cords.

  19. Sew on same tapes as for a regularly sewed book.

  20. The sections, or signatures, or folds of the book, as the several sets of several pages each are called, are caught together only by thread; strings or tapes are not used.

  21. Tacks can be driven into the board and into the cross stick above where needed, and cords or tapes stretched between them.

  22. It is possible to whipstitch a book, even one which is printed on stiff paper, in such a way that it will be almost as flexible and open almost as easily as if it were sewed on tapes in the regular way.

  23. Illustration: Showing a Method of Sewing on Tapes The catching up of the alternate groups of threads as they cross the bands renders the sewing firmer.

  24. Strings, bands, or tapes are stretched vertically between the edge of the board and the cross bar; against these the signatures of a book are successively placed and to them sewed.

  25. The process of sewing by hand may be briefly described as follows: Two or more strings or tapes are stretched between the edge of a board and a stick held horizontally above it by two uprights.

  26. No strings or tapes pass from the book to cover.

  27. Books are sometimes sewn on tapes or strips of vellum.

  28. C C Strings or tapes on which the book is sewn.

  29. Think of the ballerina he'd been talking about--she hadn't died as the history tapes indicated.

  30. There must be places no one can get to, especially tapes and music.

  31. Picture and music tapes were easy to get in the tank but they didn't make acid proof books.

  32. When she had gone he started to work on new instruction tapes for activating the servo-cryotron.

  33. Then he set up the instruction tapes to make the miniature contacts.

  34. With a hand made deft by practise he scooped out all the sheets and tapes and put them in the box.

  35. Tell me, Rommy, what in hell is EL going to use these tapes for, anyway?

  36. I checked the tapes and nobody could be lower than you guys walking out across that court.

  37. For them also there had been a substitution of journey tapes by Fate, and this was now their Hawaika.

  38. Technical information had taken a vast leap forward after Terran engineers and scientists had had access to the tapes of the stellar empire.

  39. Tapes of the aliens' records had been found and stored at Homeport.

  40. He could repeat the information tapes they carried dull word for dull word.

  41. I didn't know that wasn't on Television, and wasn't on the Ship's reference tapes either.

  42. I had to change tapes once, and missed a few more sentences.

  43. The Hahn’s tube is removed as soon as the operation is completed, and replaced by a tracheotomy canula; the whole wound is covered by a loose pad of antiseptic gauze, which is kept in position by tapes or loosely applied bandages.

  44. A tube of suitable size having next been selected, the opening in the trachea is widely dilated and the point of the canula quickly inserted into position, the outer tube alone being used, with tapes for tying attached.

  45. When the breathing becomes regular, the tapes are tied round the neck and a rubber tube is attached (Fig.

  46. The tapes are tied firmly on the right side of the neck, after which the inner tube is introduced and fixed in position.

  47. To this end one of the tapes is made fast, so that when the catheter is withdrawn from the nose, the sponge is pulled up into the post-nasal space; the other end hangs out of the mouth.

  48. The two tapes are tied together over the upper lip.

  49. They haven't read their room-tapes yet, so they don't know that room-service is practically unlimited.

  50. I have a whole box of tapes in my room, including advanced Gunther math and first-contact techniques.

  51. James set up, in the starship's memory banks, a sequence to mass-produce instruction tapes and blueprints.

  52. Intra-galactic tapes will be just as good.

  53. It was just the shock; there wasn't anything in any of my First Contact tapes covering what to do about beautiful and enticing girls who try to seduce our men.

  54. The man is not suspended directly from the small disc to which the tapes are attached but by a non-spinning sling which contains a shock absorber.

  55. So the twenty-four short tapes form twelve V's to the points of which are attached the twelve long tapes which support the man.

  56. So packed tapes have been substituted for coiled corded rigging, with the certainty that they cannot be entangled in the fiercest air current.

  57. The reason why tapes are used in this particular parachute and not cords will be referred to later.

  58. No measuring-tapes could reach it; and both the earth and the sun are moving about so, that it would be difficult to adjust ladders to reach it, if we could.

  59. Time passed and finally there were no more tapes to listen to.

  60. Jonathan's trained ear remembered the pronunciation of "Freeble" in the three different connotations and he forced himself to admit it was the same on all three tapes in question.

  61. Bandages are made for this purpose, with tapes and straps attached, and are well fitted for it.

  62. She had evidently been going through the library; when she let him in he saw tapes on the coffee table, and more in the delivery tray.

  63. Because some of the tapes I dug out--not the ones her Ladyship left for me--say that some susceptibles get hungrier than usual after they've become infected.

  64. At least it's something I've never known you to be concerned with--but these tapes make it pretty clear that feeding is .

  65. She gestured to the tapes she'd been studying.

  66. There was more to living than the knowledge that could be put on tapes and played back.

  67. Of course, if we had tapes of the factors which made each person what he is.

  68. The tapes hadn't been very explicit about the beauties of the female body, but he thought he knew what they'd left out.

  69. Here he was better equipped; re-education tapes had replaced his former knowledge of the subject.

  70. But the tapes were sewed on the little waists, she had even marked some new wrappers, which she had bought the day before.

  71. She set apart some little waists, she sewed on some tapes with slow-moving needle, and gradually she fell into a reverie in the warm deep peacefulness of the room, in the midst of the glowing heat outside.

  72. He gets up and goes to the wall, with the colored tapes in his hands.

  73. He puts two or three of the colored tapes together and tries their strength by pulling them, after which he puts them around his neck and pulls them, gently, nodding to himself.


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