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Example sentences for "tine"

Lexicographically close words:
tinctura; tincture; tinctured; tinctures; tinder; tined; tines; tinfoil; ting; tinge
  1. Auntie Tine screamed in Auntie Rine's ear, in a moment of sudden and not yet perfect lucidity.

  2. Auntie Tine screamed, gradually more and more shrilly, always thinking that she was whispering in her deaf sister's ear.

  3. Auntie Tine assured her, in a shrill, long-drawn-out yell.

  4. But Auntie Tine was yelling in Auntie Rine's ear: "That's Marie's daughter!

  5. To tine in a piece of waste ground is to enclose it with a fence of wood or quickset.

  6. An instrument resembling the organ in tine and the upright piano in form.

  7. About the same time, or rather about 14 yeares after, one Ella a Saxon also reigned as king in Deira, which kingdome began at the said riuer of Tine in the north, & ended at the riuer of Humber toward the south.

  8. The south Tine ariseth in the Cheuiot hils, and yer it hath gone farre [Sidenote: Esgill.

  9. Britaine, and so caused a wall to be made from the mouth of Tine vnto the water of Eske, which wall contained in length 30 miles.

  10. But this is more worthie to be remembred, that Cuthred of the Northumbers, and Alfred of the West-saxons bestowed all the land betwéene the These & the Tine now called the bishoprike vpon S.

  11. En now Ma'tine en you 'low you know 'bout me, yet you ast questions jes' the same.

  12. When that I was and a little tine boy, with hey, ho, the winde and the raine: A foolish thing was but a toy, for the raine it raineth euery day.

  13. The very considerations which judges most rarely mention, and always with an apology, are the secret roots from which tine law draws all the juices of life.

  14. I have no doubt, had the animal lived another year, the second extra tine would have been developed.

  15. There are many examples in the Indian Museum, and I possess a magnificent head which bears a large abnormal tine on one horn, and a faint inclination in the corresponding spot on the other horn to do likewise.

  16. Schomburgk's deer); the second has the tres-tine larger than the royal (ex.

  17. On the right horn underneath the tres-tine is an abnormal snag 9 inches long.

  18. In none of the rucervine forms is the bez-tine produced.

  19. The second basal tine or bez antler is generally present, even in the second pair of horns assumed.

  20. The next development of antler is the rusine type, in which the main beam divides at the top into two branches, making with the basal tine a horn of three points only.

  21. We now begin with the simplest form of tine we have, viz.

  22. He was quite a handsome fellow with about nine inches of antlers bearing the backward and forward tine that mark the complete development of what our forefathers called the "fair roebuck".

  23. In his third year the backward tine had come between the forward one and the end of the point, and thereafter he was completely armed.

  24. The rifle flashed--a tine flew, splintered by the bullet, from the brow antler, not an inch above the eye.

  25. The maywede doth burne, and the thistle doth freate: the Tine pulleth downe, both the rie and the wheate.

  26. E320] The tine tare ["a tare that tines or encloses and imprisons other plants, Vicia hirsuta.

  27. The safest way is certainly to cut the tine near the root, but the operation is extremely tedious.

  28. This three-tine iron fork was used to move bundled grain.

  29. A socket-type, three-tine hoe used to weed vegetable gardens, tobacco, and similar row crops.

  30. It was the first tine I'd tried it on anything alive.

  31. The excitement had quieted down now, and, in a short tine a crowd of native women came toward the airship, bearing, in baskets on their heads, food of various kinds.

  32. In the circular socket was a portion of a tine of stag’s horn, so that it seems rather to have been intended for mounting such tines for use as picks, than for hafting celts.

  33. In some instances the stone was inserted lengthways[539] into the end of a tine of a stag’s horn at the part where it had been severed from the antler, so as to form a sort of chisel.

  34. Constance could not bring herself to speak to the old aunts: she walked past them; and Auntie Tine whispered to Auntie Rine: "There she is again!

  35. But Auntie Tine dared not whisper anything more, because of their sister Marie, who had flown into such a passion; and she pinched Auntie Rine's withered hand, whereupon Auntie Rine glared at her angrily.

  36. But the safest way, I am persuaded, is to tine and win with Christ, and to hazard fairly for Him; for heaven is but a company of noble venturers for Christ.

  37. Tine not sight of Him in this cloudy and dark day.

  38. But this is more worthie to be remembred, that Cuthred of the Northumbers, and Alfred of the West-saxons bestowed all the land betweene the These & the Tine now called the bishoprike vpon S.

  39. The instant a tine touches the soft breast or abdomen, he lunges forward to drive it in.

  40. Once we were greatly frightened by the determined charge of a savage cow bison upon Keeper McEnroe, who was armed with a short- handled 4-tine pitchfork.

  41. The man may eithly tine a stot that canna count his kine.

  42. Ye may tine the faither looking for the son.

  43. Rather spoil your joke than tine your friend.

  44. Hae you gear or hae you nane, tine heart and a' is gane.

  45. Better tine your joke than tine your friend.

  46. To "tine a darg," is to lose a day's work: you have arrived too late.

  47. He'll either win the horse or tine the saddle.

  48. He would tine his lugs if they were not tacked to him.

  49. Rowan-tree and red thread mak the witches tine their speed.

  50. Affront your friend in daffin', and tine him in earnest.


  51. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tine" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    instrument; point; prickle; spur; tang