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Example sentences for "toggles"

Lexicographically close words:
together; togged; toggery; toggle; toggled; togidder; togider; togither; togs; togyder
  1. The oar is drawn through both loops, which are twisted by toggles until they become tight.

  2. Then the toggles are secured between the gunwale and the tuving.

  3. He flipped several toggles on the wide console, then told Petra what he wanted.

  4. I saw a grin on the countenance of old Toggles as I spoke.

  5. It is not surprising, therefore, that Toggles should at once catch at my name, and turn it into one which is so familiar to a seaman's ear.

  6. I waited patiently as I was bid, though my arm smarted not a little, and in three days Toggles told me I might wash as much as I liked.

  7. One of the other men then held me while Toggles procured a sharp needle, stuck in a handle, and began puncturing the thick part of my arm between the elbow and wrist.

  8. In ships of war it is usual to fix toggles upon the running parts of the topsail-sheets, the jears, &c.

  9. When fitting up your sledge equipment procure some large-sized marrow bones, and saw them up into a number of tolerably stout rings; then, from other bones of solid texture, make toggles to accompany the rings.

  10. Attached by large buttons, toggles or lampwick braces, they reached as high as the lower part of the chest.

  11. Manipulating toggles and buttons on one's clothing gave an immense amount of trouble, and it always seemed an interminable time before we got away in the morning.

  12. They are fastened with toggles and beckets instead of buttons and button-holes.

  13. He undid the toggles of his thick lammy coat,[31] and gave the muffler another turn round his neck.

  14. When a walrus is struck the head slips off and toggles as already described; the line detaches itself from the catch, leaving the shaft free to float and be picked up.

  15. The struggles of the animal make the head slip off the tip of the shaft and the strain on the line immediately toggles it across the wound.


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