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Example sentences for "type"

Lexicographically close words:
tympanitic; tympanum; tymys; tynt; typal; typed; types; typescript; typesetter; typesetting
  1. Fighting and love-making, petty politics and scuffle upon counter-scuffle--such was the life of the young French nobleman of whom La Rochefoucauld reveals himself and is revealed by others as the type and specimen.

  2. Henri Lagrange, who fell at Montereau in October 1915, at the age of twenty, was a type of hundreds of others.

  3. His mother's one aim had been to make of Camille a soldier and a Christian, and he became the very type of that combination.

  4. This is the type of Frenchman who fights for the love of fighting, who puts above all other happiness the prize of military honour and glory won in a good cause.

  5. The author of the "Caractères" was the type of the plebeian citizen of Paris.

  6. He had married the daughter of a great merchant, a delicate type of beauty; the last to fascinate a buccaneer, according to the gossips of the time.

  7. His pale face, the paleness of the type that never tans, flushed.

  8. I was the type of boy who was ready to work at any kind of odd job in order to get dimes and quarters for my little bank.

  9. Mud spotting is by far the most malignant type of the depravity herein mentioned.

  10. The gases generated by an ordinary coal stove or blacksmith's forge, if permitted for long to attack a varnish surface, will effect a particularly grievous type of spotting.

  11. In selecting the brush equipment, it is a most happy mental exercise to remember that the highest type of brush, if not mightier than the sword, at least hath its victories.

  12. Hammer putty well on the mixing block to make it tough and elastic.

  13. In the course of two or three days the brush may be put into other paint if desired and suspended in water.

  14. He is a lion of a semi-heraldic type supporting a shield, and maintained carefully in a vermilion post-office hue.

  15. The type of boy the world counts on to do it the most lasting good is the youth that does not permit the wings of fancy to carry him so far into the blue empyrean that he cannot touch the solid earth with at least the tiptoes of reason.

  16. We could not blind ourselves to the fact that you were not the type of man who would commit an ordinary crime under stress of temptation.

  17. The story of a girl of the Michigan woods; a buoyant, lovable type of the self-reliant American.

  18. You know, you're not altogether the type of a man one associates with the domestic hearthstone.

  19. He was the type of man who emerges victor in any contest, whether of wits or muscle.

  20. Rapidly he scanned the score of lines of small type devoted to the baronet.

  21. Her eyes skimmed the lines of type mechanically.

  22. Burke, a heavy man with a lowering, bull-dog type of face, collapsed on to his knees beside Slattin, and began softly to laugh in little rising peals.

  23. No more the unknown God, but evermore The ripened type of the diviner man; And as we reap the tokens of his love, Remember him as Father Man of men-- The Infinite Perfection of our race.

  24. She had a fleet superior in every class of ship, and she had led the world in naval progress--both her dreadnoughts and her battle cruisers being of a later type than her rival's.

  25. But there are other reasons for this which spring from the nature of the battle cruiser itself and inhere in the difference between this type and the battleship.

  26. A type of man-of-war which was supposed to be antedated, the monitor, with its low draft and powerful guns was brought into action by the British in protecting the Belgians, who finally saved themselves by flooding their front.

  27. The symptoms observed in the last case may well serve as a type of what may be expected to occur after breathing ammonia vapour.

  28. The Type and the Illustrations are in marked contrast to most medical works.

  29. The type of the corrosive salts is mercuric chloride, or corrosive sublimate--a compound which acts violently when administered, either externally or internally, in large doses.

  30. The term alum, in a chemical sense, is given to a class of bodies of the type of AlKSO{4}.

  31. Whatever other physiological action this group may have, its effect on the heart's action is so prominent and decided, that the digitalins stand as a type of heart poisons.

  32. The case I have selected to serve as a type of a chronic but fatal illness produced from poisoning by sulphuric acid is one related by Oscar Wyss.

  33. The general construction, drawings, and type are all excellent.

  34. A few plants contain cyanides, and many contain amygdalin, or bodies formed on the type of amygdalin.

  35. Moses in the hour of death, we have in this incident a type of the reticence of Scripture on such matters.

  36. INDEX (The larger figures in black type are the chief references.

  37. The type is held in slots in which it moves freely.

  38. The highest type of organization is found among the great industrial enterprises.

  39. A well-known machine of the cylinder type is shown in Fig.

  40. Letters are set up as they would be for a printing press, typewriter type being used; but instead of printing from ink applied directly to the type, the letters are printed through a large typewriter ribbon.

  41. The machine has two cylinders, one for type storage and one for printing.

  42. The type is set up and locked in a chase, just as it is by a printer, and the chase placed on the flat bed of the machine.

  43. Type taken from old addresses can be used over and over again.

  44. An advantage claimed for this type of machine is that electrotypes and zinc etchings can be used, or regular printers' job type can be substituted for printing small circulars and office forms.

  45. The name and address are set up in the type frame, and can be changed at will.

  46. To distribute the type to the storage cylinder, this operation is reversed.

  47. With these machines the type is kept in cases, the compartments of which are arranged in the same order as the keys on a typewriter.

  48. Fedor is a type of those Old Believers who are said to be slackening at the joints, in consequence of their present freedom from persecution.

  49. The type is Malo-Russ, the complexion yellow and Tartar-like; the teeth are very fine, the eyes are burning with hidden fire.

  50. They came to Holmogory, on the Dvina, then a poor fishing-village occupied by Karels, a tribe not higher in type than the Samoyeds of the present day.

  51. This strange being is much run after by the poorer pilgrims, who regard him as a holy man; and he is noticeable as a type of what the Black Clergy think meritorious in the Christian life.

  52. These Zarayny, a clever and hardy people, seem connected in type and speech with the Finns; and they are thought to be the remnant of an ancient colony of trappers.

  53. A type of poverty and misery, the convent is built of rough logs, colored with coarse paint.

  54. A cloud hangs over the earlier movements of these tribes; but when the invaders come under European ken, they are seen to be divided by differences of type and creed.

  55. The type is plain, clear, and expressly suited for ready reference.

  56. Each volume is printed on excellent paper from new large-type plates, bound in cloth, assorted colors, with an attractive ink and gold stamp.

  57. It may be that within the smaller circle in England, the individuals--thanks to the public schools and the universities--are more nearly identical and the type specimen would more closely represent the whole.

  58. The conditions in America are making for the shaping of a sterner type of man.

  59. On the other hand, it is exceptional for a novel, or for any book by an American writer, to be put into type in England for publication in both countries.

  60. It is the occasional caricature--the parody--of the national type that catches our eye; and on him we too often base our judgment of a whole people.

  61. In hotels of the modern type there is no need for women to use a separate entrance or to draw their skirts aside and hurry through the public passages.

  62. Such a one stands in the mind of many an Englishman who has not travelled as the type of the whole people of the United States.

  63. With that drop, a new range of promise opened on the human race, and a lighter, finer, more highly organised type of mankind was born.

  64. And this is only a type of the change which has come over the educated speech of England, which we may regret or we may welcome.

  65. She is, on the contrary, nothing more than a type of the class; and the fact is proved by the resemblance in her portrait being at once recognized.

  66. This gives the shell type an advantage over the core type, for should one phase burn out, the other two may still be used, especially if the faulty coils be short circuited.

  67. No special foundations are necessary for any type of transformer other than a good, even floor, having sufficient strength to support the weight.

  68. On account of the great thickness of the solid insulation needed and the consequent difficulty in radiating heat from the copper, it is impracticable to design the air blast type for more than this voltage.

  69. The initial rush of current when a squirrel cage motor is thrown on the line is more or less objectionable and there are central stations which allow only resistance type of induction motor to be used on their lines.

  70. This cannot be done, however, with any but delta connected shell type transformers.

  71. What precaution should be taken in connecting secondary sections in parallel in core type if the two sections be wound on different limbs of the cores?

  72. It is of the Nodon type employing a cathode of magnesium-aluminum alloy, and probably iron or lead as anode, with an electrolyte of ammonium borate.

  73. This type motor is known as the clutch type of single phase induction motor.

  74. Wagner central station core type transformer repair unit consisting of one half set of primary and secondary windings together with the section of the iron core upon which the coils are wound.

  75. The field winding consists of a main winding of the distributed concentric type and a compensating winding.

  76. By connecting adjacent pairs of these terminals in multiple, motors of this type are made adaptable for 110 volt service; for double this pressure the four leading in wires are connected in series.

  77. Both motor and dynamo have the same type and size of frame; these are bolted together and form a compact and symmetrical outfit, no base being necessary.

  78. I met very few French officers during my stay at Lille, but my knowledge of the professional military man in time of peace, leads me to believe that the type I have described, is far from uncommon in France.

  79. In every country is to be found the type of patriot who feels that all is lost if it can be proved that he has treated an enemy too well.

  80. A certain type of employer desires two protections—protection against the knowledge of the foreigner, and protection against the aspirations of the worker.

  81. This particular man corresponded to a certain type of anti-German here, and a private soldier present afterwards apologised for his rudeness.

  82. These women, whose devotion never flagged, comprised three trained nurses and nine or ten women clerks or teachers, of quite another type to those mentioned above.

  83. Although she told herself she hated men and the harm they did, she hoped her child would be a boy, because she was of the type of woman, even as Annie had been, that always wants a boy.

  84. It was the type of face which, in its broad modelling of planes and petal-fineness of edges, suggests a pansy.

  85. She no longer doubted she was going to break off her engagement and leave for home the next day, but she still had to decide on the type of Blanche who should appear to him and what her manner and aspect should be.

  86. Could it seriously be proposed that we should regard the constancy of the pheasant's plumage in this country as depending on the special fitness of that type of colouration?

  87. At Chalseul and Besancon (Doubs) the ordinary northern type is found.

  88. The Vienne river joins the Loire, so the true southern type reaches over into the basin of the Loire.

  89. Abundant illustrations are available in which individuals exposed to novel conditions manifest considerable changes in characters or properties, but as yet there is no certain means of determining that germ-cells of a new type shall be formed.

  90. A larva of intermediate type may grow about a centimeter a month, but a rapidly growing specimen may grow more than four times as much.

  91. About 1870 at Newport, Monmouth, the two forms were in about equal numbers, but a few years later the type had almost vanished.

  92. There is also a more Southern type known as astyanax, which is very different in its appearance, being without the white bands and having a broad irroration of blue scales on the posterior border of the hind wings.

  93. Nice types common everywhere, but from "Greece" the British Museum has a series that would pass for English specimens; and the same type occurs near Constantinople.

  94. Thus in order that the black-skinned breed could be evolved from such a type as a Brown Leghorn it must be necessary both that P should be added and that D should drop out.

  95. That the reciprocal hybrids from these two species differed, biennis x muricata producing one type of F{1} and muricata x biennis producing another.

  96. The type of the restless soul of man, the weary, wingless bird.

  97. That lamented pudding-bag string is but a type of strings in general.

  98. Her face was of the hereditary type among families down in these parts: sweet in expression, perfect in hue, and somewhat irregular in feature.

  99. Everything here seemed of such a magnificent type to her eyes that she felt confused, diminished to half her height, half her strength, half her prettiness.

  100. Minnie is a type of dozens of other hard-working, modest little girls who are supporting themselves, and very often their families, by dancing.

  101. The next customer attracted was an Ayah, or Hindoo nurse, a type often to be seen in the show-case of the East-end photographer.

  102. This marked type of Docetism, far from being a difficulty, is an indication of early date, since the tendency of Docetism was to mitigation, as time went on.

  103. Community of hatred the mixed Nationalist population has, but whether such a passion is sufficiently creative to build up a new national type the reader can judge for himself.

  104. The heresy combated by Ignatius is a type of Gnostic Judaism, the Gnostic element manifesting itself in a sharp form of Docetism.


  105. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "type" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    affinity; alien; allegory; analyze; animus; antitype; aptitude; archetype; area; arrange; assort; augury; back; bag; barometer; beard; belly; bent; bevel; bias; blood; body; brand; breed; build; canon; cap; capital; case; cast; catalog; category; character; characteristic; check; cipher; clan; class; classify; codify; color; complexion; composition; configuration; conformation; constitution; copy; counter; crackpot; crank; criterion; cut; degree; demonstration; denomination; description; designation; device; diathesis; digest; disposition; divide; draft; eccentric; eccentricity; edit; emblem; embodiment; engross; epitome; ethos; example; exemplar; exemplification; explanation; exponent; face; family; fanatic; fancy; fashion; favor; feather; fiber; field; figuration; figure; file; font; foreshadow; form; format; formation; forte; frame; fugleman; gauge; genius; genre; genus; grade; grain; groove; group; habit; hermit; hobo; hue; humor; icon; ideogram; idiosyncrasy; ilk; illustration; impression; inclination; index; indication; individualism; inscribe; instance; kidney; kin; kind; label; layout; lead; leaning; letter; ligature; line; list; lot; make; makeup; manner; mark; matrix; maverick; measure; metier; mettle; mind; mirror; modality; mode; model; mold; mould; moulder; mouldy; natural; nature; nick; norm; number; nut; oddity; omen; order; original; outsider; paradigm; parameter; pariah; partiality; pattern; pen; pencil; persuasion; phrase; phylum; physique; pica; pigeonhole; place; point; portent; precedent; predilection; predisposition; preference; prefiguration; prejudice; prepossession; print; proclivity; promise; propensity; property; prototype; pursuit; quality; quantity; race; range; rank; rate; reading; record; representation; representative; revise; rewrite; rule; scale; scribe; script; scroll; separate; shadow; shank; shape; shoulder; sign; slant; solitary; sort; speciality; specialization; species; specimen; spirit; stamp; standard; stem; strain; streak; stripe; structure; style; subdivide; symbol; symbolism; system; tabulate; taste; technicality; temper; temperament; tendency; tenor; term; test; thing; token; tone; totem; touchstone; trace; tramp; transcribe; tribe; turn; twist; type; value; variety; vein; version; vocation; warp; way; weakness; word; write; yardstick; zealot


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    type from; type locality; type metal