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Example sentences for "vanes"

Lexicographically close words:
vanadic; vanadium; vandalism; vandyked; vandykes; vanguard; vanguards; vanilla; vanille; vanillin
  1. After planing the two vanes to size, the joint must be laid out with knife and gage lines and cut out with back-saw and chisel.

  2. To plane the vanes thin at the broad end, use the board mentioned at the bottom of page 19.

  3. Plane the two pieces for the vanes as accurately as possible so as to be able to make a good joint.

  4. When gluing and nailing the vanes in the arms, remember that one lies flat and the other nearly edgewise; also remember to make them balance.

  5. Bore 1/4" holes for the vanes 1/2" each side the center of the dowel and file the wrists, before sawing it in two.

  6. Make and glue the vanes in place and lay the wheel flat to dry.

  7. The Honourable Hilary Vane comes from one of the oldest Puritan families in the State, the Vanes of Camden Street--' Here's another.

  8. But in this case it will be found that the vanes will rotate only at high exhaustion or at ordinary pressures; they will not rotate at moderate pressures, when the air is highly conducting.

  9. When the glass tube is held anywhere in the electrostatic field the platinum wire becomes incandescent, and the mica vanes are rotated very fast.

  10. In trying the preceding experiment with the electric radiometer the potential should not exceed a certain limit, as then the electrostatic attraction between the vanes and the glass of the bulb may be so great as to stop the rotation.

  11. For this purpose I mounted a light mica fan so that its vanes were in the path of the brush.

  12. If any accident should bring you in sight of the dwelling, you will know our rooms by the three smoky vanes that whiffle about its pointed roof, and also, by the windows in that story being occasionally open.

  13. Each channel is divided into a series of pockets by equally spaced vanes inclined at 45 deg.

  14. The air-ways k, k, in the fixed vanes establish communication between the cores of the vortices and the atmosphere.

  15. Northeast the steeples of Boston rose, blood-red in the setting sun; distant windows flashed fire; weather-vanes turned to jets of flame.

  16. When again we reached the village cocks were crowing in every yard; the painted weather-vanes glowed in the sun; legions of birds sang.

  17. The modern windmill, acting on precisely the same principle, is a comparatively small affair, comprising many vanes of metal, and constituting a far more practical machine.

  18. The wind blowing against the inclined surfaces or vanes of the wheel causes each vane to move in accordance with the law of component forces, thus revolving the wheel as a whole.

  19. The theory is that the opposite shades cause unbalanced light preasure, so that the vanes go around and around.

  20. The things with black and white vanes placed in a vacuum.

  21. They are fastened to the feather handle as follows: Nine wing feathers of the eider duck are laid side by side, butt to point, and doubled in the middle so that the quills and vanes stand up on all sides.

  22. The feather-vanes were nearly always made from the primaries of Strix scandiaca or Graculus carbo.

  23. King Mistrusts me for their prattle, all these Vanes And Saviles!

  24. The two passed out together into the garden, and began to walk up the path that led straight across the avenue to where the high vanes of the garden-house stood up grotesque and towering against the evening sky, above the black yew-hedges.

  25. D'Altons and Vanes had for centuries established their whereabout).

  26. It will be said that you have no longer an acre in the county in which the Vanes have been settled so long.

  27. Down through its short axis ran a shaft on which was centered a light cross of aluminum wire, carrying four vanes of mica, one face of each coated with lampblack.

  28. If his theories were right, that revolving cross would tap and draw into its vanes radio-energetic waves of force, much as the whirling armature of a dynamo draws into its coils electro-magnetic waves of force.

  29. Kendrick looked--to see a long bank of large vacuum-tubes, each about three feet high and a foot wide, connected by a central shaft that caused series of little vanes in each of them to revolve at lightning speed.

  30. A gigantic hive, of which the winds were tireless servants, and the ceaseless wind-vanes an appropriate crown and symbol.

  31. I remember him long before he'd pushed his way to the head of the Wind Vanes Control.

  32. And out here, under the fresh sunlight, beyond the crater of the fight, as if nothing had happened to the earth, the forest of Wind Vanes that had grown from one or two while the Council had ruled, roared peacefully upon their incessant duty.

  33. The kestrel's wings strike downwards and a very little forwards, for his natural tendency is to slip forwards, and the object of slightly reversing his vanes is to prevent this and yet at the same time to support him.

  34. The sound of his great vanes pressing and dividing the air was plainly audible.

  35. And the vanes themselves are of a very curious pattern.

  36. In the flickers all ten feathers have wide vanes and are similar in everything but the shape; all are more or less pointed.

  37. The flicker's tail looks and feels very much like that of any other bird except that the shafts are stiffer and the vanes contract to an acuminate tip.

  38. Upon the stone a child was seated playing with a few flowers she had gathered, not once looking up to the gilded vanes that rose from the four pinnacles at the corners of the tower.

  39. This hole likewise fits over a sleeve and definitely locates the vanes with reference to the other parts of the system.

  40. These vanes are formed of very thin metal stiffened by ribs, stamped into them and by the edges, which are bent over to conform to the surface of the side walls of the chambers.

  41. Hitherto the Sydney Vanes had been unfortunate in their offsprings.

  42. If the man that she loved was good and true why should he not marry her, although he was a kinsman of the Vanes and the brother of a woman whom Westwood held in peculiar abhorrence?

  43. But since I know what you have told me--that he is a relative of the Vanes of Beechfield--I have determined that it cannot go on.

  44. At first I was too ignorant, too much stupefied by the whole thing to understand that the Vanes were keeping me at school and supporting me.

  45. Of course it was the Vanes who were thus providing for Cynthia Westwood's continued absence from their village.

  46. As soon as the misfortune that had befallen the Vanes was made known, the General's maiden-sister descended from London upon the house, and took possession, but not in any imperious or domineering way.

  47. Well, what objection have you to the Vanes of Beechfield?

  48. Beechfield Hall was the name of the old manor-house in which the Vanes had lived for many generations.

  49. Allan thrust home the throttle, the helio-vanes whined, and his 'copter leaped skyward.

  50. At sixty thousand feet the helio vanes were useless, only the power of the auxiliary rocket-tubes maintained his altitude.

  51. Then the helio-vanes screamed, and the American plane surged straight up!

  52. The impact had irreparably damaged the American craft, but the helicopter motor and vanes had somehow continued to function--just enough.

  53. The vanes act as a guide, keeping the projectile in as vertical a plane as possible, and ensuring that the rounded head shall strike the ground.

  54. The tail spindle is given an arrow-head shape, the vanes being utilised to steady the downward flight of the missile.


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