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Example sentences for "webbing"

Lexicographically close words:
weavings; weazen; weazened; web; webbed; webby; webfoot; webs; website; webworm
  1. She got up from the machine with a length of grey webbing in her hand, and looked absently about for a few minutes.

  2. She held the webbing against the tape measure, and cut it off at thirty-five with quite a vicious little snip.

  3. The axilla, groin, anterior and posterior surfaces of the thighs, ventral surfaces of the hind limbs, and webbing on the hands and feet were tomato red.

  4. The dorsum is uniform pale green; the anterior and posterior surfaces of the thighs, fingers, first three toes, and webbing are deep yellow.

  5. Hyla debilis has a dull tan canthal stripe and white spots on the upper lip; the webbing on the hand is slightly more extensive, and the discs are slightly larger, in debilis than in xanthosticta.

  6. The latter species has a covered tympanum, less webbing on the hands, and a short, blunt snout.

  7. His projectile-like speed decreased with uncomfortable suddenness, and he was swung round and upward to find himself sitting in what amounted to a swing, with webbing representing the ropes on either side of his aching body.

  8. Looking up, he saw that slightly above his head and within reach, the webbing divided into two, and that the shrouds or small cords leading to the outer edge of the parachute were here attached to the harness he wore, in four places.

  9. The webbing straps broke, and the dome jerked upwards, twisting outwards, and then falling into ribbons.

  10. But it was strong enough to hold up the pressure of over ten pounds per square inch, and the webbing was anchored in a metal sleeve that went too high for cutting.

  11. We can work enough powder under those webbing supports, and lay the fuse wire beside the plastic ring that keeps it airtight," he reported.

  12. The fabric of it was thin, and even the webbing straps that gave it added strength were frail things.

  13. This webbing is very suggestive of the similar result left behind by a colony of Mourning-cloak caterpillars upon the twigs of elm or poplar.

  14. When ready to change to the chrysalis, the caterpillars desert their leafy homes and on a twig or board or stone each spins a bit of silken webbing and a silken loop.

  15. The full-grown caterpillars of the second brood sew up their leafy cases very carefully, making them of such thick silken webbing that they are watertight.

  16. They then sew themselves in for the winter, fastening all of the crevices in the nest so securely with silken webbing that a very serviceable winter cocoon is formed.

  17. Here it makes its first nest by webbing together the still closed upper surface of a leaf not yet unfolded.

  18. The flanks, belly, and vocal sac are yellow, and the anterior and posterior surfaces of the thighs and webbing of the feet are bright orange-red or tomato red.

  19. Smilisca puma is unique in the genus in lacking webbing in the hand; furthermore, this species is distinctive in having many large subarticular tubercles on the hand and a relatively small inner metatarsal tubercle.

  20. The webbing in the feet is completely developed at metamorphosis, but young individuals have noticeably less webbing in the hand than do adults of the same species.

  21. The type agrees well with specimens of Smilisca wellmanorum (Taylor, 1952); the vestigial webbing on the hands and the dorsal coloration are especially significant.

  22. The webbing of the feet is tan to grayish brown.

  23. Ontogenetic Changes Minor ontogenetic changes in structure involve the shape of the snout, relative size of the eye, development of the tympanum, and amount of webbing in the hand.

  24. Consistent differences exist in relative lengths of the digits, size of subarticular tubercles, size and number of supernumerary tubercles, size and shape of the inner metatarsal tubercle, and amount of webbing (Pls.

  25. The webbing is most extensive in both the hands and feet of these species, which also are distinctive in having many small supernumerary tubercles on the feet.

  26. The webbing on the hand is tan or pale gray, and the ventral surfaces of the tarsi and the webbing on the feet are dark gray or brown.

  27. The webbing on the hands and feet is pale grayish brown.

  28. Then drawing the webbing tight was no trouble, and I was spinning with the bird.

  29. I got one end of my sticky webbing stuck to it by pressure and decelerated so that the bird turned under me while I paid off the web.

  30. At this stage I readjusted the position of my webbing girdle until I could clamp my head in position and begin the testing.

  31. Cut each of these like A in the diagram, so that the webbing is cut straight across at the end furthest from the point of the quill.

  32. This windmill is made of goose quills, or any other large strong quill; these must be chosen with the wider webbing of the feather all on the same side, and must be the same size.

  33. At the other end make a similar but longer notch, and into it slip a portion of a quill feather with one side of the webbing practically cut away.

  34. Fix each of these four quills into place with the webbing overlapping the sloping end of the quill in front of it.

  35. There was a spitting of sparks and the stranger worked frantically at the buckle of the webbing harness to loosen it and toss the whole thing from him.

  36. The man he sought stood by the fire, shrugging his arms into a webbing harness which brought a box against his chest.

  37. There's my webbing lying right where I put it out.

  38. With straining back and smarting fingers he worked by the fisherman's side hauling the heavy webbing to the deck.

  39. The first shot out of the box you let a piece of barracuda-webbing go adrift and Mascola's gang picked it up right before your eyes and you never cheeped.

  40. If you give me that I'll throw your webbing over.

  41. Underparts whitish, occasionally having blackish dots or smudges on posterior part of carapace, in region of bridge, or on lateral parts of chin and throat; few dark marks often on webbing of limbs and on palms and soles.

  42. Underparts whitish often with dusky markings on rear of carapace or in region of bridge; blackish marks often on webbing and portions of soles and palms, and chin and throat.

  43. Some residents of the South tell of so placing baits that turtles are lured to tread water against an object set with recurved hooks upon which the webbing of the forelimbs are impaled.

  44. Undersurface of soft parts of body buff, lacking markings; few dark marks posteriorly on webbing of limbs, encroaching on soles and palms.

  45. Undersurface of soft parts of body whitish, with pinkish tinge; dark marks lacking on soles, present on webbing and palms; dark marks arranged in linear fashion coincident with digits.

  46. Ross swallowed, his hand grasping one of the strings of chair webbing for support.

  47. Turning to examine the seats, Ross discovered that they could be unhooked from their webbing swings.

  48. He had the webbing about him when he stopped to waste precious seconds in wide-eyed staring at the figure of Spud O'Malley.

  49. The control room door was flung open as the figure of a young man stumbled through and dropped two bundles of cloth and webbing upon the floor.

  50. When I was a boy of eight, I noticed small spiders webbing down from the sky.

  51. The webbing on the hand usually excludes the penultimate phalanges of the fingers, but in some specimens from Amazonian Ecuador the webbing encompasses the proximal parts of the penultimate phalanges of the fingers.

  52. The moderately rugose dorsum (in males), large size, extensive webbing on the hand, and frontoparietal flanges in adults serve to distinguish taurinus from other members of the genus.

  53. Osteocephalus buckleyi, pearsoni, and verrucigerus have reduced webbing between fingers two and three, and leprieurii has reduced webbing between fingers two, three, and four.

  54. In a few of these specimens, the holotype of festae, and one paratype of cabrerai the webbing extends to the middle of the penultimate phalanges of the third and fourth fingers.

  55. Webbing between fingers one and two is basal in all species.

  56. Webbing between fingers two, three, and four is most extensive in taurinus, in which the three fingers are about one-half webbed (Fig.

  57. In the holotype of cabrerai the webbing extends to the middle of the penultimate phalanges of the third and fourth fingers and to the base of the disc of the second finger.

  58. In single file, wearing our webbing and with our kitbags slung over our shoulders we slowly mounted the gangplank.

  59. Webbing gaiters covered the junction of boots and hose-tops; whether the gaiters were aesthetic or functional I don't know, either way they were two more items to be blancoed; perhaps they would deter an aggressive snake.

  60. A tin hat, forage cap, webbing belt with bayonet frog, bayonet and scabbard completed our equipment though later on we were given collar badges and brass letters to affix to our epaulets proclaiming us to be Royal Signals.

  61. Arriving back just before midnight I assembled all my new webbing equipment and then slept well.

  62. I exchanged my leather bandolier and black leather gaiters for webbing bren gun pouches and gaiters all in pieces and in different shades of khaki.

  63. He may have it of scarlet, if he is fond of ornament, of webbing bis Afro murice tincta, or of scarlet and gold if he likes.

  64. In like manner an impression of the webbing is sometimes left.

  65. Four round small toes and, if the soil be favourable, a plain triangle just behind where the webbing of the foot has rested.

  66. A webbing stretched on steel tubes is introduced between the inner edges of the 4 main stabilising shapes to provide extra stabilising surface.

  67. The toes had been craftily upturned, the tails shortened, the webbing more closely woven.

  68. Dane unbuckled his safety webbing and got up, looking to Shannon for orders.

  69. The actual jar of their landing contact was mostly absorbed by the webbing of their shock seats and they were on their feet, ready to move almost at once.

  70. Next morning she was found to have got rid of the handcuffs, had cut the webbing to pieces, broken her windows, and destroyed her bedding.

  71. She soon afterwards loosened the tape, and was then bound with strong webbing to the bedstead.

  72. To these would be attached the tunnel, the webbing that guided fish through the hearts of the pound net and into the pot.

  73. You don't move a pound net except, of course, to take up the webbing when the lake freezes.


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