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Example sentences for "when placed"

  • When placed in the lamp for use, the collodion is first burned off and the remaining oxide of thorium forms the incandescent mantle.

  • When placed in a doorway and properly connected with a signal, no person can enter without starting an alarm.

  • When placed over or under a note, means that its duration should be cut short.

  • When placed over or under a note, implies a very detached (staccato) style.

  • When placed over a note or rest, indicates that it must be held longer than its natural length.

  • When placed at the beginning and end of a passage or movement, indicates that the portion so marked is to be played over again.

  • It is chiefly composed of carbonate of lime; when placed in muriatic acid it froths much, leaving a residue of sulphate of lime, and of an oxide of iron, together with a black powder, which is not soluble in heated acids.

  • One of the most compact varieties, when placed in acid, was entirely dissolved, with the exception of some flocculent animal matter; its specific gravity was 2.

  • When placed back to back with the tallest of the boat's crew, he tried his best to edge on higher ground, and to stand on tiptoe.

  • The elater, when placed on its back and preparing to spring, moved its head and thorax backwards, so that the pectoral spine was drawn out, and rested on the edge of its sheath.

  • Similarly we may interpret two Red Counters, when placed in the South, or West, or East Half.

  • Similarly we may interpret a Red Counter, when placed on the partition which divides the South, or West, or East Half.

  • The shoots, when placed near a vertical stick, either twine round it, or clasp it with the basal portions of their petioles.

  • When placed so that the movements were to and from the light, the rate was greatly accelerated in one half of the course, and retarded in the other, as with twining plants.

  • The pronouns he and she, when placed before or prefixed to nouns merely to denote their gender, appear to be used adjectively; as, "The male or he animals offered in sacrifice.

  • When placed on burning charcoal, this double-bellied gourd turns black, becomes covered with shiny warts that look like jet beads, emits a smell like that of grilled meat and leaves a residue of red clay.

  • When placed on the smooth wood of my table, the animal wriggles slowly; it lengthens and shortens without advancing by a hair's-breadth.

  • Moreover, when placed in a boat a keener influence turns its own poles round more quickly to the poles of the earth or the limits of variation on the horizon.

  • It will be seen that GG, when placed on the opposite side in the same relation to the centre, intersects, or lies on top of, F, whereas the cigars are not allowed to touch.

  • When placed on glass tumblers, as shown in the illustration, they change sides so that the three black ones are to the left and the white frogs to the right, with the unoccupied tumbler at the opposite end--No.

  • When placed as shown in the illustration they formed a magic square, so that if he took any three baskets in a line in the eight possible directions there would always be the same number of plums.

  • I succeeded on several occasions in crushing glands between fine pincers, but this did not excite any movement; nor did raw meat and salts of ammonia, when placed on such crushed glands.

  • We shall hereafter see that solutions of these substances, when placed on the discs of leaves, do not incite inflection.

  • When placed in darkness, they often go to sleep, or give themselves up to disordered acts.

  • The child who knows how to write, when placed before a word which he must interpret by reading, is silent for a long time, and generally reads the component sounds with the same slowness with which he would have written them.

  • When placed in an electric field the tissue paper "detector" places itself parallel to the lines of force.

  • Bore out one end and fill the opening with lead and seal with paraffin so that the rod will float vertically when placed in water.

  • When placed in a vessel open to the air the pressure is lessened and part of the gas escapes.

  • The magnetoscope needle points exactly northeast when placed at that point.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "when placed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    great need; when all; when baked; when calling; when cool; when dried; when elected; when engaged; when every; when feeding; when found; when fully; when heated; when made; when mature; when nearly; when planted; when some; when something; when they had come; when thoroughly; when time; when treating; when very; whence the; whenever possible