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How to use pinions in a sentence

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No one wants to be friends with the guy who spears people in the gut or pinions them under a heavy net.
The shadows melded to her as though painted on by the pinions of angel wings.
It is used for railroad frogs, for steel mill coupling housings, pinions, spindles, and for dipper lips of power shovels operating in quarries.
Buglike, and reminding me of dragonfly wings were two long pinions, and just under them were two more.
Then the fledgling sprang upward, pinions grasping the morning wind, and each assured, graceful motion branded itself in Arun's memory.
Her long pinions were light grey, outlined and marked with charcoal stripes, and jet-black at their tips with silver eye-spots.
They flew throughout the night, glorying in the sensation of flight and the rush of air through their pinions.
It had feathers and pinions made of lightning, and its flesh was solid shadow.
The pinions are assembled to an exact position and 28 characteristics are measured to control the positioning of the pinion to the gear itself.
These were driven by a series of bevel gears, contrate wheels, pinions and long axles extending from the centre to the ends.
The great spur wheel and the lay shaft crown wheel have wooden teeth turning cast iron pinions.
An intricate system of gears, stainless steel pinions, and rubber and metal belts appeared ready to circumvolve.
In the tedder illustrated here the main wheels contain a gear-wheel driving, through the medium of pinions, cranked shafts carrying forks.
She stared at the bird for a long moment, the pinions arched as though he were merely sleeping, dreaming about flight.
His wings were huge, trailing on the ground and raising feet over his head, massive constructions of grey pinions.
Bright wings opened, the dirt-streaked, longest pinions bracing against the earth as he reeled.
The design also has two pinions on top of the grader's saddle for superior support.
Each wheel axle is attached to a differential side gear, which meshes with the differential pinions.
Morisse-Nayrat acquired a 5 axes numerical control machine-tool for producing automatically all kinds of pinions.
Still, I saw a family of deer, a blue jay, a New Forest pony suckling, and a buzzard wheeling so low I could count the individual pinions extended at its wingtips.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Then Love took wing, and from his pinions shed On all the multitude a nectarous dew.
These little internal-gear sprockets were hung on double-shrouded pinions secured to each end of the jackshaft.
Take off the merrythought, the neck-bones, and separate the leg-bones from the legs, and the pinions from the wings.
The chorus of afreets and djins was left far behind, but he still heard the sound of pinions.
Their pinions flashed, spiralled and sank to rest on the wide waters.
She comes up nobly, but the laterals buffet her left and right like the pinions of angry angels.
From the future come winds with stealthy pinions, and to fine ears good tidings are proclaimed.
At last, the pteranodon spread its huge brown pinions and took off.
I must needs try my new-fledged pinions in sonnet, elogy, and madrigal.
The ole garden is open to you, and your airy pinions carry you through it.
The hawk is aerial brother of the wave which he sails over and surveys, those his perfect air-inflated wings answering to the elemental unfledged pinions of the sea.
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