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Sentence Examples The original instrument is a wooden tube, slightly tapered, and measuring six foot four inches in length. The middle tapered into a slim, V-shaped waistline, and the collar was the square-cut neckline that was currently the fashion. Do tapered jeans, legwarmers, unicorns and green mascara remind you of your adolescent years? The tail of the kangaroo mouse is thickest in the middle, tapered at both ends, black tip, and no tuft. A common method was to bore a hole in the barrel using any of a variety of bung borers, boring taps, augers, tapered reamers, and the like. More revenue had to be raised from customs as receipts from land sales tapered off. White and speckled alstroemeria flowers and tapered reed stems combine with cat's eye marbles in a glass vase. My prescription was tapered off so that I was alternating days of full dosage, half dosage. I use knotless tapered leaders but after attaching a few flies I tie in some tippet material when needed. It is characterized by a very gently tapered, finely laminated conical tube lacking strong transverse annulations. I want to buy cute summer dresses, not horrible trouser suits with tapered legs. One of the bone instruments was a needle about four inches in length, beautifully tapered, and still in a prefect state of preservation. The 12m x 12m plot tapered towards the rear and was made up of a series of terraces, subdivided into rhomboid shaped beds. The leveling system is constructed with massive pins, tapered roller bearings and thick steel plate. The sharp, tapered tip is used to pierce and thread smaller cuts without damaging its appearance. It takes more than a nice tan, a good smile, and some flashy tapered jeans to pull off the stopping of time to make asides to the audience. North American river otters are semi-aquatic mammals, with long, streamlined bodies, thick tapered tails, and short legs. The tapered tang reduces weight in the handle and places the balance further forward where it increases control. Each lash is fetchingly tapered to a point, and is much thicker and almost double the length of my old substandard wisps. Most blades are uniformly thick along their length, but some are tapered towards the heel. Show More Sentences The rear supports are tapered in front to form a comfortably angled backrest. Her long tapered fingers lost themselves in the silky strands of his dark blonde hair. The dynamic boom in global investing and bank lending that fueled far-flung industrialization during the nineties has tapered off dramatically. With a doctor's care I have since tapered off the medication, but without it I wouldn't have become the loving parent that I am today. Gradually the spray tapered off to a trickle of hot water, then finally a stream of drips. He had huge shoulders and a broad back which tapered to an extraordinarily small waist. All members are mortised and tenoned together with long tapered pins that secure the joints. The Ballerina setting consists of center stone that is surrounded by a series of diamonds that are cut in a tapered Baguette style. The front legs on virtually all of these chairs have small baluster turnings atop heavy tapered legs that terminate in pad feet on little disks. He ran a hand down the smooth and finely sculptured chest, the muscles twitching upon the caress of the long, tapered fingers. A typical Baroque violin or viol bow had a finely tapered snakewood stick, almost straight or slightly curved outwards. The front end is contained within a tapered bushing that mates with a corresponding taper in the slide. She stepped closer and her tapered fingers brushed lightly against the tender skin beneath his eye. The tightness of their tapered trousers and their designer rollnecks make them look like 1960s mods. It is less tapered than earlier Boston tankards and is visually bound by applied ridged hoops. If the touch holes were tapered in the original casting, surely trying to blast them from above would only tighten them further? The face tapered to a pointed chin, leaving room for a small nose and tiny mouth. The hounds were black, red, silver-grey and brindle, tall and narrow, with tapered muzzles and dark narrow eyes. Combined with the tapered schnabel forearm, the rifle seems far more sleek and trim than others I've handled. This two-ply composite is then machined into the six tapered triangular sections that when glued up together, form the familiar split-cane form. Show More Sentences The trees around her parted, and the mist tapered to reveal a small cottage. This is a delicate Federal-era design with gracefully tapered, curved legs ending in fine spade feet. As for the cut, I tapered the hair on the back and sides, gradually creating fullness toward the top. Candles, both large and small, tapered, pillar or votives all generate a warm, inviting, flickering light to the room. Objects with a wide variety of weight can be supported by a metal hook on a long tapered nail driven at an angle into the plaster. The exposed part of the slightly tapered handle is six inches long and about a half-inch in diameter. To make a tapered octagon barrel involves an expensive custom made fixture. Only a handful of gunsmiths have the ability to cut a tapered octagon barrel. The magazine tube holds 10 rounds and the tapered octagon barrel is 20 inches long. Some machines have the capability to automatically sew a tapered satin stitch. The pulse shape is usually assumed to be of haversine, half-sine or some other tapered rectangular shape. Another simple pergola of 2x3 stringers and tapered cross supports accents a path from the street to the home's side entrance. The 140A has the tapered, single-strut, all-metal wing of the 150, but the flaps are hinged, not Fowler flaps. If you're a bit heavy and feel that a tapered hem makes your hips or upper thighs look bigger, try a straight leg style instead. Perhaps sensing that this was not an idle threat, the protests immediately tapered off. Neoclassical commodes, desks, and some chairs had fluted tapered legs reminiscent of upside-down obelisks. A tapered wooden spike called a 'fid' is the traditional splicing tool commonly used for splicing natural fiber twisted rope. Filberts are a compromise between flat and round brushes, being shaped to a slight curve at the tip to produce soft, tapered strokes. The muscles in his forearms tapered into strong, tanned hands and calloused fingertips. Even the woman who was wearing tapered, pleated jeans knew more than I did. Show More Sentences Insert tapered shims under the cabinet, as needed, until a level shows that it is plumb and vertical. The waist was small and tapered into a V, and the skirt flared out slightly, with filmy layers overlying the dress. The hair was washed, conditioned, blow-dried and flat-ironed with slightly tapered ends to give it a sleek look. A tapered stainless steel strainer screen and bottom cap offers the ultimate in non-corrosive foot valves. Even with her physique under cowhide, her tapered silhouette is always striking. Two hours out from the parking lot, we crest a little rise to find a tapered concrete pillar about four feet high. He wore an elegantly tied white shirt, with ivory cufflinks shaped like pale embryos, and white stockings tapered with black satin slippers. This cylindrically shaped tool with a tapered section on both ends is used to expand the mouth of brass cases by hand. They shuffled in carrying composition notebooks and wearing puffy jackets, tapered jeans, and Timberland boots. Horizontal tubular-steel purlins running over the arches in turn support vertically aligned tapered arms ending in stainless-steel fixings. The only diagnostic characters the type species has are the straight anterior border with a central raised area and a tapered glabella. The tapered, long slender jaws of these pliers are the best tool for adding a switch to a lamp cord or installing a dimmer switch. The barrel is heavily tapered to further reduce weight and is fitted with a dovetail front sight set in an integral base. Jennifer Garner was wearing a pair of khaki pants, pleated at the waist and tapered at the ankle. Look for soft wicking materials in areas that make contact with your skin, and a belt that's wider at the back and tapered toward the front so as not to dig into the hips. Wear boot-cut pants or tapered skirts with slightly flared hems, but steer clear of wide-leg slacks, wide skirts and dresses and above-ankle pants. These include implants that are noncoated, tapered, and threaded in design, and which are immediate-load in nature to allow for delivery in a single procedure. The front legs are squared and tapered ending in spade feet. Trousers were either tapered or, somewhat more flatteringly, slouchy. Hepplewhite introduced the tapering, square leg often tapered on the inside faces only usually ending in the spade foot, which added a needed look of strength. Show More Sentences Extremely careful metallography on tapered sections through the surface of the specimen has shown that fatigue cracks initiate at intrusions and extrusions. The north wall opens up to the sunken courtyard to draw in cool air, and the tapered lanterns serve as thermal chimneys, with openable louvres to evacuate hot air. My foot has wide metatarsals with tapered toes, and no shoe fits. The reason for not using knotted tapered leaders when fishing with very small flies is you will often get fish hitting the knots in mistake for a tiny insect. There are four tapered baguette diamonds set in two prong heads. Emigration, which hit epic levels in the 1980s and 1990s, seems to have tapered off. To gather data from an underground explosion, American testers have used long pipes that extended all the way from the surface to a tapered end close to the blast. The Bear's wings are mid-mounted, swept-back, and tapered with blunt tips. The mass concentration by tapered elemental oscillating microbalance was on average slightly lower than mass concentration measured by filter, but there was good agreement. The semicircle of his high, wide forehead swung down to the protuberant knobs of his cheekbones, and then tapered, concaving to the pointy bulb of his chin. Serving pots for coffee retained the tall tapered look of their Arab counterparts, while tea pots retained the squat, rotund shape initially seen in China. The former OC star, 26, was channelling Hollywood chic in a tapered tuxedo and bright orange lipstick. The sharp spike in enrollment has somewhat tapered off, however. The most common nail head is flat, giving you a bigger target for the hammer, or countersunk, also called a sinker, which is flat on top and slightly tapered on the bottom. And incredibly, the tapered, figured satinwood panels on the legs are enclosed by dark and light stringing, which tapers as it moves down the leg. At one end, a ball release notch has been precisely machined, at a specific distance from the other end, which is tapered to allow the ball run off. Once we got to the beach, the rain tapered to a slight drizzle and we had our lunch of fajitas and quesadillas topped with fresh guacamole and a choice of mild or hot salsa. The bow is wedge-shaped, tapered to the front and also from top to bottom. The tapered walls required the development of a new wad and the semi-hemispherical chamber required the use of slower powders to control pressures. The tapered open twists and interwoven spirals of the fire screen shown in Plate IX also appear on an umbrella stand that was part of the Wanamaker display. Show More Sentences All members with the exception of the collar ties and wind braces are mortised and tenoned together with long tapered pins that secure the joints. They're not the normal sweet pepper shape, they're long and tapered. The knitted dress is yellow and cream and tapered at the bottom. The peoples of the far south used fishtail points with expanded stems, and the forest and coastal peoples used triangular points, often with tapered stems. The left terminal ureter tapered abruptly, medial to the bladder diverticulum. The names of many of the city's bridges, tapered skyscrapers, and parks are known around the world. In addition to the noncentering of the rivet holes, one of the rivets was tapered and the two rivets were overlapping. The corr had a brass strap nailed to each side, pierced by tapered brass tuning pins. Its flippers are small and tapered and its tail is wide, pointed at the tip, and notched in the centre. It usually heavily tapered into a joint with the internal keelson, although keelsons were by no means universal. The strongly tapered face is reddish brown or gray in color, and the chin and upper throat are cream colored. A fuselage is a long, thin body, usually with tapered or rounded ends to make its shape aerodynamically smooth. For example, a delicate dry fly hook is made of thin wire with a tapered eye because weight is the overriding factor. The edible tuberous root is long and tapered, with a smooth skin whose color ranges between yellow, orange, red, brown, purple, and beige. Boring is used to achieve greater accuracy of the diameter of a hole, and can be used to cut a tapered hole. For tapered holes, the cutting tool moves at an angle to the axis of rotation. These chambers were tall tapered cylinders that were externally cooled by water flowing down the outside surface of the chamber. Most cylindrical grinding machines include a swivel to allow the forming of tapered pieces. A tapered glass cylinder surrounds the flame, and above that the body is a brass tube. Broken stone was wedged into the spaces between the tapered perpendicular faces to provide the layer with good lateral control. Show More Sentences First was his straight tapered leg, sometimes with a spade foot, at other times tipped in brass. The rain had tapered off to a sprinkly drizzle, Portland's most prevalent weather condition. Antennal bases enlarged, forming straight bidentate horns, tapered and pointed ventroapically. A yardang has a wide, blunt leading edge in the face of the wind, and its sides are tapered so that it resembles a teardrop. Photoetching enables designers to specify a tapered hole, which facilitates liquid filtration and back flow cleaning. Belzile developed a plasticizing system based on a tapered tube with an internal barrier. Look for shoes with toe boxes that are more square or rounded, rather than those that are severely tapered, Simon says. Multifocal islands and tapered cords of cuboidal cells were present within the submucosa. The ear candle is an 11 inch-long hollow tube with a tapered end that sets in the ear canal. The brush is thin and tapered to clean between teeth, around and behind braces end bridgework or dentures. The tapered and chamfered rectangular handle on the Victory Hoe gives me a more openhanded grip and it just feels better. A cue is usually either a one piece tapered stick or a two piece stick divided in the middle by a joint of metal or phenolic resin. There is also a tapered 'wake channel' on the bonnet, which the company says evokes the sight of a jet's vapour trail. Veronese II by Chacott A Japanese-made, lightweights shoe for students, with a tapered V-shaped vamp. Those that don't can be easily modified by the handloader with a simple, tapered case skiver. The bristles look like normal bristles but are much finer and have been tapered to reach under the gumline better. Arpeggio guest seating, having tapered legs and spade feet shapes, can accommodate itself to contemporary, transitional or traditional office designs. The stool examination revealed small, white, seed-like structures which were identified as proglottids, measuring 7mm by 3mm and tapered at both ends. His proudest offering is a matched pair of 17th-century huanghuali tapered cabinets formerly in the Museum of Classical Chinese Furniture in Renaissance, Calif. While most strictures in Barrett's esophagus are located in the distal esophagus, some patients may develop ringlike or tapered strictures in the midesophagus. Show More Sentences Styles include square tapered, Queen Anne, reeded, rams head, and more. Whereas Carlisle or Aberdeen light wire bait hooks make use of thin wire to reduce injury to live bait but the eyes are not tapered because weight is not an issue. The area of the inner cavity is often tapered from the center of the die across the coating width to manage thixotropy, sedimentation, and hardening reactions. Positioned on top of the first freight container, the 48-foot ArrowedgeA has a tapered body that allows air to more easily flow around the train's top frontmost containers. The tapered lozenge design features powerful LED lights that will illuminate 1,500 glass prisms containing the written wishes or memories of local residents. Positioned on top of the first freight container, the 48-foot Arrowedge has a tapered body that allows air to more easily flow around the train's top frontmost containers. Examples from Classical Literature They were thick and leathery and tapered from base to apex like a triangle. With a scorching whiff of sulphur and violets, a thin, spiral scream, the music tapered into the sepulchral clang of a tam-tam. But where he tapered from broad shoulders to flat hips, they were straight up and down. The bow itself is tapered from the middle outwards just like any other bow. The body is long and slender, and the head is narrow and gently tapered from the area of the blowhole forward. If the legs are to be tapered or otherwise shaped, that should be done next. The shoulders are inversely tapered with narrow barbs that may be expanded, especially on examples with recurvate blade edges. Provide a machine screw, S, for the hole C and drill a small tapered hole in the end of the screw. In the first and preferable one the mortice is tapered, as in Fig. 2768, and the two wedges are inserted and driven home. The long tapered end of one piece of timber made to fay into a scarph at the end of another piece, to gain length. Even Sheraton's satinwood elegance in delicate tapered legs found an echo in elm and beech. They were penannular, and tapered nearly to a point at the ends. RockShox Reba RL 29 fork has 110mm of travel, new Solo Air spring, rebound and compression adjust, and a tapered steerer tube. We left her standing upon the thin peninsula of firm, peaty soil which tapered out into the widespread bog. This is done by scarfing the end of the bar into a short tapered point. It has the tapered look of a Civil War Schenkl shell, which did have a papier-mache sabot to grip an artillery piece's rifling. The lips of this gasket are tapered, with the narrow edge up. Shoes are displayed on a striking art-deco inspired table made of tapered bronze with a deep chocolate shagreen top. The blade lies in a slot and is held tight by the tapered ferrule. Shoulders are narrow, usually tapered, and may be asymmetrical. Show More Sentences But it was hard to cut a ladle for the long, tapered chamber. The proximal 8 cm was conically tapered from 8 to 5 mm and had circumferential threading. Mr. Stone's calmness, like the whittler's stick, tapered up instead down. They were from fifty to one hundred yards long, and they gradually tapered from a nine-log breadth at their sterns, to a three-log breadth at their bow-ends. Find more words! 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