605 examples of hinge in sentences

" She was crying now frankly, and when the door swung closed, even though it swung back again on its insufficient hinge, she let her head fall forward into the pillow of her arms, the curve of her back rising and falling.

It can be hung on an easel or supported by its own hinge on a table.

It is well to remember that in this connection a child's limitations are not final, but only mark stages: for example, in his early attempts to use thick cardboard he cannot discover the neat hinge that is made by the process known as a "half-cut"; he tries in vain to bend the cardboard, so as to secure the same result.

Then, in the dark a hinge creaked faintly, a quivering hand seized Beltane's manacled wrist, drawing him on and through a narrow opening that yawned suddenly before them.

Thereafter the hinge creaked again and they stood side by side within a small chamber where was a doorway hung across with heavy curtains beyond which a light burned.

There had been no damage done to bolt, or lock, or hinge.

The hinge is without teeth, but furnished with a somewhat oval cavity, and mostly with lateral transverse grooves.

From a similarity in the structure of the hinge, oysters and scallops have been classified as one tribe; but they differ very essentially both in their external appearance and their habits.

" I cleared away the things, and shutting up the table, which worked on a hinge, spread out my own cushions on the floor alongside of Joyce's bunk.

querubin, m., cherub. quicio, m., hinge; (here) crack, opening.

An incident in the life of Mahomet the great, first emperor of the Turks, is the hinge on which the fable is made to move.

The death of Justin is clearly the pivot on which his date will hinge.

A blind slung open, loose on a broken hinge; the emptiness of the house looked through it like a spirit.

" "So many things seem to hinge on the success of this play!"

[Illustration: ENGLISH HINGE JOINT:] Quest.

Explain the advantage of your American joint over the English hinge.

The American joint gives a perfect unbroken surface of entire width of belt, whereas the English hinge joint makes two half widths, and whenever a sudden change of power occurs and the belt runs half way off the pulley, it will catch at the edge and tear everything to pieces.

I have not been growing thinner all these six years, but this morning, in stooping over one of the cold frames to see how the plants within had weathered the storm, it came quite as a shock to me to feel that, like Martin Cortright, I am getting stout and in the way of myself when I bend, like an impediment in a door hinge.

he cried, with a voice like a rusty hinge.

The crooked hinge.

The great difficulty of the manufacture lies in the formation of the hinge, which in a genuine box is so delicately made as hardly to be visible.

The hinge, as well as the finishing, is clumsy in the extreme.

" After the charm of the novelty of the scene had vanished, I descended from my perch to explore this sleepy hollow: the barn door hung suspended on a single hinge, like a bird with but one unbroken wing to soar upon.

It was a clanging thing, that seemed to creak on a hinge, as I pulled the stout string from outside.

But hinge no hope on this declaration of mine.

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