489 examples of plugs in sentences

Knock out the plugs in the othersand Watkins!" "Ay, ay, sir.

Lower that starboard quarter-boat you four, and see to the plugs and oars.

Norma put her slim hands down among the oily plugs, selected a tool from the kit George held out to her, and did something mysterious to the "innards.

He wants his plugs decarbonized.

There are, besides these artesian wells, 35 monumental fountains, 88 plain fountains and over 2,000 water-plugs in the city.

'I took this opportunity (the relaying of the water-main) of establishing two powerful fire-plugs (one in the Front Court, and one in the Magnetic Ground); a stock of fire-hose adapted to the "Brigade-Screw" having been previously secured in the Observatory.''Two wires, intended for the examination of spontaneous earth-currents, have been carried from the Magnetic Observatory to the Railway Station in the town of Greenwich.

Their heretofore trustworthy "wage plugs" were showing unmistakable symptoms of intelligence.

I must have a pair or two of nostril-plugs, or nose-goggles laid in his coffin)stands at the door, reading that to M'Adam, and the washer-woman's letter, and he admits the facts.

In the first were beheld Pimps and Seducers, scourged like children by horned devils; in the second, Flatterers, begrimed with ordure; in the third, Simonists, who were stuck like plugs into circular apertures, with their heads downwards, and their legs only discernible, the soles of their feet glowing with a fire which made them incessantly quiver.

Fusible metal plugs useless as antidotes to explosions.

Then, when the girl saw how the case stood, she called for beautiful things, such as a malaki wears,fine hemp trousers, beaded jacket, good war-shield and brass-bound spear, ear-plugs of pure ivory, and eight necklaces of beads and gold.

Like two big moons, his ivory ear-plugs shone; when he moved his shield, flames of living fire shot from it; and when he held up his spear, the day would grow dark, because he was a brave man.

If you should have two plugs, as soon as you have melted out one replace it with the new one, and refill the other at your earliest convenience.

Therefore, when he at length appeared, walking leisurely up Winter-street, swinging the kettle about in the most reckless manner, and setting it down on the pavement to play leap-frog over the fire-plugs, her wrath reached a point that boded no good to the young trifler.

After firing several rounds at two hundred yards, only one ball of Mr. Greener's, which had struck the target, was found to have the plug driven home, the others had all lost their plugs.

The topmen and sail-trimmers were enumerated, and found prepared; shot-plugs and stoppers were handled: the magazine was even opened; the arm chests emptied of their contents; and, in short, far more than the ordinary preparations of an every day exercise was observed.

Passing along still further, I thought it would be well if the crowds assembled to stare from the various landings were still confined to the kinnick-kinnick, for almost all had tobacco written on their faces, their cheeks rounded with plugs, their eyes dull with its fumes.

The Eskimos, about the age of puberty, apply paint and tattooing to their faces, cut holes and insert plugs or labrets.

Fire plugs were for water in case of fire, not for children's enjoyment.

This he placed between silver plugs in a small glass tube.

Platinum wires were connected to the silver plugs and brought out at the opposite ends of the tube.

It required long study to determine just how to adjust the plugs between which the powder was loosely arranged.

Marconi also discovered that a larger proportion of silver in the powder and a smaller amount between the plugs increased the sensitiveness of the receiver.

Under the influence of the electric waves set up from the spark-gap those tiny particles so arranged themselves that they would readily carry a current between the plugs.

By placing these plugs with their platinum terminals in circuit with a local battery the current from this local battery was given a passage through the coherer by the action of the electric waves coming through the ether.

489 examples of  plugs  in sentences