17 examples of underpinning in sentences

Before another Session we trust the proper spirit will move some underpinning there, for the greater good of the Commonwealth.

And although at first glance his underpinning seemed too frail to bear the great mass of his weight or withstand the effort of his driving power of shoulders and deep, broad thighs, yet a closer reckoning made one aware of the comfortable dimensions of the cannon bone with all that this feature portended.

I replied that I did, indeed, and for the space of perhaps two minutes was extraordinarily witty and satirical about this bird's underpinning.

You may guess I stood at attention soon enough, but told him I was looking at the founds to see if they wanted underpinning from the floods.

But when one sees a bookworm in his library, an anxious merchant-prince in his counting-room, tottering feebly about, his thin underpinning scarcely able to support what he has already crammed into that heavy brain of his, and he still piling in more,one feels disposed to cry out, "Unsafe passing here!

Look how skinny all that underpinning is, Miss Jordan.

Just before the Great War commenced, the costly operation of underpinning the cathedral was brought to a successful conclusion.

Underpinning: its practice and applications.

WHITE, EDWARD F. Underpinning: Its practice and applications.

Underpinning: its practice and applications.

Underpinning: its practice and applications.

WHITE, EDWARD F. Underpinning: Its practice and applications.

Underpinning: its practice and applications.

So alarming were the comments on what had been said that I began to feel that I had inadvertently taken out the underpinning from the social system.

By the time he was satisfied of the integrity of the underpinnings it was time for us to go; and all that I got was a friendly wave of the handa master craftsman's sign, you might call it.

If the dear Christ's throne stood on any such flimsy basis of prophecy as men have built up beneath it, then, when the underpinnings came tumbling out, as to-day they are doing, we might fear that His authority was dropping in with them; that no longer we were to call Him Master and King; that criticism had pronounced His decheance.

By the way, I suppose this wall is properly underpinned? Builder (nervously).

17 examples of  underpinning  in sentences