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"Seam" in a Sentence (20 examples)
In order to fix this mistake we'll have to tear out this seam.
The mid-ocean range stretches around the globe like the seam of a baseball.
Now fail the ships wherein Achates ride / and Abas; old Aletes' bark gives way, / and brave Ilioneus'. Each loosened side / through many a gaping seam lets in the baleful tide.
The blanket's seam has unraveled.
A seam on the blanket has unraveled.
Most women can sew on a button or run up a seam; sewing, in fact, is regarded rather as a feminine instinct than an art.
"Look at this beautiful cashmere jumper I found in your wardrobe. Why don't you ever wear it?" "There's a hole in one of the armpits." "It's only a little split along the seam. Aren't you going to mend it?" "No, it's too much hassle. I'll chuck it in the bin and buy a new one." "You're so wasteful, Tom! I'll sew it up and keep it myself, then."
The DNA molecule is very thin and long. If we wanted to draw it on a scale where it was as thick as a seam line, the molecule would be about two hundred kilometers long.
An Australian mining company says it could start exploring for coal seam gas next year beneath the country's most populous city, Sydney.
I am walking up the seam of stairs.
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Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […] Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.
He even roused himself to go to the mines once more: […]. He sat there, crippled, in a tub, with the under-ground manager showing him the seam with a powerful torch.
Seams can be made or sealed in a variety of ways, including adhesive bonding, hot-air welding, solvent welding, using adhesive tapes, sealant, etc.
Precepts should be so finely wrought together[…]that no coarse seam may discover where they join.
Thus, seamed with many scars, / Bursting these prison bars, / Up to its native stars / My soul ascended!
Seam'd o'er with wounds which his own sabre gave.
Later their lips began to parch and seam.
As white glass was 6s. the 'seam', containing 24 'weys' (pise, or pondera) of 5 lb., and 2½ lb. was reckoned sufficient to make one foot of glazing, the cost of glass would be 1½d. leaving 2½d. for labour.
shall the proud lord That bastes his arrogance with his own seam And never suffers matter of the world
scour their rusty shields with seam
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