Baffle Sentence Examples

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  • His speeches carry us but a little way beyond the mental range; his novels rather baffle than instruct.

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  • Taking care of your sheer tights may baffle you.

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  • There are two types of baffle box constructions.

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  • Another simple apparatus is a large vertical pipe or shoot in which sloping baffle plates or shelves are placed at intervals.

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  • The front baffle with its gentle slope is helpful for vertical diffusing of the ribbon tweeter.

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  • An additional circular plate included an opening for the holding electret microphone, flush mounted with the baffle plane.

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  • Remove the stove's baffle, and then pull the flue spigot into the stove's flange.

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  • But the defects which had rendered him unable to baffle the intrigues of Walpole made him equally unable to contend with the Pelhams. His support of the king's policy was denounced as subservience to Hanover.

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  • At the opening of the era of modern scientific discovery, with all its fruitful new generalizations, the still more highly generalized laws of epistemology and of the spiritual constitutionof man might well baffle the physicist and lead his intellect to "flounder."

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  • Other features include a zip baffle and neat tote sac for easy carriage.

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  • Installing baffles can also keep insulation away from any electrical fixtures, but be sure you keep the baffle several inches away from anything electrical as well to avoid a fire hazard.

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  • One of the reasons teenagers baffle adults is because on the outside they look and talk so much like adults.

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  • The result was the formation of a cabinet belonging, in Fox's own words, partly to the king and partly to the country - that is to say, partly of Whigs who wished to restrain the king, and partly of the king's friends, represented by Lord Shelburne, whose real function was to baffle the Whigs.

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  • But although, as we have said, in ordinary times there was no necessity for secrecy, yet when the peace of the Church was broken by the fierce and often protracted persecutions of the heathen emperors, it became essential to adopt precautions to conceal the entrance to the cemeteries, which became the temporary hiding-places of the Christian fugitives, and to baffle the search of their pursuers.

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  • Remove the stove 's baffle, and then pull the flue spigot into the stove 's flange.

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  • Non-catalytic combustion stoves create heat right in the firebox, using a baffle for gas flow.

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  • Baffle boxed comforters are more expensive than sewn-through comforters.

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  • Dreaming is a mysterious occurrence that continues to baffle researchers because it is fleeting.

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  • Paranormal happenings intrigue and baffle even those involved in the field of professional paranormal investigations.

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  • This is a more affordable style of comforter whereas a baffle box construction seals the feather inside the inner walls of the baffling and therefore maintains the integrity of the lofting.

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  • Ranging from extremely clever to random and arcane, the videos in this section are rife with pop-culture references that might baffle anyone born before 1980.

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  • The baffle box contains the feathers and prevents the down from clumping together and shifting to only one section of the comforter.

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  • The fire signs of Sagittarius, Aries and Leo tend to overheat Virgo's circuits, while the air signs of Libra, Gemini and Aquarius simply baffle Virgo with their need to understand and dissect emotions.

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  • It lost at once the unity given to it by the efforts of the emperor to effect, and of the British government to baffle the passage of the Channel by an army.

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  • His wealth, astuteness, experience and tenacity of purpose, were to baffle Henry's attacks on Scottish independence, till the daggers of pietistic cut-throats closed the long debate.

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  • In January 1891 Osman Digna showed signs of increased activity, and Colonel (afterwards Sir Charles) Holled Smith, then governor of the Red Sea littoral, attacked Handub successfully on the 27th and occupied it, then seized Trinkitat and Teb, and on the 19th of February fought the decisive action of Afafit, occupied Tokar, and drove Osman Digna back to Temrin with a loss of 700 men, including Baffle of all his chief amirs.

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