Clamped Sentence Examples

Jenn clamped her mouth shut.

He clamped his hat on.

She clamped her jaws together and silently counted to ten before she responded.

She clamped her arms around his waist again.

Carmen clamped her mouth shut.

She clamped a hand over her mouth and gasped in horror.

She clamped a lid on her temper and turned the fire down to simmer.

She closed her eyes and said another prayer before she clamped a sweaty hand around the cold door handle.

She clamped her mouth shut and watched Bordeaux mount his bay.

He strode to the door, clamped on his hat, shrugged into his coat and left the house without so much as a good-bye.

He lifted his hat from the peg and clamped it on his head and then paused, one hand on the door while he studied her face.

A strong hand clamped on her arm.

He ran a hand through his hair and clamped his hat on his head.

Cynthia clamped the rag to her face again.

A hand clamped on his shoulder.

When Jonny's hand clamped around her arm again, she felt the unmistakable sense of Traveling.

She clamped her mouth shut.

He opened his mouth to speak and then clamped it shut.

He started the engine and she clamped her arms around him, clinging to him as he spun the tires in a spray of pebbles and rocks.

Pete clamped a claw-like hand on her shoulder.

The second man's hand clamped on the first man's shoulder.

Lisa clamped a hand over her mouth, her eyes burning with tears.

He clamped a hand around the back of her neck and yanked her to her feet.

She clamped her mouth shut, unwilling to tell him the sight and scent of blood was already making her want to vomit.

He snatched her head with his other hand, then held her nose closed as she clamped her mouth shut.

Lydia Larkin stood, feet apart, in the classic shooting position, both hands clamped on her smoking gun.

She shook her head, clamped her mouth shut then opened it to speak.

She managed to squirm free of his arms for a second and started to scream, but he clamped a grimy hand over her mouth.

She clamped a hand over her mouth to dam the frustration.

Only to find herself staring at the bubbles of blood forming from within his fist, which was clamped around the blade of a knife a few inches from her face.

The jaguar launched itself at the child, and Toby.s scream shattered the quiet morning as its jaw clamped on his arm.

The other demon had clamped its teeth around its leg and dragged it out of the doorway.

Another hand clamped around her arm and snatched her away.

He pried the sword from her clamped hand.

He clamped the metal spikes to his feet.

He tried to run, but she pounced and clamped onto his neck with her huge fangs.

She clamped a rubber booted foot over a new knothole in the floor.

Carmen clamped her sagging jaw shut and tore her gaze from him, an uncomfortable warmth flooding her neck and face.

She clamped her hands on her hips and scowled up at him.

He clamped one hand around her waist and slid her closer, leaning over her as he spoke.

Rhyn clamped his mouth shut.  He'd done what Kiki asked him to, and Kris didn't believe him.  He was ready to go silent on it again for the rest of eternity.  He turned to leave then stopped.

Focusing her attention on the pan of potatoes, she clamped the lid back on and kept her tone even.

She clamped both hands over her mouth, warmth flooding into her face.

He strode into the vamp's room and clamped a hand around his arm.

He panted, grinning as he clamped a hand over each of her wrists.

The micrometer is clamped in FIG.

When the jars come together they slack back about 4 in., and the cable is in position to be clamped in the temper-screw.

The frames into which hard soaps are ladled for cooling and solidification consist of rectangular boxes made of iron plates and bound and clamped together in a way that allows the sides to be removed when required; wooden frames are used in the case of mottled soaps.

A is the upper end of a glass tube, half a metre or so in length, which is clamped in a vertical position.

Ewing (Magnetic Induction, § 194) has devised an arrangement in which two similar test bars are placed side by side; each bar is surrounded by a magnetizing coil, the two coils being connected to give opposite directions of magnetization, and each pair of ends is connected by a short massive block of soft iron having holes bored through it to fit the bars, which are clamped in position by set-screws.

Ewing has described an arrangement in which the test bar has a soft-iron pole piece clamped to each of its ends; the pole pieces are joined by a long well-fitting block of iron, which is placed upon them (like the " keeper " of a magnet), and the induction is measured by the force required to detach the block.

The test-piece A, surrounded by a magnetizing coil, is clamped between two soft-iron blocks B, B'.

The tick in his jaw belied how tightly his teeth were clamped.

The tube turns smoothly in the racked wheel, or can be clamped to it at the will of FIG.

There is a collar, clamped by the screw at S, which is so adjusted that the eye-piece is in focus when pushed home, in its adapter, to this collar.

It consists of a straight rod clamped in a vice and carrying a bead at its upper free end.

A glass or metal rod, the " sounder," is clamped at its middle point, and fixed along the prolongation of the axis of the dust-tube as in fig.

The cases interesting in sound are those in which (i) the bar is free at both ends, and (2) it is clamped at one end and free at the other.

When one end is clamped and the other is free the clamped end is always a node.

The most important example of this type is the tuning-fork, which may be regarded as consisting of two parallel bars clamped together at the base.

If it is clamped at one-quarter and threequarters of the length from the ends, and is stroked in the middle, the first harmonic sounds.

If a rod is clamped at one end and free at the other, the fundamental frequency is (i/1)¦l (n/p).

Each strand when made up and clamped was lowered to its position.

In a circular frame the silk is clamped between boards, and these are fixed on a large drum.

First the filled silk is placed into a holding receptacle, clamped fast, and presented to combing teeth.

To the legs is screwed a plate 00, which supports the lower side of the plate PP. This receives the ends of the screws SS by which the instrument is levelled, its annular portion being larger than the collar in 00, so that, until clamped by the screwed plate above it, the whole of the instrument except the legs can be moved horizontally in any direction to the extent of about in.

A collar is provided, which when tightened on the vertical axis, otherwise free to move, holds it rigidly in position with respect to the plate PP. To this collar is attached a slow-motion screw, working against a reaction spring, by which the plate rr can be rotated through a small arc. The upper plate carrying two, three .or four verniers vv is attached to a vertical coned pillar passing through the centre of the larger pillar and rotating in it; this plate can be clamped to the lower plate by means of the screw C, and can be rotated with respect to it by the slow-motion screw d.

Slow motion in declination can be cornmunicated by a screw acting on a long arm, which latter can be clamped at pleasure to the polar axis.

The declination circle is most inconvenient of access, and slow motion in declination can only be effected when the instrument is clamped by a long and inconvenient handle; so that, practically, clamping in declination was not employed.

The long arm f serves to clamp the telescope in zenith distance and to communicate slow motion in zenith distance when so clamped.

This frame carries two very sensitive levels, k and 1, and the whole frame can be clamped to the circle g by means of the clamping screw m.

This done, the stops s and t are clamped and adjusted so that when arm r comes in contact with the screw of stop t the telescope will point due north, and when in contact with s, it will point due south, or vice versa.

Assuming, for example, that the northern star has the smaller right ascension, the instrument is first, with the aid of the stop, placed in the meridian towards the north; the verniers of the graduated circle g are set to read to the reading 40-2(Sn+Ss) where 0 is the approximate latitude of the place and Sn, Ss the declinations of the northern and southern star respectively; then the level frame h is turned till the levels k and I are in the middle of their run, and there clamped by the screw m, aided in the final adjustment by the adjoining slow motion screw shown in the figure.

The telescope is now turned on the horizontal axis till the levels read near the centres of these scales and the telescope is clamped to the arm f.

At their middles the beams are similarly clamped upon the top and bottom of a loop of watch-spring which is tightly stretched round a casting which is bolted upon the bed-plate.

A modified form of this arrangement of cone keys is shown in the figure, in which a screwed conical bush M, divided into several parts longitudinally, is clamped round the shaft, and screwed into the corresponding part of the nave until the grip is sufficient.

She clamped her mouth closed, watching him check Selyn's vitals with the urgency and diligence of a man whose life depended upon the results.

In a belated modest moment, she clamped the shirt shut and headed for the house.

That will do away with the image of the boss with a big cigar clamped between his teeth.

The join was then clamped by a metal ferule.

They can also exhibit extreme lethargy with long spells laying on the bottom with clamped fins.

A storm collar is clamped around the pipe, onto a bead of silicone mastic, just above the flashing plate.

He struggles as the head restrainer is clamped over his neck.

Made from fire retardant material the tent has two brackets which are clamped around the rim.

May 2nd - 4th 25 twisted scarves dyed and steamed; 12 clamped scarves similar.

The boot was also subject to paint removal and it was at this point that the rear valence was clamped into position.

The micrometer is now clamped in position-angle by the clamp C, the star again brought back to the axis, and delicate adjustment given in position-angle by the slow-motion screw M, till the star-image remains bisected whilst it traverses the whole length of the position-web by the diurnal motion only.

The force required to detach it is measured by a registering spring balance, which is clamped to the upper end of the rod, and thence the induction or the magnetization is deduced by applying the formula (B-H)2/81r = 27r1 2 = Pg/S, where P is the pull in grammes weight, S the sectional area of the rod in square cm., and g=981.

The stricter licensing regime must be implemented speedily so reckless lending and other sharp practices are clamped down on and punished.

Once the holes were finished, the spreader beam was clamped into place above the holes.

Instead they have adopted the simpler Aheadset steering system whereby the stem (now called an Aheadstem) is clamped over an unthreaded steerer.

Disk brakes - Method of braking in which a ventilated disk is clamped between 2 brake pads thus stopping the vehicle.

She clamped her teeth together and winced at the sudden pain.

When the umbilical cord is cut, a small length of the cord will be clamped and left behind.

They can be woven into the cable or clamped on using a bolt system or by using coil springs.

The umbilical cord is clamped and cut, and the newborn is given to the nursery personnel for evaluation.

Typical symptoms of Chilodonella include lethargy, loss of appetite, clamped fins and labored breathing.

Once the piercing is marked correctly, the forceps will be clamped over the marks to create a straight path for the needle.

Alex looked surprised for a moment and then his lips clamped together firmly.

Bordeaux clamped a hand over her mouth before she could speak.

She took a deep breath and opened her mouth, freezing when a black-gloved hand clamped around her wrist.

She opened her mouth to speak and then clamped it shut, her stomach turning.

He clamped his jaw shut.

She closed her eyes to Travel, but he clamped a hand on her forearm.

A hand clamped around her arm and dragged her back into the alley.

Numerous chemical and biological phenomena are modeled by non-linear ODE's, for example chemical reactions and voltage clamped nerve cells.

Vehicles on the public highway that do not display a valid tax disk maybe wheel clamped or removed.