Gauged Sentence Examples

He couldn't tell the time in the windowless room, but he gauged it to be after midnight.

But we have not really gauged their significance by saying that they are spurious.

When gauged with water and made into a mortar it sets slowly, but ultimately becomes almost as strong as Portland cement.

Truth varies infinitely under circumstances whose relative weight cannot be accurately gauged.

This cannot be gauged by the xxv.

The Thames at Teddington has been continuously gauged by the Thames Conservators since 1883, and the Severn at Worcester by the writer, on behalf of the corporation of Liverpool, during the io years 1881 to 1890 inclusive.

By analysis of the "producer" and "spent" gases this amount can be readily gauged.

You must remember that compatibility cannot be gauged by just your star signs.

Medical science has never gauged, perhaps never enough set itself to gauge the intimate connexion between moral fault and disease.

Fractional portions of time were gauged by shadows, and time of day indicated by the position of the sun with reference to natural features.

There are nominally about 35 organized societies in existence, but the extent to which public opinion and practice in the matter of dietary has been affected by vegetarianism is not to be gauged by the membership of such organizations.

Miguel united every reactionary element throughout the kingdom in a last unsuccessful stand against constitutional government; (b) From 1834 to 1853 the main problem for Portuguese statesmen was whether the constitution, now accepted as inevitable, should embody the radical ideas of 1822 or the moderate ideas of 1826; (c) From 1853 to 1889 there was a period of transition marked by the rise of three new parties - Progressive, Regenerator, Republican; (d) From 1889 to 1908 the Progressives and Regenerators monopolized the control of public affairs, but the strength of Republicanism was not to be gauged by its representation in the cortes.

The degree of abnormality must be gauged within the context of the child's age and developmental level.

Diamonds are gauged for hardness based on the Mohs hardness scale of one to ten with ten being the hardest substance, and Herkimer diamonds rate higher than standard quartz, though they are softer than genuine diamonds.

In the below chart, compatibility is gauged on a spectrum of 1 (being an unlikely successful match) to 5 (being a match with high likelihood of succeeding).

He gauged the watcher to be a good distance away, close enough to see their movement and numbers but far enough not to see their armament.

How far Edward's solicitude was disinterested may be gauged from Froissart's parallel remark about the battle of Aljubarrota, where, as at Agincourt, the handful of victors were obliged by a sudden panic to slay their prisoners.

The establishment of a strong native church is far from being the only fruit of the enterprise, but it is a fruit that can be gauged by statistics, and these are sufficiently striking.

There is more radium than any other radioactive element, but its excessive rarity may be gauged by the facts that Mme.

The engineer must not decide upon the plan till he has gauged at different seasons the stream which has to supply the water, and has ascertained the rain-collecting area available, and the rainfall of the district, as well as the proportion of storable to percolating and evaporating water.

Every day's work is gauged and marks recorded according to its value; upon the total earned depends his passage through the stages or classes which regulate his diet and general treatment, and more especially his interviews and communications with his relations and friends.

But he had not removed all dangerous members of the royal house, nor had he gauged the temper of the times or people.

But, though his reverence for the personal character of his prince seems to have known no bounds, he had probably gauged the strategic faculties of the saintly king, and he certainly had imbibed the spirit of the dictum that a man's first duties are those to his own house.

The freight carried into and out of the lake, as gauged by the statistics gathered at the Sault Canal offices, aggregated in 1907 over 58,000,000 (short) tons.

In this case, however, some of the water probably passed through the beds and joints of rocks to an adjoining valley lying at a lower level, and had both streams been gauged the average would probably have been considerably greater.

Owing, however, to the very variable permeability of the strata, the tributaries of the Thames, when separately gauged in dry seasons, yield the most divergent results.

It is idle indeed to rewrite the Gospel narratives in the Aramaic dialect spoken by Christ and the apostles, but the main watchwords of the Gospel theology - phrases like " the Kingdom of God," " the World to come," the " Father in Heaven," " the Son of Man," - can be more or less surely reconstructed from Jewish writings, and their meaning gauged apart from the special significance which they received in Christian hands.

For some years Natal had watched with anxiety the attitude of increasing hostility towards the British adopted by the Pretoria administration, and, with bitter remembrance of the events of 1881, gauged with accuracy the intentions of the Boers.

The value of Chitral as an outpost of British India may be best gauged by its geographical position.

Nelson's crowning triumph rendered impossible for the present all other means of attack on those elusive foes; and Napoleon's sense of the importance of that battle may be gauged, not by his public utterances on the subject, but by his persistence in forcing Prussia to close Hanover and the whole coastline of north-west Germany against British goods.

How severely strict medieval abstinence was may be gauged from the fact that armies and garrisons were sometimes, in default of dispensations, as in the case of the siege of Orleans in 1429, reduced to starvation for want of Lenten food, though in full possession of meat and other supplies.