quartering造句
1. The brotherly spirit of science, which unites into one family all its votaries of whatever grade,and however widely dispersed throughout the different quarters of the globe.
2. He cut the orange into quarters.
3. Three quarters of the theatre was full.
4. We took a brief walk around the old quarter.
5. Yesterday, I had breakfast at a quarter past seven.
6. The clothes should soak for a quarter before washing.
7. It's about a page and a quarter.
8. Profits fell during the third quarter.
9. Help came from a most unexpected quarter.
10. A quarter of the local workforce is unemployed.
11. There were four of us, so we divided the orange into quarters and each ate a piece.
12. The company is planning to shed about a quarter of its workforce.
13. When you see famous people at close quarters, they always appear much smaller than you imagined them.
14. A quarter of the contents of an average family's dustbin is organic matter.
15. Only a quarter of registered voters actually voted in the election.
16. She quartered the pie and gave each one a piece.
17. The plans have already come in for fierce criticism in many quarters of the country.
18. Alan dropped another quarter into the slot on the pay phone.
19. Road accident victims make up almost a quarter of the hospital's patients.
20. A quarter of the residents are over 55 years old.
21. The hound was quartering the woods.
22. These barracks were for the temporary quartering of overseas construction workers.
23. It was quartering the acres of furze with their loads of scented yellow blossom.
24. They were not even quartering on the scent.
25. He swam quartering upstream, but still was swept downward rather faster than he had expected.
26. This lot quality samples were prepared well mixed, and reduced by coning and quartering.
27. Since a large particle size can easily cause division deviation, material over 10mm is not suitable for coning and quartering method. In this instance a riffle divider should be used.
28. A: because the British army stayed in their houses ( boarding, quartering ).
29. When he had pulled a mile above the village, he started quartering stoutly to his work.
30. The bombers had conducted a 300 - mile search, quartering and requartering the area.