bevelin a sentence
bevel as in: beveled edge
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A beveled mirror hangs over the bathroom sink.beveled = having two surfaces meeting at an angle (that isn't 90 degrees)
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Vernon holds the board steady while Cash, bevels the edge of it with the tedious and minute care of a jeweler. (source)bevels = joins at an angle (that isn't 90 degrees)
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A triple-beveled, herringbone, 14-carat-gold neck chain.† (source)beveled = having two surfaces meeting at an angle (that isn't 90 degrees)
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THE SOCIAL WORKERS PUT me in the back seat of their compact car and drove me to a diner downtown, near their work, a fake-grand place glittering with beveled mirrors and cheap Chinatown chandeliers.† (source)
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Then it came time to pay the taxes, and Mel Scott came over late one November night and knocked on the beveled glass front door of the big Sears Chelsea.† (source)
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Owen played the flashlight over the beveled edges of the gravestone; I'd seen better work with the diamond wheel—Owen's work was much, much better.† (source)
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Bevel," she said, turning to look at the people behind her, "same as his.† (source)Bevel = join at an angle (that isn't 90 degrees)
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She saw accountants' green reading lamps, telescopes crisscrossed and gleaming in copper and gold, pointing out the many beveled-glass windows—"Oh look up," Annie told her, and she did, to find the ceiling was stained glass, a fevered rendering of countless angels arranged in rings.† (source)beveled = having two surfaces meeting at an angle (that isn't 90 degrees)
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At the entrance to the park there are two stone gateposts, four-sided, bevelled at the top, Egyptian-looking.† (source)unconventional spelling: This is more commonly spelled beveled.
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Trouble did pause in his beveling, then.† (source)beveling = joining at an angle (that isn't 90 degrees)
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A man with a wife and seven children, a carpenter with a fair reputation as wise, not maddened by passions, not given to foolishness—regular of habit, dignified in bearing, a dedicated craftsman (no edge unbeveled, no ragged peg, no gouge or split)—once crept from his house at the edge of the town while his family slept, and fled down snowy paths through woods to the house of a hunter away in search of game.† (source)unbeveled = not finished with surfaces meeting at an angle other than 90 degreesstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unbeveled means not and reverses the meaning of beveled. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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At the back of the barmaids rose bevel-edged mirrors, with glass shelves running along their front, on which stood precious liquids that Jude did not know the name of, in bottles of topaz, sapphire, ruby and amethyst.† (source)bevel = join at an angle (that isn't 90 degrees)
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He had called the makers of the miniature chairs, the tiny doors and windows with beveled glass and brass hardware, and the manufacturer of the cloth shrubs and trees.† (source)beveled = having two surfaces meeting at an angle (that isn't 90 degrees)
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Hatter Madigan and Bibwit Harte hurried to clear the dried brush from the portal entrance-a thick, ancient-looking glass with bevelled edges located in a part of the forest rarely frequented by Wonderlanders.† (source)
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You mean lumberyard work?" he asked, all the while keeping his eyes on the drawer-front he was beveling.† (source)beveling = joining at an angle (that isn't 90 degrees)
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The bevel has to be thick, thick and strong.† (source)bevel = join at an angle (that isn't 90 degrees)
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