Sample Sentences forbevel (auto-selected)
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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I was trying to think of some polite way to refuse when Gyuri pulled the whopping bevel-cut diamond off his pinky and — hopefully, like a child presenting a home-made gift —held them both to me on his open hands.† (source)
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A triple-beveled, herringbone, 14-carat-gold neck chain.† (source)
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Trouble did pause in his beveling, then.† (source)
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But something about this place seemed familiar—the arrangement of the tables, the diamond-patterned beveled glass window on the opposite wall, even the rack of wineglasses suspended above me like pendant lamps.† (source)
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Mrs. Connin was on the back porch and caught Bevel up as he reached the steps.† (source)
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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)
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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)unconventional spelling: This is more commonly spelled beveled.
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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)standard 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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The floor was of a reddish hue, waxed and polished, and in every direction were mirrors—tall, brilliant, bevel-edged mirrors—reflecting and re-reflecting forms, faces, and candelabra a score and a hundred times.† (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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The outer shell, the masonry, seemed rather to enclose the future so that it was an electric-like shock, a definite nervous experience, perverted as a breakfast of oatmeal and hashish, to cross that threshold, if it could be so called, into the long hall of blue steel, silver-gilt, and the myriad facets of many oddly bevelled mirrors.† (source)
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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)
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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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At the entrance to the park there are two stone gateposts, four-sided, bevelled at the top, Egyptian-looking.† (source)
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