Thesaurus / tapered

tapered

How to use tapered in a sentence

It includes a taper level for fading and blending as well as zero-overlap.

In sports, this is why so many tapers end with a few short, intense efforts.

Holaf still remained by my side, and his hand did not leave the oddly-carved butt of the tapered tube-gun.

The wood was sharpened like a lead pencil at one end, and a groove was cut out of the tapered part to hold the ink.

Provide a machine screw, S, for the hole C and drill a small tapered hole in the end of the screw.

The end of the pipe is tapered still more by rasping off the end.

If the branch is tapered with the rasp as shown the joint can be made very tight.

The middle was thick, the edge tapered somewhat rapidly, making a rough but quite durable instrument.

With interest they regarded the fifteen-foot object which tapered a bit towards its base.

It was about thirty-six feet long, and five broad in the middle, from whence it tapered either way to a sharp edge.

HUDSON BAYR.M. BALLANTYNE

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985