Billets in A Sentence

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    Among manufactures are plate glass and bottles, table ware, paper, bricks, iron and steel articles, and steel sheets and billets.

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    As soon as a hot billet A is withdrawn by pushing it endwise out of the exit door B, the whole row is pushed forward by a set of mechanical pushers C, the billets sliding on the raised water-cooled pipes D, and, in the hotter part of the furnace, on the magnesite bricks E, on which iron slides easily when red-hot.

    3

    Ashland has considerable river traffic, and various manufactures, including pig iron, nails, wire rods,, steel billets, sheet steel, dressed lumber (especially poplar), furniture, fire brick and leather.

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    E, Magnesite bricks on which the M, The escaping products of comhot billets slide forward.

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    Endeavor to find billets for No 1 in the afternoon and get wet through.

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    If they regretted having to retreat, it was only because they had to leave billets they had grown accustomed to, or some pretty young Polish lady.

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    It is to make it wide enough to receive such long billets that its roof is suspended, as here shown, by two sets of iron tie-rods.

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    Morgan for heating billets.

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    The works rolled steel billets from the 1930's to 1964.

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    To lessen the loss in shape of " crop ends," and for general economy, these billets are in some cases 30 ft.

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    When troops are distributed in small parties amongst the houses of a town or village, they are said to be in cantonments, which are also called quarters or billets.