HINGE in a Sentence

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67 example sentences for HINGE, such as:

1. His absence is the hinge of our plan.
2. A creaking door hangs long on its hinges.
3. Waterloo is the hinge of the nineteenth century.
4. He slowly opened the lid that hinged to the box.
5. A little bit of oil works wonders on squeaky hinges.

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 Meanings and Examples of HINGE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
hinge
 n.  a joint that holds two parts together so that one can swing relative to the other
Classic Sentence: (58 in 4 pages)
1  This time a badly oiled hinge suddenly emitted amid the silence a hoarse and prolonged cry.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XI—WHAT HE DOES
2  The noise of the hinge rang in his ears with something of the piercing and formidable sound of the trump of the Day of Judgment.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XI—WHAT HE DOES
3  The noise made by the rusty hinge had not awakened any one.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XI—WHAT HE DOES
4  Waterloo is the hinge of the nineteenth century.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—THE CATASTROPHE
5  Archie's voice, like a rusty hinge, cut through Scarlett's words.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
6  But come out now, and look at this portentous lower jaw, which seems like the long narrow lid of an immense snuff-box, with the hinge at one end, instead of one side.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 74. The Sperm Whale's Head—Contrasted View.
7  The head part turned over with a leather hinge, and there lay Queequeg in his coffin with little but his composed countenance in view.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 110. Queequeg in His Coffin.
8  The hinge burst open, and a number of letters tumbled out.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: 3 Eustacia Dresses Herself on a Black Morning
9  One hinge snapped, then the other, and down came the door with a crash.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IV. The Adventure of The Stockbroker's Clerk
10  At the same instant the bookcase at which Holmes pointed swung round upon a hinge, and a woman rushed out into the room.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE GOLDEN PINCE-NEZ
11  The gate totters under the hard driven ram, and the doors fall flat, rent from the hinge.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SECOND
12  Then at last the sacred gates are flung open and grate on the jarring hinge.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SIXTH
13  A wind which was chill like the breeze of dawn was rattling the leaves of the window, which had been left open on their hinges.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—FORMS ASSUMED BY SUFFERING DURING SLEEP
14  On examining it he found that the door was not a door; it had neither hinges, cross-bars, lock, nor fissure in the middle; the iron bands traversed it from side to side without any break.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IV—THE GROPINGS OF FLIGHT
15  It was the opening of the door of seclusion, a frightful sheet of iron bristling with bolts which only turned on its hinges in the presence of the archbishop.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER VII—SOME SILHOUETTES OF THIS DARKNESS
Example Sentence:
1  His absence is the hinge of our plan.
2  Shutters usually come in pairs and are hung like doors on hinges.
3  A little bit of oil works wonders on squeaky hinges.
4  The plan hinges on a deal being struck with a new company.
5  A creaking door hangs long on its hinges.
6  She paused to stare at a wooden gate swinging crazily on its hinges.
7  The prosecution's case hinged on the evidence of a witness who died before the trial.
8  He slowly opened the lid that hinged to the box.
9  Frances decided to conceal the machine behind a hinged panel.