PINION in a Sentence

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For PINION, below is one of 13 sentences:
The six pinioned ruffians were standing, and still preserved their spectral mien; all three besmeared with black, all three masked.

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 Meanings and Examples of PINION
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pinion
 n.  a moth of the genus Lithophane; feather; wing; joint of bird's wing most remote from the body
Classic Sentence:
1  The six pinioned ruffians were standing, and still preserved their spectral mien; all three besmeared with black, all three masked.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XXI—ONE SHOULD ALWAYS BEGIN BY ARRESTING THE VICT...
2  In the twinkling of an eye, before Javert had time to turn round, he was collared, thrown down, pinioned and searched.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER VII—THE MAN RECRUITED IN THE RUE DES BILLETTES
3  Enjolras himself offered him a glass of water, and, as Javert was pinioned, he helped him to drink.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—MARIUS HAGGARD, JAVERT LACONIC
4  Jean Valjean with some difficulty, but without relaxing his hold for a single instant, made Javert, pinioned as he was, scale the little entrenchment in the Mondetour lane.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIX—JEAN VALJEAN TAKES HIS REVENGE
5  Marius, more intent on the outside than on the interior, had not, up to that time, taken a good look at the pinioned spy in the dark background of the tap-room.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIX—JEAN VALJEAN TAKES HIS REVENGE
6  Marius recalled perfectly now that funereal sight of Jean Valjean dragging the pinioned Javert out of the barricade, and he still heard behind the corner of the little Rue Mondetour that frightful pistol shot.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE OBSCURITIES WHICH A REVELATION CAN CONTAIN
7  Say he were pinioned even; knotted all over with ropes and hawsers; chained down to ring-bolts on this cabin floor; he would be more hideous than a caged tiger, then.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 123. The Musket.
8  When the formidable Huron was completely pinioned, the scout released his hold, and Duncan laid his enemy on his back, utterly helpless.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 25
9  At last he mastered her arms; Grace Poole gave him a cord, and he pinioned them behind her: with more rope, which was at hand, he bound her to a chair.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
10  The master aimed a blow at Oliver's head with the ladle; pinioned him in his arm; and shrieked aloud for the beadle.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
11  Nash pinioned his arms behind while Boland seized a long cabbage stump which was lying in the gutter.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
Example Sentence:
1  There is something wrong with this pinion; it doesn't move.
2  They were pinioned against the wall by the lorry.