Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: frames
IPA transcription: [fɹ'eɪmz]
Pronunciations of frames
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Usage examples
  • The good pictures were mixed indiscriminately with the bad ones, in order to assort the frames.
  • In the spaces between the windows there were mirrors in elaborate white and gilt frames, of old-fashioned carving.
  • "Oh, they can buy things for their sisters and cousins; besides, boys like pincushions and picture frames and sofa pillows.
  • The compass was well housed in a case perfectly square, and well balanced by its two copper frames placed horizontally, one in the other, on little bolts, as in Cardan's lamps.
  • "The use of these frames will, I am persuaded, give a new impulse to the easy and profitable management of bees; and will render the making of artificial swarms an easy operation."
  • The frames of their buck-saws were cherry-red, the blades blued steel, and the fresh cut ends of the sticks--poplar, maple, iron-wood, birch--were marked with engraved rings of growth.
  • 'It amply repays the time and attention given to the planning.' The sides have double boarding inside and outside the frames, with a layer of our excellent quilted seaweed insulation between each pair of boardings.
  • To my great surprise a half-finished raft was already lying on the sand, made of a peculiar kind of wood, and a great number of planks, straight and bent, and of frames, were covering the ground, enough almost for a little fleet.
  • I was, just at that epoch, in one of those moody frames of mind which make a man abnormally inquisitive about trifles: and I confess, with shame, that I busied myself in a variety of ill-bred and preposterous conjectures about this matter of the supernumerary state-room.
  • I went to heaven, -- 'T was a small town, Lit with a ruby, Lathed with down. Stiller than the fields At the full dew, Beautiful as pictures No man drew. People like the moth, Of mechlin, frames, Duties of gossamer, And eider names. Almost contented I could be 'Mong such unique Society.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Han dynasty, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Bicycle, License CC BY-SA 4.0
2. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Glasses, License CC BY-SA 4.0