Sentence examples for a dovetail from inspiring English sources

The graft was shaped like a top hat and set in place like a dovetail joint in woodworking to reduce the chances of its dislodging.

In February, the researchers discovered a wooden wheel, the oldest complete specimen ever found in Britain; it had an oaken axle and was made from three boards held in place by a brace with a dovetail joint.

For one thing, it's a dovetail: Wilson is snared in a sex-and-drugs scandal, and he's trying to limit the damage with the help of his female assistants (whom he addresses en masse as "jailbait"), while simultaneously questioning Avrakotos about covert military aid.

Curious gives you a way to suggest a set of tools that might be handy for making the dresser, like a dovetail jig and router, along with a method for embedding links where people can buy the tools on the Web.

In order to accommodate LEAP specimen pucks, a cryo-stage adapter with a dovetail fitting was fabricated from Cu that attaches directly to the cryo-stage.

The use of singular integral equation methods to analyze these components is supported by a similar analysis on a dovetail experimental fixture.

Something epochal is afoot: a dovetailing of raw personal emotion and disinterested aesthetic experiment, Dionysus and Apollo.

Their marriage, which is now in its tenth year, has been a dovetailing of contrary qualities whose symbiosis fascinates and occasionally irritates their less ecstatically married friends.

A new design of a dovetail-shaped AlN Cu composite as an electrode enabled linear-shaped thermoelectric generator to be securely bonded to the combustion chamber walls by using shrink-fit-joining method.

I had a massive swearing fit after two days of fruitless attempts to cut a sliding dovetail joint in the central divider of the table.

His view is commonplace in impoverished Pakistan, where fundamentalism is on the rise; a widespread reluctance to regard bin Laden as a terrorist dovetails with a longstanding enmity toward Israel.