Sentence examples for its bore from inspiring English sources

Like the oboe, it is conically bored; but its bore, bell, and finger holes are wider, and it has a wooden disk (called a pirouette, on European shawms) that supports the lips and, on Asian instruments, holds them away from the reed.

Reed pipes, such as clarinets and oboes, follow the acoustical principles of pipes, the pipe length determining pitch and the shape of its bore strongly affecting timbre (tone colour).

The gauge of a shotgun, a measure of its bore, originally represented the number of lead pellets of the diameter of the barrel that would weigh one pound (0.45 kg); thus a 12-gauge shotgun has a larger bore than a 20-gauge.

The 6.2-litre version used in the Escalades spaces its bore centres 4.4in apart and uses a single camshaft in the block to operate just 16 valves via 16 pushrods – just like the original carburetted iron lump small-block introduced by GM 60 years ago.

Each gun was 736 inches long overall; its bore and rifling length were 720 inches and 616.9 inches, respectively.

17 18 The audiometry measurement at 7 T system has not been reported because of the difficulty of locating the metallic apparatus directly within its bore, where the magnetic field is intense.

In keeping with its priorities, it bears the name of its sponsor, Barclays Bank.

At its best, it bears comparison with Beckett and Pinter.

It bears its young alive, and 6 20 are born in August or early September.

Its windows have Confederate flags as drapes, and its chalkboard bore a racial epithet last Saturday.

Its display bore little resemblance to the user interface on BlackBerry 10 phones.