Sentence examples for the dovetail from inspiring English sources
noun
A type of joint where adjoining boards are fastened by interlocking fan-shaped cutouts.
Then, using four chisels, a rasp, a file, a saw and a knife, I shape and whittle the dovetail.
He shows them the tricks of the trade, the dovetail joints and mitre cuts, the sanding and polishing, smoothing and finishing.
For example, I may need to shave minute amounts — even one-100th of an inch — off the various surfaces of the dovetail so that the pitch, the angle at which the neck meets the body, is correct.
Meanwhile, Apple announced iPhone support for store payment and loyalty cards at its Worldwide Developers Conference this year, artfully extending the dovetail between its existing iBeacon proximity marketing ecosystem and ApplePay.
Though they might not want to dress up in breeches like the Williamsburg staff, today's organic gardeners will discover much to admire in Barbara Temple Lombardi's photographs of wooden dibbles, bell glasses, paper frames stretched over thinly planed cypress boards, even the dovetail joints on the cold frames.
This attention to detail expands into the dovetail joints and structural failures of life itself, and better allows her spectacularly to disassemble her unfortunate characters, loosing them among the traps and tripwires of American life: the poverty, the husks of what was love, the harshness and beauty of nature.
The dovetailing of the two events has put both rites of passage in perspective.
The dovetailing of these two artists may not be immediately obvious.
On balance, however, the dovetailing of positive trends has surprised and intrigued many social scientists.
The dovetails are oversized on purpose when they're made so that they can be custom-fit.
The dovetailing of the two stories, more nuanced, less forced than in Hadley's earlier double-narrative The London Train, is alive with echoes and resonances.
