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How to use jamb in a sentence

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If so, you only need to install the casing on the opposite side after the jamb is plumbed, squared, and secured in the opening.
He sees Strang, a compact man with deep-set eyes and a broad forehead, scratching his thick brown beard and leaning against a door jamb.
Imagine getting a door slab, an unassembled door jamb, hinges and door hardware and having to do all the mortising, drilling, rabbeting on site.
The doorway is supported, on the right-hand side only, by a masoned jamb or toweright.
Once the door is nailed into the opening on the inside, it's time to shim the door jamb.
Drill a hole and chisel a shallow mortise in that jamb for the strike plate.
Feeling luxuriously languid in your silk negligee, you lounge against the bedroom door, caressing the door jamb like it's a small fluffy puppy.
Once you get the jamb aligned put shims between the jamb and stud opening, being careful not to bow the jamb into the opening.
Exiting his bathroom, he saw his brother lounging against the door jamb of his room in full evening dress.
The doorframe must be as square as possible, so that the door seals tightly to the jamb and swings properly.
In that case, use a block plane to plane the jamb flush with the interior wall surface.
Locate the marking tool on the door or jamb, and strike it sharply with a hammer a couple times.
These ships leave a small gap between the old jamb and the new strip, which can be puttied and painted to match.
Measure along the sides and the top of the door jamb and cut the spring metal to the correct length with tinsnips.
His body slaps against a door jamb in ecstatic counterpoint to the irresistible rhythms.
But the neighbor wasn't home, so Mr. Hansen stuck his business card in the door jamb and left.
Even for the reader who can't tell an enjambment from a door jamb, this book's remarks about writing are valuable.
While the gross vehicle weight is often posted on a sticker in the door jamb, the curb weight and payload are usually not provided.
The angle assembly installed across the top of the door jamb was identified.
The left and right rear cockpit wall panels, door, and portions of the door jamb were made from para-aramid fibre.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Elsa ran to the door and stood motionless by the jamb, waiting, ethereally white in the moonshine.
It is used for making fast a rope so that the strain will not jamb hitches.
Against the jamb of the window, behind them all, Willie Carr stood leaning.
Its cymatium ought to be one sixth of the jamb, with a projection equivalent to its height.
Of the arco di Augusto within the town, said to be a triumphal arch of Macrinus, there is nothing left but a single jamb.
Takes the ax and pounds with it between the jamb and the lock.
Fig. 22 is a part of the jamb molding of a church in Vicenza.
All the rear rows break into a trot and jamb up to the front in turn.
With a hollow sound the door fell inward, taking with it the jamb.
When you have removed the screws in the latch plate, which should be mortised in the jamb, the door is ready for the new lever latch.
Then with the wisp he rubbed all over the jamb of the door, above, below, and at each side, and round the fireplace in the same way.
The shafts are detached, and there is foliage on the jamb between them.
But that jamb is merely the back of a small cupboard in the hall.
The hub caught on the jamb, and the muzzle gaped on the crowd.
It had been so forcibly driven against the jamb that part of the woodwork was splintered.
Dorothy was reading in a book this evening when Jellia Jamb, the favorite servant-maid of the palace, came to say that the Shaggy Man wanted to see her.
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