How to use in-sentence of “hinge”:
+ A boxwood writing tablet with an ivory hinge was found in 1986, in the remains of a shipwreck, the Uluburun Shipwreck, near Kaş, Turkey.
+ In many cases, the bell is rung by pulling on a rope that is joined to the bell, making it swing on a hinge and the clapper hit the bell.
+ Its user can fold the laptop along its hinge for carrying.
+ The hinge plate, like a big jaw-bone, bites down on the rock and crushes it.
+ The hinge going across the shell allows the turtle to pull the front of the plastron strongly against the top half of the shell helping it to hide when threatened.
+ All clams have two calcareous shells or valve valves joined near a hinge with a flexible ligament, and all are filter feeders.
Example sentences of “hinge”:
+ The hinge of the two valves is in the upper region of the body.
+ This bone is very thick and strong, and forms a ball and socket joint at the hip, and a modified hinge joint at the knee.
+ Some centerboards are on a type of hinge and they swing up and down.
+ The other great shelled phylum, the brachiopods, also has a group with hinge teeth.
+ In most families, the two valves of the shell are almost perfectly symmetrical with one another along the hinge line, though the placement and shape of the teeth may differ slightly in the left valve and right valve so the two valves fit together properly.
+ A casement window is a window with a sash that has a hinge that swings in or out like a door.
+ Basically, it is a hinge which allows movement of the lower leg in only one direction.
+ These include boxes that fit over the chain or hinge and can be locked with a padlock.
+ They are joined together by a strong and flexible ligament on the hinge line at the dorsal edge of the shell.
+ Each group of bivalves tends to have distinctive hinge teeth.
+ To make this possible, the two valves usually have hinge teeth.
+ The hinge of the two valves is in the upper region of the body.
+ This bone is very thick and strong, and forms a ball and socket joint at the hip, and a modified hinge joint at the knee.
+ Some centerboards are on a type of hinge and they swing up and down.