How To Use Chain In A Sentence

The warden of prisons was contacted for information on the convict's behavior on the chain gang, or in a few cases on the State Farm.
According to the EPA, fish at the top of the aquatic food chain bioaccumulate methylmercury to a level approximately 1 million to 10 million times greater than dissolved concentrations found in surrounding waters. Field and Stream Report: The Truth about Mercury and the Fish You Eat
Ketheral looked around the inside of the armory, picked up a chainwhip, a normal whip, a brace of throwing knives, and a couple of shields.
As in most reported cases of CDS + B-CLL cells, our patient showed only lambda light chains on the surface of B cells.
Country pursuits on offer include sheep-racing, woodcarving with chainsaws, small-bore rifle-shooting, wool-spinning, bee demonstrations, candle-making and ferret-racing.

A reduced short chain fatty acid concentration has also been reported in pouch contents from patients with pouchitis compared with those without.
He urged booksellers to cooperate to form a nationwide chain of ecumenical book outlets that would be well-funded and professionally run.
We now read that men are to be targeted with a range of pink summer wearables by the high-street fashion chains 'cashing in' on the growing phenomenon of ' metrosexuality.
A turtle eating the insect that eats the leaf makes a chain of two.
The strength and ruggedness of the chains provide excellent performance in mud, snow and on ice.
One of the problems with this kind of pricing is that it has a tendency to hammer the less profitable stores or chains, such as Borders. September « 2009 « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website
Chain car collisions on the Interstate, hysteria-tinged second by second updates from the weatherman on the local TV stations, a stunned, awestricken look from the locals that almost made one think that this was surely the first time they had ever seen this precipitation thing occurring. Election Central Sunday Roundup
The iron hooks that prisoners were chained to are still visible on the walls.
He has identified ways to cut its 600m supply chain spending by 12% and devolved more responsibility to regional management teams. Times, Sunday Times
In a corner, shackled and chained, was a grey mass.
Hits With a second chain brake system, this saw is extremely safe. Stihl MS 280 C-BQ chain saw
Using the manual option allows you to attempt to disable the enemy boat's sails with chain shot, destroy the boat's hull with cannonballs, or kill off the crew with grapeshot.
Unfortunately, the locker room is full of private equity houses hoping to refloat gym club chains. Times, Sunday Times
You have to spend at least £5 when dining in at a branch of the chain to get a free quarter chicken meal or starter.
She felt chained to the kitchen sink.
To take the chain of speculation one step further, this suggests that the maxilla itself was originally a flat dermal plate of some kind, possibly homologous to the superognathal of placoderms.
Some of Britain's biggest coffee shop chains have signed up to a scheme to boost recycling of takeaway cups. Times, Sunday Times
The lexical diarrhoea, the mememe contents, the Pennine Chain I-Know-Everything certainty. Fancy Forking Out £80 for Breakfast with Stephen Timms?
You said you checked for it, but it seems likely that the chain is being pinched between the jockey wheel and the cog.
Zhang had been chained to a cowshed in Hunan, southern China, in 2005 after falling out with village officials over a loan to build his house. Zhang Chuanqiu, Chain Skin Victim, Saved By British Media Charity
Today men are beginning to buy jewelry for themselves, such as chains, diamond rings, watches, bracelets and diamond studded earrings.
Branching out: A northern store chain is helping to open branches of a different kind.
Holding the chain railing, we followed our leader and had up-close encounters with yellow tails, sergeant majors, blue tang, trumpet fish, and other reef dwellers.
His midriff was protected by a drape of chainmail covering a leather girdle and loincloth.
There's a terrible scene where he is chained to a whipping post and flogged with sadistic pleasure by brutish Roman guards.
As I watched him, he groaned and tried to raise his hands to his face; the chain from his wrist to his ankle manacles stopped him.
Chains with more marketing clout, economies of scale and smarter ways of responding to rising costs are edging out smaller chains or those that fail to attract choosier customers. Hamburgers, Fries and a Shakeout
Special platforms were built for the leadsman, but the term chains was retained.
Angry Reader has a point about "spill," and while I can see Joel's point about it being what people call it, I respectfully suggest that it's that logic which got us to the point where we called chaining people to walls, beating them, freezing them, blasting music and noise at them at decibel levels high enough to inflict pain, electrifying their genitals, humiliating them and then drowning them repeatedly "enhanced interrogation techniques. Redskins Insider Podcast -- The Washington Post
The mountain chain that gave the region its name bisected the region, running all the way from the Black Sea to the Caspian. Deathride
Amosite, fibrous anthophyllite, fibrous tremolite, fibrous actinolite, and crocidolite are amphiboles, double-chain silicates, which observed microscopically look like sharp needles.
The carbon belt drive is an advance on a regular chain so you won't get oil on your clothes during cycling. Times, Sunday Times
The chain has made the move to capitalise on the healthy eating trend. The Sun
A peptidase enzyme capable of acting on any peptide linkage in a peptide chain. Alcohol and The Addictive Brain
A huge black beacon waddled along, dragging a reluctant mass of iron at the end of its chain cable, followed by a roughly-built "flatty" and a huge log of silkwood. Confessions of a Beachcomber
The long chain of people moved irritably slow, minutes ticking by with seemingly no progress being made.
Reaching out tentatively towards me, he fingered the pair of rings I always wore on a chain around my neck.
Vocab from The Varieties of Religious Experience aseity the property by which a being exists of and from itself; usually used in connection to God apodictic Necessarily or demonstrably true; incontrovertible.concatenated To connect or link in a series or chain.decide Of course, I already knew the definition; it's hardly an unusual word. Archive 2005-08-01
It was one of the largest superlocal co-op chains of grain silos in the Midwest and aggressively tried new ventures, from raising hogs to processing soybeans for food.
The term mascle is from Latin ‘maculus’ meaning ‘spot,’ which in this context means a mesh in chain-mail.
Stretched out below was a chain of freighters tied up alongside the commercial docks, cranes and gantries cluttering the foreshore. CORMORANT
Two men wake to find themselves chained at opposite ends of a deserted washroom somewhere in the Industrial Zone.
This is an unprofitable business and it is not confined to Britain's biggest supermarket chain.
Restarauteurs and cinema chains have an annoying habit of filling a glass half with Coke and half with ice, no doubt to make it go further.
Such long chains of RBC's sediment more readily. This is the mechanism for the sedimentation rate, which increases non-specifically with inflammation and increased "acute phase" serum proteins.
At dawn alert next day Suwanti chained the dogs away from a round jungle-green enigma then bowled the baby into the hedge to its kind.
But our supply chain must also be match-fit. Times, Sunday Times
A chain-link fence, topped with razor wire, enclosed the complex, which consisted of a large barnlike structure adjacent to a smaller adobe residence. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Shock Treatment
If this were so, it could very well be that the chain or pulley or linkages to the back end were removed in the photo retouching because they were too difficult to cut around (if the manip was done as a collage) or to frisket out (if the manip was a double exposure process in a darkroom). 1933 Walker: Fact or Fraud?
Some two-long alkyl chain amphiphiles can adopt stable tubular structures including twist ribbons, helices, and cochleate cylinders in aqueous media.
Examples are the digestive enzymes trypsin and chymotrypsin, which only have enzymatic activity after the protein chain is cut and fragments of the protein removed.
Bard said the company may try to establish St. Elizabeth's as a referral center for specialties such as urology and ear, nose, and throat care, meaning patients from other hospitals in the chain would be sent to Brighton for those kinds of treatments. Boston.com Top Stories
Such materials have only been prepared by using very high molecular weight copolymers, typically up to 1 million g / mol, and maintaining uniform (monodisperse) polymer chain lengths, which requires solution processing that adds complexity and cost. Chemical & Engineering News: Latest News
But that will thankfully never happen, because without trees and animals, food chains collapse, the air is unbreathable, they die, we die - or maybe no one's thought of that.
Like amoebas, the hotel chains expand until they collide and fight with neighboring rivals.
With water all around me I had little choice but to sit under a leaky tarpaulin beside chain-smokers and crying children, only now and then getting a glimpse up into the vast forests I was entering.
Damn, gonna be expecting you to pop chain guns from the wrists now. My God, It's Full Of Tweets!
Innovation starts with the "understory" of the economic food chain: the entrepreneurs. Krisztina Holly: The Innovation Ecosystem
I stood it until I became tortured day and night by the prod of reason, then I quietly left the church and bade farewell to the heathen Scapular and the ten thousand other trinkets of blind paganism, and resolved to break the chain of this "_slave of the soul_" and "_tyrant of reason_. Thirty Years In Hell Or, From Darkness to Light
Death is the last link in the chain.
We were sitting together in our cell, chained to the wall.
The bestiaries proved troublesome too, as all the ones she could find were chained to their shelves. LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
He felt snow-blind to his surroundings as he sat up and shaded his eyes with chained hands. A KING'S RANSOM
Next, a scruffy-looking student enthusiastically volunteered to lace him into a straightjacket and secure him with padlocks and chains.
The clients range from big chain stores, government right down to small businesses.
Marge's chain-smoking, DMV-working sister, Selma, feels the tick of her biological clock.
So what I really need now is a chain and a bicycle lock, so I can just leave the pump out in the locker room shower.
The Canadian deck crew chocked and chained the helicopter, we transferred the parts, and signaled for breakdown.
Stress-strain results are reported for two series of smectic C main chain liquid crystalline elastomers IMechanica - Comments
They took a disc pendant on a gold chain that the father had given his wife on their wedding day and also his wife's engagement ring.
A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.
This belief was like a ball and chain for the allied war effort.
In March 2004, the company announced plans to refit 50 stores and downsize its Big W chain to increase profits.
For example, the cis double bond at the centre of the fatty chain in erucamide and oleamide appears vital for slip performance.
It ends with the animal protesting, after being chained during musth.
An anemic supply chain, poor infrastructure, and government red tape have kept manufacturers away for years.
The magnitude of the angular change associated with the transition from rigor to relaxation was similar for both light chains and amounted to less than 5 deg.
Details of the polymerase chain reaction are given in a previous publication.
Bold, oversized metal cuffs and heavy chain necklaces give any outfit a tough edge. Times, Sunday Times
The ball was attached to a length of thin chain.
And we have studies looking at organisms from sponges to sharks, looking at the food chain, both on the bottom of the ocean and also on the extreme layer of - a very thin layer called the neuston, the very surface of the ocean. Assessing The BP Spill's Impact
It has interests in a Russian bookstore chain, publishers and mobile phone firm. The Sun
Allsop unfastened the chain and threw the door open.
Kinamori awoke to the sound of heavy footfalls, the clink of chains following each step.
In a bizarre but later understandable chain of events, an incident happened in seconds that ruined the lives of four men and ended that of a fifth.
This turnbuckle fastens to the chainplate with a jaw fitting and pin, and is swaged to the wire rope stay.
Priest's conclusion was that it was likely that the metal was present in the food chain.
The terms management chain puts two nouns next to each other, why not use the term management? Site Home
Pesticides work their way up the food chain from plants, through insects and birds to humans.
The long DNA chain is naturally compacted in a dense form in most biological systems.
In the case of the supermarket chain, size, not necessarily sole ownership, affects the quality of the food.
Effie learned they had taken his straitjacket off and unchained his feet after he'd been asleep a few hours.
* bling bling* how do u make the chain photo frames at the bottom? so nice! Giddy Tigers
They offer an up-close view of a life-size, red-blue-and-white clad young woman in an overgrown ravine before a chain-link fence.
Peace campaigners today chained themselves to gates at Menwith Hill in an effort to shut down the North Yorkshire spy base.
Zlotin heard a lone scream emanate from underneath the balcony, then the chain gun fell silent. CODE BREAKER
And this impression is greatly helped by the fantastical finery of his dress: sky-blue satin cravat, yards of gold chain, white French gloves, light drab great-coat lined with velvet of the same colour, invisible inexpressibles, skin-coloured and fitting like a glove, etc., etc. New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
It was blowing dogs off chains. Times, Sunday Times
Layering jewelry can be mystifying, which is why this single piece composed of rhinestones, faux pearls, beads, and chains is so genius. CNN.com
When the first gaming casino was established on a reserve, a SWAT team took the chief away in chains.
Chants and oral traditions suggest native Hawaiians also visited other islands and atolls in the chain.
I tell ya what, de next time yer comin inta town bring de auld bike wit ya and ya can chain it to de pole outside, ‘sniggered Jim backing out the door, deciding that it was time to beat a hasty retreat.’
The mayor was wearing his chain of office.
He knelt inside a globe of pale fire, his face lifted to the chains, his eyes closed.
The policy encourages car parts makers to set up franchised and chain operations alongside their own distribution and sales networks.
The mizzen-topsail, which was a comparatively new sail and close reefed, split from head to foot in the bunt; the foretopsail went in one rent from clew to caring, and was blowing to tatters; one of the chain bobstays parted; the spritsailyard sprung in the slings, the martingale had slued away off to leeward; and owing to the long dry weather the lee rigging hung in large bights at every lurch. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11
Then came a week of strong northerlies and the Maria V remained on her moorings, tugging at the chain. THE MAIN CAGES
Then he would walk before her back to the stable, loop the chain through the hasp and fasten with his own hands the shackle. DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION
About every third property boasted a brand-new chain link fence, erected to corral Cod knows what kind of beast.
At about 2. 50pm on Wednesday, a light truck lost control on the slippery Hume Freeway between Arkells Lane and the Wandong exit, setting off a chain reaction when the car behind it slammed on the brakes, which in turn caused the car behind that to aquaplane straight into the car in front. Star News Group
They play a vital role in the food chain by eating aphids, which can cause havoc to crops. The Sun
Every time you talk about leadership ambitions, you can rest assured there’s a chainsaw behind you cutting you as you speak, so I’ll just taihoa.
This path consists of 7 small metal foot-bridges, approximately 320 m of chains built into the rocky walls, 140 clenches and about 70 m of wooden gangboards.
The networks related to cellular development and connective tissue disorder showed that enzymes such as phosphoglycerate 12 mutase (glycolysis), muscle proteins such as myosin heavy chain 4 (Actin cytoskeleton signaling), nebulin-related anchoring protein (Actin binding protein) were significantly down regulated by TWEAK ( PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
They are separated by panels of chain fencing and the space between dotted with waste bins and park benches.
the prisoner's ankles were so chained together that they could only march in lockstep
With the death of the plants the terrestrial food chain would collapse, and complex life would be wiped from the land. Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planet
As Prof. Nettleship has pointed out, this seems to indicate that there are two words, _laquear_ from _laqueus_, meaning chain or network, and _lacuar_ or _lacunar_ from _lacus_, meaning sunk work. The Aeneid of Virgil
Della sells her luxuriant hair to buy Jim a chain for his gold watch, while Jim in turn sells his watch to buy a set of tortoise shell combs Della has desired for her hair.
Maybe he could benefit from being one of the ‘people dancing around in circles, holding hands with daisy chains in their hair’.
'enchain' a rational conversation, but nothing could I get out of him but rhapsodies about you in the frightfullest English that I ever heard out of a human head! Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
While decompiler usually chop the chain of byte codes into meaningful pieces. In real world, it is like reading a book, one sentence and then the next sentence.
We hear over and over again about global systems and panoptic vision on the one hand and genome chains and nano-entities on the other.
Curtis earned an Academy Award nomination for his performance in 1958's "The Defiant Ones, " playing an escaped racist convict chained to a black prisoner, portrayed by Sidney Poitier.
Specific historical moments usually engender the chain of events that shape and reshape an international song.
When the design is finalised, Paul moves in with his chainsaw.
They form the links, at various angles to their neighbours, of a continuous chain.
The coupler and safety chains should be checked for disrepair.
If you want more information on supply chains, contact your departmental representative on the project.
I. unsōfte þonan feorh oð-ferede, 2142. of-ferian, _to carry off, to take away, to tear away_: pret. ōðer swylc ūt offerede, _took away another such_ (sc. fifteen), 1584. fetel-hilt, st. n., _sword-hilt_, with the gold chains fastened to it: acc. Beowulf
In general, these two closed chains are linked catenanes, and the type of linkage reflects a topological property of the original substrate.
National Society, for in this way even the small college becomes a link in this great chain of organization, and the efforts of its faculty may bear fruit, whereas unsystematized work is little better than a failure. The Arena Volume 4, No. 22, September, 1891
In using this ingenious wire stretcher, he stapled his wire to post number one, carried the length past post number two, looped the chain around post number three, having the chain long enough so that he might tauten the wire and hold the crankhandle steady with his knee or left arm while he drove the holding staple in post number two. Hiram the Young Farmer
A national discount chain had opened several warehouse outlets in a geographic region the retailer had long dominated.
Despite its good-looking veneer, its breakneck pace, its daisy-chain of expert set-pieces, some crucial logic or motive appears to have been junked along the way.
Chaining communities to their places of ritual and worship does not create secular institutions.
The uncertainty surrounding him would cause a chain of events and interviews, due diligence any team looking to acquire Williams in a trade would insist upon.
The engine also has a sportbike-derived chain-and-gear camshaft drive system that allows for a short/narrow cylinder head design and reduced overall engine height. Quad 2009 ATV Buyers Guide
The more that they appear the more likely it is that a British patrol is being "dicked" (observed) and information is being passed back up the Taliban chain. Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
Presence of oncogenic HPV types 16 and 18 DNA was done by polymerase chain reaction.
This flight-deck director didn't understand the pilot's intentions, or he wouldn't have run out on the deck and started to chock and chain the aircraft.
The lantern is suspended from chains fixed to the center of a shell cartouche with a representation of another royal crown painted on the ceiling of the Queen's Staircase.
She wore a locket hanging on a silver chain.
She caught her skirt up in the chain of her bicycle.
After twenty years as a chain smoker Mr Nathe has given up the habit.
This won't work because the wheel will end up way out of dish and the tire will likely rub the kickstand-side chainstay.
The people rose, casting off the chains of unjust rule.
After twenty years as a chain smoker Mr Nathe has given up the habit.
The chain sinnet aka chain braid, daisy chain, or monkey braid is a cable shortening and storing method that can be used to make stray cables a little more pleasing to the eye. Use A Chain Sinnet To Tidy Cables | Lifehacker Australia
She dragged out the swing and hung it on chains that dangled from the ceiling of the porch. SOMEDAY MY PRINCE
An angry pharmacist says Government moves to allow supermarket chains to provide dispensing services may destroy the community.
As a result, wood-hungry chainsaw wielders have reverted to cutting the thin trees up at the 52nd parallel.
Still of the belief there would be no recovery until 2011 or 2012, the aviation supply chain contracted to the point that Boeing's planned production increases don't take direct effect for another year or two. Aerospace Bull Market Takes Flight Despite Military Cutbacks
The gateway had what is called a portcullis; that is, a heavy iron gate suspended by chains, so as to rise and fall. Rollo in Scotland
Most of it is in the Serra de Tramuntana, the chain of mountains that runs across the north of the island.
The powder immediately ignited and set off a chain reaction of explosions.
The Aleutian chain is a long arc of islands in the North Pacific.
Mercredi dernier, la France a obtenu sa place pour participer à la prochaine Coupe du Monde de Football. Retirer - French Word-A-Day
In a new study, researchers from London inserted the firefly gene that activates bioluminescent light into modified cancer cells, hoping to set off a chain of events that has a proven track record at fighting the disease.
He said leadership had become a huge preoccupation because organisations had changed over the past few decades, with power and responsibility being devolved down the organisational chain. Times, Sunday Times
They were linked by a slack, heavy, silvery chain that swayed lazily when he raised his hands.
His graceful elocution enchained the senses of his hearers. The Last Man
WHERE WOULD YOU LIKE TO CREAT THE SHOP AS A CHAIN STORE?
Councillors are desperate to attract the supermarket chain to a site in Grange Road occupied by the Caldaire bus company.
He expanded this chain to 3 more eateries with his flagship palce called "Emeril's" in 1990 and by 1995 he had found a place for "Emeril's New Orleans Fish House" at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las vegas, the first ever to make an impression in the sin-city. 1999 saw the growth of his name, fame and food at Universal Studios in Orlando and a steakhouse in Vegas. Archive 2007-10-01
But, there have been enough wrinkles in recent events to suggest that we are not simply seeing the standard food chain of capitalism in action.
From a drawer in the oak sideboard he fetched another crucifix on a heavy chain and a pair of thick bracelets.
The reins were secured by chain-work, and the front-stall of the bridle was a steel plate, with apertures for the eyes and nostrils, having in the midst a short, sharp pike, projecting from the forehead of the horse like the horn of the fabulous unicorn. The Talisman
The characteristic appearance of Gujarati chain-stitch embroidery, whether done with a hook or a needle, however, is common to both formats.
She had plaited a chain of daisies and wore it on her head.
We, the people, who were brought here in chains or by guile or deception or empty promises, were to provide labour.
It is generally assumed that DNA chains are randomly segregated to daughter cells during mitosis.
The chaine turn is also a progressive turn that effects a full rotation for every two steps taken.
She wore a small silver cross on a chain round her neck.
This way, if a cache file is removed at any step of the transformation chain, it has the effect of invalidating all dependent Butterfly cache files, forcing their recreation.
That hotel is expected to be completed in 2007 and will be managed by an international hotel chain.
It also includes used animal trappings such as harnesses, saddles, halters, reins, rope and chain.
Immediately, offers poured in -- from a taverna in the wealthy neighborhood of Kolonaki, from a big baked goods chain, from green grocers in the wholesale market of Rendi, from caterers with leftovers from weddings and baptisms -- and were directed to orphanages, old age homes, halfway houses for the handicapped, soup kitchens run by churches and municipalities all over the Athens area. Diana Farr Louis: Food Aid Takes Off in Athens
I tried a (free with coupon) lip plumper from a chain body and bath place and it felt like someone was rubbing fiberglass across my lips ... they felt injured after about 10 minutes. Do my lips look plump?
He was on a gurney, all wrapped up in a straitjacket and his feet were chained together.
The shape of the curve a catenary is the one that minimizes the potential energy of the entire chain. Thermodynamics, Again - The Panda's Thumb
Swaggering along in their check suits, gold chains, lumpy rings and billycocks, they were pointed out by name or exploit.
Then Martin tuned his lute and played and sang as follows, while the girls took hands and danced in a green chain among the twisty trees. Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard
In fact, what truly prevents Modi from taking the grand leap of his imagination — that is, remaking Gujarat into a kind of antiseptic global entrepôt, like Singapore and Dubai — is the ball-and-chain reality of the Indian landscape itself. India’s New Face
Parts are loaded on a chain driven, stainless steel turntable with a quick-draining round wire mesh basket that rotates at fixed speed.
He was wearing a crash helmet and full leathers when his bike hit the metal chain.
One preternaturally long bony hand, a length of severed rope dangling from the wrist, clutched with clawed fingers at a sword gash in chain mail stained with dried blood. Conan The Invincible
“Ah! When I was a young man I wrote miles of 'middles' for them” ” stretching out his hands to show the unending chain. The Adventure of Living
The owner of chains of tobacconists, newsagents and convenience stores, its success depends on large numbers of small purchases.
His daughter looked like a chained monkey being whipped and dragged roughly along, leaping silently but wildly from side to side.
And the Rayong plant may have the distinction of operating the world's longest supply chain.
The behavior of the compounds in the DSC thermograms is very sensitive to the alkoxy chain lengths present in the molecule" writes Gryko. Innovations-report
Also choose from a range of bracelets, chains and brooches which are uniquely different and often more appealing than current trends.
The consequences are that a lot of hoggs which would have otherwise gone into the food chain have been disposed of at public expense and there is now a scarcity of sheep meat.
Insects are fairly low down the food chain.

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