Example sentences for: cement

How can you use “cement” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Quicklime is quick (that is, alive, as in the quick and the dead) because it is anhydrous (Greek for unwatered) and soaks up water with a vengeance to make slaked lime (calcium hydroxide, Ca(OH)2, from CaO + H2O), which is what makes quicklime so useful as the binding agent in mortar, cement, and concrete.

  • At the top of the village, near the church is a small cemetery overlooking the Mediterranean; a simple cement slab bears the inscription: Robert Graves, Poeta, 1895–1985.

  • A zinc phosphate cement (Phosphate Cement, Heraeus Kulzer, Dormagen, Germany) was mixed on a room tempered glass plate.

  • There is also a possibility that corrosion of the steel dies and release of iron ions from the dies affected the setting reaction of the zinc phosphate cement.

  • And everybody notes that the deal could help cement the proposed $368 billion national tobacco settlement, although none of the papers gives the most obvious explanation for this, namely that at $11 billion a state and climbing, fifty separate settlements would be far more expensive.


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