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How to use billet in a sentence

16 example sentences · noun, verb

Billet means a short informal letter. Example: “Once the billet gets through the 56-inch mill, it is ready for reheating.”

Examples of billet by meaning

nounA place where a soldier is assigned to lodge.

  • Gordon Burnage, for instance, personally visited dust-bins and back premises, accompanied by a sort of village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer doing billets.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XIX, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC
  • Germans use the Foucaults’ holiday home as officers’ billet.1997, Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, Totem Books, Icon Books, →ISBN, page 9

nounBerth; position.

  • The blind man laughed and a substantial coin found its billet in the caretaker's never-reluctant palm.1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries

nounA semi-finished length of metal.

  • The Saturday evening Cardiff-West Wales mail train is still steam-worked, but a most unlikely locomotive used on May 23 was Stanier Class 5 4-6-0 No. 45250 (5A); it returned on May 25 with a train of steel billets.1964 July, “Motive Power Miscellany: Western Region”, in Modern Railways, page 70

More sentences with billet

  • Once the billet gets through the 56-inch mill, it is ready for reheating.From the entry mill
  • The best method, but also the most expensive is cladding the billets in copper.2006 December, Martin Bauser, “The Production of Extruded Semifinished Products from Metallic Materials [Extrusion of Semifinished…. From the entry clad
  • First, the study group discovered a tendency in the current system to overspecify a billet.1975, John Whittet, “We Need NEOCS”, in All Hands, number 698, page 50. From the entry overspecify
  • He has effective authority to move his billets around within his claimancy as necessary to meet needs.1975, Navy Supply Corps Newsletter, page 6. From the entry claimancy
  • Down in the orchard a nightingale jug-jugged, as if he, too, had dropped into a soft billet.1916, R. Austin Freeman, chapter 8, in The Exploits of Danby Croker. From the entry jug
  • The Battalion of East Surreys billeted in its sad empty houses was route-marched through the rain around Stirling.2013, Alan Whicker, Whicker’s War and Journey of a Lifetime, →ISBN. From the entry route-march
  • Clad billets can be heated in an induction furnace and lubrication with oil-graphite suffices similar to standard copper alloys.2006 December, Martin Bauser, “The Production of Extruded Semifinished Products from Metallic Materials [Extrusion of Semifinished…. From the entry clad
  • A cross or a billet urdy one knows, but urdy as a partition line I have yet to find.1925, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, A Complete Guide to Heraldry, page 95. From the entry urdy
  • Navy, who had only served a dog watch as Captain of the Port at Noumea, New Caledonia, reported for this important billet.1972, George Carroll Dyer, The Amphibians Came to Conquer, page 265. From the entry dogwatch
  • We went back inside and then the house’s owner arrived, a sullen vatnyk whom Dmytro paid off to keep his house available for billeting, like we were doing.2023 December 17, Szczepan Twardoch, “Darkness over Donbas: Nine stories about war”, in The Point. From the entry vatnyk
  • From Detroit to Daytona Beach, from Brooklyn to the Bay Area, the streets are ruled by tight superbikes that put yesterday's Evo-powered billet barges to shame.2006, Mike Seate, How to Build a Pro Streetbike, St. Paul, MN: Motorbooks, →ISBN, page 6. From the entry billet barge
  • But billets need not be a great issue, and it is possible that, apart from the first and last nights, choice can be made 'on the hoof'.1990, Lewis Childs, Kimberley. From the entry on the hoof

Meaning of billet

  1. noun A short informal letter.
  2. noun A written order to quarter soldiers.
  3. noun A sealed ticket for a draw or lottery.

Full definition of billet

Questions about billet in a sentence

How do you use billet in a sentence?
Billet is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Once the billet gets through the 56-inch mill, it is ready for reheating.”
What is a short sentence with billet?
“Germans use the Foucaults’ holiday home as officers’ billet.”
What does billet mean?
Billet means a short informal letter.

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