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How to use tripod in a sentence

20 example sentences · noun, verb

Tripod means a three-legged stand or mount. Example: “Cameras often have tripod attachments, which help when taking steady photographs.”

Examples of tripod by meaning

nounA three-legged stand or mount.

  • Cameras often have tripod attachments, which help when taking steady photographs.

More sentences with tripod

  • You can hand-hold many professional cameras, but using a tripod may be a better idea.From the entry hand-hold
  • I'll get the tripod ready, and you find the camera.From the entry get ready
  • A tripod can be formed of three hop poles or barlings.1970, Admiralty Manual of Hydrographic Surveying - Volume 2. From the entry barling
  • Around the vestry were tripods for anthracomancy, skulls for necromancy, mirrors for enoptromancy, or perhaps for putting on stage makeup.2015, John C. Wright, The Architect of Aeons, page 322. From the entry anthracomancy
  • The book's enduring power is also evident in its big-headed tripods from outer space, described perfectly by Wells way back when.2005 July 8, Caryn James, “Critic's Notebook: When the Film Outshines The Novel”, in New York Times, retrieved 02 Mar 2018. From the entry way back when
  • The heptapod, then, may be considered, along with the US cage, an alternative to the more conventional tripod.1985, Randal Gray, editor, Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships, 1906-1921, London: Conway Maritime Press, →ISBN, page 231. From the entry heptapod
  • She reloaded by moonlight, gathered the tripod, and backed across the street, scouting the library for a good angle.1972, Ira Levin, The Stepford Wives, New York, N.Y.: Random House, Inc., →ISBN, page 52. From the entry bookshelved
  • They had good meat and always cooked out-of-doors by hanging their heavy iron pots over an open fire on bogracs (tripods).1972 July 14, Paula Buchholz, quoting Maria Cserhalmi, “They’re Proud of Homeland Traditions”, in Detroit Free Press, volume 142, number…. From the entry bogracs
  • "The cord-marked li tripods extended westward no further than Wan Hsien, and the gray li tripods did not even reach Feng-chieh."1968, Kwang-chih Chang, The Archaeology of Ancient China, Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 413. From the entry Feng-chieh
  • Long analyses of this statement by the regular Kremlinologists conveyed the impression that the tripod..has been transferred to Moscow.1953, John Wyndham, The Kraken Wakes, page 162. From the entry Kremlinologist
  • Tripods, keister and loud talk don't make a pitchman any more than do fine feathers make fine birds.1942 August 29, Billboard, page 63. From the entry keister
  • The tripod used on a pam prevents any of that disturbing vertical shake which is so obvious in hand-held slow pams.1934, Frank Roy Fraprie, American Photography, volume 28, page 240. From the entry pam
  • A patient in the tripod position is likely to have a problem with the ventilatory pump or a need for high levels of ventilation.2005, Richard M. Schwartzstein, Michael J. Parker, Respiratory physiology: a clinical approach, page 16. From the entry tripod position
  • At night, they’d build a bonfire, slaughter an animal and then cook it in a bogracs — a pot with a tripod.2005 February 14, Sue Perine O’Reilly, quoting John Soppanish, “Hungary man: Middletown man cooks up ethnic cuisine”, in JournalNews…. From the entry bogracs
  • Future plans are for tripod designs in up to 90m of water, supporting lightweight topsides and braced mono towers for marginal field developments.1997, P. J. Dowling, B. A. Burgan, “Steel structures in the new millennium”, in P. K. K. Lee, editor, Structures in the New Millennium…. From the entry topside
  • You have scaly tail which helps you to stand up—like a tripod, like Tyrannosaura regina, but you are much smaller than she is.1971, Bruce McAllister, Humanity Prime, Borgo Press / Wildside Press, page 54. From the entry Tyrannosaura Regina
  • The spider is very useful for shooting in the studio or on locations with smooth floors where tripod legs tend to slide.1927, H. Mario Raimondo Souto, The Technique of the Motion Picture Camera, page 64. From the entry spider
  • To walk, each crutch he kinda hopped forward a little and used his torso to drag his legs after, using them as the gingerest element of a tripod.2013, T. D. Badyna, chapter 4, in Flick, Whistle-Bit Books, →ISBN, page 44. From the entry ginger
  • Paul Annerley's servant put out the folding table, the single roorkee chair, the drink box, and slung the chargul of water on a tripod to cool in the breeze.1965, Susan Wingfield, The Goat Bag. From the entry roorkee chair

Meaning of tripod

  1. noun A three-legged stand or mount.
  2. noun An organism with three limbs.
  3. noun A fictional three-legged Martian war machine from H.G. Wells's novel The War of the Worlds (1897).

Full definition of tripod

Questions about tripod in a sentence

How do you use tripod in a sentence?
Tripod is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Cameras often have tripod attachments, which help when taking steady photographs.”
What is a short sentence with tripod?
“I'll get the tripod ready, and you find the camera.”
What does tripod mean?
Tripod means a three-legged stand or mount.

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