Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

Thirty-one inches above the headpiece is a pulley reeved with a rope with handles on one end, ankle straps on the other.

From Time Magazine Archive

One end of the new rope I had bought in town was reeved through the chain of the shark-hook and the other end fastened to a tree on the sandbank.

From Wanderings in South America by Waterton, Charles

On the drawers was the bonnet, which was of reeved crape made upon wire, and not one at all suited for a careless girl; but it was made by a milliner at Plymouth.

From The Fairchild Family by Rudland, Florence M.

We now reeved our ropes and rigged our ship the best we could, every man working as if to save our lives in the utmost extremity.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 10 Arranged in systematic order: Forming a complete history of the origin and progress of navigation, discovery, and commerce, by sea and land, from the earliest ages to the present time. by Kerr, Robert

It was reeved through an iron ring that jutted from the stone.

From The Caves of Fear by Goodwin, Harold L. (Harold Leland)