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Her strappy sandals are making lots of noise as she runs around the class looking for a truing wheel--to give her pattern the appropriate curve.

From Time Magazine Archive

The use of airplanes in this country will require men for rigging, for truing up the wires and struts.

From Opportunities in Aviation by Sweetser, Arthur

It is sometimes impracticable to make a surface as smooth as desirable with a truing plane, because of the direction of the grain of the wood.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua

That is the genius and the glory of the artisan, to perfect each detail ad unguem, like a poet truing up a sonnet.

From The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards by Raleigh, Henry

Power grindstones usually have truing devices attached to them, Fig.

From Handwork in Wood by Noyes, William