Example Sentences

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I never used to think when I was splicing a graft on a tree that I should come to splicing ’board ship again.

From Syd Belton The Boy who would not go to Sea by Browne, Gordon

He was splicing the two pieces together with a strip of the brown cloth-like stuff which is wrapped round the stalks of the cocoa-palm fronds.

From The Blue Lagoon: a romance by Stacpoole, H. De Vere (Henry De Vere)

So all that day the shepherd was splicing, and hammering, and gluing, and bandaging.

From The Monkey That Would Not Kill by Wain, Louis

West was splicing a golf shaft and whistling blithely over the task.

From The Half-Back by Barbour, Ralph Henry

At the landing Mr. Jarley was splicing some heavy rope which he expected to use the next day when the sunken Bright Eyes would be actually raised.

From Wyn's Camping Days or, The Outing of the Go-Ahead Club by Marlowe, Amy Bell