Gridirons is an English word. Below you'll find 3 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Gridirons meaning
plural of gridiron
Using Gridirons
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of gridiron
- In the example corpus, gridirons often appears in combinations such as: gridirons were.
Context around Gridirons
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 2 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 3 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Gridirons
- In this selection, "gridirons" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, fake and hinged stand out and add context to how "gridirons" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include clocks but gridirons were used and decorative fake gridirons that don. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "gridirons" sits close to words such as aaaaand, aaah and aacl, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with gridirons
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
For these reasons mercury pendulums were used in the highest precision clocks, but gridirons were used in quality regulator clocks. (20 words)
The hinged gridirons were slid in and out of the stoves holding the meat while it cooked evenly on both sides, like modern day oven racks. (26 words)
Gridiron pendulums became so associated with good quality that, to this day, many ordinary clock pendulums have decorative 'fake' gridirons that don't actually have any temperature compensation function. (29 words)
Gridiron pendulums became so associated with good quality that, to this day, many ordinary clock pendulums have decorative 'fake' gridirons that don't actually have any temperature compensation function. (29 words)
The hinged gridirons were slid in and out of the stoves holding the meat while it cooked evenly on both sides, like modern day oven racks. (26 words)
For these reasons mercury pendulums were used in the highest precision clocks, but gridirons were used in quality regulator clocks. (20 words)
Example sentences (3)
For these reasons mercury pendulums were used in the highest precision clocks, but gridirons were used in quality regulator clocks.
Gridiron pendulums became so associated with good quality that, to this day, many ordinary clock pendulums have decorative 'fake' gridirons that don't actually have any temperature compensation function.
The hinged gridirons were slid in and out of the stoves holding the meat while it cooked evenly on both sides, like modern day oven racks.
Common combinations with gridirons
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: