A moment later she placed a tapered glass before him.

The tapered construction seems to be the most common one, especially in the mountains.

She began her sentence with a sweep of long tapered hand.

The car tore at me and I took to my tapered toes.

Another disadvantage is that the process produces a tapered cut.

And it might be more fun if the flesh on those tapered limbs were better.

It ran all the way up to the tapered part of the steeple.

It was a tapered thing, about as long as his arm.

A tapered hole can also be made by swiveling the head.

"It's very tapered to hold a lot of paint, yet keep a fine line," she said.

That is one reason for the tapered depth of the calculator.

At the tapered upper tip was a small air grate.

He grabbed the tapered end and swung the heavy handle.

A sports version was also made with a very long tapered bonnet.

Due to poor maintenance, the tapered walls were reduced to 25 to 30 feet.

A tapered nose cone had been fitted on the top of it.

The sides of the moustache are vertical rather than tapered.

On the chest was a white spiral with tapered ends: the sign of the State.

The answer is to find a pump with the necessary platform but a tapered toe.

Without this achievement, today's tapered lines would probably cost $150 or more.

The man wore a tapered shirt that hugged his trim body.

The long tapered fingers were bony, and never still.

Its is a mid wing design with straight tapered wings.

Their bodies are fat and oval shaped with long tapered legs.

In 1979, the Taper gave the show a full production.

The full range of tapers is from 0 to 7.

I looked around and saw the assembly beginning to light their tapers.

I kept a light going until I'd burned all the tapers we had in the house.

The Taper is about to present three new plays in a row.

Sitting by the kitchen fire, George was making tapers out of old newspaper.

A few steps later, the light tapers, and at the next turn disappears.

Taper,' I said, not wanting to stop your train of thought.

The blade of a compass saw tapers to a point.

He has tapers taken out from the boxes, and they light them within the tent.

Many of these changes have centred on what are called tapers.

The Tapers team did not finish this season in its new venue, either.

The fire was nearly out, and the two tapers at his elbow had only an inch or so left.

But we've got to give the Mark Taper people credit.

During their time, the Tapers boasted of many outstanding players.

The hallway was lit with tapers, a forest of them in the dark.

The 1983-85 survey showed that most home tapers copy hits.

There are banks of tapers, as though the sun were shining on the night sea.

Most tapers are about 2 or 3 inches long.

For many years the tapers set up their microphones wherever they could.

The Taper, a comfortable amphitheater, is designed for serious work.

Tapers come in many sizes and are usually sold by the thickness of the large end.

The band used to offer a special section of seating for amateur tapers.

"I'm a little nervous," she said, of the Taper production.

Instead, the sole tapers off up around the side of the shoe."

They started tapering their sales a couple of years ago.

But each time, he tapered off by the 20-game mark.

My voice tapered off when I found myself completely alone.

The calls have tapered off but still average 20 a month.

Each was six inches long and tapered to a point.

On its top is another stone, tapering to a point.

And perhaps the losing will have tapered off some by then, too.

They were strongest for the first 10 days, and then tapered off.

Then his appearances tapered off near the end of Season 1.

However, by the end of 1946, the contacts between the two groups tapered off.

But their night walks had been tapering off before that.

During the past year and a half their phone conversations had tapered off to once every three months or so.

The sound of gunfire had tapered but not yet died out.

"Only a week more and things ought to start tapering off."

By three in the morning, the list had tapered down remarkably well.

The daily death count now seems to be tapering off.

Finally, the adventure tapered off until it was no longer worth while.

But export growth has been tapering off since late 1988.

The drizzle tapered off to nothing most of my walk.

It was about sixty feet long, tapering at each end.

What is it with these debates tapering off at the end?

But he went into a slump, and his success tapered off over the next seven years.

All these factors led to attacks tapering off around early to mid-1940.

By Hour 3, the villages had tapered off into a forest.

Despite today's casualties, the violence has tapered off this week.