Like a gate

Usage examples of hinged.

The door hinged smoothly shut behind me, muffling the music, and a body thudded against the frosted glass ahead with an abruptness that made me twitch.

Clodius Afer asked in a cautionary tone, the helmet poised between his palms and the hinged cheek pieces flopping over the backs of his hands.

Everything hinged on my catching Astel off-guard, of maintaining the upper hand emotionally.

The frame was a bifold, two photographs in matte gold, hinged in the middle.

It has to be hinged, however, and capable of swinging out into this room exactly as a true door.

It turned out to be hinged under a hemicylindrical sleeve, folding as it carried back, and as it reached maximum fold, a cartridge flew out of the chamber and clattered on the closet floor.

One was hinged at the outermost extremity of the jawbone and was used in eating.

After a bit of exploring, Chris and Laree came to their adjoining rooms, in part of the old section of the palace, bearing hinged doors.

Everything in magazine publishing hinged on the number of subscribers: advertising rates, ad linage, lender confidence.

The Mygale, the expert in hinged doors, is found there, but very seldom.

They are of the type Taine wore in the airlock: thick and flexible, with inlaid metal hoops, and hinged helmets at the top.

He proposed that while they were in the mood they should go again to the old cemetery, and see the hinged jaw of the murdered Paumgartner, wagging in eternal accusation of his murderess.

As he spoke Wildred stooped and with a great rasp commenced filing upon the iron rivets that held the hinged anklet in place.

The moment the hinged canopy pivoted up, Manesh removed his helmet and scratched his face and head.

But there are also pure white shells heavily ridged on the outside but within of a marmoreal smoothness and these come in hinged pairs.