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Example sentences for "alternates"

Lexicographically close words:
altering; alterius; alternate; alternated; alternately; alternating; alternation; alternations; alternative; alternatively
  1. That which alternates with something else; vicissitude.

  2. The most high God, in all things appertaining unto this life, for sundry wise ends alternates the disposition of good and evil.

  3. To vary by turns; as, the land alternates between rocky hills and sandy plains.

  4. Balls of this amygdaloid are enclosed in the grunstein; and this grunstein alternates on one side with a green slate, on the other with the serpentine of Tucutunemo.

  5. The most marked example of contradictory evidence is to be found in Octavian, whose author alternates "as the French says" with "as saith the Latin.

  6. In the Occasional Oratorio a duet for Soprano and Alto alternates with the choruses, but it is in Judas Maccabaeus where he best achieves this combination of solos and the chorus.

  7. This alternates with panegyrics of the city as the most progressive in the world--"the model municipality.

  8. Their life alternates between periods of riot and periods of repression, and their natural unsteadiness is intensified.

  9. Here tributarii alternates with manentes for the same reason that secundum alternates with iuxta.

  10. In the same book are many instances of a husbandry which alternates oats with hay.

  11. The latter expression is explained by another which alternates with it, "oak of the soothsayers.

  12. In certain symbolic combinations the fylfot alternates with the representation of the sun.

  13. Factors not alternates may or may not separate--the distribution is largely a matter of chance.

  14. This curious raised attitude, however, alternates with a more ordinary sitting posture, nor is the rolling motion always apparent.

  15. The country surrounding Hanbury river, Inspector Pelletier states, alternates from rocky ridges to sandy stretches and rocks broken up, with country scattered with boulders.

  16. This bears apparently the same relation to the common sandstones, as the crystalline limestone above {306} mentioned does to the earthy varieties, and it alternates with and passes into the common rock in a similar manner.

  17. In Vermont, in the same neighbourhood, it alternates with clay-slate, and supports red sandstone.

  18. It embraces extensive beds of coarse conglomerate, and supports or alternates with compact limestone.

  19. Apuleius was one of those minds not uncommon in a decaying civilization, in which extreme quasi-religious exaltation alternates with impure hilarity.

  20. The alternates shall, so far as they are able, be present at all sessions of the Tribunal.

  21. Neither the Tribunal, its members nor their alternates can be challenged by the Prosecution, or by the defendants or their counsel.

  22. The delirium of melancholia alternates with that of grandiose monomania.

  23. In the tunicates (salpa) a sexual social form alternates with an asexual solitary form; the chain-salpa of the former are smaller and differently shaped than the large individual salpa of the latter, which again generate chains by budding.

  24. Spore-formation is very common among the cryptogams; here it usually alternates with sexual propagation.

  25. In other cases (for instance, in the closely related doliolum) a sexual generation alternates with two (or more) neutral ones.

  26. I saw in the plains of Jaen de Bracamoros a sandstone which alternates with ledges of sand and conglomerate nodules of porphyry and Lydian stone.

  27. This fine syenite, the strata of which incline to the north-west, alternates twice with serpentine.

  28. In the upper part, the limestone alternates with layers of fine white sand.

  29. There were present 546 delegates, a large number of alternates and thousands of visitors, while for the audiences at the public meetings there was not even standing room.

  30. The full number of twelve delegates and twelve alternates went from the National Association to the Congress of the International Alliance in Budapest last June, and there were many more applicants.

  31. The victim is usually coarse-featured and coarse-skinned, with peculiarly unstable mentality; slowness of comprehension is combined with power of continuity of thought; at times mental apathy alternates with quickness of perception.

  32. The alliance between intellectual and moral perversion is strikingly typified by the way in which he alternates from the unveracious to the absurd, from misrepresentation to contradiction.

  33. Among these, the carbohydrates produced by the plants show clearly the double function of carbon in the way it alternates between the states of starch and sugar.

  34. He said: 'In plant metamorphosis Wolff saw how the same organ continuously draws together, makes itself smaller; he did not see that this contraction alternates with an expansion.

  35. It might be imagined that analogous phenomena occur in butterflies, with the difference that the change of colour, instead of taking place in the same brood, alternates in different broods.

  36. One winter brood alternates with two summer broods, the first of which appears in July, and the second in August.

  37. The universe is filled through all its illimitable spaces by the roar of her working, the ceaseless unexhausted energy with which she alternates life and death.

  38. He has shaken himself free from the imitation of Lucilius, which alternates in the earliest satires with a rather bitter and self-conscious depreciation of the work of the older poet and his successors.

  39. It alternates between a sort of laboured sprightliness and a careless conversational manner full of endless parentheses.


  40. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "alternates" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.