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Example sentences for "alters"

Lexicographically close words:
alternatives; alternator; alternators; alternis; altero; alterum; altesten; altho; althogh; although
  1. The three common Ways to extract Oils, are by Distillation, Expression, and Decoction; we reject the first as being very imperfect, because the Violence of the Fire alters the Nature of all Oils that are extracted that way.

  2. That hope is true which the pure heart hath known, Which alters not with time or death's decay, Yielding on earth earnest of Paradise.

  3. Besides, the late law for noting and protesting inland bills, alters the case very much.

  4. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove:-- O no!

  5. In winter these birds accompany other Finches and form with them flocks of varying sizes, but in the spring the flocks disperse, and the Greenfinch, in common with other units of the flock, alters its mode of life.

  6. We begin to see how it looks in the sight of God, and that alters everything; it upsets all our standards, and teaches us a new self-criticism.

  7. It is the new factor in the problem of God, so to speak--the new factor which alters everything that relates to God.

  8. But when love comes it alters this Ptolemaic theory.

  9. Matter dominates any principle that appears within it, alters it, and corrupts it by imparting thereto its own nature, which is contrary to the Good.

  10. In the midst of a clear sky, the mariner sometimes discovers on the verge of the horizon, a light, fleecy cloud, and as he sails toward it, he is surprised to find that it scarcely alters its position.

  11. The object alters when we see it in a different point of view!

  12. That alters the matter," said the squire, softened; "and all that is necessary now will be for him to make a proper apology to my kinsman.

  13. This tool is sometimes made adjustable by means of a piece dovetailed in the front end of the plane, which, by being lowered, alters the sweep and finally converts it from a convex to a concave.

  14. So soon, however, as the tool is fed to its feed traverse the form of the cutting alters to the special form shown in Fig.

  15. In doing this, however, first rough out the radial face, and then rough out the hole, so that if the work alters in form a fine finishing cut on both the radial face and the bore will correct the evil.

  16. The length of the counterbore should exceed the amount of the taper on the connecting rod key, so that as the connecting rod length alters from the wear, the piston shall not strike the cylinder head.

  17. But the chaser also alters its form in hardening, the pitch, as a general rule, becoming coarser.

  18. On our report that we had no others in sight, Neleus alters course perceptibly to converge on the commodore, and daylight coming in finds us steaming in misty but visible touch with the other columns.

  19. The coming of the destroyers alters the outlook.

  20. The respiration of human beings and animals alters the air.

  21. But permanent neutralisation alters the condition of a State so much that it thereby becomes an International Person of a particular kind.

  22. He therefore alters the tenor of the passage, and attributes the blindness of the people, and their incapability of understanding, to their own grossness of heart (xiii.

  23. But the gloss, as is obvious, alters the meaning of the saying.

  24. That there is nothing in the present internal state of things in France which alters the national policy with regard to the exterior relations of that country.

  25. Well, then, can it be that, while the nutriment does undergo an alteration in the stomach, this is a different kind of alteration and one which is not dependent on the nature of the organ which alters it?

  26. That alters the case altogether," returned Una, "and I'll follow you immediately.

  27. The State is to be progressive, it is no longer to be static, and this alters the general condition of the Utopian problem profoundly; we have to provide not only for food and clothing, for order and health, but for initiative.

  28. It involves advance just for this reason, because the act of adjustment implied in good conduct itself alters the sentiments of the agent, and creates new needs demanding a new satisfaction.

  29. Whatever the motive, however, the conduct of the person accepting it alters in accordance with its acceptation.

  30. What is this change, that alters not only myself, but the face of the whole universe?

  31. We might have left it indeed, some time ago; but that time is past, and the King's being with us alters the case in every respect.

  32. With the greater men the case alters to some extent in proportion to their greatness, but, again with one exception, not to such an extent as to affect the general rule.


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