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Example sentences for "both ends"

  • A class of marine cephalate Mollusca having a tubular shell open at both ends, a pointed or spadelike foot for burrowing, and many long, slender, prehensile oral tentacles.

  • Gills+ adnate, rather broad, slightly narrowed at both ends, at first whitish and then turning a brownish color.

  • The body is about two inches long and pointed at both ends.

  • America, which have their tails so rounded as to give them the appearance of having a head at both ends.

  • The spit is simply a stick, sharpened at both ends, one of which impales the monkey, and the other is stuck into the ground.

  • These are next secured at both ends by ropes of the palm fibre.

  • A strong cord, made from the epidermis of the full-grown leaves, is now passed through the loop of all the strings, drawn together at both ends, and the poles are then pulled out.

  • It was a typical Finnish boat, pointed at both ends, wide in the middle, and a loving couple sitting side by side rowed us over.

  • They are pointed at both ends like a gondola, but it is not the narrowness and length that strike terror into the heart of a stranger, but rather the thinness of the wood of which they are built.

  • They are not so long, however, as those used for the rapids, although they are pointed the same at both ends, and the planks are equally wide and thin and as quaintly tied together.

  • A name given by Parry to ice, the surface of which is composed of numberless irregular vertical crystals, nearly close together, from five to ten inches long, about half an inch broad, and pointed at both ends.

  • The position of a ship when her keel is parallel to the plane of the horizon, so that she is equally deep in the water at both ends.

  • Cylindrical baskets open at both ends, about 3 feet high and 2 feet in diameter, which, being placed on end and filled with earth, greatly facilitate the speedy formation of cover against an enemy's fire.

  • Also, the angles at one or both ends of such cloths as increase the breadth or depth of a sail.

  • Besides this another ornamented tie of cloth or leather was used by the Greeks, broad in the centre and growing narrower towards both ends.

  • The diphros corresponds to the couch resting on four legs, at first without head and foot-board, which were afterwards added at both ends.

  • They are round in section, tapering at both ends, and are generally from 10 to 12 feet long, and about three-quarters of an inch in diameter at the widest part.

  • It is a heavy black roller-shaped piece of stone, tapering a little at one or both ends, and being broader at the beating end than at the holding end.

  • In vascular parts--for example the face--both ends of a divided artery bleed freely.

  • When hot throughout, wrap the potatoes in squares of white tissue paper fringed at both ends.

  • Be sure that the wood extends out to both ends of the fire-box.

  • Weed reminded him of the outcry in the Whig national convention of 1848 against having "cotton at both ends of the ticket.

  • Bitterness and threats of disunion characterised the proceeding at both ends of the Capitol.

  • This curious form, with its spirally sculptured capillitial threads attached at both ends, stands intermediate between Dianema and Hemitrichia and Trichia.

  • Capillitial threads transverse, fascicled, attached at both ends, but sculptured by well defined spiral bands Prototrichiaceae E.

  • In one genus (Corvospongilla) they resemble a double grappling-iron in form, having a circle of strongly recurved hooks at both ends.

  • Spicule with a transverse disk at both ends.

  • Spongilla crassissima) its termination is marked at both ends of the megasclere by a minute conical protuberance in the silica.

  • If an obstacle intervenes, all that part of the curve which commands a view of both ends can be set out, and a ranging rod can be set up at any point of the curve so found, and the instrument may be reset to complete the curve.

  • In order to throw this step put of place it must be cut off at both ends, and for this purpose the V-shaped holes are put in at right angles to the face.

  • The examples of ulna from the Lias show a slight expansion of the bone at both ends, and at the distal end toward the wrist the articulation is well defined, where the bone joins the carpus.

  • Their articular ends are sometimes cupped in front, in the neck, sometimes cupped behind, or convex at both ends, or even flattened, or the articulation may be made exceptionally by the neural arch alone.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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