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Example sentences for "complementary"

Lexicographically close words:
complected; compleit; complement; complemental; complementaries; complemented; complements; complet; completa; complete
  1. Otherwise, we could hardly come to understand how images constitute languages that make literacy useless, or better yet, that result in the need for complementary partial literacies.

  2. The experience of structuring a category of artifacts, defined through their aesthetic condition, and the complementary experience of self-definition through aesthetically relevant actions constitute the realm of the artistic.

  3. Education should stimulate complementary avenues to excellence, instead of equal access to mediocrity.

  4. That McLuhan failed to acknowledge the complementary language of design and engineering, with its own rationality, is a shortcoming, but does not change the validity of the argument.

  5. A relatively uniform lifestyle results from complementary practical experiences only slightly differentiated in structure.

  6. The first comic strip in America (1896) announced the age of complementary expression (text and drawing).

  7. More individuals, with complementary skills, have a better chance to succeed in practical endeavors of increased complexity.

  8. When the object is colored, the image appears of the complementary color, as a green image seen after viewing a red wafer lying on white paper.

  9. Upon this dual spiral, which reflects the seven rays of the solar spectrum is produced seven musical notes; one half of the spiral in sound and color being the complementary of the other half.

  10. With the best intention in the world he sets forth, dogmatically and without qualification, ancient half-truths which to become truly moral need to be squarely faced with their complementary half-truths.

  11. In a certain sense it is also complementary to it.

  12. It is a general maxim in design that "colours look brightest when near their complementary colours.

  13. Colours are said to be complementary to each other which, by blending together, produce the perception of whiteness.

  14. Thus, if the original spot or wafer be of a red colour, the imaginary one will be green; if black, it will be white; the imaginary colour being always complementary of that first gazed upon.

  15. These cells can only find separate existence through complementary cells.

  16. Kraill would tell you they were the caskets of questing cells--seeking about for complementary cells that some day will themselves become the caskets of cells.

  17. That knowledge is directly revealed while we are apprehending any finite object, as its correlative and complementary antithesis.

  18. Sidenote: The New Testament is complementary to the Old.

  19. Miss James had many samples of gauzy chiffons which the girls learned to handle and to combine so as to get artistic results, for combinations of complementary and contrasting colors as well as for combinations of "one hue.

  20. Another way to make a good harmony is to use complementary colors.

  21. Arrange with the chiffon samples, combinations of complementary colors, of contrasting colors.

  22. It has been said that black substances reflect a small quantity of white light, which receives the complementary of the colour contiguous to the black.

  23. In colours associated with black, if green is juxtaposed therewith, its complementary red, added to the black, makes it seem rusty.

  24. Black substances reflect a small quantity of white light, which receives the complementary of the colour contiguous to the black.

  25. They will thus develop two classes of characteristics which we shall find vaguely complementary of each other.

  26. Contingent, relative to the obstacles encountered in a given place and at a given moment, is the dissociation of the primordial tendency into such and such complementary tendencies which create divergent lines of evolution.

  27. Even profound morphological differences, such as a change in the form of leaves, have no appreciable influence on the exercise of function, and so do not require a whole system of complementary changes for the plant to remain fit to survive.

  28. Granted; but while the insensible variation does not hinder the functioning of the eye, neither does it help it, so long as the variations that are complementary do not occur.

  29. The "harmony" of the two kingdoms, the complementary characters they display, might then be due to the fact that they develop two tendencies which at first were fused in one.

  30. Both represent ultimate mediaeval interests and desires; and perhaps deep down and very intimately, even inscrutably, they may be one, even as they clearly are complementary phases of the human soul.

  31. Thus, for the full realization of man's highest good in everlasting salvation, the two complementary phases of the human spirit had to act and function in concord.

  32. The well-known complementary pieces which make up Switzerland were either not written, or held back.

  33. And almost any one would have been likely either to commit the complementary error of being too severe on Shelley himself, or, if this were avoided, to underlie the charge of being callous and unsympathetic.

  34. Contrary to the opinion of Mr. Churchill, therefore, a complementary relation exists between the church and the world.

  35. Mr. Knowles, however, is not happy about the required complementary relation between the content of the Christian faith and his life.

  36. This concept of the complementary relationship between the ordained and the unordained should inform the church's gathered life.

  37. We should remember, however, that the identifications with the parent are important, and that the experiences the youngsters are having with others should be of a complementary nature, even if they also are corrective.

  38. An objection is raised to the argumentation that, on account of complementary passages, the small ether must be explained to mean the highest Self.

  39. We see from a complementary passage, viz.

  40. For a complementary clause in the Mahânârâyana Up.

  41. Thus trees are too green, and the grass is insufferably green: the complementary color, red, has been left out.

  42. For neckties or ribbons use the complementary color to that of the dress.

  43. Yellow is complementary to purple, as purple contains blue and red.

  44. Thus red is said to be complementary to green, as green contains the other two colors of the primary scale--blue and yellow.

  45. By the following experiment you may prove that when you see one color the eye is in a perfect condition to see its complementary color.

  46. The principle of using the complementary color is of the utmost importance in painting, or the use of color by any method, and it is on this principle that the harmony of color is based.

  47. Blue is complementary to orange, as orange contains red and yellow.

  48. If there is a curtain in the picture use the complementary color to the dress.

  49. It is now established that complementary colors, that is, colors which when combined make up the full beam, are felt to be beautiful when seen simultaneously; that is, the mind is made to delight in the unities of nature.

  50. If too much of the complementary color is added the result will be gray.

  51. All brilliant colors may be subdued by adding to them their complementary color.

  52. In Plate III the principal colors have been so arranged that the complementary colors are directly opposite each other and are connected by lines.

  53. The above remarks on standard complementary colors are only valid for pure colors and it is only by much experimentation that pleasing tones can be obtained by a combination of the dyes used on straws in the Philippines.

  54. As will be seen, all complementary colors will subdue one another.

  55. Complementary or opposite colors on the color chart are said to be harmonious.

  56. Memory qua memory is itself the merely external mode, or merely existential aspect of thought, and thus needs a complementary element.

  57. Here is brought out the complementary factor in social life: the element of liberty, spontaneity, self-consciousness.

  58. This has occurred with regard to agricultural investments, which have awaited a complementary organic legislation.

  59. For Professor Cooley, it is an organization and integration of many differentiated and divergent minds, in a complementary activity.

  60. An organism is a functional unity of different and complementary parts.

  61. In a period which has given birth to a skeptical philosophy, one never looks in vain for the complementary phenomenon of mysticism.

  62. Consciousness and protoplasm may be the complementary sides of the same coin.

  63. The extent to which our economic system had become complementary to the European economic system is illustrated by a study of the statistics of our foreign commerce.

  64. The complementary relation between lending Europe and borrowing America was productive of the friendship of mutual benefit.

  65. We are gradually destroying the complementary industrial system which formerly held us to Europe; we are competing with European countries for world markets and have even begun to compete for investment opportunities in backward countries.

  66. There has grown up a vast complementary trade between old and new countries, and even competing manufacturing nations find it profitable to trade with one other.

  67. This complementary relation of ours with European nations was as useful to us as to them.

  68. Instead of the reversion being due to the bringing together of two complementary factors, we must regard it here as due to the association of two complementary absences.

  69. Each of the white parents carried one of the two factors whose interaction is necessary for the production of the red colour, and as a cross between them brings these two complementary factors together the F1 plants must all be red.

  70. This is the ordinary tall sweet pea of the wild Sicilian type, reversion here, again, being due to the bringing together of two complementary factors which had somehow become separated in the course of evolution.

  71. For no white contains both A and B, or it would not be white, and a plant of the constitution aabb cannot supply the complementary factor necessary for the production of colour.

  72. Reversion, therefore, in such cases we may regard as the bringing together of complementary factors which had somehow in the course of evolution become separated from one another.


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