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Example sentences for "invisibility"

Lexicographically close words:
invincibly; inviolability; inviolable; inviolably; inviolate; invisible; invisibly; invita; invitation; invitations
  1. That means," he went on, "that Ku Sui provided the invisibility machine with special protection for just such an emergency.

  2. But the mechanism controlling the asteroid's invisibility was not destroyed.

  3. Since the mechanism for invisibility survived the crashing of the dome, we may be sure that the brain machine did too.

  4. Causing invisibility by means of a spell called feth fiada, which made a person unseen or hid him in a magic mist, was also used by the Druids as well as by Christian saints.

  5. The wishing-ring," said Kathleen; "the invisibility ring.

  6. In their presence even invisibility seemed too thin a disguise.

  7. In this case invisibility is the element of success.

  8. And the invisibility does not save them, always or often, from being swallowed by larger animals that gather the harvest of the sea.

  9. In natural leafy surroundings the startling effect would be much greater--a sudden throwing off of the mantle of invisibility and the exposure of a conspicuous black body with a large red mouth.

  10. Sometimes one comes within a few feet of the crouching bird without seeing it, and this garment of invisibility may save it from the hungry eyes of golden eagles.

  11. How, then, was the planet to be pursued through its period of invisibility and identified when it again came within reach of observation?

  12. They would change from visibility to invisibility in every rotation, and thus there would be ceaseless alterations of the appearance instead of that slow and gradual change which requires fifteen years for a complete period.

  13. We have seen how the appendages declined to invisibility once every fifteen years, and then gradually reappeared in the form, at first, of rectilinear arms projecting outwards from the planet.

  14. If the planet were devoid of an atmosphere, then it would be totally invisible just before commencing to enter on the sun, and would relapse into total invisibility as soon as it had left the sun.

  15. The moon is so close to us that her brilliant rays pale to invisibility countless orbs of a size and an intrinsic splendour incomparably greater than her own.

  16. In the year 1885 a new star of the seventh magnitude suddenly appeared close to the brightest part of the nebula, and declined again to invisibility after the lapse of a few months.

  17. The second and the third satellites are thus alike invisible, but the cause of the invisibility is quite different in the two cases.

  18. Aztecs calculated only eight days for the invisibility of Venus, and this period is also mentioned in the Anales de Quauhtitlan.

  19. The mind of man has taken these mysteries out of the plane of invisibility and brought them into the plane of the known and visible.

  20. Man is gifted with a power whereby he penetrates and discovers the laws of nature, brings them forth from the world of invisibility into the plane of visibility.

  21. With all its advantages, however, this invisibility had certain defects of its own.

  22. His confidence in the tactics of invisibility had been so shaken that whenever his mother tried to leave him he would jump up and run after her.

  23. Doubtless if they had passed the picket boats, the misty invisibility of all the surface of the water protected them, but for the most part the patrol of the river pickets was further down-stream.

  24. In the Indian tales invisibility is generally obtained by means of a magic ointment, to which there are many parallels in Western stories.

  25. To begin with rings--we have in Plato the story of Gyges, who by means of the ring of invisibility introduced himself to the wife of Candaules, King of Lycia, murdered the latter and got possession of his kingdom.

  26. Some believe it to have been a physical body so purified and transmuted as to be like, or the same as, a spiritual body, and thus capable of invisibility and of entrance into the Realm of Spirit.

  27. The visibility of countless stars is no argument against the invisibility of countless others.

  28. The almost evanescent faintness of Holmes's comet at its next return accounted for its invisibility previous to 1892, when it was evidently in a state of peculiar excitement.

  29. As already stated, its ordinary invisibility is entirely due to the "glare" or reflected light diffused through our atmosphere.

  30. Hence the total invisibility of the object before and after the eclipse.

  31. Kent said abruptly, "Then leave her with me now.

  32. Disease germs, these ghastly things, enlarging from the invisibility of a drop of water!

  33. Nameless, hideous, noisome things grown monstrous, risen from their lurking invisibility in the drops of water!

  34. They had wanted action, but they had no weapons except their invisibility and the atomic hydrogen.

  35. The secret of invisibility must be very old to them.

  36. Invisibility is a tremendous weapon in war, so the pirate just started a little private war, the only way he could make any money on his invention.

  37. He wears a high altitude suit, and on his back he has a portable invisibility set and the fuel for his torch.

  38. Out of the gas vent streamed a cloud of purplish gas, becoming faintly visible as it left the influence of the invisibility apparatus, but only to those who knew where to look for it.

  39. The tiny machine was invisible in the darkness, but its invisibility was not revealed by the Kaxorian's radio detectors.

  40. In fact, I had actually made an invisibility machine, as Morey will testify, but I realized that it had no commercial benefits, so I didn't experiment with it beyond the laboratory stunt stage.

  41. You're taking the machine gun, I'll work the invisibility disrupter, and Arcot will run the ship.

  42. The projector had been stopped exactly on the first frame, showing the invisibility of the safe.

  43. It is a curious property of this vibrational system of invisibility that the index of refraction is made very low.

  44. Turn on the invisibility while we can, Morey--and let's get nearer!

  45. The only reason the patrol ships aren't equipped already is that invisibility is useless with modern criminals; they all know the secret and how to fight it.

  46. Of course we will depend on directional radio disturbance locating devices to determine the direction for the invisibility disrupter ray.

  47. All enemy ships were shot at with these missiles, and invisibility was forestalled.

  48. I can't see off-hand how his invisibility is even theoretically possible.

  49. Her invisibility lost, now that she had gone into action, she lay revealed in the middle of the first zone--at point-blank range.

  50. Even without invisibility he would have no trouble in annihilating the massed Grand Fleet of the Triplanetary League.

  51. But now, since enough beams were kept upon each ship of the enemy so that invisibility could not be restored, each Triplanetary war vessel could attack with full efficiency.

  52. Long before the pirate ship had come within extreme visibility range of the Triplanetary Fleet, it lost its invisibility and was starkly outlined upon the lookout plates of the three fugitives.

  53. Ballad: The Perils Of Invisibility OLD PETER led a wretched life-- Old PETER had a furious wife; Old PETER too was truly stout, He measured several yards about.

  54. A Derby Legend The Perils Of Invisibility Old Paul And Old Tim The Mystic Selvagee The Cunning Woman Phrenology The Fairy Curate The Way Of Wooing Hongree And Mahry.

  55. For when conferred the fairy slim Invisibility on HIM, She popped away on fairy wings, Without referring to his "things.

  56. The servants and the whole company used to be put up to the trick; and Poinsinet, who believed in his invisibility as much as he did in his existence, went about with his friend and protector the magician.

  57. With this slap the invisibility of Poinsinet disappeared, the gnomes and genii left him, and he settled down into common life again, and was hoaxed only by vulgar means.

  58. They'll fight other robots too, no doubt, but the property of invisibility will be an invincible weapon.

  59. Germs of disease, these ghastly things, enlarging from the invisibility of a drop of water!

  60. It is quite plain that if the light is bent away from the hull of the flyer that no light will come to the eyes within, and that the invisibility will be more of a hindrance than an advantage.

  61. No doubt invisibility made it possible to get them, but it made it impossible to enjoy them when they are got.

  62. I was invisible, and I was only just beginning to realise the extraordinary advantage my invisibility gave me.

  63. I thought it would be wise, now the weather is hot and invisibility possible, to make for the South.

  64. I can understand that thereby you could spoil a valuable stone, but personal invisibility is a far cry.

  65. And though Kemp has fished unceasingly, no human being save the landlord knows those books are there, with the subtle secret of invisibility and a dozen other strange secrets written therein.

  66. We have to consider all that invisibility means, all that it does not mean.

  67. Before we can do anything else," said Kemp, "I must understand a little more about this invisibility of yours.


  68. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "invisibility" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    burial; concealment; covering; darkening; deception; disappearance; hiding; immateriality; interment; invisibility; mystification; occultation; secrecy; secretion; subterfuge