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Example sentences for "rarer"

Lexicographically close words:
rarefy; rarefying; rarely; rarement; rareness; rares; rarest; rari; rarified; rarities
  1. As all are from blue-black shales, brachiopods are the rarer fossils, while bivalves and trilobites are the common forms.

  2. In a few minutes, all the children within hearing were gathered about Duncan--a rarer sight to them than heretofore--and the way was clear to enter unseen.

  3. Hybridizable genera are rarer than is generally supposed, even in gardens where they are so often operated upon, under circumstances most favorable to the production of hybrids.

  4. As the ordinary course of common affairs is disposed of by general laws, so likewise men's rarer incident necessities and utilities should be with special equity considered.

  5. Refraction out of the rarer medium into the denser, is made towards the perpendicular.

  6. Rarer forms are a sort of mug, and a combination of the false amphora and pyxis.

  7. One of them is of a private and purely personal nature, the other of a public sort, but rarer than reminiscences of Rome usually are.

  8. The author has given proof of a rarer dramatic instinct than we had suspected among our living writers of fiction.

  9. It was one of those renowned articles, rarer now than they once were, called Bobbing Joan.

  10. Mallard, teal, dabchicks, and moorhens breed there regularly, and in hard weather a number of rarer birds drop in.

  11. They crack and crunch beneath your feet as you step across to search the mass for the smaller and rarer shells.

  12. Sparrows are such gregarious birds that it is well to scrutinize every flock with especial care in the spring and autumn, when the rarer migrants are passing.

  13. Cheerfulness is a much rarer quality than is generally supposed, especially among the rich.

  14. There is Shelly, diamond hearted, Singing lightning scintilant, Wanting still a rarer lustre, Sweeter ever than his want.

  15. Frees a rarer winged spirit In his blue marmorean brain.

  16. But the chosen spirits are not rarer in our time than formerly.

  17. It was like one of those old joyful wakings of childhood, now becoming rarer and rarer with him, and looked back upon with much regret as a measure of advancing age.

  18. It has to be admitted sadly that these opportunities for quiet rambles become rarer with each year as mountain railways are multiplied, and roads supplant the old shepherd paths.

  19. Maton found several of the rarer species of shells, as Patella Pellucida, P.

  20. It is not only the crustacean that is thus gathered from the inaccessible depths of the ocean, but often the rare shell, with its still rarer inhabitant.

  21. But we have also an example of a much rarer shell, the Torbay Bonnet, or Cap of Liberty.

  22. It must be much rarer than air,[96] for if its density were that of air or greater, it would repel rather than attract.

  23. All these examples seemed to justify the hypothesis that the nature of electrics is such that material effluvia are emitted when electrics are rubbed, and that the effluvia are rarer than air.

  24. Grant took up his abode at Iona, and, studying the laws of Nature, conjured up new species of rarer fruit and flavor out of the old.

  25. The whole interior, indeed, has an effect of brightness and magnificence, the walls being covered mostly with light-colored marble, into which are inlaid compartments of rarer and richer marbles.

  26. At this gay season the fires are kept burning very fiercely; the Sunday suits and dresses are worn every day; the tables are covered with more abundant fare of the plainer as well as rarer sort.

  27. Still rarer in such situations is the bittern, the Timon of birds, the rushes being seldom high enough to afford him the strict concealment he likes.

  28. By the end of the Republic, however, tastes had changed, and no article of food brought higher prices than the rarer sorts of fresh fish.

  29. Some of the more doubtful and of the rarer causes are omitted: A.

  30. Though rarer during the later years of childhood, the older the child the more rapid its progress to a fatal termination.

  31. Another symptom of the secondary period, but of later development and of rarer occurrence than the syphilodermata which have been described, is iritis.


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