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Example sentences for "roundness"

Lexicographically close words:
roundhouse; rounding; roundish; roundle; roundly; rounds; roundsman; roundup; roundworms; roup
  1. The error of thinking that the roundness is a modern discovery is common.

  2. I saw in the Table that query from a New York Knight about what the ancients believed concerning the roundness of the world.

  3. Of course she had the freshness and roundness of youth.

  4. The roundness and color had left her cheeks.

  5. The neck and arms have all the roundness of youth, and are exquisitely painted.

  6. There is the same roundness of outline, only 'a little more so'--almost the same freshness of tints in the fair complexion.

  7. Her figure had more of the roundness of womanhood, and her face, though paler, was fuller, and its expression had assumed a more decided character than when I last saw her.

  8. Their exact Roundness is the Reason they have no good Harbours for both the Monsons of Norwest and South.

  9. They are like the European Pear-Trees, and their Fruit resembles Pairs, or rather in Roundness the Melocotones.

  10. I longed to bet on him, to see him through without a lapse; and this in fact was so thoroughly reserved to me that my eventual relief and homage doubtless account for the blest roundness of my impression.

  11. But though I have succeeded in reproducing Nature's roundness and relief on the flat surface of the canvas, this morning, by daylight, I found out my mistake.

  12. The roundness of the bodies obtained by gradation of tints, the exactness of the shadows and the parsimonious reserve in the light in this unparalleled picture betray the habits of a sculptor.

  13. The Infant Jesus draws himself up in a pose that shows great knowledge of foreshortening, and is a marvel of roundness and fine modelling.

  14. Verse is no more a clog than the condition of rushing upward is a clog to fire, or than the roundness and order of the globe we live on is a clog to the freedom and variety that abound within its sphere.

  15. She had come to a rapid growth, and her beauty possessed all the roundness and depth of tint which belongs to a full-statured woman.

  16. She loathed the very roundness of her limbs, and the richness of her beauty, because both had thriven on the kindness of her mother's arch enemy.

  17. Fullness; smoothness of flow; as, the roundness of a period; the roundness of a note; roundness of tone.

  18. Openess; plainess; boldness; positiveness; as, the roundness of an assertion.

  19. Parrhasius excelled in giving a roundness and a beautiful contour to his figures, and was remarkable for the richness and variety of his creations.

  20. This roundness cannot be the roundness of a flat plate, for instance, for then the objects in question would sometimes present their thin sides to our view.

  21. Champagne of 1874 was a wine of this description, with all its finer vinous qualities well developed, and consequently needing age to attain not merely the roundness but the refinement of flavour pertaining to a high-class sparkling wine.

  22. He was well set up, and of good figure, for the slight roundness of his shoulders had almost disappeared.

  23. He liked the queer look of her face, which began with a sort of squarishness in roundness and ended, with a sudden startling change of intention, in a pointed chin.

  24. And in spite of it he was heartrending, pathetic; so small he was, with all his baby roundness accentuated absurdly by the knickers.

  25. In the birch trunk, for instance, the rosy gray must be gradated by the roundness of the stem till it meets the shaded side; similarly the shaded side is gradated by reflected light.

  26. For Nature is all made up of roundnesses; not the roundness of perfect globes, but of variously curved surfaces.

  27. She had developed so quickly, with the graceful roundness of a little animal, the perfection of a flower.

  28. He marked the sudden roundness of her eyes, a tiny start--no more.

  29. And the firelight flickered on her face, where shadows lay thick under her eyes, for all the roundness of her cheeks, and on her slim pale hands, and the supple grace of her young body.

  30. His roundness of paunch is no proof of gormandising propensities; in fact, the greatest eaters are generally thin and spare.

  31. Did not the outlines of Althea's figure, which the bombyx robe only partially concealed, lack roundness even more than her own?

  32. Nothing, nothing at all must be changed in the figure of the model, in which many might miss the roundness and plumpness so pleasing to the eye.

  33. Her smile gave to her cheeks a roundness that made her look younger.


  34. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "roundness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    artlessness; belly; candor; convexity; directness; frankness; freedom; openness; plainness; roundness; sincerity; unreserve; unrestraint