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Example sentences for "series"

Lexicographically close words:
serial; serially; serials; sericulture; serie; serif; serifs; serio; serions; serious
  1. His story is a series of vivid pictures of battle and the horrors left behind the charging troops.

  2. The combined resultant noise is terrific, resembling a series of motor explosions magnified a million-fold.

  3. The real root secret of the trick, or rather series of tricks, described in the previous chapter may be summed up in four words--muscular training and development.

  4. In the fourth series of his historical essays Mr Freeman included a paper on 'The Lords of Ardres', for which he availed himself of Dr Heller's edition of Lambert in the Monumenta (vol.

  5. Although the writer made it his complaint against one of the editors in the Rolls series that he could not 'construe his Latin', we see that the same failing led him here himself into error.

  6. Though, by leaving out here and there the discrepancies, the residue may be worked up into a consecutive and consistent series of events, such a process amounts to making history, not writing it.

  7. The great body of the Republican party, indeed, shows at present a little of the exhaustion which is apt to follow a series of victories, and exhibits altogether too much of the confidence which so often attends an incompleted triumph.

  8. On the other hand, the Edentata appear to form a series by themselves.

  9. But if a great series of coals, from different localities and seams, or even from different parts of the same seam, be examined, this structure will be found to vary in two directions.

  10. There are seven grinders; the teeth form a continuous series without a diastema.

  11. No one will deny that the series of acts which originally intervened between the sensation and the letting go of the dog were, in the strictest sense, intellectual and rational operations.

  12. It is curious to notice how the intrusive sheets in a great series of strata have forced their way along the lines of least resistance.

  13. The Manuals of this series are intended to serve two somewhat different purposes: 1.

  14. It holds invariably true that a formation, A, found resting upon another series of strata, B, will always occur in precisely the same position, wherever these two deposits occur together.

  15. When they occur as beds interstratified with aqueous strata, they are said to be contemporaneous, because they have evidently been erupted at the time the series of strata among which they appear was being amassed.

  16. In this way we often observe a series of alluvial terraces, consisting of gravel, sand, and silt, rising one above another along a river valley.

  17. How does contemporaneous erosion indicate a pause in the deposition of a series of strata?

  18. We may notice also, that when a series of beds graduate up into each other, so that no strongly marked line separates the overlying from the underlying strata, there is also a similar gradation amongst the fossils.

  19. It will be noticed that the contemporaneous igneous rocks form a series of escarpments rising one above the other.

  20. But, in such cases, the dip is deceptive, the same beds being repeated again and again in a series of great foldings of the strata.

  21. These are overlaid by a series of alternating beds of crystalline (c) and fragmental (t) igneous rocks.

  22. But since the necessary conditions for the formation of ripple-mark occur most abundantly in shallow water, its frequent appearance in a series of strata may often be taken as evidence, so far, for the shallow-water origin of the beds.

  23. In the British Islands the long series of strata is well developed, but many of the formations are much more meagrely represented than their equivalents in other countries.

  24. This was a yet higher development than anything that had gone before, for men were devoting time, trouble, and patient thought, for long series of years, to an inquiry which did not promise to bring them any profit or advantage.

  25. They will therefore be treated in the volume of this series to be devoted to that subject.

  26. The ordinary astronomical telescope inverts the image, so the "eyes" of the Moon are seen in the lower part of the field of the telescope as a series of dusky plains stretching right across the disc.

  27. From time to time great round white clouds form in a long series as if shot up from some eruption below, and then drawn into the equatorial current.

  28. From this point he tacked back and forth until he had ascended to the bottom of a vertical gully, which he easily mastered with a series of zigzag jumps.

  29. To his publication of some of our earlier chronicles we owe the series of similar publications which bear the name of Camden, Twysden, and Gale.

  30. Buckingham's reckless daring led him to anticipate the danger by a series of blows which should strike terror into his opponents.

  31. These delegates carried on through the winter a series of negotiations with the Crown.

  32. The series has as yet been carried to 1637.

  33. With this great series of historical and social dramas Shakspere had passed far beyond his fellows whether as a tragedian or as a writer of comedy.

  34. The more important claim of freedom of speech had brought on from time to time a series of petty conflicts in which Elizabeth generally gave way.

  35. He was now about thirty; and the twenty-three years which elapsed between the appearance of the "Adonis" and his death were filled with a series of masterpieces.

  36. It was a policy which was to end in bringing about the horrors of the Irish revolt, the vengeance of Cromwell, and the long series of atrocities on both sides which make the story of the country he ruined so terrible to tell.

  37. It is rather a series of illustrated sketches of actual life on the ocean, made up of real incidents and introducing for the most part real characters, many of which will be recognized.

  38. We'll travel in a series of short hops through the air, soaring between hops, like a glider.

  39. It had a long series of doors in its sides, and as it came opposite an occupied cell, stopped.

  40. I have here a series of reports from different quarters on such explorations as have been made since the arrival of the comet and our recovery from its effects.

  41. It is impossible for a man whose forehead is composed of a series of lateral metal bands to frown.

  42. Stevens began to twist the steering wheel--the car described a fantastic series of zigzags.

  43. He seated himself and at once a series of words appeared in dark green on the screen.

  44. At its back and attached to it, stood a stand fitted with a series of enormous clamps.

  45. And as they made it the roaring sound changed to a series of explosions, sharp and clear.

  46. Our analysis showed the presence of a long series of chemical elements, including even gold and thorium, most of them in minute quantities.

  47. Beneath this band a series of holes, each just large enough to admit a finger, and each marked off by a character of some kind though in no language Sherman had ever seen.

  48. It was soaring away up in a close spiral, emitting a series of screams.

  49. A series of unpremeditated pictures of campaign life invaluable for their graphic touch.

  50. In 1877 occurred the first of the great labor struggles in that long series of campaigns which have marked the relations of capitalists and workingmen during the past four decades.

  51. The series of conventions opened in Mississippi in 1890, where the Populistic whites were perhaps numerically fewest.

  52. During the New York gubernatorial campaign, he made a tour of the West, and in a series of remarkable speeches, he stirred that region by the enunciation of radical doctrines which were listened to gladly by the multitude.

  53. Perhaps it was to tell you this that I was forced back here against my will by the strangest series of events that ever happened to a man.

  54. But here his glances fell on his violin, and a new series of emotions awakened within him.

  55. The Navy Boys Series These stories are based on important historical naval events, scenes wherein boys are prominent characters being selected.

  56. In this series of remarkable stories by Wilmer M.

  57. The Boy Spies Series These stories are based on important historical events, scenes wherein boys are prominent characters being selected.

  58. Altogether it's been a remarkable series of adventures," declared Will enthusiastically.

  59. Any lad reading one volume of this series will surely want the others.

  60. A series of adventures while yachting in which our hero's wealth plays a part.

  61. These objects were found in the upper division of a series of rocks immediately subjacent to the Cambrian strata containing Protolenus, etc.

  62. For the creation of Golden Gate Park the park-makers of San Francisco had a series of sand hills, "hills on hills, all of sand-dune formation.

  63. Among the later monographs published by the Field Columbian Museum, Chicago, is a paper in the Geological Series (No.

  64. A suction fan ten feet in diameter is provided, which blows the air through a conduit forty-five square feet in area into a series of three chambers located vertically over each other under the auditorium.

  65. Other publications in the museum's Geological Series are The Mylagauldae, an Extinct Family of Sciuromorph Rodents (No.

  66. The writer has recently received a large series of R.

  67. Fifthly, a truly magnanimous indifference to the flight of time and to the cost of parchment, expressed in the dilatation of a slender matter through an infinite series of verses.

  68. Cooke and Taglioni, sang half-a-dozen songs that are nightly encored at the Surrey side, and finally performed a series of antique statues in his shirt-sleeves.

  69. We are now witnesses of better ideas; the neck, the shoulders, and the arms are allowed to make a continuous series of curves.

  70. There a series of gigantic steps, formed by high and beetling rocks, closes the Rito to the west.

  71. From the depths of this structure there came a series of dull sounds like beats of a drum.

  72. In the rear of the village, the soil rises gradually to a low series of ridges, from the top of which, at some distance from Hishi, the eye ranges far off toward the plains and the basin of the salt lakes.

  73. A series of logical deductions brought him to ravel step by step the game that was being played.

  74. Walking along the brink to the west she at last reached the upper end, where twelve days ago she had ascended, and where the brook, swollen by late rains, now gushed down the ledges in a series of murmuring cascades.

  75. A cry of anguish and of helpless despair was heard; then followed a series of thuds, as though a heavy body were falling from step to step.

  76. The west, where the sun had already descended behind the mountains, was crossed by a series of arches displaying successively from below upward the most resplendent gold, bright orange, green, and finally deep blue colours.

  77. It was finally agreed, however, that the literary part of the book should take shape in a series of essays or chapters dealing with the rivers mainly in separate groups or water-sheds, leaving the proportions to my discretion.

  78. In a series of quite extraordinary loops it burrows in deep troughs for many tortuous miles, overhung on both sides by masses of woodland.

  79. Soon after the year 1820 a series of experiments was begun in France by M.

  80. In the first book of the series he visits his grandfather in the country and learns of many marvelous things on a farm, and in the other books listed below he has many exciting adventures which every child will enjoy reading about.

  81. The series made from cartoons of Teniers and the Spanish painter Goya are extremely interesting.

  82. Each of these is supported by a series of Moorish arches, the tympani of which are ornamented with tracery, or an ornamentation of leaves in a geometrical and Oriental manner.

  83. Another series of most important specimens is at Toledo, a present to Cardinal Mendoza by the German emperor Frederic in 1489.

  84. After a long series of annoyances of every kind, Goyeneche succeeded in meeting with the king's approbation, but as fuel was very scarce at the Bastan, he removed the glass works to Villanueva de Alcorcon, in the province of Cuenca.

  85. This Volume, forming one of the Series of Art Handbooks issued under the authority of the Lords of the Committee of Council on Education, has been prepared by SEÑOR JUAN F.

  86. It is decorated in the centre with two antelopes, and a series of elegant traceries of knots, stems, and leaves which cover the body of the vase.

  87. Another series are still to be met with at the Royal Gardens; they are of pipeclay, and ornamented with rams' heads.

  88. The excellent copy of the series of tapestries representing the conquest of Tunis, after cartoons by William Pannemaker were made partly at Seville and partly at Santa Isabel and Santa Barbara.

  89. As an example, let the original series be the cubes of the natural numbers.

  90. Between Kiev and Alexandrovsk it forms a series of cataracts.

  91. For some time previously he had been contributing humorous pieces to The Monthly Magazine; but at length, in 1835, appeared in The Morning Chronicle the first of that series of Sketches by Boz which brought Dickens into fame.

  92. By a series of brilliant campaigns he extended the Roman Empire to the German Ocean and the River Elbe, and was hence called Germanicus.

  93. In All the Year Round also appeared a series of disconnected sketches called The Uncommercial Traveller, published in 1868.

  94. Dunne first attracted attention by a series of sketches in the Times-Herald, where he humorously commented upon all sorts of subjects in the name of one Martin Dooley, publican of Archey Road.

  95. Moralities were in ways less crude than mysteries, as they consisted of an allegory worked out by means of a more or less continuous plot, while mysteries consisted merely of a series of isolated scenes.


  96. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "series" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    alternation; array; articulation; bank; battery; beat; block; bout; branch; buzz; chain; circle; circuit; class; collection; connection; continuation; continuity; continuum; copy; course; cycle; descent; diastole; dogging; drone; edition; extension; family; file; filiation; flow; following; gamut; genus; gradation; group; hum; impression; issue; kingdom; library; line; lineage; monotone; nexus; number; order; outfit; pack; pendulum; periodicity; phylum; plenum; posteriority; printing; procession; progression; prolongation; pulse; pursuance; pursuit; queue; range; rank; rash; recurrence; revolution; rotation; round; routine; row; run; scale; section; selection; sequel; sequence; series; shadowing; spate; species; spectrum; spell; stream; string; subclass; suborder; succession; suit; suite; swath; systole; tailing; thesis; thread; tier; tissue; trailing; train; tribe; turn; variety; volume; wheel