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Example sentences for "slightly curved"

  • It is seven inches in length, made of some hard wood, with an arm four and a half inches long, turning up at a sharp angle, and tipped with a slightly curved barb of tortoise-shell projecting horizontally inwards an inch and a half.

  • The flat or slightly curved part of a heavier-than-air aircraft which provides most of the lift.

  • Sides hollowed out; edges straight or slightly curved; very thick; used as mortars, hammers, or pestles.

  • Ground down thin, with a flat-elliptical or nearly rectangular section; sides straight or slightly curved, nearly parallel or tapering considerably to the top, which is either rounded or flattened.

  • Pointed oval, or nearly diamond section, sides straight or slightly curved; length 6 to 12½ inches.

  • The anterior half is usually drawn out into a slightly curved neck-like portion.

  • The body is somewhat clam-shaped, flattened, slightly curved or straight on the right side, the other more convex.

  • The ventral surface is striated by longitudinal straight or slightly curved lines, the dorsal surface is smooth and without cilia.

  • In the general construction of its body it closely resembles the Yellow Bird last described, but the ridge of the beak is slightly curved; also the wings are longer and the tail shorter than in that species.

  • Its beak is vaulted on all sides, and the upper mandible somewhat hooked, in this respect differing from other finches; the margin is slightly curved, and the extreme tip of the under mandible rather blunted.

  • It is a slightly curved sound, with a bulbous point.

  • The aneurism needle should be slightly curved, with a perforation near the point; and the point should neither be bulbous, nor at all sharp, but all of the same thickness, and well blunted at the extremity and edges.

  • The bougie should be slightly curved in its farther extremity, warmed either at the fire or by friction with the fingers, and well oiled, previously to its introduction.

  • The butt is chamfered off on the flat face to fit the chamfer of the shaft, and the whole foreshaft is slightly curved in the same direction as the tip.

  • On the back is an oblong stud with rounded ends, slightly curved to fit the gums.

  • The basal end of the carina is, likewise, slightly curved laterally, and always turns towards the more convex valve.

  • The hand, extended or slightly curved, is held in front of the body a little to the right of the median line; it is then carried with a rapid sweep a foot or more farther to the right.

  • Touch Coat, add Old; then hold left 5 slightly curved, back up and use ditto right as though to comb out the fingers of left, once or twice.

  • Hold out both flat hands, side by side, breast high, backs up, slightly curved as though over a fire; then rub them together.

  • With flat right, slightly curved, back out, strike half a dozen times in a circle, turning to watch the hand; then add Good.

  • Pale rim of carapace four or five times wider posteriorly than laterally; dark, straight or slightly curved, line connecting anterior margins of orbits spinifer emoryi, p.

  • In neatness of workmanship it much resembles the last; but it is slightly curved longitudinally, and has the inner face more ridged than the outer.

  • It is slightly curved in the direction of its length, and may have been used as an adze.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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