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Example sentences for "total absence"

  • Total absence of such distinctness in the works of the Italian school.

  • Total absence of even the slightest effort at their representation, in ancient landscape.

  • They are written in iambic senarii, in the fluent and studiously simple Latin of an earlier period, not without occasional vulgarisms, but with a total absence of the turgid rhetoric which was coming into fashion.

  • In his masterly article on "Heredity," Sedgwick quotes an instance of total absence of the uterus in three out of five daughters of the same family; two of the three were twice married.

  • The other boy in the family had a total absence of irides, but he could see fairly well with the left eye.

  • Stute reports an observation of total absence of the umbilical cord, with placental insertion near the cervix of the uterus.

  • Total absence of both irides has been seen in a man of eighteen.

  • There was a total absence of clouds, even of those light vapours called dry; yet the sun coloured, with a fine rosy tint, the air and the horizon of the sea.

  • All that we positively know of it hitherto is that between Cupica and the left bank of the Atrato there is either a land-strait, or a total absence of the Cordillera.

  • What struck him most was the good order and discipline that prevailed; everything was "carried out at the double", yet there was a total absence of unnecessary noise.

  • The "inveterate Irish disease" here spoken of is a total absence of demand for labour, resulting from the unhappy determination of the people of England to maintain the monopoly of the power to manufacture for the world.

  • There is a total absence of all terrestrial Vertebrata, other than those which are known to have been introduced by man.

  • There is a total absence of all indigenous mammals, reptiles, fresh-water fish, and true land-birds.

  • A total absence of idleness, and the fact of being constantly thrown on their own resources in cases of minor difficulty, aid materially in sharpening their wits.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    always have; assured her; explained the; later chapters; not true; ought also; social organization; special constable; the earth; total absence; total area; total cost; total depravity; total distance; total employment; total exports; total failure; total ignorance; total length; total number; total population; total prohibition; total stranger; total value; totally different; totally dissolved