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Example sentences for "angle"

Lexicographically close words:
angering; angert; angina; anging; anglaise; angled; angler; anglers; angles; angleworm
  1. Place a pencil in the interior angle of the square, as shown at F.

  2. It will be found that the horizontal trace has departed from the angle of 45 degrees (see Fig.

  3. It must necessarily have some breadth in order to give the tool necessary stability, and, therefore, as the embodiment of a right angle it is of a form to give us both the exterior and interior shape.

  4. The reviewer suggested as a better way "that the pitch be arranged on the iron square, then measure across the angle from the points of run and pitch, and multiply this measurement by half the width of the roof to be covered.

  5. Bring the square against them, as shown, and use a pencil in the angle as indicated in the drawing.

  6. It consists of a piece of polished angle metal, each side being 7/8 inch wide.

  7. It will be seen, by these two examples, that the bevel of a junction at any angle may be obtained by this method.

  8. If this diagonal distance is exactly 5 feet it will show that the angle represented by the heel of the square, as I have described it, is a right angle, and that, therefore, the test is accurate.

  9. The reader will observe that this angle is the same as that for the side cut of the jack.

  10. The common method is to take the length of the hip on the blade and run on the tongue, but this will not work in this case, as the run of the hip does not be at an angle of 45 degrees as in ordinary roofs.

  11. It is a common thing among carpenters to use 12 of the blade and 12 of the tongue for a right angle or square miter.

  12. As the lower end of the rafter is notched to sit on the plate we must gauge off a backing line, as shown, to run into the angle of the notch.

  13. The first thing to be done is well to pare out the angle between the crust and the bars.

  14. Young horses are particularly liable to it, and horses that are cow-hocked, whose hocks and legs resemble those of the cow, the hocks being turned inwards, and legs forming a considerable angle outwards.

  15. Some back him into the angle of a worm fence, where he is firmly held by the head with a bridle, and the operator accomplishes the object without any trouble or material restiveness from the animal while standing.

  16. In the angle between the bars and the quarters, the horn of the sole has sometimes a red appearance, and is more spongy and softer than at any other part.

  17. Besides the glass window, this apartment boasts a hearth for fire; and, as is usual in such buildings, the communication with the floor above is by a circular staircase in an angle of the massive wall.

  18. At the south-eastern angle of this court is the keep, or citadel, now called Harry Marten's Tower.

  19. A very human man, Henry Beyle, though he never viewed woman exactly from the same angle as did Dante; or, perhaps, his many Beatrices proved geese.

  20. They had time to say, not all they wished; but all there was any occasion for before they were interrupted; for Mr. Haveloc well knew the precise angle of the rocky bank at which they would be invisible to the party below.

  21. I shall pack her up in a band-box, and take her; though she cannot angle like some people!

  22. Next to this is the head of an African negro, which, as well as that of the Kalmuc, forms an angle of seventy degrees; while the angle discovered in the heads of Europeans contains eighty degrees.

  23. It was objected that the elephant--not to mention numerous other instances--whose intelligence is incontestably superior to that of the orang, presents a much more acute facial angle than the latter.

  24. The one thrusts his pole, pretty deeply, and in an oblique direction, into the earth, so that it forms an angle with the surface of the ground.

  25. The cylindrical and oval pile has an oblique angle of inclination.

  26. The straight and lank, the flowing or curled, and the crisped or frizzled, differ respectively as to the angle which the filament makes with the skin on leaving it.

  27. There they angle on, kill their penultimate and ultimate fish; and finally, at the approach of winter, retreat to warmer quarters, and recapitulate the campaigns of the summer over port of the most generous vintage.

  28. The lines of vision of the two eyes even often become slightly divergent; the divergence, if the head be held vertically, with the plane of vision horizontal, amounting to an angle of 2'0 as a maximum.

  29. The angle or corner of the mouth is drawn a little backwards, and at the same time a muscle which runs parallel to and near the nose draws up the outer part of the upper lip, and exposes the canine on this side of the face.

  30. At a noted angle in the trend of the valley, the forked white cone of the great Pic comes suddenly into sight.

  31. The road to Luz, whither we are now bound, will take us back along the shadow of the Viscos to Pierrefitte, and then up the left side of the angle under the other haunch of that dividing mountain.

  32. The strata dip at an angle of about twenty-five degrees, and the stone is friable and defenceless.

  33. From the angle on the right runs the defile leading southward to the far-famed Gavarnie, our to-morrow's excursion.

  34. Old Holt ain't ours none, an' from whatever angle we looks at it it appears like Wolfville ain't goin' to get a look in.

  35. And now, from the swarming numbers of the main body, "horns" began to spread out at an angle to the line of flight as though to close up and intercept them further on, at some point best known to themselves.

  36. Eagerly and in silence they pressed forward, and lo--turning an angle of the cliff--there burst upon their view a sight which amply repaid the risk of the enterprise they had embarked upon.

  37. About this the glass could be turned through an angle of 23½°, either way, from the position which it should have when the sun was in the equatorial plane.

  38. The apex of the angle is above and the divided side is perpendicular to the direction of the vibrations.

  39. By the help of a chair I could command the top of it, and the loop being large enough to admit a large angle of the door, was easily fixed, so as not to slip off again.

  40. At each angle of the west front there was a tower.

  41. Properly it was more an Angle city, the chief city of the Anglian nation of Mercia; but the Danes had settled there in great numbers, and had numerous captives that they had taken in the late wars.

  42. In the south-east angle is a statue of Queen Elizabeth, by Watson, and in the south-west a marble statue of Charles II.

  43. The red brick and stone harmonise pleasantly, and the overhanging oriels and angle turrets (Continental Tudor) are by no means ineffective.

  44. At the eastern end is a fine Early English arched entrance, in fair preservation; and in the south-eastern angle is an octangular recess, which formerly was ceiled by an elegantly groined roof, height thirteen feet.

  45. The interior is a parallelogram, with the addition of a south aisle, introduced in order to disguise the intrusion of the tower, which stands at the south-west angle of the building.

  46. On the third target, the angle through which the weapon had to be moved to get to the third target from the second was relatively small, and there were only two rounds which did not hit the target at 270 feet.

  47. What use are they then except possibly from this psychological angle that you have mentioned?

  48. I had to get around to the right angle before I could see it.

  49. This looks more like it than this angle here.

  50. I wonder if, for clarification, we could take one of those shells and see from what angle the photograph is taken and what is covered in the photograph.

  51. President, with the bullet striking him at an angle of declination of approximately 45 degrees, striking the President on the upper right posterior thorax just above the upper border of the scapula, being 14 cm.

  52. That is the angle that you believe the rifle was pointed?

  53. If I remember correctly, I went in there from this angle right here--right through here.

  54. I calculated the distance at the angle his gun was resting that he must have been firing 80 to 90 yards.

  55. Now, this circle will not necessarily encompass all cartridge cases ejected from the rifle, since the ejection is determined, not only by the angle of the weapon, but more by the force with which the bolt is operated.

  56. You testified as to the declination of the rifle, the angle of the rifle.

  57. Yes, sir; I made two studies in connection with the ejection pattern--one to determine distance and one to determine the angle at which the cartridge cases leave the ejection port.

  58. This is on Exhibit 482--as to the angle at which you saw the rifle.

  59. But, anyway, there was a very slight crease in the box, where the rifle could have lain--at the same angle that the shots were fired from.

  60. The engine had eight air-cooled cylinders, in two sets of four, placed at an angle of ninety degrees to each other.

  61. The village stands in an angle between two of the larger high-roads of the country, one leading to Tunbridge and the other to Westerham and Edenbridge.

  62. I put all the tables in my bedroom at every conceivable angle and direction.

  63. In the diagram this battery is arranged vertically for a series of "Rear Foreshortenings," the points of view being at an angle of 90 degrees from the lateral battery.

  64. The force of the impact and the weight of the horse causes the pastern to form a right angle with the leg, and the heel is impressed into the ground.

  65. After the feet strike the ground and the legs approach a vertical position the pasterns are gradually lowered, and act as springs to break the force of the concussion until they are sometimes bent to a right angle with the legs.

  66. Rear Foreshortenings from points of view on the same vertical line, at an angle of 90 deg.

  67. It is at one angle of an isosceles triangle, of which Altair is at the apex, and Vega the third angle.

  68. She stopped her horse for the fortieth time, however, to get the angle of her shadow on the ground and to confirm her calculations.

  69. He was gone in an instant, turning off at a sharp angle into the bushes, leading directly away from the cliff.

  70. They saw the English lad and the warrior turn back toward the camp, and then they rose, going away swiftly at a right angle from their original course.

  71. Immediately over the pupil of the eye we find the faculty of Vision or sense of Sight, marked Light, which runs into a sense of Shade at the inner angle of the eye, by which two perceptions everything in nature except colors is recognized.

  72. Then, when F has gone through any angle a measured from OO, the pointer will have turned from its original vertical position through an equal angle, as shown also at F'.

  73. The end faces are cut off in such a manner that the angle of 72° which they originally form with the lateral edge of the rhombohedron is reduced to 68°.

  74. For the sake of facility of manufacture, the end surfaces are cleavage planes, and the oblique cut, instead of being perpendicular, makes with these an angle of about 84°.

  75. The terminal surfaces in this prism are perpendicular to the long axis, and the sectional cut makes with them an angle of about 75°.

  76. The end surfaces are cleavage planes, and the sectional cut makes with them an angle of 59°.

  77. If the utmost extent of field is not required, the prism may be shortened by lessening the angle of the section, at the expense, however, of interfering with the symmetrical disposition of the field.

  78. Two plane surfaces in the form of semicircles are mounted at right angles to each other upon a horizontal shaft, and at an angle of 45° with respect to the latter.

  79. We set off down the angle of the plain as fast as our horses could lay their legs to the ground.


  80. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "angle" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    action; aim; angle; apex; architecture; argument; aspect; atmosphere; background; base; basis; bend; bias; bifurcation; bight; bow; branch; brew; cant; catastrophe; characterization; chevron; clam; coin; complication; concoct; configuration; connive; conspire; continuity; contrivance; contrive; corner; countermine; crank; crook; crotchet; deflect; deflection; denouement; design; development; deviate; device; direction; distance; diverge; drive; effect; eidolon; elbow; engineer; episode; eye; fable; facet; fashion; feature; figure; finesse; fish; flexure; footing; fork; form; frame; framework; furcate; gerrymander; gig; gimmick; ground; guise; hand; hatch; hint; hook; image; impression; incident; inclination; incline; inflection; intrigue; jockey; knee; light; likeness; line; lineaments; look; maneuver; manipulate; manner; mood; motif; motive; movement; mythos; net; nook; oblique; operate; outlook; perspective; phase; place; plan; plot; point; position; post; prejudice; quoin; recognition; reference; regard; respect; rig; scheme; seat; seeming; semblance; shape; sheer; shrimp; side; sight; simulacrum; situation; skew; slant; slope; spin; stand; standing; standpoint; station; status; story; structure; style; subject; sway; swerve; switch; system; theme; tilt; tone; topic; torch; trawl; troll; turn; turning; twist; universe; vantage; veer; vertex; view; viewpoint; whale; wise; zag; zigzag