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Example sentences for "apertures"

Lexicographically close words:
aperte; apertly; aperto; apertum; aperture; apes; apetalous; apex; apexes; aphasia
  1. But even where two openings exist, and evidence is afforded that these are the apertures of entrance and exit of one projectile, examination should still be made to detect the presence of foreign bodies.

  2. In the course of the first day the part wounded becomes stiff, slightly swelled, tender, a slight inflammatory blush surrounds the apertures through which the missile has passed, and a slight serous exudation escapes from them.

  3. Now, suppose the same room to have its apertures at eight feet from the floor, and so to reach the ceiling.

  4. Suppose a room to be twenty-four feet square, and sixteen feet in height, with two apertures for light on each side, each aperture being three feet wide by eight feet in height, and rising from the floor.

  5. The elevated apertures are utterly insufficient for that purpose; and the perpetual requisite is no otherwise afforded than by the occasional opening of a door!

  6. The apertures of both descriptions may be quite distinct from those which admit light.

  7. Almost filling the chamber was a great pyramid ascending in broad steps well up under the dome in which were a number of round apertures which let in the light.

  8. From many of these smaller apertures small streams of water trickled down the escarpment, and the walls above others was blackened as by smoke.

  9. The dome with its possible apertures was forgotten.

  10. Beneath this court, on three sides, are long vaulted chambers, reached by stair-ways, and lighted by narrow apertures in the upper pavement.

  11. Japanese junks of clipper builds have sails made of vertical breadths laced together so as to leave large apertures free to the air.

  12. Confectioners from time immemorial have squeezed paste out of bags through apertures into ornaments for wedding cakes and the like.

  13. Large apertures into the peritoneal sac of the rabbit, are not necessary, nor perhaps generally, productive of fatal inflammation.

  14. Large apertures into the peritoneum of the rabbit, do not immediately induce a dangerous prostration, of strength.

  15. In one instance there were two pairs instead of the normal single pair, and in this case each of the four apertures had its own prostate gland.

  16. He points to the background where broad daylight comes in through the heart-shaped apertures of the shutters, then slowly puts out the candles, one by one.

  17. As yet not a ray of sunlight comes in through the heart-shaped apertures of the shutters, which are hung on the outside and are fastened on the inside by means of thumbscrews.

  18. G H, and entering suitable apertures in the mould I K, being intended to keep the two surfaces concentric.

  19. Through jagged apertures in the clouds floods of golden light were poured down the sides of the mountain.

  20. I made conical apertures in the snow, in some cases three feet deep, a foot wide at the mouth, and tapering down to the width of my baton.

  21. One by one the stars crossed the apertures in the roof.

  22. If we multiply our slits or apertures the phenomena augment in complexity and splendour.

  23. In the same way the apertures in the aisles and nave had no other adornments than archivaults with mouldings, rising above the piers.

  24. On the brickwork between the ivy and the chamber there were a number of small apertures dotted about, forming a kind of pattern--a spiral.

  25. And the loop was at just such an angle with the rod as would correspond with the apertures in the walls.

  26. High up the tendrils climb, past mullioned windows and quaint devices, until they reach even to the old tower, and twine lovingly round it, and push through the long apertures in the masonry of the walls of the haunted chamber.

  27. The chamber is round, and has, instead of windows, three narrow apertures in the walls, through which can be obtained a glimpse of the sky, but of nothing else.

  28. These apertures are just large enough to admit a man's hand.

  29. The two girls, awaiting the arrival of the young men, were seated on a commodious stone bench in the arbour, and had an extended view, up and down the Danube, through apertures made in the side of it.

  30. You prevent evaporation from scion that goes on ordinarily through the little breathing lenticels, the little apertures between the cells of the bark which allow moisture to escape as well as to enter.

  31. Plants had no intelligence; having no apertures or ducts whereby the air could pervade their internal structure.

  32. Anaximander supposed that eclipses of the sun and moon were caused by the occasional closing of these apertures (Euseb.

  33. The water came tumbling through the manifold apertures in the crazy walls and shattered roof, and having speedily flooded the sloping court, poured over the threshold to deluge the floor with standing pools.

  34. Footnote 214: Such apertures are also used instead of pulleys, in the transfer of the rope from place to place.

  35. When there is a large number, and they have gained a lodgment in the timbers, take the bed in pieces, and fill in all the apertures and joints with a mixture of soft soap and Scotch snuff.

  36. In a set of measurements made it was found that the reduced angular apertures required for the colours indicated by the following were: B required 300 deg.

  37. The slits may be set at these apertures and a colour patch thrown on the screen, and we shall find it of a delicate pink.

  38. If one of the slits be placed in the yellow of the spectrum, a position will be found in the blue where, if a second slit be placed, and the apertures are adjusted, an absolute match with the reflected white of the apparatus can be secured.

  39. The mean of the two sets of readings of angular apertures gives the relative value of the two luminosities.

  40. In the same way the luminosities of colours in the spectrum, equivalent to the white light passing through other apertures of sectors, can be found, and the results may then be plotted in the form of a curve.

  41. The images of these apertures are thrown on the screen, the coloured image touching the square image of the spectral colour patch, and the naked image over the latter.

  42. From the same centre we must draw lines at angles to the fixed radius corresponding to the various apertures of the sectors required at the various points of the scale to measure the light reflected from a pigment.

  43. Behind the grooves in which the slits move are another pair of grooves, into which small pieces of card CCCC can slide, and thus close the apertures between the slits.

  44. In the modified plan the luminosity of the white light is altered, for the luminosity of the shadow illuminated by the reflected beam can be altered rapidly at will by opening or closing the apertures of the sectors whilst it is rotating.

  45. If we place in front of the slits a disc cut out with equal angular apertures (Fig.

  46. In one sort we did thus approach it, and as we looked at the gracious floating figures of the heavenly company through the apertures of the dome, they did seem to adopt us and make us part of the painting.

  47. Beyond these, in a yet darker and drearier dungeon, stood a heavy oblong wooden box, with two apertures near the top, peering through which we found that we were looking into the eyeless sockets of a skull.

  48. On his back sat a big man, dressed all in flaming red, and a red hood covered his head and face, leaving two apertures for the eyes.

  49. The partition of the nostrils is very thick, and the apertures are placed on the side, and not under the nose.

  50. The partition of the nostrils is not so thick as in other sagoins, but their apertures are at their sides.

  51. The partition between their nostrils is very thick, and the apertures are placed on the sides of the nose, and not below it.

  52. The partition of the nostrils is thick, and their apertures are placed pretty close to each other.

  53. The ouarine has the apertures of the nostrils placed on the sides, and not under the nose; the partition which divides the nostrils is very thick.

  54. The apertures of the nostrils are placed on the side of the nose, and the partition is very thick.

  55. The partition of the nostrils is very thick, and the apertures are placed at the side.

  56. The partitions between the nostrils are very thick, and the apertures are on the sides, and not under the nose.

  57. The partition of the nostrils is very thick, and the apertures are placed on the side, and not beneath the nose.

  58. The partition which divides the nostrils is thick, and the apertures are placed on the side and not under the nose.

  59. The apertures of the nostrils are on each side of the nose, and the partition which divides them very thick.

  60. The third is in the make of the nostrils, which are narrow, and the apertures placed in the under parts, like those of man.

  61. The partition of the nostrils is thick, and the apertures are placed at the side, and not under the nose.

  62. The air which issued from these funnel-shaped apertures was very sensibly warm, and had a strongly sulphurous odour.

  63. The cry had come from the direction of the temple, and had he known of the existence of the apertures through the masonry, he might partly have solved the mystery.


  64. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "apertures" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.