It has been already seen, in describing the curved strata on the east coast of Scotland, in Forfarshire and Berwickshire, that a series of concave and convex bendings are occasionally repeated several times.
At certain points, as at a, Figure 70, some of the bendings of the flinty chert are so sharp that specimens might be broken off well fitted to serve as ridge-tiles on the roof of a house.
In nature or in a true section, the number of bendings or parallel folds is so much greater that they could not be expressed in a diagram without confusion.
Thus, in the coal-field near Mons, in Belgium, these zigzag bendings are repeated four or five times, in the manner represented in fig.
Shells are said to be plicated when characterized by angular bendings or foldings in their surface, as shewn in cut, fig.
Also to the angular bendings in the margins of some bivalve shells.
The Dee, a rapid stream, winds through the green valley in a thousand fantastic bendings overhung with thick underwood.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bendings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
