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Example sentences for "carried down"

  • It is evident, that all the land between it and the Lake of the Hills, as far as the Elk River, is formed by the quantity of earth and mud, which is carried down by the streams of those two great rivers.

  • This artificial ground is carried down by the stream, and rests upon drift wood, so as to be eight or ten feet deep.

  • These waves may sometimes cause inundations, undermine cliffs, and still more frequently sweep away trees and land animals from low shores, so that they may be carried down, and ultimately imbedded in fluviatile or submarine deposits.

  • In other cases the cut is carried down the bolt, only the dies being wound back to the top of the bolt after each cut is carried down.

  • The line D is carried down on the end face of the straight-edge, and the latter is used as a support for the compass points while striking the circle M, which is defined more clearly by indenting it with fine centre-punch marks.

  • Stones that fall on to the glacier below the snow-line will not be covered up at all, but will simply be carried down on the surface.

  • Whatever falls upon the glacier at any part of its course is carried down by it and ultimately dumped off its sides or end.

  • Where two glaciers flow together and unite, the right lateral moraine of the one and the left of the other will join and be carried down as a medial moraine on the surface of the united glacier.

  • It is carried down to the bone, so that the muco-periosteum can quickly be separated upwards, exposing the canine fossa.

  • The mastoid region is surgically cleansed; the auricle is pulled forward and a free incision is carried down to the bone, in a curved direction downwards over the mastoid process.

  • The lids are well retracted and an incision is carried down to the bone along the orbital margins.

  • Where foundations have to be carried down to a considerable depth in water-bearing strata, or through the alluvial bed of a river, to reach a hard stratum, bottomless caissons sunk by excavating under compressed air are employed.

  • The foundations for the two river piers of the Brooklyn Suspension Bridge, carried down to the solid rock, 78 and 45 ft.

  • When rain falls on the parched surface soil, it robs it of a portion of its heat, which is carried down to equalize the temperature for the whole depth.

  • We have seen that fertilizing matter cannot be leached out of a good soil, in any material quantity, but can only be carried down to a depth of about thirty-four inches.

  • If my body be permitted to be carried down, I bequeath ten pounds to be given to the poor of the parish, at the discretion of the church-wardens, within a fortnight after my interment.

  • I have given requisite orders to an undertaker, on the supposition that the body will be permitted to be carried down; and the women intend to fill the coffin with aromatic herbs.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    beet sugar; carried about; carried along; carried away; carried down; carried forward; carried off; carried out; carried them; carried through; century earlier; cullud folks; foreign lands; insurance company; narrow streets; one corner; others are; peace would; proper amount; rock garden; she has; small distance from the; the supreme; vast height; vocal cords; white settlers