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Example sentences for "conical"

Lexicographically close words:
congruity; congruous; congruously; coni; conic; conics; conidia; coniecture; coniectures; conies
  1. Would the executioner come into possession of his conical crowned hat, and plume of feathers?

  2. I observed the crown of his hat, which was of a conical shape, according to the fashion supposed to have been favored by Guido Fawkes.

  3. In this fenland dwelt the Kaldâ in their low, small conical huts of reeds, somewhat resembling giant beehives, and in all respects similar to those which the Bedawin of Irak inhabit at the present day.

  4. Fortified towns abounded on all sides, as well as large walled villages of conical huts, like those whose strange outlines on the horizon are familiar to the traveller at the present-day.

  5. The bodies of the two hats, each of a conical figure, are thus made over the surface of a double cone which are separated by cutting them along their middle or base line, and slipping them off at the end.

  6. In the act of blocking, the conical form of the hat is lost for the first time.

  7. They are then taken down, and well rolled upon a fine stone slab, and the conical top is moulded by properly shaped tubes, and the bottoms cut off and trimmed.

  8. Observe, also, that these moulded candles from Japan are made more conical than the moulded candles in this part of the world.

  9. I now make it like a candle [obstructing the passage of air into the centre of the flame]; there is the cotton; there is the oil rising up it; and there is the conical flame.

  10. Simultaneous with the scene in the square marquee a dialogue is taking place within the conical tent, the speakers being Uraga and Roblez.

  11. At the entrance of the square one, with its flap drawn close and tied, a soldier keeps sentry; that of conical shape being unguarded.

  12. They are inside the conical hut, the square one being occupied by Adela and her maid.

  13. Farther rearward, and close by the conical tent, and two in the uniform of officers, Uraga and his adjutant.

  14. This purpose is declared in a dialogue between the lancer colonel and his lieutenant, occurring inside the conical tent shortly after its being set up.

  15. They were conical in shape, being widest at the muzzle; but this form was soon changed for the cylindrical.

  16. The operation is performed in a conical furnace, in which are two large cases or troughs, made of fire-brick, or good fire stone; and beneath these is a long grate.

  17. The furnace in which the materials are melted is a large conical stack, such as is represented at the head of this article.

  18. It is formed by covering a silver rod with thick leaves of gold, and then drawing it successively through conical holes of different sizes, made in plates of steel.

  19. Iron is reduced to the form of wire by drawing rods of it through conical holes in a steel plate.

  20. They are "large, pyramidal, terraced structures, often faced with stones, conical mounds of earth and walls of stone.

  21. The left inner lobe shows a similar larger portion carrying eight tentacles, and a curious conical body behind it corresponding to the anti-spadix.

  22. Successive layers are deposited on the posterior part of the original shell, whether coiled or straight, and these layers form a conical mass, which may attain great thickness.

  23. The town is curious, built on a conical hill dominated by the castle.

  24. Cabris occupies a conical hill in a dreary limestone district, where the soil is so sparse that even the olive cannot flourish there—it exists, that is all.

  25. This old portion goes by the name of la Pigna, the Pinecone, because of the manner in which the ancient houses are grouped, pressed together one on another, rising towards a culminating conical point.

  26. Spherical {132} terminal organs will then grow out from the ends of the stems, which may during their further growth become conical or piriform in shape.

  27. For some considerable time these conical bundles remain united by fine filaments, the last vestiges of the nuclear spindle.

  28. E--Flexible Conical Bend which rests on D and carries the Flats.

  29. D--Rigid Conical Bend which is moved in or out.

  30. Our Patent Conical Concentric Bends have five setting points on each side of the machine.

  31. The plain was dotted with thousands of small conical mounds, called by the natives hornitos, or ovens.

  32. The ground is dotted with numerous dark apertures and conical mounds, from which clouds of steam ascend continually.

  33. A conical cavity forty-six feet deep is excavated in the solid rock.

  34. There were two smelting furnaces, built of stone, of a conical shape, three feet in height, and about six inches in diameter at the top.

  35. A little village called Ki, and a large monastery, situated on a curious, seemingly isolated, conical hill above the village, were passed on the right hand.

  36. These are knocked off, ground up with water, freed from metal-particles by elutriation, and the paste of white lead is allowed to set and dry in small conical forms.

  37. Insects which, in the larva state, have the faculty of elaborating from the juices of the gum-leaves on which they live a glutinous and saccharine fluid, whereof they construct for themselves little conical domiciles.

  38. A handsome conical tree sixty to eighty feet high, two to three feet in diameter.

  39. This tube was then inserted through a hole in a strip of tin fixed across the mouth of the conical cup into the sand, so that the detonator was embedded.

  40. Barlow have been studied with a view of manufacturing candles with conical ends, adapted to all chandeliers, without interfering with rapidity of production or increasing the net cost.

  41. For the conveyance of the oil by road a long and slightly conical wooden tank or barrel, resting horizontally on a wagon, is employed.

  42. Illustration] A fair quantity of the urine, after shaking, should be placed in a tall conical glass vessel, to allow easy collection of the precipitate for subsequent, microscopical examination.

  43. Lest the friction of the conical distribution valve oscillating with the cylinder should occasion a loss of power, care is taken to leave the key free in its seat, b, by not forcing the pivot, k (Figs.

  44. Tiger was remarkably colloquial on this evening, and the time slipped away and we scarce noticed that the night had spread its dark wings over the road, which now wound between conical barren hills.

  45. The air was cool, and the conical mountain peaks covered with cedars were smoking.

  46. The hills gradually descended into it, and in its centre rose a conical lofty rock, whose pinnacles had exactly the shape of a ruined castle.

  47. We had not yet seen a trace of the Rio Grande, and we must still be a good distance from it, for from the highest points we crossed we could see nothing as far as the horizon, except the same conical hills covered with gloomy foliage.

  48. The river flowed westward through a rather wide vale, bounded on the north by a wood, on our side by rich prairies, while a range of bald conical shaped lime hills ran along either side.

  49. The conical shape of the tree also facilitates this action of dislodging the snow.

  50. They will then notice the branching roots of some plants and the long conical roots of others.

  51. Near us flows the clear deep water of the Siskadee, and beyond, on every side, is a wide and level prairie, interrupted only by some gigantic peaks of mountains and conical butes in the distance.

  52. We might ask the same question respecting these conical mountains.

  53. They looked at a distance like some light-houses of a conical form, or like our Cambridge glass manufactories; but how they acquired that form is wonderful.

  54. We have observed to-day several high, conical stacks of drift-wood near the river.

  55. About one hour's brisk trotting carried us to the bluffs, and we entered amongst large conical hills of yellow clay, intermixed with strata of limestone, but without the slightest vegetation of any kind.

  56. It was quite close to me, bearing north-east by east, and subtending an angle of 12 degrees 23, and is much the steepest and most conical of all the peaks of these regions.

  57. Looking north, the conical head of Junnoo was just scattering the mists from its snowy shoulders, and standing forth to view, the most magnificent spectacle I ever beheld.

  58. The conical hills of the white ants were very abundant.

  59. About twenty miles to the north-east are some curious red conical mountains, said to be on the west side of the Ramchoo lakes; they were unsnowed, and bore N.

  60. At its lower end, about twenty miles from the frontier, is the military fort of Ilam, a celebrated stockaded post and cantonment of the Ghorkas: its position is marked by a conspicuous conical hill.

  61. All around was a dead flat or table-land, out of which a few conical hills rose in the west, about 1000 feet high, covered with a low forest of dusky green or yellow, from the prevalence of bamboo.

  62. The western part is undulated and hilly, the southern rises in rocky ridges of limestone and coal, and the eastern is very flat and stony, broken only by low isolated conical mounds.

  63. Conical ancient moraines in the Lachoong valley, with Abies brunoniana and smithiana.

  64. Barnes, prettily situated on one of the conical elevations characteristic of the geology of the district.

  65. Pileus= oblong-conical and subobtuse or narrowly conical and acute, adnate to the stem, 1–2 in.

  66. The Conical morell has the cap conical or oblong-conical, as its name indicates.

  67. Receptacle= consisting of an elongated stem bearing the gleba on a conical pileus at its apex.

  68. The narrow conical cap, distinctly striate, distinguishes this species from G.

  69. Pileus= more or less fleshy, conical or convex, then expanded, margin at first incurved.

  70. The Half-free morell has a conical cap, the lower half of which is free from the stem.

  71. Receptacle consisting of an elongated stipe bearing the gleba on a conical pileus at its apex.

  72. The plant is very distinct from all our other species by its small size and ovate or conical shape.

  73. Gills= ascending in a conical manner, slate-gray, mottled with the black spores.

  74. Its conical cap is regular as an extinguisher.

  75. Two hours later we reached the district of Khitayi, which begins where the Yumalak, a conical hill, rises close to the left bank.

  76. The Mastodons, lastly, though quite elephantine in their general characters, possess molar teeth which have their crowns furnished with conical eminences or tubercles placed in pairs (fig.

  77. The Baculite is the simplest of all the forms of the Ammonitidoe; and all the other forms, however complex, may be regarded as being simply produced by the bending or folding of such a conical septate shell in different ways.

  78. The jaws, however, were armed with numerous conical teeth, inserted in distinct sockets.

  79. The teeth are of the most formidable description, consisting in both jaws of serrated dental plates behind, and in front of enormous conical tusks (fig.

  80. The head is of enormous size, with greatly prolonged jaws, holding numerous powerful conical teeth lodged in a common groove.

  81. These tooth-like processes are of two sizes, the larger ones being comparable to canines; and they are all directed forwards, and have a triangular or compressed conical form.

  82. Each plate is approximately triangular, one margin (which we now know to be the outer one) being prolonged into prongs or conical prominences, whilst the surface is more or less regularly undulated.

  83. From its pointed, generally cylindro-conical form, the skeleton of the Belemnite is popularly known as a "thunderbolt".

  84. The mountains bench away on our left, the low hills rising in gentle conical forms, beyond which are the more elevated and precipitous peaks covered with snow.


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