The dust, estimated to have reached the height of several miles, was disseminated by the upper currents of air and caused the brilliant sunsets seen for months in nearly every part of the civilized world.
One ignorant of the currents of the ocean might be puzzled at times in observing that an iceberg floats southward at the same time that pieces of wood are floating northward, both apparently acted upon by the same current.
The arctic currents have been carefully studied with valuable results, and it has been found that the drift of the polar ice-floe is constantly to the eastward.
From the inhospitable polar regions come the winds and currents that temper the heat of the tropics.
On the contrary it is more probable that the life in question was carried by winds and currents of the sea.
A gelatinous slime filled with minute animal life forms on the bottom of the ocean in the arctic; the cold currents flowing south carry some of it along with them, and much of it is lodged on the stony bottoms of these banks.
When the cans are filled, set them away from currents of air, and not on a very cold surface, to avoid danger of cracking.
All windows should extend from floor to ceiling, adjusted to let down from the top, and in position to secure as much as possible of the through currents of air.
Since 1870 we find contending there, with varying fortunes and strength, two opposite currents of sentiment and policy.
Nowhere have these two currents of contemporary aspiration met and contended as fiercely as in France.
Vapours and air-currents do not alone embarrass the use of giant telescopes.
Its southern side, which was the best defined, was wavy in numerous places, the tail appearing as if disturbing currents were flowing at right angles to it.
The rays of light traversing it are continually broken by minute fluctuations of refractive power caused by changes of temperature and pressure, and the currents which these engender.
These sun-clouds take their origin in the zones of encounter between polar and equatorial currents in the solar atmosphere.
Faye preferred to consider it a retardation produced by ascending currents continually left behind as the sphere widened in which the matter composing them was forced to travel.
In Faye's theory, sun-spots were regarded as simply breaks in the photospheric clouds, where the rising currentshad strength to tear them asunder.
There was little wind, except the fierce currents rushing upward, produced by the heat of our own conflagration.
The action of these currents disintegrated the rock, and deposited the constituent substances at the bottom of the sea--on the surface, and in the hollows, of the granite.
Then he branched off into what was, from a practical standpoint, the vastly more important work of studying the winds and currents of the ocean.
Berkeley's whole philosophy is a combination of two currents of speculation--that of Locke on the one hand, and that of the English mystics on the other.
At the islands in Behring's Straits, his vessel had sailed in opposite directions with ebb and flood tide, and he thought the only currents there were tidal in their nature.
Throughout his career he was a steadfast witness against tepid and insincere professions of religion, and against any compromise with the shifting currents of popular opinion.
Next in importance, but in a quite subordinate degree, is the wind; and with some aquatic plants, according to Delpino, currents of water.
He ascribes the Aurora Borealis to currents of great intensity situate in the higher regions of our atmosphere.
You will observe that there is a peculiar inner circulation in the vapor surrounding us, marked by ascending and descending currents which are doubtless limited by the upper and lower surfaces of the dome.
Every nursery should, if possible, be free from holes or crevices; otherwise the occupants will be exposed to currents of air, and their sometimes terrible and always injurious consequences.
While the washing is performed, the temperature of the room should be but a few degrees lower than that of the water; and the child should not be exposed tocurrents of cold air.
Whether her exercise be without or within doors, however, she should be effectually protected against chills, and against the influence of currents of cold air.
But the deeper meaning is concerned with the currents of life; with that which goeth into and cometh out of the heart.
In waking life, we have two currents of perception; an outer current of physical things seen and heard and perceived; an inner current of mind-images and thoughts.
The present sentence declares that, for work and for meditation, the position of the body must be steady and without strain, in order that the finer currents of life may run their course.
And we should note with care that these twocurrents are not simply Heathen and Christian respectively.
Catherine’s conceptions of, harbour two currents of thought, II.
Both currentscan be properly elucidated only if we first take them historically.
Even when the vane is not over a city or town where the air currents near the earth are affected by the direction of the streets, the varying character of the surface in respect to radiation and absorption of heat will modify them.
The magnetism developed by a current of electricity; the science which treats of the development of magnetism by means of voltaic electricity, and of the properties or actions of the currents evolved.
Leakage or loss of currents from the conducting wires, caused by defective insulation.
Derived from, or dependent upon, vital processes; -- said of certain electric currents supposed by some physiologists to circulate in the nerves of animals.
Pertaining to the development of electricity, especially electrical currents, by power; producing electricity or electrical currents by mechanical power.
To drive or carry, as currents do a floating body.
The Atlantic and Caribbean coasts could not be effectively governed from the Pacific and the rising currents of trade and immigration must be allowed more liberty to follow their natural channels.
However, the Venezuelan coast is so accessible that the fertilising and disturbing currents of trade and ideas had really profoundly modified the people, and the leaven of unrest was at work.
The property-owning and governing classes divided into two currentsof opinion.
Thus gently and pleasantly the husband and wife floated down the stream of time; each keeping close to a bank, and shaking hands whenever the currents brought them together.
It is carrying away dangers which gentlercurrents of air would not have the power to carry away.
There were then no impetuous currents of air, no tempestuous winds, no furious hail, no torrents of rain, no rolling thunders or forky lightnings.
When the nuts ripened, they dropped off into the water, and, carried by winds and currents to less dangerous localities, were picked up by mariners, or cast on some lucky shore.
He sailed upon the tides and currents of the human heart, and steered through the cliffs and caverns of the brain with greater glory than those who sought the golden "fleece" among the enchanting waters of Ionian isles.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "currents" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
