The creek curves gracefully around the bases of the sugar-loaf hills of the interior.
This suture curves dorsally from a point anterior to the quadrate and passes anterodorsally to the extremity of the processus ascendens.
The splenial also curves medially, and as stated, meets the dentary in a straight suture.
And these undulations must be separately studied, as to whether the curves are composed of arched convexities or angular concavities.
Take care that the shadows cast upon the surface of the bodies by different objects must undulate according to the various curves of the limbs which cast the shadows, and of the objects on which they are cast.
If it wishes to bite, the dog curveshis lips, shows his teeth.
With her eyes, with the varied curves of her mute mouth, woman can express her inmost thought.
Straight lines, conic sections, curves of the third order with a nodal point, curves of the fourth order with three double points, etc.
In a half-breadth plan, the water lines are outward curves showing the horizontal form of the ship at their several heights; in a sheer plan, they are projected as straight horizontal lines.
Was it to insure more perfect aim, or had there been that in the graceful lines and the childish curves of the little body below him that had held in check the spirit of murder running riot in his veins?
In that slender, young body, beneath the rounded curves and the fine, soft skin, lay the muscles of a young lioness.
They need railways quickly laid and cheaply constructed; lines not too exacting in point of curves and gradients; and, finally, fast travel.
Switches linked it up with other lengths of track, a straight stretch down to a muddy cape of the Medway estuary, and a string of curves and loops coiling among the stone and iron factory sheds.
Wonderful was it to see them gliding round the sharp curves as the line pursued its sinuous course through the streets like a monster millipede.
Then she folded her skirts so tightly that her bulk with its swelling curves was revealed in a black silk sheath, and she went with a slow toddle across the hall to the study door.
She still sat up straight with a slight knitting of intensity on her fair forehead, between the pretty rippling curves of her auburn hair.
I think Henry might have controlled his temper, when poor Edward was so near his end," said she with an asperity which disturbed slightly the roseate curves of her beautiful mouth.
From the cannon the body of the vase swells gracefully outward, and attains its widest girth near the top, where it curves rapidly inward to the upper rim.
A band is drawn round the widest part of the body, from which it curves rapidly inward to the neck, and on this upper part, between the greatest circumference and the neck, a simple ornament is laid.
She is neither tall nor short, but just the right height, and her blue cotton gown takes the lines and curves of as pretty a figure as ever sculptor sighed for.
There was grass, certainly, long rank grass, such as leans over in graceful curves and dips into brooks.
The lines on lines, the curves on curves of tiny lights which outlined each pillar and arch, each buttress and recess of the palace, the battlemented wall of the garden, and the turreted town rising above it, were steady as the stars.
So hiding, yet revealing, was the soft film of fine muslin over the scented, ivory-tinted corselet, which fitted close to the full curves of her figure.
To make the curves on the uprights, lay them edge to edge in the vise and start the spur of a large bit in the crack, 1-1/2" from each end.
The curvesat the rear end of the rudder can be sawed best with a scroll saw.
Holding the thin end in the vise, pare the curves with a knife, spokeshave, or draw-knife.
When the joint is fitted, lay out the curves on each arm of the wheel, remembering that it is always the front corner of the right-hand arm, as the wheel turns around, that is to be whittled away.
The curves may be finished with half-round file or sandpaper.
When all these curves are drawn, take the joint apart, and whittle to the lines.
Plane the blade to size, then draw a center line on each side, and lay out the curves for the point and handle.
After it is well fitted, draw the curves where the edges are to be whittled away.
Her smile and the curves of her mouth were unchanged by her weeping, and the crimson had spread and deepened a little in the long oval of her face.
The carriage road to the upper town of Laon ascends in curves from near the station, but foot passengers may climb to it by means of a stairway of 260 steps and a series of inclined planes.
This ridge, which was held by von Buelow's command, curves to the south-east, and runs about fifteen miles east of the city of Rheims.
You see that it zigzags south, then curves west, and straggles southward again to the border of Austria.
There was a little rent in one of the seams in her cheap jacket, at one of the curves where her side molded into her shoulder.
The curves of her cheek, the tilt of her head, and the lift of her dull-blue blouse at the bosom wove a great restfulness about Peter.
The curves of Cissie's form in his arm held a sweetness and a restfulness that her maidenhood had never promised.
Bötticher (1863) and more recently Durm have denied the original intention of the curves and ascribe them to settlement, a supposition which hardly accords with the observed facts.
He has a perfectly clear sense that the fragments of his intellectual circle include the curves of many other minds of which he is cognizant.
It was insulting even to pass them in review, but the mind works in erratic curves under shock.
In figure she had developed, she looked taller and more stately, but the same beautiful lines and gracious curves were there.
Her face was so expressive that every emotion was shown on it, every thought could be read there; the languid scorn of the dark eyes, and the proud curves of the daintily arched lips, all told of unconcealed contempt.
As Count Vladimir caught sight of that proud, fair countenance, a sudden smile broke over it, called forth by some remark of her companion's, and melted all the pure still lines into the tenderest curves of youth.
She has certain little caresses, the half awkward caresses of real people, not the elegant curves and convolutions of the stage, which always enchant me beyond any mimetic movements I have ever seen.
You know the scarcely human oval which represents a woman's face, with the help of a few thin curves for eyelids and mouth.
In the curves and wreaths and turrets of the drifts a blue tinge nestles.
So he dashed off, and filled the little cove above the Point with a labyrinth of curves and flourishes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "curves" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
