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Example sentences for "deposits"

Lexicographically close words:
depositions; depositor; depositories; depositors; depository; depot; depots; depravation; depravations; deprave
  1. The female beetle deposits her eggs in the earth in the height of the summer, and in due time the worms emerge and commence their depredations.

  2. During late summer and autumn the female fly deposits its eggs in large numbers in turf, in garden soil and amongst garden refuse.

  3. It is a very common error to consider these deposits as evidence of excessive excretion.

  4. Many of these are obtained from deposits of limited extent, and in loading it considerable quantities of the subjacent soil are taken up, so that very great differences may exist even in different parts of the same cargo.

  5. Soon after large deposits of it were found in Ichaboe; and it has since been brought from many other localities.

  6. This decomposition of felspar is the source of the great deposits of clay which are so abundantly distributed over the globe, and it takes place with nearly equal rapidity with potash and soda felspar.

  7. When the water is allowed to stand, it deposits the starch as a fine white powder, which, when examined by the microscope, is found to be composed of minute grains, formed of concentric layers deposited on one another.

  8. Apatite, or mineral phosphate of lime, is found in large deposits in different places.

  9. It is a rocking-chair, and it slides the tray gently forward and deposits it face downward on the floor.

  10. This therefore leads us to conclude, that the surface of the earth must have been greatly changed since the time of those deposits of certain foreign materials of the soil.

  11. It is the natural outlet for the mineral deposits north.

  12. A railroad line has been run, and men are now at work on the iron deposits with a view of shipping the ore from Grand Marais to points where it is wanted for smelting purposes.

  13. To the north of this point the Brule river makes a straight cut to the lake through sandy red clay deposits peculiar to that region.

  14. When shaken in a glass flask and allowed to rest, the milk deposits on the sides small transparent lumps, which usually present a slightly elongated or angular form.

  15. This difference is, however, not perceptible when the deposits have a large surface.

  16. The most famous deposits are in the Yukon, and no mining camp had a more exciting history than this, where working men staked claims that brought them a fortune and lost it in cards and dice overnight.

  17. Besides the precious metals, the most important are coal, iron, nickel, and asbestos, and the deposits of the last two are much the most important in the world.

  18. At Cobalt it is said that the silver deposits were first found when a horse, pawing the rock with his iron shoe, uncovered the "cobalt bloom," the colour that there is the sign of silver.

  19. Defensive sites" were abandoned, and the banks brought back their deposits which they had sent off by express to Chicago and the North.

  20. Very fortunately for us, it was the time of the year when the green turtle deposits its eggs.

  21. They are used for digging oyster shells from the deposits at the bottom of the channel, the shells being ground for fertilizing purposes.

  22. The compass deviated, owing to some strange local attraction due, it was said, to mineral deposits in the gulf.

  23. The sea grew shallow, the deposits became conglomeratic and shaly, volcanic eruptions began, and the present folds of the Apennines were initiated.

  24. The benzene layer on evaporation deposits the anti-pyrine as a colourless crystalline solid which melts at 113 deg.

  25. Savings bank depositors are not concerned with the manner in which government invests their money, their rights being confined to the receipt of interest and the repayment of deposits upon specified conditions.

  26. Subsequent elevation, without folding, has raised these Pliocene deposits to a considerable height--in some cases over 3000 ft.

  27. Ankerite occurs with chalybite in deposits of iron-ore.

  28. The discovery of these vast deposits of gold has entirely changed the character of Upper California.

  29. If rich gold deposits had been discovered in Bursley Municipal Park, Cotterill would have owned a mining camp and amassed immense wealth; but unfortunately gold deposits were not discovered in the Park.

  30. The beds are sometimes magnesian, especially in the lower strata, which contain deposits of gypsum and rock-salt.

  31. The most productive metalliferous deposits are found in meridional bands.

  32. The marine beds, together with the alluvium of the rivers, have given rise to those deposits which occur more especially near the mouths of rivers and watercourses.

  33. In this way the great deposits of rock-salt and gypsum, common in the Keuper formation, may be accounted for.

  34. Beds of shells and bands of coral were formed upon the more ancient rocks, interrupted with beds of sand and mud; processes many times repeated: and thus, in a long succession of ages, were the deposits of the upper series completed.

  35. They have, therefore, an advantage over banks because they can invest the whole of their deposits instead of keeping a part of them uninvested in coin.

  36. The United States differs from other countries in not having a government bank for receiving government deposits and distributing them in the ordinary course of banking business.

  37. When the cholera broke out in Paris, in 1830, and it was believed to have been brought into the country through rags, a bill was presented before the French Parliament for the destruction of all deposits of rags in the city.

  38. Banks in the city of New York are required by law to keep a reserve of 15 per cent of their deposits in coin.

  39. Barney, the Knickerbocker Trust Company had increased its deposits to over eighty millions in 1907.

  40. The difference lies in the kind of leucocytes present in excess in the blood, blood-forming organs and deposits in the tissues.

  41. This alkaline urine deposits its phosphates, which light upon the calculus and encrust it with a mortary shell, which may go on increasing in size until it may even fill the bladder.

  42. The little creature then bends itself down upon the tube and deposits the pellet upon it, then it raises itself up again and proceeds to form another brick, its jaws working all the time.

  43. Here he deposits three sorts of plants on a flat stone, places a branch of dry coral beside them, and hangs the bundle of charms over the stone.

  44. In the Aru Islands, when a child is able to run alone, a female relation cuts off a lock of its hair and deposits it on a banana-tree.

  45. We have first the warm cellular snows of fall, which surround the plant; next the finely-impacted snow-dust of winter; and above these the later humid deposits of spring.

  46. The surrounding portion is but slightly luminous, deposits no soot, and in it the carbon and hydrogen are consumed.

  47. It would seem that the deposits of gum in the soil are all that remains of ancient kauri forests.

  48. They stirred moods already in me, that is, and did not introduce entirely new ones; for every mind conceals ancestral deposits that have been cultivated in turn along the whole line of its descent.

  49. Hidden away in China's mountains and underlying her boundless plateaus are immense deposits of coal and iron; while above any other country on the globe, China has the labour for the development of agriculture and manufacture.

  50. When we add to this supply of coal the apparently inexhaustible deposits of iron ore, we have the two products on which material greatness largely depends.


  51. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "deposits" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    alluvium; ash; cinder; clinker; deposit; deposition; diluvium; dregs; dross; ember; feces; froth; grounds; lees; loess; precipitate; precipitation; scoria; scum; sediment; silt; slag; smut; soot; sublimate