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Example sentences for "gradation"

Lexicographically close words:
grackles; gracyous; grad; gradate; gradated; gradations; grade; graded; gradely; grader
  1. The intermediate ones are in regular gradation from the first to the eighth order.

  2. The gradation from first to eighth order is regular, as in the others.

  3. There is no gap, but the gradation is complete.

  4. It was tied down by that gradation and cautiousness which it considers an indispensable condition for every improvement in the status of the Jews.

  5. Gradation and cautiousness must above all become the guiding principles of the future activity of the legislator.

  6. Even a cursory examination of the animals and plants now on the globe, shows such a gradation of their characters that they form a sort of chain, extending from the most to the least perfect species.

  7. This would lead to the idea of a gradation in rank, power, and intellect among the gods, and to the conception of one as supreme.

  8. This heliotropic movement manifestly results from the modification of ordinary circumnutation; and every gradation between the two movements could be followed.

  9. Batalin, does not possess a pulvinus; and he informs us that a gradation may be traced in the several species of the genus between these two states of the petiole.

  10. There is every gradation between this form and the var.

  11. From this it ascends by gradation to the higher attainments of knowledge as revealed in the empire of mind, as well as matter.

  12. This is called by Mr Thayer the principle of the gradation of colour.

  13. In like manner the geologist, in studying particular formations of remote periods, has sometimes been able to trace the gradation from one ancient province to another, by observing carefully the fossils of all the intermediate places.

  14. A]] In the plutonic, as in the volcanic rocks, there is every gradation from a tortuous vein to the most regular form of a dike, such as intersect the tuffs and lavas of Vesuvius and Etna.

  15. A] It would be easy to multiply examples and authorities to prove the gradation of the granitic into the trap rocks.

  16. The Greenstone prevails through the whole of this district, and appears to pass by a slow gradation into Serpentine, under which it lies, as may be distinctly seen near the south side of Mullion Cove.

  17. Instead of that, everything we look at, from a violet to an overbending sky, is enriched and glorified by millions of color tones as infinite in their gradation as the waves of sound and light.

  18. It would be easy to multiply examples and authorities to prove the gradation of the Plutonic into the trap rocks.

  19. In the Plutonic, as in the volcanic rocks, there is every gradation from a torturous vein to the most regular form of a dike, such as intersect the tuffs and lavas of Vesuvius and Etna.

  20. One arrives inevitably at gradation of colour in embroidery; the question is how best to get it.

  21. Beautiful results may be obtained by the use of perfectly flat tints of colour, as in Illustration 40; but the subtlest as well as the most deliberate gradation of tint may be most perfectly rendered in satin-stitch.

  22. Still, embroidery affords such scope for gradation of colour, not, practically, to be got by any process of weaving, that a colourist may well revel in the delights of colour which silks of various dyes allow.

  23. With regard to shading stitches, there are various ways (see the chapter on shading) of giving gradation of colour and of indicating relief or modelling.

  24. The charm of shading in embroidery is not the roundness of form which you get, but the gradation of colour which it gives.

  25. The use of shading in embroidery is rather to get gradation of colour than relief of form.

  26. A further charm lies in the way it lends itself to gradation of colour.

  27. So unmistakable is this gradation that one is almost tempted to ascribe it to cosmical rather than human causes.

  28. So unmistakable is this gradation that we are almost tempted to ascribe it to cosmical rather than to human causes.

  29. Such was the gradation of orders issued by the government.

  30. His application was made through Senator Cass and others, he only asking for the lowest place in the gradation of officers, so as not to interfere with the right of promotion in any one.

  31. Here men of every gradation of celebrity, from Napoleon down to the Psalmanazar of the day, are so very common, that one scarcely turns round in the streets to look at them.

  32. The convention was chosen, not by any common constituency, but by the constituencies of the several states, which, at that time, embraced every gradation between a democratical and an aristocratically polity.

  33. It is by reason of this unity between life and knowledge that this instance belongs to that gradation in the mutual relations of the two in the different ages of the world.

  34. For in the divine education and higher guidance of mankind we may trace the same degrees and natural gradation of developments as form the basis of the education of individuals, and may also be observed in all the processes of nature.

  35. And a similar series of gradation may be observed on a larger scale in the historical succession and development of the ages of the world.

  36. No doubt the Indian gradation of ranks wants the stamp of perfection and mildness which belongs to Christian politics.

  37. In the flowers of the Rose the stamens exhibited almost every conceivable gradation between their ordinary form and that of the carpels, while some of the ovules contained pollen in greater or less abundance.

  38. Sometimes in the last-named genus, as also in Pteridophyllum, every gradation between simple and compound leaves may be traced.

  39. In ferns it is likewise of frequent occurrence, markedly so in Scolopendrium D'Urvillei, in which plant every gradation from a simple oblong frond to an exceedingly divided one may be found springing from the same rhizome at the same time.

  40. From these several descriptions we see that with Runts, as with Carriers, we have a fine gradation from the rock-pigeon (with the Tronfo diverging as a distinct branch) to our largest and most massive Runts.

  41. See Report of the Directors of the Sierra Leone Company, as quoted in White's 'Gradation of Man,' p.

  42. The Chinians therefore doe vse a kinde of gradation in aduancing men vnto sundry places of authority, which for the most part is performed by the Senatours of Paquin.

  43. The dynamic gradation of pianoforte tone is caused by the amount of force with which the hammer strikes the wires; and this power is applied by the attack and pressure of the fingers.

  44. The dynamic gradation of tone is primarily a matter for the control of the fingers, i.

  45. We would create every gradation of light, and every gradation of darkness, to suit or to make every humour of the mind.


  46. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gradation" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    array; articulation; assortment; bank; buzz; chain; connection; continuity; continuum; course; cycle; degree; descent; drone; file; filiation; gamut; gradation; grade; grading; graduation; grouping; hierarchy; hum; line; lineage; monotone; mutation; nexus; notch; pendulum; periodicity; phonetics; phonology; place; placement; plenum; progression; queue; range; rank; ranking; recurrence; rotation; round; routine; row; run; scale; selection; sequence; series; shading; sifting; sorting; spectrum; step; string; subordination; succession; swath; taxonomy; thread; tier; train