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Example sentences for "hemisphere"

Lexicographically close words:
hemionus; hemipenis; hemiplegia; hemiplegic; hemipterous; hemispheres; hemispheric; hemispherical; hemistich; hemlock
  1. Actually, in a hemisphere bestridden by the crass worship of comfort and ease, here is a man whose ideal is to write essays in resounding English, and to spread a little wider his love of the niceties of fine prose.

  2. And thither fled one of the most delightful born bachelors this hemisphere has ever unearthed, Mr. Logan Pearsall Smith.

  3. It will be seen that at a September opposition the north pole of the planet is turned away from the sun, so that only the southern hemisphere is presented to us, and only the south pole can be seen from the earth.

  4. But the length of the seasons is the inverse of this, the summer of the northern hemisphere being longer and the heat of the southern hemisphere shorter in proportion.

  5. It follows from all this that the southern hemisphere is subjected to a more intense solar heat than the northern, and must therefore have a warmer summer season.

  6. Each hemisphere undergoes these changes in its turn, the changes being opposite in opposite hemispheres.

  7. Those of the northern hemisphere swell with the "summer rains of Ethiopia," a fact known in the case of the Nile to Democritus of Abdera (5th cent.

  8. In the southern hemisphere the sailors facing west during our winter would see the sun at noon on the right, and in the northern hemisphere on the left.

  9. Since that day peace had reigned from the western shores of the Azores to the western shores of the Hawaiian Islands, nor has any man of either hemisphere dared cross 30dW.

  10. For two hundred years the Eastern Hemisphere had been wiped from the maps and histories of Pan-America.

  11. Now, in all the Western Hemisphere dwells no man who may not find a school house within walking distance of his home, or at least within flying distance.

  12. With a furtive glance around him, he clapped the other half of the clay sphere over the filled hemisphere and then stood up.

  13. His busy fingers flew through the clay, shaping odd, flat bits and clay parts that were dropped almost aimlessly into the open hemisphere in front of him.

  14. As he finished each piece, he carefully placed it into a hollow shell hemisphere of clay.

  15. The maze of clay strips grew and as Funston finished shaping the other half hemisphere of clay, she broke the tense silence.

  16. In the Southern hemisphere they are limited by the extent of the forests in South Brazil, which reach about 30° south latitude.

  17. The evening of January 9 showed us right abeam a splendid display of the Zodiacal Light, whose pyramid suggested the glow of a hemisphere on fire.

  18. Madeira first cultivated sugar in the western hemisphere and passed it on to the New World.

  19. This is at least how I understand the peopling of a great part of the eastern hemisphere by an original nucleus of Mongolic type first differentiated from a pleistocene precursor on the Tibetan tableland.

  20. But for the inhabitants of the eastern hemisphere the results were none the less far-reaching.

  21. If there had been astronomers in the southern hemisphere Eta Hydri would certainly have been their pole-star.

  22. Nearly thirty of our years the process lasts, during half of which time the northern hemisphere suffers, and during the other half the southern.

  23. This will represent the position of the shadow at the time of midwinter for the hemisphere corresponding to that side of the ball.

  24. Those on the dark or night hemisphere would not have to wait for their turn till the earth, by rotating, carried them into view of the destroying sun.

  25. The polar point which the shadow before surrounded will now be seen to be in the light, and this half of the ball will illustrate the hemisphere of Saturn where it is midsummer.

  26. An attempt on the part of Captain (afterwards Sir James) Ross to establish magnetic observations in the southern hemisphere was unsuccessful, but resulted in a discovery of importance.

  27. The ecclesiastics quoted St. Augustine, to the effect that the antipodes were an impossibility, and that no one could go from one hemisphere to another.

  28. With the movements in this hemisphere we are of necessity more immediately connected, and by causes which must be obvious to all enlightened and impartial observers.

  29. In the civil war existing between Spain and the Spanish Provinces in this hemisphere the greatest care has been taken to enforce the laws intended to preserve an impartial neutrality.

  30. He soon became certain that the Moluccas were situated in the hemisphere which the bull of demarcation adopted at Tordesillas by the kings of Spain and Portugal, and confirmed in 1494 by Pope Alexander VI.

  31. This excellent book on the Spanish horses introduced to the Western Hemisphere is in a pasture to itself.

  32. Before each guest was a richly carved bowl and gourd, fruit and wine freighted also the empty hemisphere of a small nut, the purpose of which was a problem.

  33. You will be furnished with every thing necessary to return to the confines of the hemisphere from whence you came.

  34. The whole scope of animated nature, the evolution of animals, was suddenly arrested in that part of our hemisphere over which these gigantic convulsions spread, followed by the brief but sudden submersion of entire continents.

  35. Obviously, there was in the northern hemisphere a vast surface of land under a mild and equable climate, and clothed with a rich and varied vegetation.

  36. To-morrow, these or any other cities along the unstable edge of this hemisphere might be brought low from the same cause.

  37. What more can be expected of a hemisphere which was cursed by the Inquisition?

  38. There is a panorama it were worth a journey over a hemisphere to see.

  39. As in that same Liguria Columbus first divined another hemisphere outside the Pillars of Hercules, so Bruno discovered to those astonished minds the myriads of worlds which fill the immensity of space.

  40. As the result of class struggles between whites and mulattoes for political power, the most terrific slave insurrection in the Western Hemisphere had deluged the island in blood.

  41. While the last is laboring to become the domicile of despotism, our endeavor should surely be, to make our hemisphere that of freedom.


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