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Example sentences for "high angle"

  • The coal beds dip toward the mountain at a high angle.

  • From this basin the dips become steeper toward the mountain, where Kirke's beds stand at a high angle.

  • Still a definite structure was in many places to be traced, and some of them apparently showed structure and bedding at a high angle to each other, but I could not be certain of it.

  • These planes of cleavage stand in most cases at a high angle to the bedding.

  • It dipped generally at a high angle, but was often much contorted.

  • The higher mountains were chiefly granite, with a few interposed beds of slate dipping at a high angle.

  • In one place only metamorphic slate was seen below it, dipping at a high angle to the north-east.

  • Soon after leaving the crest of the pass, we came upon clay-slate rock finely laminated, and dipping south-south-west at a high angle.

  • They were continuous, and like all the snow I saw at this season, the surface was honeycombed into thin plates, dipping north at a high angle; the intervening fissures were about six inches deep.

  • The pot was then taken back into the hot-house, where it was exposed to the sun, and on the succeeding night all the cotyledons rose again to a high angle, but did not stand quite vertically.

  • In the middle of the day it stands vertically up, or at a high angle; in the afternoon it sinks, and in the evening projects horizontally, or almost horizontally, rising again during the night.

  • This idea led him to the adoption of casemates in several tiers; in preference to open parapets, exposed to artillery fire of all kinds, high angle, ricochet and reverse.

  • The experience gained at Port Arthur was not altogether encouraging as regards the use of high angle fire.

  • The complete ballistic table, and the method of high angle fire (see below) must be employed.

  • The dark interior of this and of the three preceding formations render them easily traceable under a high angle of illumination.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    chiefly known; high altitudes; high character; high esteem; high forehead; high pressure; high range; high resistance; high voice; higher authority; higher education; higher form; higher kind; higher order; higher power; higher standard; higher temperature; highly civilized; highly important; highly inclined; highly magnified; highly prized; highly probable; highly seasoned; then both; various modes