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Example sentences for "incomplete"

Lexicographically close words:
incompatible; incompetence; incompetency; incompetent; incompetents; incompletely; incompleteness; incomprehensibility; incomprehensible; incomprehensibly
  1. I shall present each sign or sentence as I noted it at the time, with only casual reference to that incomplete and frequently erroneous interpretation.

  2. He said: "Some persons think that it [the Cheyenne language] would be incomplete without gesture, because the Indians use gestures constantly.

  3. In this case the incomplete reparation did not prove sufficient; the treatment which began with gentleness ended with violence, and, as a whole, the operation only half succeeded.

  4. But they combine with it only through a visible and clumsy juxtaposition, through incomplete and bizarre communications: the vestiges of their former independence are still apparent athwart their actual dependence.

  5. To complement these as yet incomplete scientific findings, I will emphasize a measure of ordinary common sense as we go along.

  6. Perls saw life as a succession of unfinished situations, incomplete Gestalts.

  7. In spite of incomplete knowledge in psychotherapy, a large body of information has come from studies of the effectiveness of therapies for different problems and for different kinds of people.

  8. So much, indeed, did the subtle mechanism of mind fascinate him that he despised language, or looked upon it as an incomplete instrument of expression.

  9. To have a capacity for a passion and not to realise it, is to make oneself incomplete and limited.

  10. It is a thing incomplete in its essence, because limited by accident, and ignorant of its direction, being always at variance with its aim.

  11. As each ureter grows in length it remains an incomplete tube, and its lumen, though proportionately prolonged, continues to present the same general relations as at first.

  12. In other words, each ureter is at first an incomplete tube.

  13. The epipodia incline towards each other posteriorly so as to form an incomplete siphon (fig.

  14. The deficiencies in such returns are gross and notorious, but the census office feels obliged to seek for them and to report what it finds, however incomplete or incorrect the results may be.

  15. In these, the diversity of their incomplete statements about different countries and epochs has offered many obstacles.

  16. Notwithstanding all this, the prodigious stock of learning, which was my pride and Mademoiselle Pivert's admiration, was still considered incomplete by my dear mother.

  17. Any reference to the remediable causes of mental fatigue would be incomplete without allusion to the harmful influence of certain personal characteristics in the people with whom we associate.

  18. It possesses, moreover, the great advantage of stamping upon the whole work its incomplete and fragmentary character.

  19. Further, the Squire has a Prologue of his own, though it is incomplete in the sense that there is no indication whom the Squire is to follow (F 1-8).

  20. As it was left in an incomplete state, it was most likely in hand up to the time of his death, though he probably neglected it towards the last.

  21. Now when I see how this unbelieving age so diligently finishes the Gothic churches left incomplete by the believing Middle Ages, it looks to me as if it were desired to embalm a dead Christianity.

  22. The definition is incomplete unless it includes both.

  23. What you already know by the first of these grades, you cannot be said to learn; but you may learn that which you know only by the second grade, and by such learning you bring your incomplete cognition up to completeness.

  24. We may remark here that this objection is founded on a bad or incomplete specification of the proprium in question: it is not an objection against the reality of that proprium itself, if carefully described.

  25. Burnside's report was dated on the 30th of September, within two weeks of the battle, and at a time when public discussion of the incomplete results of the battle was animated.

  26. Plutarch had adopted a tentative and incomplete form of this doctrine, e.

  27. First, the anonymous character of the work; and, secondly, the frequent imitations of it by Cicero in his De Inventione, an incomplete essay written when he was a young man.

  28. But the question is complicated by the corrupt state of his text, by the obscurity of his subject, and by the very incomplete knowledge of it displayed by the author.

  29. This, at least to me, seems a plausible explanation of the incomplete form in which this first order appeared, and why it appeared at all.

  30. As the alphabet was incomplete it has been completed, so that it may be used without any difficulty arising through any of the letters being missing.

  31. The reason for doing this is so that the student should experience no difficulty in writing when using any one of these alphabets, as would possibly be the case if an incomplete alphabet were given.

  32. A well-arranged inscription often adds greatly to the finish of a drawing, and with the latter it often happens that it is incomplete without a heading or title of some description.

  33. Lamp Black is a smoke-black, being a finely divided soot formed by the incomplete combustion of hydrocarbons.

  34. At the very best there will be incomplete returns for the social-hygienic aspect of sex-instruction, but already we know for a certainty that enough young men will be influenced to make the teaching justifiable.

  35. The perfect participle of deponents is sometimes used with past tenses or their equivalents to denote incomplete contemporaneous action.

  36. They felt that the colonial organization was incomplete without a college to inculcate such piety, virtue and intelligence as would preserve and perfect the highest social order and secure the blessings of liberty.

  37. If the understanding becomes arrogant and spurns the aid of the other powers of the mind, not only does the man become an incomplete man, but his intellect itself inevitably loses poise and clearness.

  38. Candlesticks unearthed at Jamestown include a large brass pricket holder, one made of English sgraffito-ware, several incomplete earthenware holders, and parts of delftware candlesticks.

  39. This proclivity is constant; the normal interphalangeal articulation is an incomplete ginglymoid joint and while its dorso-volar diameter is great, this in no wise compensates for its disproportionately narrow transverse diameter.

  40. There is incomplete advancement of the member; the toe is dragged when the horse is made to walk and the foot kept in a position posterior to the opposite or weight bearing foot while the subject is at rest.

  41. However, in case of incomplete fracture one needs to base all conclusions upon the history of the case, evidence of injury, or other knowledge of the character of violence to which this bone has been exposed.

  42. When incomplete radial paralysis exists, little needs be done except to allow the subject moderate exercise and to provide for its comfort.

  43. I will now therefore only say that it seems not to be complete at any given moment; and that most movements are incomplete and specifically different, since the whence and whither constitute different species.

  44. I caught a distant view of the falls, and a nearer one of the yet incomplete suspension bridge, which, when finished, will be one of the greatest triumphs of engineering art.


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