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Example sentences for "indentations"

Lexicographically close words:
indemnities; indemnity; indemonstrable; indent; indentation; indented; indenting; indentings; indention; indents
  1. In the frame above the wording "Local Board Stamp" there is visible typewriting and indentations but I think this is probably all one typewriting act, the ink coming down from the ribbon only in a rather irregular fashion.

  2. Well, there is some overlapping or superimposition of indentations in the first record of the indented name "James.

  3. Do you believe those indentations were caused by a typewriter set at stencil?

  4. Is this similar to the typewritten indentations found in the selective service card, 795?

  5. Milling tool, a roller with indented edge or surface, for producing like indentations in metal by rolling pressure, as in turning; a knurling tool; a milling cutter.

  6. Having the surface covered with minute indentations or dots.

  7. As the plate vibrates under the influence of a sound, the stylus makes minute indentations or undulations in the soft material, and these, when the cylinder or disk is again turned, set the plate in vibration, and reproduce the sound.

  8. A notch or recess, in the margin or border of anything; as, the indentations of a leaf, of the coast, etc.

  9. Now screw in the wire pivots till they catch in the indentations drilled for them in the sides of the cylinders.

  10. The coast is depicted according to Ribero; the Gulf of St. Lawrence not being shown, though deep indentations mark the two entrances.

  11. Although these indentations are probably not of glacial origin, except perhaps the Delaware, they much resemble the great fjords which the glaciers have produced along the shores of regions farther to the northward.

  12. The success with which such indentations open up the interior of the continents depends upon the length of the inlets and the size of the land-mass in question.

  13. Here the smaller indentations multiply contact with the sea, and provide the harbors, bays and breakwaters of capes and promontories which make the coast accessible.

  14. Asia, the largest of all the continents, despite a succession of big indentations that invade its periphery from Sinai peninsula to East Cape, has a vast inland area hopelessly far from the surrounding oceans.

  15. China, amply supplied with smaller littoral indentations but characterized by a paucity of larger inlets, finds compensation in the long navigable course of the Yangtze Kiang.

  16. A fillet with finger indentations encircles the lip.

  17. Bowls corresponding in general character to those described above, but having tasteful designs of incised lines and indentations on the exterior surface.

  18. Those of the desert region are only slight indentations in a remarkably uniform coast-line, sheltered on one side by a point of land, or small island.

  19. These globules were all of them circular, biconcave and perfectly regular; they showed neither indentations nor that raspberry-like appearance which characterizes the blood globules of a corpse.

  20. The red globules appeared cleanly circular, flattened, biconcave, and without notches, indentations or spheroidal swellings.

  21. The hind-wings are greyish-brown with two very deep indentations in the termen.

  22. The apex of the fore-wing is always very acute; the termen is bowed just below the apex, and is furnished with slight indentations of variable depth.

  23. The termen of both the wings is indented, the depth of the indentations varying greatly in different specimens.

  24. This species is extremely variable, but may always be recognised by its greenish tinge, and the absence of indentations on the termen of both fore- and hind-wings.

  25. Also, in the selective service number on the face of the card and the data on the back of the card, indentations of typewriter keys were noted.

  26. I doubt it very much, because the indentations are so faint that the enlargement would serve no useful purpose.

  27. The indentations from the typewriter keys can be clearly seen in side lighting.

  28. Among these is a fragment of a bowl or urn, of unglazed pottery, highly decorated with deeply grooved lines on the outside, and slight indentations on the everted lip.

  29. First, or uppermost, there was a stratum of yellowish mud, from 1 to 2 feet thick, mixed with rounded pebbles, and in all respects similar to what was being deposited in the shallow indentations of the lake in the vicinity.

  30. Some of the objects, especially the obsidians, were chipped out with great care and accuracy; others were merely flint flakes with a few shallow indentations chipped in their sides.

  31. It has not a woolly head, and the flowers, which are very large and showy, either arise from the tufts of spines, or from indentations in the angles.

  32. Notice the formation of the indentations and their subsequent branching; and also that holes form in the skin from which branchings also proceed.

  33. Sometimes the hafts are of wood, and they have frequently indentations intended to receive the ends of the fingers and thumb, so as to secure a good grasp.

  34. Looked at with the naked eye this line has the appearance of a spiral traced upon the surface of the wax-like blank, but examined under a magnifying glass it shows myriad little indentations or grooves in the wall of the sound line.

  35. These indentations correspond to the vibrations imparted to the needle through the diaphragm, and are the recorded sounds made by the singer or band.

  36. Even in many cases where they were further ornamented by indentations they still painted it, showing that painting was regarded as of the most importance.

  37. We recall that the ornamentations on the vessels of clay made by Mound Builders were either incised lines or indentations on the surface of the vessels.

  38. He also observed that the series of indentations left on the outer surface of the fillet in pressing it down gave a pleasing effect, and made use of the suggestion.

  39. The thumb indentations have been carelessly made.

  40. These curious decorative effects were still further elaborated by diversifying the character of the indentations of the coil.

  41. The pressure causes the isolator to straighten out, and the indentations fit snugly under the respective hooks on the plates.

  42. The indentations on the two edges of isolator engage in hook shaped lugs on plate edges (Fig.

  43. Sand bars are then built across the mouths of the bays or indentations which later the rivers gradually fill up with sediment.

  44. If part of the relatively smooth sea bottom should be raised into land, the resulting shore line would of course, be regular and free from indentations or sharp embayments.

  45. MacCulloch and Mr. Darwin suppose "the roads" to constitute mere indentations in a superficial alluvial coating which rests upon the hillside, and consists chiefly of clay and sharp unrounded stones.

  46. But we must learn to distinguish the indentations due to the original action of the sea, and those caused by subsequent chemical decomposition of calcareous rocks, to which they are liable in the atmosphere.

  47. From the peculiar shape of the bay and the deep indentations its various coves make into the shore, one sees but a small portion of the harbour at a glance from the point we brought up at.

  48. We afterwards crossed several other indentations of the coast, skirted by reefs of limestone and low islets, and encamped on Chantry Island, lying close to the main shore, in latitude 68 degrees 45 minutes N.

  49. Upon revolving with rapidity the cylinder that carried the indented or embossed paper Mr Edison found that the indentations could be reproduced with immense rapidity through the vibration of the tracing-point.

  50. The two vessels coasted to the eastward, surveying the indentations and giving names to all points of interest.

  51. The voyage had occupied nearly five months, and the distance sailed was not far from fifteen hundred miles, if the sinuosities and indentations of the coast are included, and twelve hundred in a straight line.

  52. He has plans and surveys which give him the bearings of every port, the indentations of every coast, the soundings of every pass.


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