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Example sentences for "intersecting"

Lexicographically close words:
interruptions; interrupts; interscholastic; intersect; intersected; intersection; intersections; intersects; intersexual; intersit
  1. Yet bourgeois economists have never been fully aware of this problem in its pure aspects, detached from related and intersecting minor problems; they have never been able to formulate it precisely, let alone solve it.

  2. North of the Beagle Hills, a range of similar downs extended; and to the east was a succession of lagoons, completely intersecting the flat country towards Pecket Harbour.

  3. In the beds of some of the streams intersecting the woods was a singularly sparkling sand, which had so much the appearance of gold, that some of our party carried {172} a bag-full on board to be tested.

  4. The two intersecting streets outside reeked and creaked and glittered with the crispness of a typical St. Petersburg frost.

  5. It was on the fifth floor of a house near a corner, with windows commanding the two intersecting streets, where her window signals could be seen at a considerable distance.

  6. The distance between two non-intersecting lines is the length of their common perpendicular, there being but one.

  7. To draw a plane through two intersecting lines or through two parallel lines, we determine the traces of the lines; the lines joining their horizontal and vertical traces respectively will be the horizontal and vertical traces of the plane.

  8. It will at last cut both a and b at their points at infinity, so that a line which joins the two points at infinity in two intersecting lines lies altogether at infinity.

  9. Thus Lobatchewsky's parallels are represented by straight lines intersecting on the circle.

  10. A tetrahedron self-conjugate with respect to the absolute has all its intersecting elements (edges and planes) at right angles.

  11. A road that crosses another; an obscure road intersecting or avoiding the main road.

  12. One of two great circles intersecting at right angles in the poles of the equator.

  13. The preceding are erect forms, the axes intersecting at right angles.

  14. The definition is as objectionable as that of angle as the "difference of direction" of two intersecting lines.

  15. The most important postulate of solid geometry is as follows: One plane, and only one, can be passed through two intersecting straight lines.

  16. An angle formed by two chords intersecting within the circle is measured by half the sum of the intercepted arcs.

  17. With the cardboard he can illustrate planes, whether alone, intersecting obliquely or at right angles, or parallel, and he can easily illustrate the figures given in the textbook in use.

  18. Two intersecting lines Two intersecting planes determine determine a plane.

  19. If two intersecting straight lines are each parallel to a plane, the plane of these lines is parallel to that plane.

  20. The common chord of two intersecting circles is a special case of their radical axis, and tangents to the circles from any point on the radical axis are equal.

  21. Here was a view characteristic of Tierra del Fuego; irregular chains of hills, mottled with patches of snow, deep yellowish-green valleys, and arms of the sea intersecting the land in many directions.

  22. The pleasure from the scenery, in itself beautiful, was heightened by the many reflections which arose from the mere view of the Campana range with its lesser parallel ones, and of the broad valley of Quillota directly intersecting them.

  23. If silk is employed for the entire fabric, much of it is lost by intersecting on the back, only a tithe of the material being visible on the face.

  24. This mode of intersecting separate series of yarns at right angles to each other causes the threads to exert a much firmer grip on each other and the resulting fabric is remarkable for its strength and rigidity.

  25. The boxes are made fast to the apple-trees or lodged at considerable intervals along the intersecting fences.

  26. When spires were added the transition from the square tower to the octagonal spire was effected by broaches or portions of a square pyramid intersecting the base of the spire, or by corner pinnacles and flying-buttresses.

  27. The doors and the mimber were framed in geometric patterns with slender intersecting bars forming complicated star-panelling.

  28. The mihrâb niche is particularly rich in its minutely carved incrustations and mosaics, and a dome ingeniously formed by intersecting ribs covers the sanctuary before it.

  29. The groined vault was common, but always approximated the form of a dome, by a longitudinal convexity upward in the intersecting vaults.

  30. Once more flowing upon a low grade, it again meanders, and so produces new walls at a lower level, but formed, like the first, of intersecting meander scars.

  31. Corners of blocks—the intersecting points of the important faults—should for the same reason be shaken with a double violence, and this assumption appears to be confirmed by observation.

  32. Two intersecting inverted cones representing glacial cirques of different sizes, to show that their intersection is the arc of a hyperbola, the curve to which the col approximates.

  33. Two intersecting parallel series of fractures produced upon each free surface of a prismatic block of stiff molders’ wax when broken by compression from the ends (after Daubrée and Tresca).

  34. Towards its mouth its waters find their way into all the channels intersecting the South Holland archipelago.

  35. Why, I fell into that intersecting stream which you call a kennel, and I a river.

  36. There are still no transverse arches, but the vault is no longer interpenetrating but fully groined, yet with practically level crowns, so that it still has the general form of intersecting tunnel vaults.

  37. If not unknown in bays of rectangular plan, this was probably a first attempt to apply these intersecting ribs to bays of trapezoidal shape, a problem especially difficult when these bays had two curved sides.

  38. The two lines intersecting at Sirius make the "Egyptian X" as it is called.

  39. This is accomplished as stated above by intersecting former routes and obtaining new values of the element at the points of intersection.

  40. Other intersecting trails connected the Yellowstone River trail with the Madison and Firehole Basins on the west and with the Bighorn Valley on the east.

  41. It divided at Yellowstone Lake, the principal branch following the east shore, crossing Two-Ocean-Pass, and intersecting a great trail which connected the Snake and Wind River Valleys.

  42. Beginning with the simple intersecting lines, or bands filled in with hatching, of the primitive incised vases, further developed in the white slip ware of Cyprus (Vol.

  43. Diagonally or directly intersecting lines form another universal element of early decoration, varying from a simple arrangement of cross lines 22[54]mesh to an elaborate diaper-pattern, and in such forms found even in later times.

  44. A curious variety of the maeander is used by Duris; it consists of a double intersecting maeander interspersed with squares[2021] (Fig.

  45. He threw away the soap and began to retrace his steps, but the whole town seemed now to have massed itself in the intersecting streets.

  46. Fred's lines were flung across the intersecting streets like pickets, and, impressed by their quiet order, the belligerent town men began to mingle peacefully with the lingering crowd on the pavements.

  47. The possessions of different proprietors are not separated by fences, but only marked out by ditches; and it seems possible to walk miles and miles, along the intersecting paths, without obstruction.

  48. A door in the wall of the cloister admitted us into the chapter-house, its interior moderately spacious, with a roof formed by intersecting arches.

  49. We found a side door of the church admitting us into the great cloister, which has a walk of intersecting arches round its four sides, paved with flat tombstones, and broad enough for six people to walk abreast.

  50. Beverly turnpike near the mountains and rejoining the infantry, which would march to join Lee by roads intersecting that highway at Monterey.

  51. Commanding that pass and all approaches far out to sea with zones of fire whose intersecting circles marked rings of sure destruction, were defenses honestly built.

  52. Similar bodies were taking position in all the squares and parks, and posting their little guns where they could sweep the intersecting streets.

  53. More rarely also their position in the equatorial plane is not accurately retained, so that they are placed in two, three, or four different meridian planes, intersecting at very small variable angles.

  54. More rarely they are not accurately opposed, but placed in two different axes, intersecting at a small variable angle.

  55. Another form requiring more labor but having much greater strength is called a "deadman," and consists of a log laid in a transverse trench with an inclined trench intersecting it at its middle point.

  56. When the patrol reaches 14 (ug'), how are the intersecting roads reconnoitered?

  57. Coming to a sudden decision, she hastened after him, and nearing an intersecting street, overtook him.


  58. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "intersecting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    crisscross; cross; intersection; secant