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Example sentences for "its surface"

  • An ovoid, glistening red berry, the minute achenes imbedded in pits on its surface.

  • Spadix much enlarged and spongy in fruit, the bulb-like berries imbedded in its surface.

  • This flat-topped receptacle, held erect, has its little round nuts imbedded in pits in its surface, ready to be picked out by aquatic birds, and distributed by them in their wanderings.

  • The smooth stalk, with a bluish-hoary bloom on its surface, may have hairs on the branches only.

  • A small current of water, the brook of Caunan, takes its rise in this forest, and receives the waters of two-thirds of its surface.

  • Northern States does not exceed one-fifth of the total precipitation, but the moisture derived from it is doubtless considerably increased by the atmospheric vapor absorbed by it, or condensed and frozen on its surface.

  • The earth we know has been habitable many hundreds of thousands or millions of years, though three fourths of its surface is still covered by water.

  • Points of light and shade kept forming on its surface, from which rings radiated like the circles spreading in all directions from a place in still water at which a pebble is thrown.

  • Kollong rock is a steep dome of red granite,* [This granite is highly crystalline, and does not scale or flake, nor is its surface polished.

  • Here and there floated a quiet boat on its surface.

  • We seemed to be sailing down a lake, with rows of trees springing up out of the water, and houses and villages lying like islands on its surface.

  • It was completely desert; not so much as a single point of rock relieved the bare uniformity of its surface.

  • I shall not be satisfied until, by actual measurement, I have determined its mass, its density, and the force of gravity at its surface.

  • First, the measure of gravity at its surface; this attractive force we know, by the increase of our own muscular force, must of course be considerably less than that at the surface of the earth.

  • Of the water which leaps up from the spot where great masses fall on its surface.

  • You see here the sun which lights up the moon, a spherical mirror, and all of its surface, which faces the sun is rendered radiant.

  • It has been seen that the painting, disengaged from its impression made by paste and from every foreign substance, had been fixed on an impression made by oil, and that a level form had been given to the uneven parts of its surface.

  • The lowest plain corresponds with that at San Josef with the recent shells on its surface.

  • Its surface is at first smooth and shiny, but as necrosis of the tissue elements takes place in the centre, it becomes concave, and in many cases the epithelium is shed, and an ulcer is formed.

  • But, fatally for his hypothesis, it is also true that we must understand a great part of the phenomena going on at its surface before we can know its position, etc.

  • Finding that it would bear him, and that nothing happened, he placed his second foot on its surface.

  • It was composed of a sort of light brown peat; there was no form of living vegetation on its surface.

  • The glasslike water flowed right against it, its surface reaching up almost to the threshold.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    country house; immense quantities; its banks; its centre; its course; its general; its highest; its history; its kind; its length; its life; its mother; its mouth; its object; its original; its owner; its parts; its place; its power; its relation; its side; its surface; its value; its work; much inferior; much uneasiness