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Example sentences for "lacuna"

Lexicographically close words:
lactis; lactometer; lactose; lacu; lacum; lacunae; lacunar; lacustrine; lad; ladde
  1. Rissoa labiosa AND Lacuna pallidula] Our next illustration shows three shells of the family Turritellidae, so named from the resemblance of the shells to a tower or spire.

  2. The lacuna in line 2, after Dattilasya, probably contained the word duhituye or dhûtuye and part of a male name of which only the letter vi is visible.

  3. The median lacuna no longer exists, but is represented by a dorsal and ventral sinus.

  4. In addition to the median lacuna there are two lateral lacunae, one upon each side.

  5. He then speaks of the third or middle ventricle, and one posterior, which seems to correspond with the fourth; and describes the infundibulum under the names of lacuna and emboton.

  6. This solution of the difficulty by means of a lacuna was suggested to me by a friend.

  7. By a plausible but highly precarious conjecture it had been introduced into the lacuna of a mutilated inscription [300:2].

  8. I have endeavoured to supply this lacuna in his work; and the reader will judge for himself on which side the weight of argument lies.

  9. Besides, any significance with which that lacuna might be invested is discounted by the fact that such gaps are of fairly common occurrence in the course of Burchard's record.

  10. Finally it remains to be shown that the lacuna in question exists in the original diaries, which have yet to be discovered.

  11. Why, it may be asked, can we not get rid of this "something" which fills that gap or lacuna in the identity of the soul which can only be thought of in material terms?

  12. Haidarabad Codex and the Kehr-Ilminsky text, purporting to tell how Babur was rescued from the risk in which the lacuna here leaves him.

  13. There is a lacuna in the Turki copy" (i.

  14. Footnote 38: There is a lacuna in the text here.

  15. Footnote 25: A lacuna unfortunately occurs here in the text.

  16. The following sixteen exhaust, I think, the more flagrant instances of lacuna in this play.

  17. Mediceus A, with lacuna of chapters 3-19 incl.

  18. Footnote 69: Adopting Reiske's suggestion for filling out a lacuna in the sense.

  19. Unless a lacuna be assumed, a rather violent assumption, the phrase [i.

  20. Nor is there any objection to refusing the title of religion to Buddhism and Confucianism, except that an inconvenient lacuna would remain in our vocabulary, for they are not adequately described as philosophies.

  21. For two ways of supplying the lacuna in this description of Io's travels, see Dindorf and Paley.

  22. As there is probably a lacuna after [Greek: Diothen], it is impossible to arrive at any certain meaning.

  23. The inscription is in a very perfect state; with the exception of one lacuna of sixteen short lines the losses are very small.

  24. Here there is a lacuna of sixteen short lines in the inscription.

  25. On the eel-grass are to be found /Lacuna vincta/ and the delicate iridescent little shells of /Margarita helicina/.

  26. In spite of very difficult conditions and of the persistent weakness of his eyesight, he succeeded in filling the lacuna in the embryology of the Geophilus.

  27. The question as to what are the ancestral forms of multicellular animals cannot be solved through direct observation, for there is a lacuna between them and unicellular beings, a lacuna which is due to the disappearance of intermediary forms.

  28. The history of the development of those creatures was still unknown--a notable lacuna in embryology.

  29. Footnote 2516: Kuhn points out that there is a lacuna here.

  30. Very many defects have been corrected by the various editions of the Hymns, but a considerable number still defy all efforts; and especially an abnormal number of undoubted lacuna disfigure the text.

  31. Perhaps we should here again assume a lacuna or transposition.

  32. There is obviously a lacuna or transference of some kind here.

  33. In the middle of this is a hole which passes down towards the palate, and this lacuna provides also a direct passage which descends from the middle ventricle to its colature [= sieve-like structure, i.

  34. And this lacuna has around it certain large round eminences which support the veins and arteries that ascend to the ventricle.

  35. This lacuna Herschel tried to fill up in 1799; such was the aim of the memoir entitled, On the space-penetrating Power of Telescopes.

  36. It is a lacuna to be regretted, for in those phenomena the intensity of light must be an important feature.

  37. An incision is then made in each lateral lacuna of the frog, the two meeting at the frog's point.

  38. The triangular projection in front of the median lacuna is the body or cushion of the frog.

  39. She imparts to him much magical lore; but the close of the poem is lost owing to a lacuna in the MS.

  40. But unfortunately, owing to the lacuna in the MS.


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