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Example sentences for "large surface"

  • Various forms of drill have been contrived for acting on a large surface of the stone; others for scooping it out, the shell to be afterwards broken into fragments and triturated; they are all unsafe and ineffectual.

  • Such disease, when the patient does not soon succumb to its virulence, advances to a frightful extent, affecting a large surface, destroying the whole thickness of the bone, and even exposing the internal parts.

  • A multitude of minute vessels may be torn without the substance of the brain being much broken, in which case bloody specks will be observed over a large surface of the interior of the organ.

  • The object is to lay hold of the concretion by as many points as possible—to bring a large surface in contact with the instrument.

  • It must not be applied where the skin is unsound, nor to a large surface at a time, and the greatest caution must be used, on account of the extremely poisonous character of veratrine.

  • To have a large surface of condensation maintained at these low temperatures.

  • A table-spoonful is sufficient to brush over a large surface.

  • Mix the powders and place them in a flat-bottomed vessel having a large surface; heat to about 100 deg.

  • Although one of the most valuable antiseptic remedies, carbolic acid in a concentrated form, when taken internally or used over a large surface externally, is likely to produce poisonous effects.

  • Neither do these symptoms always occur in regular succession, for in some cases the exudation is most prominent, being very profuse, and serve to spread the disorder over a large surface.

  • Finer indentations on the side expose a large surface.

  • The leaf-forms are very varied and owe their existence to the advantage accruing from the exposure of a large surface to the influence of the light.

  • The Tudor cell has positives formed of lead plates cast in one piece with a large surface of thin vertical ribs, intersected at intervals by horizontal ribs to give the plates strength to withstand buckling in both directions (fig.

  • For the action to be observable a large surface is necessary, and consequently a source of electricity at a high potential.

  • In order that the metal should act rapidly on the acid, it should present a large surface, so that a maximum amount of the reacting substances may come into contact in a given time.

  • The readiest method of preparing this water for use is to agitate it strongly with a large surface exposed to the fixed air.

  • Such, however, is nitrous air, after it has been long exposed to a large surface of iron.

  • This strain should therefore be reduced as far as possible by its distribution over a large surface.

  • Hence it will be seen that a large surface is exposed to a small quantity of water, and in a way that it is entirely controllable.

  • With running or falling streams a large surface is required, and the wheels turn slowly.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "large surface" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    large areas; large canoe; large cloak; large collection; large district; large element; large estates; large extent; large folio; large force; large fortune; large group; large income; large lump; large mouth; large number; large percentage; large pond; large quantity; large school; large section; large sum; large table; large towns; large tracts; large type