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Example sentences for "nearly horizontal"

  • Here we may see vertical cliffs, sometimes 300 feet and more in height, exposed for a distance of fifty miles, at the base of which the chalk with flints crops out in nearly horizontal strata.

  • Although this is not strictly true, they make an approach to parallelism, for the same reason that sediment is usually deposited at first in nearly horizontal layers.

  • From the collar stricture there arise three divergent bristle-shaped spines, nearly horizontal, about half as long as the thorax.

  • Two sagittal feet much smaller, nearly horizontal, pyramidal (the caudal larger than the sternal foot).

  • Rings with few scattered thorns; four larger simple spines, nearly horizontal in the equatorial plane; two on the poles of the sagittal axis, two on the poles of the lateral axis.

  • As it is nearly horizontal, while the river descends it crops out at a continually increasing, but never at an inconvenient, height above the Monongahela.

  • The primary strata are characterized, moreover, by the nearly vertical or highly inclined position of their planes; the secondary lie for the most part in a nearly horizontal position.

  • The fault plane here is nearly horizontal, and the two formations, viewed from the valley, appear to succeed one another conformably.

  • One almost refuses to believe that the little outlier on the summit does not lie normally on the rocks below it, but on a nearly horizontal fault by which it has been moved into its place.

  • It is more or less irregular and broken, but so nearly horizontal that, after some prolonged examination of the data I have collected about the Matterhorn, I am at this moment in doubt which is its top.

  • In like manner, as we shall see hereafter, the most wonderful peak in the whole range of the Alps seems to have been cut out of a series of nearly horizontal beds, as a square pillar of hay is cut out of a half-consumed haystack.

  • In like manner, the Matterhorn is cut out of a block of nearly horizontal beds of gneiss.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    almost any; intense heat; later time; make something; nearly all; nearly allied; nearly black; nearly cylindrical; nearly equivalent; nearly half; nearly horizontal; nearly level; nearly parallel; nearly perfect; nearly related; nearly similar; nearly straight; nearly the same manner; nearly the same size; nearly white; physical astronomy; protests against; she murmured; shop girl; the altar; voluntary action