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Example sentences for "nearly level"

  • I should want the land to be nearly level so that it would not be difficult to prevent damage from surface washing.

  • Above and between these slopes the upland is nearly level.

  • The top (with an Hospice) is nearly level, and the descent by the French side easy.

  • The Madonna road from Poggio is nearly level.

  • The large building behind the church is the principal prison.

  • Those wishing to walk should provide themselves with a pocket compass and a copy of the plan of the Forêt de Fontainebleau, 1½ fr.

  • In the Rue de la Chancellerie, near the Cour des Offices or east end of the Chateau, is the H.

  • From here the cave is nearly level, with several branches.

  • From here an additional descent of 10 feet leads to the floor behind the first-mentioned entrance, and there is about the same descent to a nearly level floor in the cave a short distance beyond.

  • The east wall was in best condition; the outer face was nearly vertical; the top of the highest stone remaining in it was 28 inches above the bottom of the lowest.

  • Formerly it was much resorted to as a pleasant place for social gatherings; but in recent years it has been used as a barn and storehouse.

  • The open end is large and forms an excellent shelter for cattle.

  • This is so named because a tusk was formerly exhibited at the hotel which was reported to have come from here.

  • To true a curved or warped surface, as of a board, lay it on the bench with the rounded side down and wedge it firmly underneath to make it as nearly level as possible.

  • Find a spot as nearly level as you can for your house.

  • In a barrel filled with coarse pebbles, the water of saturation would maintain a nearly level surface; if the material were more compact and retentive, a true level would be attained only after a considerable time.

  • Flat hand up, palm forward; then gently bent forward to nearly level, palm down.

  • Hold up the right A hand, waist high, palm to you, thumb pointing up, wrist bent so arm is nearly level.

  • A glance at the figures shows that the majority of orchards are on nearly level to slightly rolling land.

  • The country extending to the northward, from the top of the bank, is nearly level, or has a very gentle ascent for about five miles, when a more abrupt ridge rises to perhaps three hundred or four hundred feet above the lake.

  • The interior of the country, as seen from the top of the cliffs, appeared to be nearly level, and to abound in small lakes.

  • A low ridge of greenstone exists at the mouth of the Coppermine river, and from thence to Bloody-fall, a distance of ten miles, the country is nearly level, with the exception of some low ridges of trap which run through it.

  • Such a broad, nearly level stretch of land is called a plain.

  • Did you ever see a broad extent of nearly level land?

  • Let us imagine that we are out on a piece of nearly level land, many, many times larger than our playground.

  • Where the ground is nearly level, it runs slowly, and is easily turned from its course.

  • This delta is a great gravel wash, nearly level, and quite bare of trees or plants, except a few herbs, the seeds of which have lately been washed down from higher up the valley.

  • The whole valley between was floored by a smooth, nearly level glacier, about a half mile wide and perhaps two miles long.

  • The Glacier House is located near the railroad, and occupies a small, nearly level, place at the bottom of one of those deep and narrow valleys characteristic of the Selkirks.

  • A large casting, but not of unusual size, from a nearly level field, poor pasture, laid down in a grass about 35 years before (1.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nearly level" 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:
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