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Example sentences for "nearly parallel"

  • The hole, as usual with this type, is nearly parallel.

  • The shaft-hole is nearly parallel, though somewhat expanding at each end.

  • Flat, where the external face is nearly parallel to the internal, and the two edges are formed by narrow facets, as in Fig.

  • The two sides are ground concave, and the shaft-hole is nearly parallel.

  • Three feet cylindrical, twice as long as the shell, nearly parallel, vertical, at the distal end divergent, with a recurved branch near the base.

  • The two pectoral feet very large, cylindrical, nearly parallel, vertical, slightly curved, twice to three times as long as the shell.

  • Three horns and six feet nearly of the same size and form; short, conical, slightly divergent or nearly parallel, shorter than half the ring.

  • On the north side of the Arkansa is a ridge of considerable elevation, nearly parallel in direction to the aggregate course of the river.

  • Again, in three species of the Lamellicorn genus Oryctes, we have a nearly parallel case.

  • From there to Fredericksburg he had the use of the two roads above described running nearly parallel to the Wilderness.

  • The habitual order of march will be, wherever practicable, by four roads, as nearly parallel as possible, and converging at points hereafter to be indicated in orders.

  • Pillar files are tapered in thickness from the middle to each end; the width is nearly parallel, and one of the edges is left safe.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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