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Example sentences for "nearly square"

  • The point, for about a |323| sixteenth of an inch in width, has been ground to a nearly square edge, so that it acts like a drill.

  • Bark of the trunk about 1/4' thick and irregularly divided by deep fissures into ridges rounded on the back and broken into small nearly square plates.

  • Shell compressed, nearly square, with slight sternal incision and two obliterated transverse strictures.

  • Shell compressed, nearly square, spiny, with slight sternal incision and two distinct transverse strictures.

  • Basal ring rhombic or nearly square, with four short conical descending spines on the four prominent edges (two sagittal and two lateral); between them numerous smaller irregular thorns.

  • This genus is characterized by having a long, nearly square tail, but the outermost rectrix on each side is about 10 mm.

  • Utkiavw[)i]n, is simply a nearly square pebble, 1.

  • But in this case the upper platform, instead of being long and narrow as usual, is nearly square, and supports a building of the same shape, whose front at the top of the stairway measures one hundred and fifty-one feet.

  • The central building is nearly square, built of hewn stone, and covered with plaster, without exterior decorations.

  • The town is nearly square, and surrounded by a stone wall fifteen feet high, the top of which forms a landing extending around the whole.

  • Pores regular, very large, nearly square, one single pore on the breadth of each ring.

  • Arms regularly or irregularly disposed, nearly square, about half as large as the phacoid shell, at the truncated distal end little broader than at the base.

  • All rings of the disk concentric (commonly circular, sometimes with four incisions, produced by two crossed constrictions, or nearly square).

  • The board pennant is an oblong, nearly square flag, carried at the masthead of a commodore's vessel.

  • It is nearly square, inclosing several courts, and has a projecting mass which stands for the handle.

  • A projection from the round base of a column, occupying the angle of a square plinth upon which the base rests, or bringing the bottom bed of the base to a nearly square form.

  • Originally, a book of the size of the fourth of sheet of printing paper; a size leaves; in present usage, a book of a square or nearly square form, and usually of large size.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    excellent effect; gold mining; good opinion; had meant; light breeze from the; moist meadows; nearly all; nearly cold; nearly cylindrical; nearly done; nearly every; nearly horizontal; nearly opposite; nearly pure; nearly sessile; nearly similar; nearly spherical; nearly square; nearly the; nearly the same manner; nearly the same size; nearly three; nearly twice; nearly vertical; shall feed; small block