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Example sentences for "nearly vertical"

  • No doubt the list is very imperfect, and several genera might have been added from the 'Somnus Plantarum' by Linnaeus; but we could not judge in some of his cases, whether the blades occupied at night a nearly vertical position.

  • Tetyra signata,) it is a nearly vertical piece, marked in the centre with an infinity of very minute folds, which probably by their alternate tension and relaxation let out and pull in the wings.

  • The fraenum, as in the preceding Order, lies under the margin of the scutellum and dorsolum, but which here forms one uninterrupted transverse line; it is nearly vertical, and is attached to the alula.

  • Six feet of equal length, slightly divergent, nearly vertical, slender, three to four times as long as the shell.

  • Feet about three times as long as the shell, cylindrical, nearly vertical, in the distal half irregularly branched, with dense bunches of aggregated blunt branches.

  • Four other large spines, nearly vertical at the four lowermost basal points of the subfrontal rings.

  • Where the primitive mountains graduate down into the plains, rocks of an intermediate character appear, which, though possessing a nearly vertical position, contain a few vestiges of animal beings, especially shells.

  • The wood is arranged either in horizontal layers, or in nearly vertical ones, with a slight slope, so as to form conical rounded heaps of different sizes.

  • When the mineral ores lie in nearly vertical masses, it is right to avoid, as far as possible, sinking pits into their interior.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    advanced post; cannot fail; good weather; great band; little girl; nearly all; nearly allied; nearly always; nearly black; nearly circular; nearly cylindrical; nearly done; nearly every; nearly flat; nearly free; nearly half; nearly level; nearly perfect; nearly related; nearly similar; nearly smooth; nearly white; people will; senatorial rank; shall happen; whole length