The enemies were now ranged on parallel lines, some distance apart; still on the starboard tack, heading north-north west.
The isthmus connecting this promontory with the general table is but about two hundred feet wide, and is defended by parallel lines [p039] of embankments accompanied by exterior ditches.
The square and the circle often occur in combination, frequently communicating with each other or with irregular works directly, or by avenues consisting of parallel lines of embankment.
The works consist of three divisions or groups, extending for eight miles along the Ohio river, and are connected byparallel lines of embankments.
From the fact that those paths pass through the same point, we are to infer that the shooting stars belonging to the same shower are moving in parallel lines.
Those who are acquainted with the principles of this science know that when a number of parallel lines in an object have to be represented in a drawing, they must all be made to pass through the same point in the plane of the picture.
Z[:O]LLNER'S LINES, rows of parallel lines appearing to be not parallel through the optical effect of oblique intersecting lines.
The convergence of parallel lines is much like a tangent in the outgrowth of the idea from the notion of space-curvature.
A similar declaration may be made of that other datum of metageometrical knowledge which postulates the ultimate convergence of parallel lines.
On the other hand, if divided by parallel lines, so as to look more or less like spun-glass, I call it striated.
Dry, stiff, parallel lines, scarcely ever deviating into a pleasing curve, are the general characteristic of most of his small cuts.
These tools are used for nearly all kinds of work, except for series of parallel lines, technically called "tints.
The lines of direction are inferred to have been parallel, on account of their apparent radiation from one point, that being the vanishing point of parallel lines.
The adjoining slab was divided into eight bands or friezes, by parallel lines, and the next slab into seven.
They are bent so that they may enter the eye at E in parallel lines, or as nearly so as is requisite for distinct vision.
The lens L below the reflector is to cause the light from the paper and pencil to diverge from the same distance as that received from the eye-glass; in other words, to cause it to reach the eye in parallel lines.
Both were now on the port tack, running west in parallel lines.
Of these chains the parts led quite near each other, in parallel lines, and as the ship's moorings were taut, they were hanging in merely a slight curve.
The two ships now ran a short distance in parallel lines, rolling from each other so heavily that the bright copper of the corvette was seen nearly to her keel.
Running along in parallel lines, and disappearing from view in the darkness, one knows not what to compare them to, unless it be to barked pine trees in the hold of a ship.
Little ridge-shaped beds--about twenty six inches wide and the same in height--are then formed in parallel lines at a distance of twenty inches one from the other.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "parallel lines" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
