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Example sentences for "peculiar form"

  • A peculiar form of knife, closely resembling in character some of the crescent-shaped blades from Scandinavia, is shown in Fig.

  • One from Battersea is of peculiar form, with a |588| truncated butt, and has been presented to the Christy Collection by Sir A.

  • A celt of the same section, but of peculiar form, with the sides curved slightly inwards, and tapering considerably to the butt, is shown in Fig.

  • The Erechtheion is an Ionic temple of a peculiar form, which stands near the north side of the Acropolis of Athens.

  • On the right is a vessel of peculiar form, resembling a cupping glass, but on a scale out of all proportion to that of the group, and not to be considered as a part of it.

  • In the centre of the relief is a low column, with an Ionic capital, of peculiar form.

  • These capitals are of peculiar form, each column being connected at the back by a cross wall with the wall of the cella (see plan).

  • A peculiar form, which, according to Mr. Binney, "cannot be placed in any recognised genus.

  • Papin also proposed the use of a peculiar form of furnace with this engine, which, embodying as it does some suggestions that very probably have since been attributed to later inventors, deserves special notice.

  • This engine, which he called the "Columbian Engine," was of a peculiar form, as seen in Fig.

  • The latter was of peculiar form, and differed greatly in design from the sectional boiler invented a quarter of a century earlier by John Stevens, in the United States.

  • Another form of dyspepsia is sometimes associated with a peculiar form of dizziness--gastric vertigo.

  • For instance, it is well known that not only rye and wheat, but also many of the grasses, are liable to infection from a peculiar form of fungus called "ergot.

  • A segment of a copper sphere, also lined with silver stops the aperture of the silver cylinder, being applied closely to its rim.

  • For the sake of perspicuity, the rollers h, and those brushes are left out in fig.

  • If flax, hemp, long wool, or other fibrous material, be passed into the machine at the back part by a feeding cloth or creeper through a guide k, best seen in figs.

  • Defn: Of or pertaining to phraseology; consisting of a peculiar form of words.

  • At the end of the operation the lead is cast into pigs or ingots of a peculiar form.

  • The paintings and the printed figures applied to the glaze of stoneware and porcelain are baked in muffles of a peculiar form.

  • The thin stuff, called slimes, upon the surface of the starch, is removed by a tray of a peculiar form.

  • Of or pertaining to phraseology; consisting of a peculiar form of words.

  • A roofing tile, of peculiar form, having a transverse section resembling an elongated S laid on its side (

    The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "peculiar form" 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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