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Example sentences for "perimeter"

Lexicographically close words:
perilling; perillous; perilous; perilously; perils; perimeters; perinde; perineal; perineum; period
  1. After the defeat at Nanshan Hill the Russians withdrew to the outer perimeter of Port Arthur, giving up Dalny without a struggle.

  2. On his left lay the green hills of the island, all but obscured in sudden sheets of rain; on his right the line of English warships he had ordered positioned about the perimeter of Carlisle Bay, cannons run out and primed.

  3. Now the Rainbowe was entering the outer perimeter of the small bay at Jamestown, and the admiral excused himself to begin giving orders for reefing the mainsail.

  4. At the perimeter of the circle two scrawny soldiers struggled to keep their footing in the pounding surf.

  5. Which means they could have men and cavalry here on our perimeter well before dawn.

  6. Perimeter ratios do not correctly express relative interceptory potential, unless the shape of the sample is the same as the shape of the whole, or unless the birds are flying in all directions equally.

  7. Since then the exploit has not been repeated, but no one leaves the perimeter unarmed.

  8. It was found that the force to be left behind could be easily located within the perimeter of a wall built round the group of houses.

  9. If we were to cut out a cam to the outline thus obtained, and revolve it at a uniform velocity, it would move a point held against its perimeter at a uniform velocity throughout the whole of the cam revolution.

  10. To find what this becomes at the perimeter of C, we must reduce the number of lbs.

  11. By this method of balancing, the wheel will remain in true balance notwithstanding its wear, because the balancing proceeds equally from the perimeter towards the centre of the wheel.

  12. In the case of bevel-wheels the pitch increases, as the perimeter of the wheel is approached, and the maximum pitch is usually taken as the designated pitch of the wheel.

  13. Upon the face of the face plate and near its perimeter there are turned up two steps, as denoted by B and C.

  14. We may now convert the power at each pulley perimeter or circumference into inch pounds by multiplying the respective lbs.

  15. For sand-papering true flat surfaces the flat table is provided, there being beneath it a parallel revolving drum, whose perimeter just protrudes through the upper surface of the table.

  16. These and other deductions left Krugersdorp with a garrison of 300 men to man a perimeter of some ten or twelve miles, or, roughly speaking, just over fifty yards for each rifle.

  17. The perimeter of these defences was very large, not far short of twelve miles, but the positions themselves were well selected from a tactical point of view.

  18. In wagon boilers the proportion of the perimeter of the flue which is effective as heating surface, is to the total perimeter as 1 to 3, or, in some cases as 1 to 2.

  19. If to increase the perimeter of a flue is virtually to diminish the length, then a tubular boiler where the perimeter is in effect greatly extended ought to have but a short length of tube?

  20. Perimeter of the lateral plane elliptical, one and a half times as long as broad.

  21. Perimeter of the lateral plane elliptical, one and a third times as long as broad.

  22. Perimeter of the lateral plane nearly quadrangular, with four rounded corners (on the poles of two crossed diagonal axes), one and a third times as long as broad, with one sagittal constriction at the poles of the principal axis.

  23. On both poles of the principal axis two latticed wings arise from the lateral girdle, growing further in the direction of an elliptical ring, which represents the perimeter of the sagittal plane or median plane.

  24. Perimeter of the lateral plane elliptical or nearly hexagonal, with four rounded corners (on the poles of two crossed diagonal axes), one and a third times as long as broad.

  25. Perimeter of the lateral plane nearly quadrangular, with four rounded corners (on the poles of two crossed diagonal axes), one and a half times as long as broad.

  26. On the poles of its major axis (the transverse axis) it is connected with the larger girdle, the elliptical perimeter of which circumscribes the lateral plane.

  27. The genus Trizonium represents the most highly developed form of the Haplozonaria, with three complete elliptical latticed girdles, crossed at right angles and lying in the perimeter of the three dimensive planes.

  28. Perimeter of the lateral plane elliptical, one and a fourth times as long as broad, without constrictions.

  29. Perimeter of the lateral plane hexagonal, one and a half times as long as broad.

  30. Perimeter of the lateral plane elliptical, one and a half times as long as broad, without constrictions.

  31. The area of a regular polygon is measured by half of the product of its perimeter by the radius of the inscribed circle.

  32. He pointed to the northwest corner of the perimeter on the screen.

  33. By 0330, it was daylight; the attacks against the northwest corner of the perimeter stopped entirely.

  34. Poor skeletons of horses were groomed down, Sunday best was smoothed out, everything was done that the slender resources of the melancholy perimeter would allow.

  35. In the twilight the troops sped along over boulder and rock, down donga and ravine, reckless of every obstacle, and at last the melancholy perimeter was reached.

  36. Shann looked beyond them to the perimeter of the cleared field, not really because he expected to see any rescuers break from cover there.

  37. Most of the aliens were now flat on the ground, sending a creeping line of fire into the perimeter of the camp area.

  38. The perimeter of the defences was between five and six miles.

  39. Obviously the measurements of a single angle would no longer be sufficient under such portentous circumstances; one's whole life would be taken up in feeling or surveying the perimeter of one's acquaintances.

  40. This habit of abstention from Feeling in the best society enables a Circle the more easily to sustain the veil of mystery in which, from his earliest years, he is wont to enwrap the exact nature of his Perimeter or Circumference.

  41. Are our ticket-collectors to be required to measure every man's perimeter before they allow him to enter a theatre, or to take his place in a lecture room?

  42. As altered by him it was a square[255], half a stadium each way; so that the whole perimeter of it and the Temple together was six stadia.

  43. Moreover, Josephus states, that the perimeter of the Temple and the Antonia together was 6 stadia[291].

  44. There was battle on the perimeter and a continual feeling of unrest inside the city.

  45. A stingwing that had escaped the perimeter guards dived towards him and he blasted it automatically with his gun.

  46. The battle at the perimeter still continued, since the massed malevolence of the Pyrran life forms were not going to call a truce simply because the two warring groups of humans had done so.

  47. Two squares are formed with a combined perimeter of 16 inches.

  48. The perimeter of the defences is between five and six miles.

  49. If this be true such positions as were captured must indeed have been outlying, in fact so far beyond the perimeter of our defences as to altogether have escaped the notice of the garrison.

  50. Meanwhile, to keep from feeling regimented by civilization, you could take your rocket launcher and join the perimeter watchers that range out a thousand miles.

  51. It wasn't long before the perimeter watch, returning from a patrol that had taken them some distance out, brought in a makeshift dwelling bubb made from odds and ends of stellene.

  52. However small [eta] be taken, such a division of the region into a finite number of component triangles has been shown possible; the integral round the perimeter of the region is thus arbitrarily small.

  53. There cannot be two functions with the given perimeter values, since their difference would be a monogenic potential function with boundary value zero, which can easily be shown to be everywhere zero.

  54. Suppose in particular, c being any point interior to R0, that P approaches continuously, as z approaches to the boundary of R, to the value log r, where r is the distance of c to the points of the perimeter of R.

  55. Lieutenant Colonel Brown ordered Company Q to disengage from the west bank and join in the battalion’s perimeter defense at the mouth of the river.

  56. For various reasons, the 230th had failed to participate in the attack, and then had completed a circumnavigation of the Marine perimeter to reach its current location in the east.

  57. Finally, the bulk of the 1st Battalion, 7th Marines, then in the perimeter after the casualty evacuation, would make an amphibious landing beyond Point Cruz to slam shut any possible escape route.

  58. The Marines repulsed the first enemy attack at the Tenaru River on 21 August, but Vandegrift knew that he would need all the strength he could muster to defend the extended perimeter surrounding the airfield.

  59. Two days later the 2d Raider Battalion participated in an attack extending the perimeter several hundred yards to the east, but it met little opposition.

  60. At Vandegrift’s request, the raider commander entered the perimeter on 17 November.

  61. Army and Marine elements were moving east from the perimeter to mop up a large force of Japanese located near the Metapona River.

  62. The raiders crossed the Mohi River late in the afternoon and set up a perimeter defense for the night.

  63. They entered the perimeter on 4 December with a combined total of 57 Marines, barely one-fifth their original strength.

  64. Chesty” Puller’s 1st Battalion, 7th Marines, departed the perimeter on 23 September with the mission of clearing enemy units from the vicinity of the Matanikau River.

  65. As they neared shore, the Marines guarding the seaward portion of the perimeter opened up.


  66. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "perimeter" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    ambit; belt; border; borderland; boundary; brilliant; brink; circle; circuit; circumference; circumscription; circumstances; compass; confines; context; coordinates; edge; entourage; environs; fringe; girth; habitat; hem; limit; limits; margin; milieu; neighborhood; outline; outpost; outskirts; pale; parameter; perimeter; periphery; precincts; purlieus; rim; sell; side; situation; skirt; suburbs; surroundings; verge; vicinity