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Example sentences for "rarity"

Lexicographically close words:
rares; rarest; rari; rarified; rarities; raro; rary; ras; rasa; rascal
  1. It was quite a large grove once--considerable of a rarity on these here plains.

  2. If it is such an orchidaceous rarity as the world of worshippers would have us believe, then we know it must be the parasitic equivalent of our existence feeding upon the health of other functions and sensibilities in ourselves.

  3. These random passages out of her writings will show at once the rarity of her tastes and the originality of her phrasing.

  4. These, then, are the disadvantages which, on account of the rarity of judgment, attach to the existence of reason.

  5. A precious rarity for professors of philosophy!

  6. There they have been probably rejected with indignity, though their answerers have been preserved; yet even these are almost of equal rarity and price.

  7. The title is wanting in the only copy I have seen; but its extreme rarity is not its only value: there is something venerable in the criticism, and poignant in the political sarcasm.

  8. You said you wished to know what 'trawling' meant.

  9. I think the rarity of the last sign must have been due to the early coagulation of the blood, and its retention by the pleura, as I saw well-marked gravitation ecchymosis in one or two cases of mediastinal hæmorrhage.

  10. The extreme importance of realising this fact and the rarity of the production of symptoms by continuing compression both from the prognostic and the therapeutic point of view is obvious.

  11. The same explanation of the comparative rarity of injuries to the sacral plexus that has been already given in the case of the anterior crural nerve holds good--viz.

  12. It is somewhat paradoxical to say that these injuries possessed special interest from their comparative rarity of occurrence, since they were not of intrinsic importance.

  13. The rarity of any that could be termed transverse fractures.

  14. In connection with the latter statement, the rarity of direct sagittal wounds in the hospitals should be mentioned.

  15. When the track was entirely limited to the articular ends the small amount of damage at either aperture was shown by clinical evidence in the rarity of subsequent limitation of joint movements due to bony deformity.

  16. It is to the united effect of these causes that the author attributes the rarity of children born of Australian native women who have returned to their tribes.

  17. Hence, no doubt, the greater rarity of rain as we advance north from Mexico.

  18. Albeit his rarity restored her to life and health from mortal illness, yet say me how had he known of her condition save by the virtue of Prince Ali's Spying Tube?

  19. Then follows a comparison between rarity (In the second edition, page 146, the destruction of Niata cattle by droughts is given as a good example of our ignorance of the causes of rarity or extinction.

  20. The rarity of hard rocks suitable for the manufacture of tools causes many of them to be still in the wood age.

  21. Bischoff has made an interesting observation on the relative rarity of the sweat glands (which are found in the thickness of the corium, Fig.

  22. It is clear from this example that the rarity of a substance is not sufficient to make it into good money.

  23. Later, certain objects were chosen which by their rarity are of great value.

  24. This was largely due to the shortness of the term of the regular magistrates and the rarity of reelection.

  25. For our enemy Drift decreases in respect of distance with the increase of altitude and rarity of air, and there is no limit to the speed through space if only our strength remains.

  26. As a matter of fact, an English saddle is a rarity even in San Francisco, and you may say a thing unknown in all the rest of California.

  27. Among the many wild changes observable on familiar things which made this wild ride unreal, not the least was the seeming rarity of sleep.

  28. Epidemics of tonsillitis have been recorded, but in the face of their extreme rarity it becomes questionable whether they were not extensive examples of the proclivity just alluded to.

  29. Secondary cancer occurs in nodular masses, and with extreme rarity as an infiltration.

  30. Certain epidemics are distinguished by the rarity of this complication, while most are marked by its absence altogether.

  31. It resembles the general form of the disease just mentioned in its tendency to involve many symmetrical articulations at the same time, and the partial form in the rarity with which it extends beyond the joints first attacked.

  32. The rarity of their detection has been accounted for by the rapid maceration of the epithelium.

  33. Hence the rarity of hemorrhage during the detachment of the eschar.

  34. The rarity of this stone has inclined some archæologists to attribute it to a single source, while some have gone so far as to consider it eastern in origin.

  35. But experience shows that in every decade of stamp collecting the common stamp of to-day may be the rarity of to-morrow.

  36. For a long time it was treasured up as a rarity by collectors, but now that its real claims to be regarded as an issued stamp have been finally settled, it is no longer included in our stamp catalogues.

  37. Many a great rarity of to-day could have been had for a few shillings a few years ago.

  38. It is said that this delivery of letters was discontinued soon after it was started, hence rarity of the stamp.

  39. Each young girl had some rarity in her toilette.

  40. His greatest grief was the rarity of his communions.


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rarity" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.