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Example sentences for "resting upon"

  • The paralogism is transcendental in character, resting upon a transcendental ground.

  • And, as Kant is careful to point out, the experience, as conditions of which their validity is thus established, is of a highly specific character, resting upon synthesis of a manifold given in space and time.

  • They cannot lay claim to any necessity save that of being in accordance with the established laws of nature, nor to any precision except of the artificial sort, resting upon assumptions.

  • It may be a resultant, resting upon, and due to, a complexity of generative conditions; and these conditions may be fundamentally different in character from itself.

  • This cloth is intended to cover the goods hung upon the hooks; and it is kept straight by resting upon strings.

  • The wall of sandstone, resting upon a porphyry.

  • The sole of the hearth is composed of a layer of sand 8 inches thick, resting upon a bed of iron or of brickwork.

  • Suspension scale, a scale in which the platform hangs suspended from the weighing apparatus instead of resting upon it.

  • Defn: Resting upon columns; constructed by means of columns; -- especially applied to the great hall at Karnak.

  • Resting upon columns; constructed by means of columns; -- especially applied to the great hall at Karnak.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "resting upon" 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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