Home
Idioms
Top 1000 Words
Top 5000 Words


Example sentences for "right angles"

  • Beyond the third of these, and at right angles to it, was a fourth somewhat smaller chamber, which gave upon a second passage that it was found impossible to explore.

  • The beak is flattened laterally, that is, in a plane at right angles to that of a spoonbill or duck.

  • It crosses the southern part of Tierra del Fuego in an east and west line, and in the middle is joined at right angles on the south side by an irregular channel, which has been called Ponsonby Sound.

  • Every street is at right angles to the one it crosses, and the parallel ones being equidistant, the houses are collected into solid squares of equal dimensions, which are called quadras.

  • The ends of these are supported at one side of the gap, about two inches above the ground, by a cross-stick lying at right angles to them.

  • The commonest arrangement is for two sets of strips to cross one another at right angles, each strip passing over and under two of the opposed set.

  • It is made of stout strips of rattan lying parallel to one another, and held together by strings threaded through the strips at right angles to their length at intervals of four or five inches.

  • We entered the new river at right angles, and, as I have remarked, at the point of junction the channel of the Morumbidgee had narrowed so as to bear all the appearance of an ordinary creek.

  • The lower end is straight across at right angles to the sides; the upper end rises to a very obtuse angle at the middle.

  • Bontoc beds are almost invariably constructed like parallel-sided, square-cornered saw teeth standing at right angles to the blade of the saw, which is also a camote bed, and are well shown in Pl.

  • Immediately over this, on the outside of the tube, a narrow groove is cut at right angles to it.

  • She struck White Fang at right angles in the midst of his spring, and again he was knocked off his feet and rolled over.

  • Cherokee might well have been disembowelled had he not quickly pivoted on his grip and got his body off of White Fang's and at right angles to it.

  • Then, approaching at right angles to the trail and cutting off his retreat they saw a dozen wolves, lean and grey, bounding across the snow.

  • To form with four sides and four right angles.

  • A mountain that shoots from any other mountain, or range of mountains, and extends to some distance in a lateral direction, or at right angles.

  • Having scales spreading every way, or standing upright, or at right angles to the surface; -- said of a shell.

  • In some ravines at right angles to the coast, it is seen gently dipping towards the sea, probably with the same inclination as when deposited round the ancient shores of the island.

  • When they have moved a quarter-revolution farther, and the line joining them is at right angles to our line of sight, so to speak, we have maximum brightness.

  • The matter would not be moving along the heavy lines, but nearly at right angles to them, in the directions that the lighter curves are pointing.

  • If the spirals are moving at random their speeds at right angles to the line of sight must be even greater than their speeds of approach and recession.

  • His hair, which was coal black and three or four inches in length, grew out stiffly at right angles to his scalp.

  • Scarcely pausing in his charge he seized the fellow by the shoulder and, turning quickly at right angles, leaped into the concealing foliage that flanked the trail, and was gone, bearing his victim with him.

  • On this hint, we ordered that there should be drawn, morally, in every district of Leaplow, two distinct and separate lines, that should run at right angles to each other.

  • Here the commodore took a bit of chalk and drew two very distinct lines, crossing each other at right angles, through the centre of the room.

  • Hitherto he had held to the south, keeping upon the very edge of the hills; now he turned sharply at right angles.

  • Then, suddenly wheeling at right angles, set off on a jog trot to the north, squealing and kicking from time to time.

  • Mr. Sieppe marched his daughter to the exact middle of the floor, wheeled at right angles, and brought her up to the minister.

  • If the journey should be made at right angles to the wind under the same conditions the increase would be 15 per cent.

  • Type B-8 is an 8-cylinder motor, the cylinders being set at right angles, on a V-shaped crank case.

  • When a bird is in motion its wings (except when flapping) are extended in a straight line at right angles to its body.

  • Straight lines are too prevalent--too uninterruptedly continued--or clumsily interrupted at right angles.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "right angles" 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:
    call again; could rise; dearest papa; pure democracy; right after; right angles; right away; right back; right conduct; right glad; right gladly; right guard; right honorable; right honourable; right living; right noble; right over; right shoulder; right smart; right straight; right welcome; right whale; right wing; right wrist; righteousness shall; rudimentary condition