Home
Idioms
Top 1000 Words
Top 5000 Words


Example sentences for "roughnesses"

Lexicographically close words:
roughish; roughly; roughneck; roughnecks; roughness; roughs; roughshod; roul; roulades; roulant
  1. In the case of the wire of the right quality, the band of light may broaden a very little at the turn, but there will be no roughnesses of surface.

  2. Skin Friction, which is the drift produced by the friction of the air with roughnesses of surface.

  3. Skin Friction, produced by the friction of the air with roughnesses of surface.

  4. In the case of the wire which is too hard, the band of light will broaden very little at the turn, but, if you look carefully, you will see some little roughnesses of surface.

  5. Skin friction is that part of the drift due to the friction of the air with roughnesses upon the surface of the aeroplane.

  6. Next, while I held up the lamp to give him light, he gripped the roughnesses of the hewn stone with his toes, and in a few moments was upon the coping of the wall, twenty feet or more above the floor line.

  7. Japhet saluted, the ladder was run out and its end set upon the roughnesses in the rock that represented the hair of the sphinx's tail.

  8. This destroys all roughnesses that may remain from the first manipulations.

  9. It suffices, also, to wipe the plate merely with a sponge dipped in stronger aquafortis, the chief point being that no roughnesses shall be caused by uneven etching.

  10. The color, after rubbing-in, will not permit itself to be wiped away readily, because the etching has caused some roughnesses to which the color adheres in the form of little specks.

  11. The increased discharge is due to the diminution of the friction of the pipe by removing the roughnesses due to oxidation.

  12. He desired no smoothing over of the roughnesses of his past character.

  13. The surface left was little better than a sheet of glare ice, hummocky and studded with roughnesses caused by broken ice frozen upon its surface.

  14. In her incapacity to conceive other roughnesses than those she could feel herself, she was, it is probable, much like the rest of humankind.

  15. Well, I look back now and see that it was very hard at first, and I don't deny that I found the mere bodily roughnesses very trying at first, but that has long past.

  16. He looked shrewdly to the security of his footing as he approached, and also to the roughnesses of the rock above the ledge, in case a sudden violent gust should chance to assail him just at the turn.

  17. Then, certain roughnesses tempted him, and he succeeded in drawing himself up several feet.

  18. My darling mother certainly "spoiled" me, so far as were concerned all the small roughnesses of life.

  19. It makes the ordinary roughnesses of life come with so stunning a shock, when one goes out into the world, that one is apt to question whether some earlier initiation into life's sterner mysteries would not be wiser for the young.

  20. Beyond this the roughnesses began again, and there were more of the skimped rock cuttings.

  21. Pebbles and roughnesses intervened here and there to stop or to turn it aside, and since it was out of reach of their longest pole, the dynamiters would start it on again by throwing stones at it.

  22. There were no rocks and no roughnesses of any kind in the way.

  23. In some places there seemed to be no path at all; and it was necessary for him to make his way by clinging to the roughnesses of the rocks on the steep, sloping side of the mountain, with an immense abyss yawning below.

  24. He there encountered a cedar trunk lying upon the ground and incased in a brass coat on which all the roughnesses of cedar bark were imitated.

  25. On the posterior surface of several enamelled bricks in the Louvre a thick coat of this substance may be seen; it has preserved an impression of all the roughnesses on the surface of the crude mass to which it was applied.

  26. Ninevite sculptors meant to represent the peculiar roughnesses of palm bark.

  27. The crude brick would by that time have become dry, and no longer in a condition to adapt itself to the roughnesses of the alabaster slabs.

  28. He marvelled much, I learned afterwards, where I gained my readiness to work heartily for others, and to remain serenely content amid the roughnesses of my toiling life.

  29. But by Christianity all these roughnesses are filed down: every wheel rolls round smoothly in the performance of its appointed function, and there is nothing to retard the several movements, or break in upon the general order.

  30. They climbed the perpendicular or overhanging trunk with ease and swiftness, clinging to the roughnesses of the bark, at which they pecked from time to time, I imagine for insects.


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