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Example sentences for "separates"

Lexicographically close words:
separat; separate; separated; separately; separateness; separateth; separating; separation; separations; separatism
  1. Fire and Water in Cambodia--enjoy a reverence and receive a cult which separates them from the common herd, and assimilates them to priests rather than to magicians.

  2. On the dark places the white of egg, together with the ink with which the exposed paper has been coated, separates in water.

  3. After the air has been liquefied, it is allowed to go back to vapor by exposing it to the surrounding heat of the atmosphere, and this vaporization separates the nitrogen from the oxygen, as the nitrogen boils at a temperature of --318 deg.

  4. When the chemist separates or analyzes compounds, until he can no longer simplify or subdivide them, he calls these simple products "chemical elements.

  5. The lines of Kheyr-ed-dīn's triple wall may still be traced across the neck of land which separates the lake of Tunis from the Mediterranean.

  6. The Turks landed on the tongue of promontory which separates the two great harbours, and where there was as yet no Fort St. Elmo to molest them.

  7. On the northern coast of the rocky island a bold promontory or rugged tongue of land, Mount Sceberras, separates two deep bights or inlets.

  8. The islands in the strait which separates the North African coast from Sicily were also colonised by the Phoenicians.

  9. No armies of any considerable size have ever attempted to traverse the almost waterless desert which separates the Lower Euphrates valley from the delta of the Nile.

  10. A zigzag barrier separates this central ornamentation from that of the outer part of the dish.

  11. In the middle a cock separates the two groups, while at the two extremities two animal forms, a horse grazing and a dog trying to make out a scent, balance each other.

  12. Andreas, passed into the channel that separates Cyprus from the mainland, found the coast upon their right attract them far more than that upon their left, and formed settlements in Cilicia which ultimately became of considerable importance.

  13. The distance, however, which separates Djebel Hemeur from the left bank of the Wäd Mellag, is not twenty (the number given by the MSS.

  14. The Russian border-line runs from Little Ararat along the high ridge which separates it from Great Ararat, through the peak of the latter, and onward a short distance to the northwest, then turns sharply to the west.

  15. Kuchan, our next stopping-place, lies on the almost imperceptible watershed which separates the Herat valley from the Caspian Sea.

  16. The prism separates the white light into the rainbow colors.

  17. When you burn a piece of wood, the heat partly separates its elements, just as heating sugar separates the carbon from the water.

  18. There came a moment then when the pair found out for themselves how imperceptible is the boundary sometimes that separates friendship and love.

  19. He separates his syllables after the Scotch fashion, and has thus a very distinct pronunciation, gesticulates a good deal, and rejoices in a clear, ringing voice of an average pitch.

  20. At bottom there is only one thing that separates a soul from God, and that is sin--sin of some sort, like tiny grains of dust that get between two polished plates in an engine that ought to move smoothly and closely against each other.

  21. What a solemn attestation of universal sinfulness is in these words of Christ's, and how calmly He separates Himself by His sinlessness from us!

  22. They need what shall be life to their truest life, and death to all the death within, that separates them from the life of God.

  23. Very little rock of this character is met with west and south of the Dividing Range which separates rivers flowing to the eastern and northern coast, and those trending south to the Murray or Cooper's Creek.

  24. The main outbursts of lava have taken place along the Dividing Range which separates the eastern and western waters, and therefore on the line of the highest elevation of the country.

  25. The channel which separates it from the main land is of considerable depth and 25 miles broad.

  26. Other characters are also given to show that the Orang's foot separates it more widely from the Gorilla than that of the Gorilla separates that ape from Man.

  27. A thin layer of impervious clay separates the gravel a from the peat Number 1, and seems to have been a necessary preliminary to the growth of the peat.

  28. No geologist will deny that the distance of time which separates some of the eras above alluded to, or the dates of the earliest and latest appearances of some of the fossils above mentioned, must be reckoned by millions of years.

  29. There are writers," he observes, "who have taken an extraordinary pleasure in levelling the broad distinction which separates Man from the Brute Creation.

  30. Cambrian sandstone rests are far older, for the physical break which separates them from it records a time interval during which they were upheaved to mountainous ridges and worn down to a low plain.

  31. Tis situate in a great Plain on the Right-side of the Schelde, at a Place where that River separates the Duchy of Brabant from the County of Flanders.

  32. The third of these Rooms separates the least Apartment from the greatest, of which the former is on the Right and the latter on the Left.

  33. This Saloon separates their Royal Highnesses Apartments from the Chapel, which for the Contrivance of it very much resembles that of Versailles.

  34. Their sandy or chestnut colouring assimilates them to the horse, and separates them widely from the African wild asses, which are grey.

  35. The frontier which separates the republic from Nicaragua extends across the continent from E.

  36. It separates the thoracic from the abdominal cavity, forming the floor of the thoracic and the roof of the abdominal cavity.

  37. The Portus Alburnus is the mouth of the river Silarus (now Selo), which separates Lucania from the district of the Picentini.

  38. On the addition of nitrate of silver to the nitric acid solution, chloride of silver separates out.

  39. If, on shaking, a white curdy precipitate, soluble in ammonia, separates out, it is sufficiently satisfactory evidence of the presence of chlorides.

  40. The sulphur separates out at first as a dark spongy mass, which (on continued treatment) changes to light-coloured flakes.

  41. On treatment with hydrochloric acid or aqua regia they are decomposed; the yellow tungstic acid separates and remains insoluble.

  42. With material containing only small quantities of antimony the white oxide does not show itself for some time, but on long-continued boiling it separates as a fine powder.

  43. The addition of any acid liberates boric acid, which separates out in cold solutions as a crystalline precipitate.

  44. On allowing the liquid to stand for some time a bright yellow precipitate of thallous iodide separates out.

  45. The selenium separates as a red precipitate, which (on boiling) becomes denser and black.

  46. Red lead, however, contains an excess of oxygen which will use up some of the reducing agent before lead separates out.

  47. A stone Screen of rich Decorated work separates the transept from the choir, over which is now the organ (a modern instrument).

  48. A gallery in the wall over the arches which separates the body of the church from the aisles.

  49. A modern metal screen of graceful design separates the transept from the choir, and was designed by Sir G.

  50. It has two storeys, and a curious and interesting screen separates it from the Lady Chapel.

  51. A modern oak screen of graceful design, replacing a massive Norman screen ruthlessly destroyed in 1760, separates the octagon from the Choir, which we now enter.

  52. Posterior to the anterior end of the cavum medium and the lamina superior, the alary cartilage separates ventrally from the lamina.

  53. The fusion of the two recesses of the cavum inferior completely separates the lamina inferior from the solum nasi (Fig.

  54. Posteriorly, bone separates the prootic foramen from the anterior acoustic foramen (ant.

  55. An extremely narrow bridge of cartilage separates the anterior acoustic foramen from the larger posterior acoustic foramen (post.

  56. They have a fine edge, but one which, nevertheless, separates between a lie and truth, light and darkness.

  57. She was made to realize in her experience the gulf which separates knowing from being and doing--the right theory from the right practice.


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