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Example sentences for "small bodies"

  • It is very remarkable, that all this array of small bodies begins to be found just outside the Earth's orbit.

  • The numerous tribe of small bodies, which revolve between Jupiter and Mars, do not admit of much of the kind of reasoning, which we have applied to the larger planets.

  • It has already been stated that, besides diversions to a distance and of small bodies, large corps are often detached in the zone of operations of the main army.

  • Small bodies of troops thrown forward into the zone of the enemy's operations belong to the class of detachments that are judicious.

  • If the ring were composed of a vast number of small bodies, then the third law of Kepler will enable us to calculate the time which these tiny satellites would require to travel completely round the planet.

  • Once, indeed, in a previous chapter we have made a descent to objects much lower in the scale of magnitude, and we have examined that numerous class of small bodies which we call the minor planets.

  • Boers could be seen leaving their position in small bodies as the crackling, swaying line of the British surged ever higher upon the hillside.

  • Each of these forces was occupied in the same sort of work, breaking up small bodies of the enemy, hunting for arms, bringing in refugees, collecting supplies, and rounding up cattle.

  • Cavendish, however, in 1798, by a series of experiments, conclusively demonstrated that the force of Gravitation existed in small bodies.

  • For if the principle is true in its application to atoms, it is true in its application to molecules; and if it is true in relation to molecules, it is equally true in relation to small bodies composed of molecules.

  • Small bodies of the enemy continued fighting in the huts forming the different camps long after any organized resistance had ceased to be possible, and obstinately refusing quarter.

  • Repeated attempts were made to retake the lost ground, and even after the Egyptian troops had gained the summit of the hill, small bodies of the enemy collected on the off side and charged upwards with the greatest determination.

  • Even at this range, here and there, small bodies of Dervishes continued to make isolated attempts to reach the lines, but only to perish in the effort.

  • This account greatly excited the men, so that they began to stroll about the country in small bodies, plundered every place they came to, and took the road leading to Mexico.

  • Our cavalry were therefore commanded to charge the enemy's line in small bodies, five abreast, and to poise their lances at the face.

  • From reports of the eighteenth century we learn that in the south of the Floridian peninsula the Seminoles were scattered in small bodies, in barren deserts, forests, etc.

  • The Creeks of old were in the habit of carrying on their warfare chiefly in small bodies, like other Indian tribes.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "small bodies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


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