Home
Idioms
Top 1000 Words
Top 5000 Words


Example sentences for "solid body"

  • In response there always came a rousing "yes," except when the vote was a rising one, and then the house rose in a solid body.

  • They read it, laughed at it, and laid it on the table; and at the close of the session, by a unanimous vote, they retired in a solid body to witness the obscene show themselves.

  • When heat is applied to a solid body, several results follow, each of which is the outcome of the other.

  • As already indicated, the reduction of a solid body to a liquid or molten state may be effected by heat.

  • Sometimes when provoked, they fight; and when they go into battle, they form in a solid body, and utter all kinds of terrific yells.

  • Presently, however, they halted in a solid body, and being now driven to extremities, were compelled to fight, though their strength was far from great.

  • A joint that is made by being filled with cast-iron cuttings mixed with sal-ammoniac and sulphur to cause the cuttings to rust and form a solid body.

  • Alfred hesitated no longer; he formed his men into a solid body, and then, raising his battle cry, rushed upon the Danes.

  • After trying for some time in vain, Haffa, finding that individual effort did not suffice to break through the Saxon spears, formed his men up in line four deep, and advanced in a solid body so as to overwhelm them.

  • This Earth is a solid body, and all such possess, within themselves, the power of attraction.

  • Beric blew the signal for retreat, and his men in a solid body, with their spears outward, fell back.

  • In spite of the suddenness of the attack, the discipline of the legionaries was unshaken, and as soon as their officers found that the walls were already lost they formed their men in a solid body to resist the attack.

  • Thus, the left eye sees only the picture fixed on d h, and the right eye sees the one placed at e f; and the two images, being combined at the seat of vision, produce the same impression as a solid body.

  • Hence the resistance of a fluid, is considerably less, than that of a solid body; for the resistance of the particles, acting separately, is more easily overcome.

  • A liquid may be more easily removed than a solid body; yet it is not the less substantial, since it is as impossible for a liquid and a solid to occupy the same space at the same time, as for two solid bodies to do so.

  • By the first any manner of shape may be formed, provided there be a solid body, upon the surface of which the calcareous solution is made to pass.

  • The only question in this case, that can be made, is, How that mass comes now to be a solid body, and above the surface of the sea in which it had been formed?

  • A solid body of land could not have answered the purpose of a habitable world; for, a soil is necessary to the growth of plants; and a soil is nothing but the materials collected from the destruction of the solid land.

  • These are, a solid body of earth, an aqueous body of sea, and an elastic fluid of air.

  • To define the rigidity, we suppose that a solid body is subjected to forces in such a way that there is shearing stress within it.

  • The elasticity of a fluid is always expressed by means of a single quantity of the same kind as the modulus of compression of a solid body.

  • To define the modulus of compression, we suppose that a solid body of any form is subjected to uniform hydrostatic pressure of amount p.

  • The results for a solid body bounded by an infinite plane may be interpreted as giving the local effects of forces applied to a small part of the surface of a body.

  • Heat, then, is a sensation arising from a contact with light, which acts as a solid body, or as a mass of matter in motion.

  • When the particles of luminous or sonorous matters are re-united in great quantities, they form a kind of solid body, that produces different kinds of sensations, which appear not to have any relation with the first.

  • Thus these wise astronomers claim from this slim, unreliable evidence and the assumed excessive heat of the sun, that the sun is not a solid body at its surface.

  • Thus this learned astronomer will not assume for Jupiter what he assumed for the sun, and weakens and destroys in Jupiter the very same arguments he used to prove the sun was not a solid body at its surface.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "solid body" 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:
    acting president; caput mortuum; closely connected; important place; inch columbiad; magnetic phenomena; may suppose; moving pictures; riddle about; save only; solid body; solid crust; solid food; solid form; solid foundation; solid gold; solid masonry; solid mass; solid matter; solid rock; solid silver; solid stone; solid substance; sovereign prince; still they; the flesh