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Example sentences for "structure"

Lexicographically close words:
struck; strucke; strucken; structural; structurally; structured; structureless; structures; strudel; struggle
  1. In altering the form and structure of the poem Keats also takes pains to alter its style, de-Miltonizing and de-latinizing, sometimes terribly to their disadvantage, the passages which he takes over from the earlier version.

  2. Owing to the rigidity of the case which so nearly encloses the animal, its motions must be limited almost entirely to those of mere progression, and even for these, the structure of its fore-feet is ill suited.

  3. A more detailed account of the internal structure and economy of this extraordinary little animal will be found in the Zoological Journal, vols.

  4. Later a branch or twig, similar in structure to all the rest, shortens.

  5. The study of comparative anatomy has thrown a flood of light on the structure and working of the human body in health and disease.

  6. All animals, like coral animals and starfishes, whose similar parts were arranged in lines radiating from a centre, were united as radiates, however much they might differ in internal structure and grade of organization.

  7. But man alone, with his better brain and better anatomical structure of throat and mouth, and the closer interdependence with his fellows, has attained to articulate speech.

  8. It may work for the development of a trait or structure which, while of no immediate advantage to the individual, increases the probability of its rearing a larger number of fitter offspring.

  9. But I shall try to tell you when they have diverged noticeably from the structure of the primitive ancestor of the corresponding stage.

  10. But if he had not pondered long and lovingly on the structure of his body, and the germination of the seed, he never could have written the twelfth and fifteenth chapters of the first letter to the Corinthians.

  11. But in volvox division of labor and differentiation of structure have taken place.

  12. We have sketched hastily and in rude outline the anatomical structure of the successive stages of man's ancestry; let us now, in a very brief recapitulation, condense this chronicle into a historical record of progress.

  13. The truth would appear to be that the law is present in environment, but hard to read; but it is stamped upon our structure and being so deeply and plainly that the dullest of us cannot fail to read it.

  14. And he can draw valid inferences concerning the one power, which must underlie the apparent host of forces of environment, from the impressions which these have left upon the structure of his mind and character.

  15. If an animal is to progress, it must keep such a conformity ever secondary to a still more important element, namely, conformity or obedience to the laws of its own structure and being.

  16. Gabriel Fallopius, who has given his name to a structure with which anatomists are familiar, gave the same reproof in a more delicate manner.

  17. He was glad to colour anatomical drawings for the professors and pupils of one of the minor surgical schools of London; and in doing so picked up a few pounds and a very slight knowledge of the structure of the human frame.

  18. There was indeed a suggestion from within; but it was due not to any special faculty lying outside the essential structure of human nature, but to the constitution of the human mind itself.

  19. At sometime in the later part of the Cretaceous period the first breaks took place, changing the structure of the range from symmetrical to monoclinal and outlining the present form of the Sierra Nevada.

  20. Their name for this structure is campoodie.

  21. It is asserted that blind persons not carefully educated usually converse in a metrical cadence, the action usually coming first in the structure of the sentence.

  22. The effect upon her novels of such methods has been to widen their sympathies and to warm and lift their style; it has also been to render them sometimes defective in structure and sometimes obscure in meaning.

  23. Her art, however, to judge it by its past career, can be expected to move in the direction of firmer structure and clearer outline.

  24. For more than a century this structure has remained practically as it was in the days of Priestley.

  25. If there is a touch of fantasy about the tale, greater elaboration in sentence structure and some freakishness in the choice of words will be permissible and even desirable, for true verisimilitude lies in the accordance of manner and matter.

  26. He planned it all himself, and, aided by Captain Tom, and Alice, the beautiful structure went up.

  27. The factory was a low, one-story structure of half burnt bricks.

  28. Between these two, in the middle of the semicircle, was a higher central structure denominated in old prints the Temple of Cornus.

  29. The chief feature of the Grove was its open-air orchestra, at first no more than a modest structure bearing the unambitious title of the 'rustic music-house.

  30. The reinforcing rods are placed in these moulds and the concrete run in, and so on, a story at a time, or a small section at a time, until the structure reaches the height called for in the plans, and it stands completed.

  31. He said that he and the operators on the other boats were able to communicate with a station on shore until they had passed the Poughkeepsie bridge, and the great steel and stone structure stretched between the boat and the station.

  32. It is only by the botanical structure of the flowers that the orchid may be readily distinguished, the epiphytic character being of little significance botanically.

  33. The structure is easily understood from the two diagrams Figs.

  34. In our own native orchids we have a remarkable example of the latter form in the Habenaria orbiculata, whose structure and mechanism have also been admirably described by Asa Gray.

  35. Some critics have attempted to base their analysis on evidences from language, but I do not think they are sufficient to bear the super-structure which has been raised on them.

  36. Every paragraph should possess unity, that is, it should have a definite subject or topic to which all parts of the structure are related, forming elements, in its development.

  37. It is pleasant to look upon any structure in this new hemisphere which bears the mark of time upon it.

  38. O fools and blind, to have occupied a world so brimful of wonders for wellnigh 6000 years, and only now to have begun to open your eyes to the structure of the earth whereon ye live, and move, and have your being!

  39. Waste not thy precious time in cavil about the structure of the casket which contains thy treasure; but unlock it once with the Key of Faith, and make thyself rich indeed.

  40. Let me only invite you to investigate the structure of the Bible under this aspect, and you will be astonished at the result.

  41. A lock of very complicated mechanism, which four keys of most peculiar structure will open simultaneously,--must have been as evidently made for them, as they for it.

  42. The terms on which men dwell there are that every part of the structure shall be inhabited; and that every part shall be retained in its integrity.

  43. He is thinking of the structure of the globe: we are thinking of the structure of the Bible.

  44. The blocks of marble of which the Arch is composed have all been fresh polished, and the structure has altogether a very chaste appearance.

  45. The Building Committee published in detail the reasons, both of economy and taste, which had induced them to prepare plans for a structure of brick, the principle feature of which was a dome two hundred feet in diameter.

  46. Living masses convey to a great structure a character of animation, which no inanimate objects, however beautiful, can supply.

  47. The very structure of Vasari's sentences has usually been retained, though some freedom was necessary in the matter of the punctuation, which is generally bewildering.

  48. The building to which he had been directed, and where Knobs had last been seen, proved to be a narrow four-story structure with a small square hallway at the front.

  49. This boat had been kept in a small brick structure close to the base of a wharf.

  50. Long after the last structure of the vanished "City" had gone crashing down and the great throngs had crept away to their homes, a solitary figure stood in a dark recess between two buildings, watching the heaps of red ruin and desolation.

  51. With still more capricious masquing, she varies and hides the structure of her 'berries.

  52. Few botanical characters are more definite than the leaf structure illustrated in Plate VI.

  53. So I shall henceforward speak simply of the leaf and its ribs,--only specifying the additional veined structure on necessary occasions.

  54. It will be better, however, to take a larger leaf to examine this structure in.

  55. No other plants have so endless variety on so similar a structure as the mosses; and none teach so well the humility of Death.

  56. My dear doctor, I have learned nearly whatever I know of plant structure from you, and am grateful; and that it is little, is not your fault, but mine.

  57. I delay any extended description of these until we have examined the structure of wood itself more closely; this intricate and difficult task having been remitted (p.

  58. My structure is of pitch pine, and stood for 16 years without repair.

  59. It is very generally supposed that the co-efficient of adhesion between a wheel and a rail is a constant fraction of the insistent weight, varying slightly with the molecular structure of the metals in contact.

  60. The structure as a whole presented an imposing appearance and was ideal for the purpose intended.

  61. For a time we feared the dimensions would have to be reduced, but State Engineer Ellery, after figuring carefully on the job, expressed the opinion that he could erect the structure as planned for an amount pretty close to our figures.


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