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Example sentences for "topographical"

Lexicographically close words:
topmen; topmost; topographer; topographers; topographic; topographically; topography; topotype; topotypes; topp
  1. The works of many of the authors enumerated are topographical and biographical as well as purely historical.

  2. For further details see also the separate topographical headings (for excavations, &c.

  3. Let one imagine Galicia as a big stone jar with a narrow neck lying on the table before him, neck pointing toward the left hand, and he will obtain an approximately accurate idea of the topographical conditions.

  4. Wally Perkins, a topographical engineer in the employ of the United States coast and geographical service, is making a geographical survey of the Connecticut river from South Deerfield to its mouth.

  5. Part of the expense of this survey is borne by the government and the rest by the state, the object being to locate certain topographical and geological features in the valley.

  6. The conduct of topographical reconnoissances is well explained by means of a map of a supposed district of country, with marked features, which is to be examined.

  7. This is a lamentable error, one of the many met with in topographical research, by which the traditions of a demolished house are transplanted to an existing neighbor.

  8. His topographical memory was none too accurate, and errors of slight or of real importance may be detected in "Les Miserables.

  9. It may well be that she is not misled by topographical pride, for this ground was certainly a portion of the old burial-ground, and not impossibly that portion where Rabelais and "Marchioly" were laid near together.

  10. What made it worse was that one mountain looked much like another on the topographical map.

  11. Scotty's map showed topographical details like the height of mountains and their contours.

  12. The general who knows the Nine Changes understands the use of troops; on the contrary, he who does not understand them, can make no use of his topographical knowledge.

  13. Lear modestly called himself a topographical artist; but he included in the term the perfect rendering of all characteristic graces of form, colour, and atmosphere.

  14. This is not observable on the topographical maps simply because of our unimaginative definition of a watershed.

  15. There is a class of topographical engineers older than the schools and more unerring than the mathematicians.

  16. Evidently nothing in the line of topographical reconnaissance was thought of, for Captain DeLacy says "there was not a telescope, and hardly a watch, in the whole party.

  17. Raynolds, of the Corps of Topographical Engineers, U.

  18. Conspicuous among its topographical features are the Twin Buttes, two prominent peaks west of the river which dominate the entire basin.

  19. A publication by the United States Geological Survey, consisting of four geological and four topographical maps; a descriptive text by Prof.

  20. It was embellished with a great number of engravings and colored plates, and with an exhaustive series of topographical and geological maps.

  21. General Lee's perfect knowledge of the materiel of the Virginia army and of the topographical features of the state, peculiarly fitted him for this work; but every step was taken subject to the decision of Mr. Davis himself.

  22. Masses of publications were prepared, especially topographical and historical accounts of the city which played Amphytrion for the occasion, and presented gratuitously to the members of the association.

  23. One topographical fact is given us in the narrative of the war between Amaziah of Judah and Jehoash of Israel, before 782 B.

  24. After the time of Ezra and Nehemiah, we have no clear topographical references to Jerusalem until the second century B.

  25. During his absence, he was appointed by President Van Buren a second lieutenant in the corps of topographical engineers.

  26. The topographical aspect of Brittany is largely due to the two great zones of granite formation which come together at their western extremities,--the mountains of Alençon and the jutting rocks that come to the surface from Poitou northward.

  27. In Cornouaille, Latin Cornu-Galliæ, one finds almost the same name and the same derivation as in English Cornwall, and the topographical aspect is much the same in both instances.

  28. These cover practically all the regular lines of traffic, and include all the chief points of historical and topographical instances.

  29. Yet I still want a local antiquarian and a good topographical map.

  30. We lost General Warren, the commander of our Third Brigade; he became the Chief of Topographical Engineers on General Hooker's staff.

  31. The remainder of the writing on the same page refers to the construction of canals and is given later, in the "Topographical Notes".

  32. Thus, from a biographical point of view a very great interest attaches to some of the topographical notes, and for this reason it seemed that it would add to their value to arrange them in a group by themselves.

  33. Topographical Notes occur are in only a very few instances such diaries as may have been in use during a journey.

  34. The text on this sheet refers to Cyprus (see Topographical Notes No.

  35. Most of these Topographical Notes, though suggesting very careful and thorough research, do not however, as has been said, afford necessarily indisputable evidence that that research was Leonardo's own.

  36. The setting suggests the scenery of Tivoli; but when Turner's imagination was fired, he cared little about topographical or historical accuracy.

  37. The setting suggests the scenery of Tivoli; but when Turner's imagination was fired, he cared little about topographical accuracy.

  38. Neither the Irish nor the Welsh, nor a combination of all the Celtic dialects, will be found to afford a complete solution of the Topographical nomenclature of the ancient Celtic regions of Europe.

  39. The following are partly composed of ancient Celtic Topographical Names, of which the appropriate meanings have not been preserved(82) in the Welsh and Irish, &c.

  40. Topographical names of which the elements are not extant in the existing Celtic dialects, but occur in Oriental words, &c.


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