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Example sentences for "trapezium"

Lexicographically close words:
trap; trapdoor; trapesing; trapeze; trapezes; trapezius; trapezoid; trapezoidal; trappean; trapped
  1. In this manner they crossed the inner trapezium of the barricade.

  2. It was in this sort of fold in the interior trapezium of the barricade, that Eponine had breathed her last.

  3. These four streets surrounded this trapezium like a moat.

  4. The remainder of the trapezium formed the garden, which was much lower than the level of the Rue Polonceau, which caused the walls to be very much higher on the inside than on the outside.

  5. His court must therefore have been a trapezium with its smallest side opposite to the pylon, rather than a rectangle.

  6. But more interesting than the Trapezium is the vast cloud, full of strange shapes, surrounding it.

  7. Our three-inch would have shown the four stars of the Trapezium perfectly well, and the four-inch would have revealed a fifth star, very faint, outside a line joining the smallest of the four and its nearest neighbor.

  8. A very small proper motion of the trapezium (alone) would long since have destroyed the remarkable agreement in the position of the dark gap and the trapezium which has been noticed for so many years.

  9. To return to our telescopic observations:--The trapezium affords a useful test for the light-gathering power of the telescope.

  10. The fact that the nebula shares the proper motion of the trapezium appears inexplicable if the nebula is really far out in space beyond the trapezium.

  11. I give a view of the trapezium as seen with an 8-inch equatorial.

  12. It articulates with the trapezium and the radius.

  13. Sometimes, however, in certain varieties of horses the trapezium is developed, but then it is no more than a very small osseous nodule.

  14. This figure forms a grand trapezium of four stars on the celestial sphere.

  15. The Scorpion, held to be a sign of ill luck, has been prejudicial to the Archer, which follows it, and traces an oblique trapezium in the sky, a little to the east of Antares.

  16. The trapezium is then to be seized by forceps and carefully dissected out, the metacarpal bone of the thumb pared like the others, the articular surface of the pisiform removed, the rest of the bone being left if it is sound.

  17. The cut tendons, and the extensor secundi internodii tendon and the radial artery can thus be pushed outwards, enabling the trapezium to be separated from the carpus by cutting-pliers.

  18. You can see four distinctly through my telescope, forming a trapezium or four-sided figure, and more powerful instruments show two smaller ones.

  19. South of Virgo is a trapezium of four stars, which are in the constellation of Corvus, or the Crow.

  20. There are two other fainter stars which form a large trapezium with Betelgeuse and Rigel.

  21. Below Orion (Plate 14) is a small trapezium of stars which are in the constellation of Lepus, or the Hare.

  22. His body consists of a trapezium of four stars of the third and fourth magnitudes.


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