15 collocations for indent

AT SUNRISE Like snow-white tents, their tapering forms Indent the western sky: The jewelled gifts of countless storms Upon their summits lie.

In order to preserve the verse, I have indented the line "Why, why, O heavens!" Act 2, Scene 1.

MARMORA, SEA OF, 175 m. long and 50 broad, lies between Europe and Asia Minor, opening into the Ægean through the Dardanelles and into the Baltic through the Bosphorus; the Gulf of Ismid indents the eastern coasts; Marmora, the largest island, has marble and alabaster quarries.

I indent the gayer flags of Pall Mall.

We are led about fifty feet to the left, where in a previous phase a shell has indented a huge hole in the earth.

The Polanders indented with Henry Duke of Anjou, their new chosen king, to bring with him an hundred families of artificers into Poland.

This vision of famine leaned forward and indented Michel with one finger, croaking again, "How fat he is!"

Morse employing a kind of short-hand symbol which indents the paper; Bain, a set of symbols which by chemical agency discolour the paper instead of indenting it; and House printing Roman letters in full by the discolouring process.

A shell indented her steam-pipe, and passed among the machinery, without doing any damage.

Former navigators were almost unanimous in believing that the deep bays known to indent a large portion of this coast, received the waters of extensive rivers, the discovery of which would not only open a route to the interior, but afford facilities for colonizing a part of Australia, so near our East Indian territories, as to render its occupation an object of evident importance.

The first of these, 1663, in which indented white servants and negro slaves in Gloucester County were said to be jointly involved, was betrayed by one of the servants.

So it is that in all the quiet bays which indent the shores of the great ocean of thought, at every sinking wharf, we see moored the hulks and the razees of enslaved or half-enslaved intelligences.

The bullet struck against the chimney, indented a brick, and fell upon the shingles of the roof.

If the specimen lies on a flat surface and the load is applied to only a portion of the upper area, the bearing plate indents the wood, crushing the upper fibres without affecting the lower part.

Her face was round; her little button mouth was round; the comical stub of a nose which perched above it gave the effect of being round, too, while the deep dimple that indented her chin was very, very round.

15 collocations for  indent