2934 examples of curves in sentences

Swimming-birds that live around Måkläppen, just out of Falsterbo, now come floating over Öresund in many extraordinary figures: in triangular and long curves; in sharp hooks and semicircles.

For here, the delicate, graceful curves of last year's growth seemed to shrink back into themselves.

Seeing the maid next door making great wet curves on her steps with a sort of stone, he called to her to ask how she did it.

The stuff was deposited in yellowish curves, which he believed would turn white.

On yonder mound where frowns the wood, And curves the road with steep incline, A temple to Diana stood Before the age of Antonine.

He had sharp curves and good control.

Gordon felt sure that both would be curves, and so he offered at neither of them.

"I have seen you pitch," said Pierson, "and I have watched your delivery and your curves.

" Neither could the Harvard lads thoroughly understand it, although there were some who realized that Merriwell was using his head, as well as speed and curves.

Soon you will gain the mastery of heavier implements than you begin with, and will understand how yonder slight youth has learned to handle his two heavy clubs in complex curves that seem to you inexplicable, tracing in the air a device as swift and tangled as that woven by a swarm of gossamer flies above a brook, in the sultry stillness of the summer noon.

Accordingly, the pupils have exhibited more complex curves in their spines than they could possibly portray on the blackboard, and acquired such discords in their nervous systems as would have utterly disgraced their singing.

Even from a distance he had made that out, as she stood there among the crowd, vivacious, vivid, clad all in white except for the loose coral-hued sweater which set off her warm brunette beauty and the slim but charmingly rounded curves of her supple young body.

She noticed also that he drove the car much less recklessly than was his wont, took no chances on curves, slid by no vehicles at hair-breadth space, speeded not at all, and though he kept up a running fire of merry nonsense, had his eye on the road as he drove.

The river here made one of those bold curves which add so much to its beauty.

The approaches to the Bridge on either side form gentle curves of easy ascent.

© on introd.; 5May22, A661653. R61732, 28Apr50, Henry Seidel Canby (A) THE MATHEMATICAL THEORY OF PROBABILITIES, and its application to frequency curves and statistical methods, by Arne Fisher.

1; Mathematical probabilities, frequency curves, homograde and heterograde statistics.

LANE, ERNEST PRESTON. Metric differential geometry of curves and surfaces.

R119081, 8Oct53, Dorothy K. Heyward (W) HICKERSON, THOMAS F. Highway curves and earthwork.

The concepts used are all of them dots through which, by interpolation or extrapolation, curves are drawn, while along the curves other dots are found as consequences.

The concepts used are all of them dots through which, by interpolation or extrapolation, curves are drawn, while along the curves other dots are found as consequences.

It did not drop across the curves of the world; it rose from the center.

The enemy's line curves or else has a salient somewhere beyond this point; his line turns somewhere and extends in some form to the James River.

On 20 per cent of these tests load-compression curves for a 6-inch centrally located gauge length will be taken.

These mountains are capricious and disordered masses of grayish stone; there are no sustained lines which sweep upward from the green plantations and cut sharply across the sky, no unchangeable walls of cool shadow, no delicate curves, as in other hills, where the symmetry itself seems to protect the material from the wear and tear of the atmosphere.

2934 examples of  curves  in sentences