306 examples of diverging in sentences

On some particular spot, favorably situated with reference to the well-known trails of the sheep, they built a high-walled corral, with long guiding wings diverging from the gateway; and into this inclosure they sometimes succeeded in driving the noble game.

A REWARD of $300 will be given for information leading to | | the identification and recovery of an old-fashioned | | open-faced Gold Watch, with gold dial, showing rays | | diverging from the center, and with raised figures; believed | | to have been made by Tobias, and which was taken at the same | | time as the above articles.

It sends galvanic signals every day along all the principal railways diverging from London.

The best thing I lit upon by accident was a small country church (by whom or when built unknown) standing bare and single in the midst of a grove, with no house or appearance of habitation within a quarter of a mile, only passages diverging from it thro' beautiful woods to so many farm houses.

My most delightful recollections of boyhood are connected with the fine old country-house in a green lane diverging from the high road which runs through Tottenham.

There is one drawing in Mr. Lowell's book (p. 219) of the mouths, or starting points, of the Euphrates and Phison, two widely separated double canals diverging at an angle of about 40° from the same two oases, so that the two inner canals cross each other.

Now this suggests two wide bands of weakness in the planet's crust radiating probably from within the dark tract called the 'Mare Icarium,' and that some widespread volcanic outburst initiated diverging cracks on either side of these bands.

So numerous were all these creatures that on one occasion the hunters of the party brought in six wild horses, three bears, four elks, and thirty red-deer; having shot them all a short distance ahead of the main body, and almost without diverging from the line of march.

The broken chain of association being repaired and joined, every thing became clear, again to his apprehension, and, in diverging from the path on this occasion, the old man held his way as directly toward the spot he sought, as if he were journeying under a bright sun.

No. 9 monitor has another set of geometrical definitions on the same principle, as a perpendicular line, a horizontal line, an oblique line, parallel lines, curved lines, diverging or converging lines, an obtuse angle, a circle.

A. Diverging or converging straight lines.

Q. What is the difference between diverging and converging lines and parallel lines?

A. Diverging or converging lines are not at an equal distance from each other, in every part, but parallel lines are.

The following is sung: Horizontal, perpendicular, Horizontal, perpendicular, Parallel, parallel, Parallel, lines, Diverging, converging, diverging lines, Diverging, converging, diverging lines. Spreading wider, or expansion, Drawing nearer, or contraction, Falling, rising, Slanting, crossing, Convex, concave, curved lines, Convex, concave, curved lines.

The following is sung: Horizontal, perpendicular, Horizontal, perpendicular, Parallel, parallel, Parallel, lines, Diverging, converging, diverging lines, Diverging, converging, diverging lines. Spreading wider, or expansion, Drawing nearer, or contraction, Falling, rising, Slanting, crossing, Convex, concave, curved lines, Convex, concave, curved lines.

The following is sung: Horizontal, perpendicular, Horizontal, perpendicular, Parallel, parallel, Parallel, lines, Diverging, converging, diverging lines, Diverging, converging, diverging lines. Spreading wider, or expansion, Drawing nearer, or contraction, Falling, rising, Slanting, crossing, Convex, concave, curved lines, Convex, concave, curved lines.

The following is sung: Horizontal, perpendicular, Horizontal, perpendicular, Parallel, parallel, Parallel, lines, Diverging, converging, diverging lines, Diverging, converging, diverging lines. Spreading wider, or expansion, Drawing nearer, or contraction, Falling, rising, Slanting, crossing, Convex, concave, curved lines, Convex, concave, curved lines.

Diverging from this direction, he circled at a quicker pace toward the rear of the grounds and coursed like a wild deer over a stretch of terraced lawns.

The position of woman in Portuguese countries brings one nearer to that Oriental type from which modern society has been gradually diverging.

2 I am diverging from the point.

Having crawled about for a short time, to reconnoitre, they turned their abdomens from the current of air, and elevated them almost perpendicularly, supporting themselves solely on the claws of their fore legs, at the same instant shooting out four or five, often six or eight, extremely fine webs, several yards long, which waved in the breeze, diverging from each other like a pencil of rays, and strongly reflecting the sunbeams.

One of these natural aëronauts I followed, which, sailing in the sunbeams, had two distinct and widely diverging fasciculi of webs, and their position in the air was such, that a line uniting them would have been at right angles with the direction of the breeze."Mag.

It was the practice of Italian artists not to seek originality by diverging from the traditional modes of presentation, but to prove their mastery by rendering these as perfect and effective as the maturity of art could make them.

But a book like this enables us to trace back these diverging lines to the centre from which they spring.

They passed the fields and went along the hard and dry highway, till she reached the diverging trail that struck off through the woods toward the settlement on the other side, the nearest house of which was Wilder's.

306 examples of  diverging  in sentences