Clumps Sentence Examples

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  • Strong clumps of five or six roots of one kind have a very fine effect.

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  • The rich undulating pasture-land with clumps of trees and copses resembles a park.

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  • The trees in the wooded sections of the province are seen in clumps and belts on the hillsides.

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  • The coco palm flourishes freely even in the north, and is to be found growing in clumps with the Pinus sinensis.

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  • It forms clumps of silvery blue, arched foliage.

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  • When she looked again into its depths, she saw the clumps of herbs at the bottom.

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  • Forests of cherry-trees, plumtrees, magnolia trees, or hiyaku-jikko (Lagerstroemia indica), banks of azalea, clumps of hydrangea, groups of camelliasuch have their permanent places and their foliage adds notes of color when their flowers have fallen.

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  • The low country along the coast is covered chiefly with grasses and rushes, but scattered over it are clumps of live oak, called "mottes."

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  • On the small high island of Florida there is much undulating grass-land interspersed with fine clumps of trees; patches of cultivated land surround its numerous villages, and plantations on the hill-sides testify to the richness of its soil.

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  • Red pines abound in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland, and the tree is rather widely distributed over the northern parts of the continent; it rarely forms extensive woods, but grows chiefly in clumps among other trees, at least in its more southern habitats.

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  • Blood clots (thrombi) are clumps of a naturally-occurring protein called fibrin which can accumulate in a blood vessel.

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  • The media in the filter gradually becomes blocked with solids and bacterial floc, eventually forming clumps of bound up media.

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  • The petty-bourgeois moralist thinks episodically, in fragments, in clumps, being incapable of approaching phenomena in their internal connection.

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  • Crambe cordifolia Deciduous clumps of large leaves with tall (4 ') branched panicles of white flowers in summer.

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  • Heuchera sanguinea Evergreen clumps of leaves with various silver veinings, purple shadings or gray to pewter bloomed surface.

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  • The wooded portions of the terrain are dotted with clumps and belts of trees of moderate size, giving them a parklike appearance.

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  • The bacilli are seen lying as short rods, singly and in clumps, in the caseous and degenerated tissues of the lung.

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  • Produces slender stolons and spreads to form bright clumps.

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  • Division Teasing, pulling or cutting apart clumps of herbaceous perennials and suckering shrubs in order to produce more plants.

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  • By and large, self-cleaning litter boxes use a combination of clumping cat litter, an electronic sensor and an automated raking system to detect soiled clumps of litter and push them into a waiting receptacle.

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  • It will scan the surface, first making sure you cat has left the box, then searching for litter clumps to dispose.

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  • This action feeds the litter through a grid that catches waste clumps and dumps them into a pull-out drawer that you must empty.

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  • Once your cat leaves the box the unit automatically self-rolls, sifting out clumps and sliding them into a removable/reusable waste drawer.

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  • The cat litter forms firm clumps that are supple and safe to flush in sewer and septic systems.

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  • When cleaning time rolls around, you simply lift up the grid to remove the soiled clumps and droppings, and leave the unused litter behind for future use.

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  • The litter material bonds with the feces or urine and "clumps" around it encapsulating the material before it gets to the bottom of the litter box.

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  • The litter clumps on contact with urine making litter box clean up much easier than with some litters.

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  • Christie Keith, of the San Francisco Chronicle, makes the statement that World's Best is the best non-clay litter that clumps.

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  • It clumps well and results in a cat box that only needs to have its litter changed a few times a month.

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  • When this type of litter gets wet, it clumps together in a small ball that is easy to scoop out.

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  • If the clumps of litter and urine are flushed, they can block plumbing.

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  • Fixed bars that span the length of the interior of the barrel will break up any large clumps within the barrel.

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  • The shrubs often form clumps of thickets and can grow up to seven feet tall.

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  • Stir until there are no clumps and the paint is smooth.

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  • Differently formulated from its competition, this mascara's wand dips into a makeup mixture that forms small "tubes" around your lashes, abolishing clumps, streaks, and flakes that are common culprits of most eye makeup products.

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  • Failing to do so may result in unsightly clumps.

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  • Create a perfect line or examine each lash for clumps; whatever you do, this mirror will make sure you don't miss a spot.

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  • It does keep the clumps down to a minimum, but also more layers must be added to reach full potential.

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  • Cover Girl doesn't come right out and say this mascara will do it all; promising only defined lashes with no clumps.

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  • Try using a toothpick to remove the clumps from sticky lashes, being careful not to get poked in the eye.

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  • Blend them in with your own lashes by using an eyelash curler and a mascara that usually gives you a natural effect (there's no need for adding volume or length with mascara when wearing false lashes, and doing so could result in clumps).

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  • This type of wand also cuts down on clumps.

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  • Volumizing formulas are more likely to cause clumps.

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  • Use an eyelash comb to work out any clumps.

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  • Keep the sugar in the oven for 30 minutes, then take it out and crumble up any clumps.

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  • Place clumps of flowers in the vases to get a full look.

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  • If you stumble upon baggies filled with a substance that resembles small white clumps or rocks, you may have stumbled upon crack cocaine.

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  • In division the clumps must be well established, with root-stocks large enough to cut up.

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  • Christmas Roses should never be transplanted in big clumps intact.

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  • In shrubbery borders varied clumps of several plants produce a finer effect than when set singly.

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  • Strong clumps planted in autumn will flower in the following spring.

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  • The spikes usually bear four or five flowers, white or nearly so, with large yellow blotch on the fall, and some reach nearly 6 feet in height, strong clumps producing four or five.

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  • If admitted to the garden the clumps should be cut to the ground every spring to encourage young free-flowering shoots, and the roots trimmed deeply with a spade to prevent their spreading unduly.

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  • Even better is clumps or sections of a single type of flower because each kind of butterfly is attracted to a different type of plant nectar, so multiple flowers of one type or more likely to attract.

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  • If you have tiny chocolate clumps, that's OK.

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  • Weeding regularly will help break up soil clumps that slugs like to hang out it and may be effective at reducing your populations.

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  • The soil needs to be crumbly and free of hard clumps or rocks.

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  • Clumps of platelets will also not be counted.

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  • Sometimes, clumps of these cells remain in their original, primitive form.

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  • Sarcoidosis-A chronic disease that causes the formation of granulomas, masses resembling small tumors composed of clumps of immune cells, in any organ or tissue.

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  • Children may cough up clumps of sputum or phlegm, secretions produced in the alveoli during the infection or inflammatory condition.

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  • These clumps may appear streaked with pus or blood.

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  • Children also have clumps of infection fighting cells, commonly called adenoids, in the area of the eustachian tube.

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  • Make about a one-inch bed of loose soil at the bottom of the hole, making sure it's even with no clumps.

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  • This type of hair loss often begins with the initial loss of small clumps of hair, and may not be too noticeable.

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  • This type of hair loss is classically diagnosed by its presentation of the loss of smaller clumps of hair.

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  • Before taking vitamins, make an appointment to see your doctor if your hair seems suddenly thinner or if you notice big chunks or clumps of hair falling out when you brush your hair.

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  • It also has wider flow-through spacing which reduces clogs and prevents clumps of food from sticking to the housing.

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  • Blend the baking soda, salt and glycerin, stirring until there are no clumps.

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  • Dividing border perennials The centers of many plants which form congested large clumps eventually exhaust the soil.

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  • When platelets stick together, they can form clumps or clots, which may lead to heart attacks or strokes.

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  • There is but little natural vegetation to be seen - ragged yucca trees, many species of agave and cactus, scrubby mesquite bushes, sage bushes and occasional clumps of coarse grasses.

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  • The western division consists of low fen or clay soil and presents a monotonous expanse of rich meadow-land, carefully drained in regular lines of canals bordered by stunted willows, and dotted over with windmills, the sails of canal craft and the clumps of elm and poplar which surround each isolated farm-house.

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  • Tamarinds overhang the huts of the poorer classes, while the seat of a wealthy family may be recognized by clumps of bamboo.

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  • This occurs as a membrane on the surface of the medium, or as irregular clumps or branched masses (sometimes several inches across) submerged in it, and consists of more or less gelatinous matrix enclosing innumerable " cocci," " bacteria," or other elements of the Schizomycete concerned.

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  • The process is of course observed by means of the microscope, but the clumps soon settle in the fluid and ultimately form a sediment, leaving the upper part clear.

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  • Kruse and C. Nicolle have found that if a bacterial culture be filtered germ-free, an agglutinating serum still produces some change in it, so that particles suspended in it become gathered into clumps.

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  • The phenomenon of agglutination depends essentially on the union of molecules in the bacteria - the agglutinogens - with the corresponding agglutinins, but another essential is the presence of a certain amount of salts in the fluid, as it can be shown that when agglutinated masses of bacteria are washed salt-free the clumps become resolved.

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  • The typical scenery of the Chalk country is unrelieved by small streams of running water; the hills rise into rounded downs, often capped with fine clumps of beech, and usually covered with thin turf, affording pasture for sheep. The chalk, when exposed on the surface, is an excellent foundation for roads, and the lines of many of the Roman " streets " were probably determined by this fact.

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  • These plains include the extensive llanos of the Orinoco tributaries where coarse, hardy grasses and occasional clumps of palms are almost the only vegetation to be seen.

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  • Blending with these at their upper limit and continuing above them are clumps of mountain mahogany, which sometimes attains a height of 20 or 30 ft.

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  • The Scots, as at Falkirk, were ranged in solid clumps of pikemen above the burn, with only a small reserve of horse.

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  • The vegetation on the western side of the island is much less dense, often appearing as scattered clumps of trees on savannah-like plains rather than continuous forest; while in the south-west, where the rainfall is very scanty, the vegetation is largely of fleshy-leaved and spiny plants - aloes and cacti (the latter introduced), with several species of Euphorbia, as well as numerous lianas, one of which (Intisy) yields india-rubber.

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  • It will grow in any good soil, and is propagated by dividing the roots into small clumps in spring or autumn; these are planted from 8 to 12 in.

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  • It was strewn with loose gravel and stone, with occasional clumps of hardy vegetation mixed with larger boulders.

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  • In the New Year the bare twigs make a bright tracery above clumps of snowdrops and yellow winter aconites.

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  • The vaccine has been shown to clear clumps of the protein beta amyloid in the brains of genetically engineered mice.

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  • The clumps of whitish flowers growing on the shingle are sea campion, which looks very like bladder campion.

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  • They can be planted with clumps of reed, reed canary grass or other marginal vegetation.

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  • Alternatively divide clumps of spring flowering species in summer.

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  • The plant forms dense clumps up to three meters in height.

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  • There is a small population of the native Salad Burnet and scattered clumps of the litte Fern grass.

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  • Therefore, thicker clumps have much higher damping rates of waves [13] which support clumps against collapse along the large-scale magnetic field.

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  • These can be split into smaller clumps during Autumn, which is also the time for planting new bulbs.

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  • There are bamboo clumps on the right panel of the stage which is a reminder of the sanctity of the space.

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  • Lift and divide clumps every three or four years, wait until the leaves are yellow before lifting then replant at once.

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  • These characteristic protein clumps, which are called " inclusion bodies, " give this disorder its name.

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  • A comparison with the M1 detections (blue small circles) identifies the clumps in this supernova remnant.

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  • It can start falling out in clumps and hair all over the body, including eyelashes and under the arms, can be affected.

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  • The butterflies usually oviposit on nettles growing in smallish clumps in sunny woodland glades, or in the vicinity of hedgerows.

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  • On the hills the baobab and hyphaene palm are characteristic; on the plateau are stretches of open savanna, and park-like country with clumps of silk cotton and shea-butter trees.

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  • Witches-brooms are the tufted bunches of twigs found on silver firs, birches and other trees, and often present resemblances to birds nests or clumps of mistletoe if only seen from a distance.

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  • Then come the catinga tracts, and, beyond these, the open campos of the elevated plateau, dotted with clumps of low growing bushes and broken by tracts of carrasco, a thick, matted, bushy growth 10 to 12 ft.

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  • Hyenas, jackals, wild pig, polecats and wild dogs (Canis pictus) of different species are still found in or about bush jungles and forest clumps; elands (Antilope oreas) are preserved on some estates, and there are at least ten distinct species of antelope (hartebeest, bushbok, duiker, rietbok, rhebok, rovibok, blauwbok, &c.).

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  • He holds that new growths arise, both before birth or at any subsequent period of life, by the separation of cells or clumps of cells from their normal position, and that in health there is a balance between the various tissues and tissue elements regulated by what he calls the " tissue-tension " of the part, i.e.

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  • Some of the central cells remain in clumps as "germ-balls," others form a mesenchyma in which "flame-cells" arise; others again give rise to muscles; and at the thicker end of the body, rudiments of the brain and digestive system are observable.

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  • But the country sloping to the Paraguay, and comprising the greater part of the settled districts, is, in keeping with its proximity to the vast plains of Argentina, grassy and open, though the hills are usually covered with forest and clumps of trees are frequent in the lowlands.

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  • In this way secondary abscesses, secondary tubercle glanders and nodules, &c., result; in typhoid fever there is secondary invasion of the mesenteric glands, and clumps of bacilli are also found in internal organs, especially the spleen, though there may be little tissue change around them.

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