Enveloping Sentence Examples

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  • The pillar of light was moving closer, enveloping everything in its path.

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  • The guns of that battery were being fired continually one after another with a deafening roar, enveloping the whole neighborhood in powder smoke.

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  • The nucellus is a cellular tissue enveloping one large cell, the embryo-sac or macrospore.

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  • The aureola, when enveloping the whole body, is generally oval or elliptical in form, but is occasionally circular or quatrefoil.

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  • The spore-cell multiplies by division, while the enveloping cell is nutrient and protective.

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  • In Chapter 2. we give a short summary of parts of the theory of quantized enveloping algebras.

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  • The crowd was all enveloping, not unlike a cloud.

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  • This technique is referred to as enveloping the superclass 's operation.

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  • There is no free-swimming planula larva, but the stage corresponding to it is passed over in an enveloping cyst, which is secreted round the embryo by its own ectodermal layer, shortly after the germ-layer formation is complete, i.e.

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  • There is a very wide range in the general structure and arrangement of the parts of the flower, associated with the means for ensuring the transference of pollen; in the simplest cases the flower consists only of a few stamens or carpels, with no enveloping sepals or petals, as in the willow, while in, the more elaborate type each series is represented, the whole forming a complicated structure closely correlated with the size, form and habits of the pollinating agent (see Flower).

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  • As the temperature sinks still farther, pro-eutectoid cementite (see § 22) forms progressively in the austenite both primary and eutectic, and this pro-eutectoid cementite as it comes into existence tends to assemble in the form of a network enveloping the kernels or grains of the austenite from which it springs.

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  • An enveloping, pulsating soundtrack helps to give everyone the feeling of being involved in an adventure.

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  • When an insect strikes the web the spider loosens his hold of the trap-line, thus enveloping the victim in a tangle of threads which would otherwise not come into contact with it.

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  • The elaborate treatment of the drapery enveloping these female figures suggests an approach to the mannerism of later times; this and other indications point to the probability that the balustrade was added in the latter years of the Peloponnesian War.

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  • Then, leaving Hope with 30,000 men to watch Bayonne, he began an enveloping movement round Soult's left.

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  • The prince, seeing the opportunity for a battle, immediately issued orders for an enveloping attack on Miinchengratz by his whole army, but, owing to distances and the number of units now requiring direction, it was late in the following day before all were in readiness for action.

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  • Cake or plug tobacco is made by enveloping the desired amount of fillers within covering leaves of a fine bright colour.

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  • This layer also forms the attachment for the muscles, of which there are two enveloping coats, a circular and a longitudinal layer and also dorso-ventral fibres.

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  • The old town stands on an island hemmed in by the canal and the harbour basins, which divide it from the much more extensive manufacturing quarter of St Pierre, enveloping it on the east and south.

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  • During the monsoon the climate is very damp, and at times even cold and raw, thick clouds and mist enveloping the sky for many days together.

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  • On the evening of the loth, after all their long and hardly contested enveloping marches, Nogi's left and Kawamura's right met north of Mukden.

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  • But, as complete inactivity would have been synonymous with death, it appears to have been admitted that the sceptic, while retaining his consciousness of the complete uncertainty enveloping every step, might follow custom in the ordinary affairs of life.

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  • In going abroad the ladies wear above their indoor dress a loose robe of colored silk without sleeves, and nearly open at the sides, and above it a large enveloping piece of black silk, which is brought over the head, and gathered round the person by the arms and hands on each side.

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  • In a word, they were the sound kernel of the still but partially developed Swedish constitution, the democratic safeguard against the monarchical tendency which was enveloping the rest of Europe.

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  • When a system vibrating in a free period of its own encounters, say through the medium of an enveloping aether, a second system having a different free period, and sets it in vibration, the amplitude of the second vibration is inconsiderable, except when the periods approach equality.

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  • The art of these countries is mainly geometrical, and allows only of monograms crowned with laurels, of peacocks, of animals gambolling amid foliage, of fruit and flowers, of crosses which are either svastikas of Hindu and Mycenaean type, or so lost in enveloping arabesques as to be merely decorative.

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  • The bowed guitar symbolizes streaks of dawn enveloping the horizon.

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  • The weather remained just as miserable, tho, with a worryingly thick mist enveloping the landscape.

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  • Tenosynovitis-Inflammation of a tendon and its enveloping sheath, usually resulting from overuse injury.

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  • The WebMonkey cheat sheet covers the basic structure of a web page first, with the big enveloping tags, as well as the and .

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  • Her senses filled with his taste, scent, the heat of his body, enveloping her yet never enough.

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  • Jessi leaned into him, thrilled at the sensation of his arms enveloping her in his heat.

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  • The inner coat enveloping the spores is supported, like a ball, either with or without a stalk on the upper face of the star.

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