Revolved Sentence Examples

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  • Her world revolved around him.

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  • The Copernican theory of the solar system - that the earth revolved annually about the sun - had received confirmation by the observations of Galileo and Tycho Brahe, and the mathematical investigations of Kepler and Newton.

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  • I immediately knew where I was; on the carousel because I was spinning slowly around while blue and red lights revolved around the room.

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  • Her life revolved around Alex, Jonathan and Destiny.

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  • As he watched, spellbound, she revolved toward him, but he quickly closed his eyes lest he look upon her once beautiful face.

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  • As he watched, spellbound, she slowly revolved toward him, but he closed his eyes lest he see her face.

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  • It was six weeks today since Jeffrey Byrne's disappearance and ever since, Dean's world had revolved around that happening like a long-playing record.

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  • The reason all revolved around the fact that she felt uncomfortable around Rob – and the fact that Alex had said she was encouraging him.

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  • In Wellhausen's words, each petty state " revolved on its own axis " of social-religious life till the armies of Tiglath-Pileser III.

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  • He was still contemplating " at an awful distance " The Decline and Fall, and meantime revolved some other subjects, that seemed more immediately practicable.

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  • For this purpose four vertical mirrors are arranged round the vertical sides of a cube which is rapidly revolved about a vertical axis.

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  • These first two books contain Smith's general economic scheme; and we have stated it as fully as was consistent with the brevity here necessary, because from this formulation of doctrine the English classical school set out, and round it the discussions of more modern times in different countries have in a great measure revolved.

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  • This armature plate revolved in front of a field plate carrying two pieces of tin-foil backed up by larger pieces of varnished paper.

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  • Mercury and Venus were also studied, and he concluded that these planets rotated on their axes in the same time as they revolved about the sun; but these views are questioned.

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  • It consisted of a fixed horseshoe armature wound over with insulated copper wire in front of which revolved about a vertical axis a horseshoe magnet.

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  • This type was fixed, both in vertical and in perpendicular positions, upon a cylinder, round which rotated other cylinders, which held and compressed the sheets against the larger one, which also revolved and carried the printing surface.

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  • The body of the machine was oblong in shape, with the fore-part cut away like a water-chute boat, and a long counter at the stern over which the propellers revolved.

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  • In the new system, the sphere of the fixed stars no longer revolved diurnally, the earth rotating instead on an axis directed towards the celestial pole.

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  • In other fine adjustments by means of springs and balance wheels either a micrometer screw is moved (Zeiss), or a curved disk fixed to the balance wheel is turned (Leitz), or an oblique disk arranged more or less in a circle and attached to the balance wheel is revolved (Reichert).

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  • The eyepiece proper with the parallel strokes can be revolved, and the rotation be read from the graduated circle.

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  • Howard was an arrogant little bastard who thought the world revolved around him.

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  • The reason all revolved around the fact that she felt uncomfortable around Rob – and the fact that Alex had said she was encouraging him.

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  • Much of the comedy revolved around such anachronisms, with the 18thcentury protagonists often using 20thcentury references and visited by modern-day concerns.

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  • The focus of these meeting revolved around issues related to merging special education content and activities into the post baccalaureate methods courses.

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  • Codes of Conduct and the strict etiquette of everyday court life revolved around the Code of Chivalry, courtly manners and courtly love.

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  • A young upper internode revolved, judging from three revolutions, at an average rate of 1 hr.

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  • After the twenty-first revolution, the penultimate internode was 2.5 inches long, and probably revolved in a period of about three hours.

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  • All the mystery of his vanishing revolved on your description of a hulking fellow in a red neckcloth.

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  • For example when science proved that earth revolved around the sun instead of the universe revolving around the earth.

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  • Visit the city have principally revolved able to avoid.

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  • Initial difficulties primarily revolved around how to get into the resource in the first place.

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  • A young tendril, only 1.125 of an inch in length, revolved.

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  • The sub-plot revolved around a dysfunctional family of four, the villain of which was Eddie Connolly, a somewhat two-dimensional bully.

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  • Debauchery of all kinds, and murder in all forms, were the daily matter of excitement or of jest to the brilliant circle which revolved around Queen Catherine de' Medici.

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  • All previous series revolved around rather rarefied contexts - nobility, aristocracy, and royalty.

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  • At the time, MPs thought the issue revolved solely around RUC officers.

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  • I had been in a haze for almost 25 years and everything I did revolved around alcohol.

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  • I was so self-centered that I believed that the universe revolved around me, and I could have cared less about anybody.

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  • Prior to the program, everything I did from high school on revolved around drinking, it made me empty and fearless.

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  • Alba was selected by show creator James Cameron out of 1,200 hopefuls for the part of Max Guevera - the so called "genetically enhanced superhuman prototype" around whom the show's plot revolved.

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  • Initially, the show revolved around the hospital's seventh floor.

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  • The series revolved around the oil-rich Ewing clan.

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  • He has revolved between these two women for nearly three decades.

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  • After the original story lines that revolved around a trio of women clucking about their neighbors, friends, and family, it was said that they were stuck in the '50s because of its distinctive view of working class life.

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