Figure on Sentence Examples

I could see a figure on a horse in the distance coming toward me.

I'd better figure on building a pen close to the house to quarantine the Longhorns in.

She might as well figure on getting that cell phone for Jonathan.

Archimedes died at the capture of Syracuse by Marcellus, 212 B.C. In the general massacre which followed the fall of the city, Archimedes, while engaged in drawing a mathematical figure on the sand, was run through the body by a Roman soldier.

The income of 60,741,418 in 1881 rose in 1899-1900 to 69,917,126; while the expenditure increased from 58,705,929 in 1881 to 69,708,706 in 1899-1900, an increase of 9,175,708 in income and 11,002,777 in expenditure, while there has been a still further increase since, the figures for 1905-1906 showing (excluding items which figure on both sides of the account) an increase of 8,766,995 in income and 5,434,560 in expenditure over 1899-1900.

In the case of plane figures, the congruence is tested by an imaginary superposition of one figure on the other; but this may more simply be regarded as the superposition, on either figure, of the image of the other figure on a contiguous plane.

Moreover few of the men put back, &c., who figure on both sides of the account for any one year, and seem to average 660,000, are really put back.

It was so obvious that several of the names had no right to figure on the roll, that Camden, as did Dugdale after him, held them to have been interpolated at various times by the monks, "not without their own advantage."

He did not attempt the formation of a parabolic figure on account of the probable mechanical difficulties, and he had besides satisfied himself that the chromatic and not the spherical aberration formed the chief faults of previous telescopes.

This intervening space comprises the wedge-shaped desert of Kach Gandava (Gandava), which is thrust westwards from the Indus as a deep indentation into the mountains, and, above it, the central uplands which figure on the map as " British Baluchistan " - where lies Quetta.

The figure on the left represents the condition in a Chaetopod, that on the right the condition in an Arthropod.

As regards hue, the favourite colour of the ancients, according to Xenophon, was bay, and for a long time it was the fashionable colour in England; but for some time chestnut thoroughbreds have been the most conspicuous figure on English race-courses, so far as the more important events are concerned.

The epitome of feminine beauty might become the rotund figure on which the momma appears to pride herself.

The figure on take-up of disability living allowance for disabled children is from Reaching its Target?

Hmmm, was it cardio, the mysterious shadowy figure on the grass knoll on that fateful day is Dallas, that shot Kennedy?

It is a colored combination of the title page vignette and the illustration of the figure on page 12 of the first edition.

The figure on the right shows an example of a remanent magnetic state recorded using electron holography.

Choose an A-line dress that skims your figure on the top and flares softly below the waist.

The central families shifted over the 35 year history of the program, but Rachel Davis (then played by One Life to Live's Robin Strasser and later by Victoria Wyndham) remained a central figure on the show and in many storylines.

This year figure on investing 14+ hours, depending upon how much prep-prep work you've done concerning record keeping and filing.

Corsets smooth out your waist and lift your breasts to help give you an hourglass figure on the top half.

In present day, he is a reality TV sensation as the controversial father figure on TLC's Sister Wives.

The Real Housewives of Orange County’s Gretchen Rossi has been a polarized figure on the show since her season four debut.

Every consumer item that could have a TPM figure on it got one.

Select a topic in which you have experience in, positioning yourself as an authoritative figure on the subject.