Rounded-off Sentence Examples

Thus the whole classification becomes a rounded-off phylogenetic system, which, at least in its broad outlines, seems to approach the natural system, the ideal goal of the scientific ornithologist.

Tiliqua of Australia, Tasmania and Malay Islands, has stout lateral teeth with rounded-off crowns; C. gigas of the Moluccas and of New Guinea is the largest member of the family, reaching a length of nearly 2 ft.; the limbs are well developed, as in Trachysaurus rugosus of Australia, which is easily recognized by the large and rough scales and the short, broad, stump-like tail.

In the end the federal government assumed the railway debt, arrangements were made for extinguishing certain proprietary rights which had long been a source of discontent, and on the 1st of July 1873 the Dominion was rounded off by the accession of the new province.

The duke rounded off his dominions by the purchase of Tenda and Oneglia, which increased his seaboard, and the last years of his life were spent in fruitless negotiations to obtain Monferrato, held by the Gonzagas under Spanish protection, and Saluzzo, which was a French fief.

By the treaty signed at Passarowitz on the 21st of July 1718, the banat, which rounded off Hungary and Belgrade, with the northern districts of Servia, were annexed to the Habsburg monarchy.

Snout mostly triangular or rounded off.

Thus no sooner had the work been rounded off than fresh excrescences began to be created by the publication of new laws.

The ground on which it is built is for the most part gently rolling; originally some portions were swampy and others were marked by precipitous heights, but the swamps have been drained and filled and the heights rounded off.

The system is rounded off by a number of trade federations for the sale and purchase of various commodities.

To the east the church is rounded off with a semicircular apse.

Last night Monsieur bourbon rounded off his performance by placing the three lions around him.

Dinner was good and rounded off with a nice piece of chocolate cheesecake.

The evening was rounded off with a few rousing choruses of harvest hymns.

The day was rounded off with a sumptuous Malaysian feast with a local family.

An encounter with a small herd of mostly black feral goats on the final descent rounded off a real day to remember.

In the 48th minute Adam rounded off an excellent second half hat trick 10-0.

An impromptu acoustic jam by Ian rounded off the evening.

Switzerland rounded off their pre-World Cup preparations with a 4-1 win against upcoming footballing nation China in Zurich.

Then, feeling peckish, we rounded off the night with a kebab.

It was a truly rousing speech indeed and rounded off a busy year for the Politics Society on an impressive note.

We rounded off our meal with an exotic strawberry and peach sorbet, chosen form a simple yet very sympathetic dessert menu.

The evening was rounded off by an exceptional pyrotechnics display from a barge moored in Southampton Water.