Vacuity Sentence Examples

In both genera, as in the okapi, there is a vacuity in front of the orbit.

Looking at the issues in this way exposes the essential vacuity of the claim.

Haneke chronicles a family enslaved to the structures they have created, operating in a morass of emotional vacuity.

The invention of the barometer and Torricelli's explanation of the vacuity above the mercury column placed before the members of the Florentine academy a ready method of obtaining vacua; for to exhaust a vessel it was only necessary to join, by means of a tube provided with stopcocks, the vessel to a barometer tube, fill the compound vessel with mercury and then to invert it in a basin containing this liquid, whereupon the mercury column fell, leaving a Torricellian vacuum in the vessel, which could be removed after shutting off the stop-cocks.

A preorbital vacuity of such dimensions as to exclude the lachrymal bone from articulation with the nasal.

In the skull the gland-pit is shallow, and the vacuity of moderate size; the nasal bones are well developed, and much expanded at the upper end.

The squamosal bone is large and either in contact with the frontals and parietals or separated from them by a vacuity; the orbit is sometimes roofed over by bone.