www.use-in-a-sentence.com
English words and Examples of Usage
use "convertible" in a sentence
He paid a ridiculously high price for his car just because he was determined to buy a convertible Volkswagen Beetle.
My new Alfa Romeo convertible is light red.
We were cruising along the highway with the top down on the convertible when a deer ran in front of the car, and almost caused us to crash.
Take a stick of Glass of a considerable length, and fit it so between the two ends or screws of a Lath, that it may but just easily turn, and that the very ends of it may be just toucht and susteined thereby; then applying the flame of the Candle to the middle of it, and heating it hot, you will presently find the Glass to stick very fast on those points, and not without much difficulty to be convertible on them, before that by removing the flame for a while from it, it be suffered to cool, and when you will find it as easie to be turned round as at the first.
A calorie is a measure of the power of a food in generating heat and muscular energy (these two being convertible).
Although the importance of proteine is probably not so great as Mulder supposed, it affords an important illustration of the close similarity of the different substances from which it is obtained, the more especially as there is every reason to believe that the different albuminous compounds are capable of changing into one another, just as starch and sugar are mutually convertible;[Pg 53] and the possibility of this change throws much light on many of the phenomena of nutrition in plants and animals.
As each kind of action was believed to be due to a special force, there were invented such terms as mechanical force, electrical force, magnetic, chemical and vital forces, and these were discovered to be 12 convertible into one another, and the “doctrine of the correlation of the physical forces” became a common expression in philosophies of all sorts.
By “convertible into one another,” was meant, that whenever any given force appeared, it was at the expense of some other force; thus, in a battery chemical force was changed into electrical force; in a magnet, electrical force was changed into magnetic force, and so on.
Thus, heat is said to be a form of energy, and the forms of energy are convertible into one another, as the so-called forces were formerly supposed to be transformable into one another.
The odorous property is probably as general as that of being convertible into gas.
" "The two phrases are convertible.
[81] It seems, indeed, to be commonly used in Bentham’s way as convertible with Pleasure,-or rather as denoting that of which the constituents are pleasures;-and it is in this sense that I think it most convenient to use it.
Hitherto I have taken Duty to be broadly convertible with Right conduct: I have noticed, however, that the former term-like “ought” and “moral obligation”-implies at least the potential presence of motives prompting to wrong conduct; and is therefore not applicable to beings to whom no such conflict of motives can be attributed.
"Romance," provided my readers fully comprehended what I would here imply by the word-"romance" and "womanliness" seem to me convertible terms: and, after all, what man truly loves in woman, is simply her womanhood.
As workers, like, err, Microsoft employees for instance, get vested with options (convertible to stock), or get to buy stock at a discounted rate (typically 15 percent of that day's market price), it's hard to say where the "capitalist class" ends and the "proletariat" begins.
Only first 15 results shown.
Academic English Words List and Example Sentences
Example sentences with the convertible, a sentence example for convertible, and how to make convertible in sample sentence, how do I use the word convertiblein a sentence? How do you spell convertible in a sentence? spelling of convertiblew
Search
Example Sentences for any English Word here .... |
Follow @englishpedia1
Share on Facebook
The Manila selfie museum encouraging visitors to take pictures with art
Have you ever liked a piece of art so much you feel like you’re part of it? Well, a museum in the Philippines is helping people do just that. Art in Island, a museum in Manila, created by a group of Korean artists, features over a hundred unique three dimensional paintings that encourage people to pose in front of them. Each artwork is created in such a way that when...
Nazi hideout in Argentina
Was this a hideout for German Nazi officers? Deep in Argentina’s northern jungle, archaeologists have discovered the ruins of what may have originally been a Nazi hiding place. “It’s a defendable site, a protected site, an inaccessible site, where you can live peacefully in hiding. We believe we’ve found a refuge for the Nazi hierarchy.”Researchers from the University of Buenos Aires...
Family lives with lions
When most people tell you they have a couple of cats at home, these probably aren't the type of cat you’d expect, but for one family in Gaza, these lion cubs are their household pets. Lioness Mona and Alex, who’s a male, were born in the battle-torn Gaza Strip to parents that were smuggled through a ...
Window cleaners have an accident
A terrifying ordeal for two window cleaners in China, as the platform they were working on began swinging violently and smashing into the building. The incident, which took place outside the 91st floor of the Shanghai World Financial Centre, lasted for 15 minutes with their cradle slamming into a wall at one point, sending glass flying into the building and down to the ground.