www.use-in-a-sentence.com
English words and Examples of Usage
Example
Sentences for "contours "
Eyeshadow enhances the natural contours of the eye.
The contours and other natural features on such a map are still correct, but changes in the region due to the work of man are often extensive.
As has been remarked above, the layers of oxide frequently enclose grains of sand and even fragments of clay, earth, and ferruginous particles, so that the original contours of the bronzes are often indistinct or entirely obliterated (see Figures 41-43).
The small quantity of carbonic acid which is always found [67] in water dissolves small quantities of calcium carbonate, thus the sharp contours of prominent parts may become somewhat rounded.
Casts treated with zapon are less easily damaged by dust than those untreated, and may be cleaned with soap and water without injury to their surface, provided that a soft brush is used, but brushes which are stiff enough to injure the zapon coating will damage the contours of the statue.
In running they go like clockwork mice; you hardly see their legs or feet, and they rise and fall over the varying contours of the ground just like a little running wave.
If we examine the interior of the human cerebral cranium, we find that it has adapted its bony contours so faithfully to those of the soft tissues that it bears the imprint of the various parts of the brain (cerebrum, cerebellum), the convolutions, and even the blood-vessels of the meninges.
The races which are held to be inferior have facial contours that are more or less angular; those that are held to be superior have, on the contrary, a rotundity of contour; men have a more angular facial contour, in comparison with that of women; while children have a contour of face that is distinctly rotund.
Accordingly, the facial contours may be either rounded or angular, and that, too, independently of the facial type; because in either case the visage may be either long or short.
Countenances with rounded and mesoprosopic contours belong to the Mediterranean race, and the more closely they come to the mean average of that type and to a fusion of contours, the more beautiful they are.
Faces with angular contours may be: triangular (due to prominence of the cheek-bones, or zygomata, and of the chin); tetragonal, further subdivided into quadrangular (chameprosopic) and parallelepipedoidal (leptoprosopic, due to prominence of zygomata and corners of mandible); and polygonal, which may be either pentagonal, formed by the protrusion of the zygomata, the angles of the mandible, and the chin; or hexagonal, formed by protrusion of the frontal nodules, the zygomata and the angles of the mandible.
Not so large, the form frequently tending to the oblique; the contours of the inner angle of the eye less clear-cut, owing to the plica epicantica.
Even Chatterbox's guru, Charles "Bhagwan" Peters of the Washington Monthly, one of the few journalists who gave credence to the Gennifer Flowers tapes early on, argues that the voters rightly don't care much about Flytrap because they've known the rough contours of Clinton's character for years.
A personality reaches the critical state once the basic contours of its distinctive shape are revealed, then the impact of each new experience reverberates throughout the whole person, both directly, at the time it occurs, and indirectly, by setting the stage for future change.
" One is lulled into thinking that these contorted bathers are mere exercises in the handling of pastel, and not the work of, in the poet Paul Valéry's words, "a supremely cruel authority on female contours and poses.
Only first 15 results shown.
>>>>>>> GO TO ADVANCED VOCABULARY TESTS <<<<<<
English Jokes
Newspapers
After-life Issues
Funny Videos
Academic English Words List and Example
Sentences
Example sentences with the contours , a sentence example for contours , and
how
to make contours in sample sentence, Synonyms and Collocations for contours
how do I use the word contours in a sentence? How do you spell contours in a
sentence? spelling of contours
Search
Example Sentences for any English Word here ....
Translate
Cambridge Dictionary
Meaning
Longman Dictionary Meaning
Macmillan Dictionary
Meaning
Oxford Dictionary Meaning
Collocations
Synonyms
Share on Facebook