Sentence examples for a scroll was from inspiring English sources

The word evolution (from the Latin evolutio, meaning "to unroll like a scroll") was initially used to refer to embryological development; its first use in relation to development of species came in 1762, when Charles Bonnet used it for his concept of "pre-formation," in which females carried a miniature form of all future generations.

The keepers of the scrolls, people like Pnina Shor, head of the conservation department of the antiquities authority, are delighted by the intense interest but say that each time a scroll is exposed to light, humidity and heat, it deteriorates.

A scroll is a journey through real time: one hand unrolls it as the reading or looking progresses, the other hand rolls up the part that has been perused.

When a scroll is rolled, the backing layer stretches to accommodate bending while the decorated top layer compresses, creating a difference in elasticity over time.

Each of the four scrolls of the ventral turbinate bones was scored according to the following criteria (TA score): 0, no lesion; 1, a small part of the turbinate bone (nearly half a scroll) is absent; 2, slight atrophy – more than half a scroll is absent; 3, moderate atrophy – the turbinate bone is straightened; 4, severe atrophy – total disappearance of the turbinate bone.

Subsequently, a giant scroll was unveiled and became the show's centerpiece.

He saw that this-happened-and-then-that-happened had literary possibilities, and the scroll was a way of forcing himself to stick to this vision.

The scroll was therefore a restriction: it was a way of defining form, not a way of avoiding form.

Each panel, which recalls a Biblical scroll, is a 31- by 22-inch rectangle.

Unlike books, curling up with a good scroll is a bad thing.

The scroll was in a 2005 Shohaku retrospective at the Kyoto National Museum.