Sentence examples for a smooth patch from inspiring English sources

After a few minutes of hard work, they moved onto the next hole, leaving behind a smooth patch of steaming asphalt.

Gogol's nasal fixation is given full play in The Nose, in which a minor government official wakes up to find only a smooth patch of skin between his eyes and his mouth.

"I discovered last year that a baseball can have a rough and a smooth side if the pitcher holds the ball in a special way, and if the spin axis passes through a smooth patch rather than through the stitching," Cross wrote in an e-mail, "the end result is that the ball curves in the opposite direction to that expected".

When they placed the beetles on a smooth patch of bark however, all of the beetles fell off in less than one minute.

Shear stress action over a smooth patch of endothelial cells activates three very important genes: one that produces nitric oxide, which controls the clamping down of your blood vessels, which, in turn, controls the speed and volume of your blood pressure, and two other genes that inhibit blood clotting and smooth any muscle overgrowth (lumpy bumps).

Four years ago, the spacecraft Ulysses hit a strange smooth patch in its bumpy ride through the solar wind.

Mentally she was older than ever, as tired in the morning as if it were the end of the day, but this longing for others was a smooth pink patch where she felt as raw as a child.

What he theorized is termed the smooth patch effect.

The key for Garcia's pitch, Cross said, is enabling the ball's spinning axis to pass through this smooth patch for as long as possible.

Turn it upside down on your smooth patch of wet sand.

This entailed a new procedure for mapping from a continuous 3D volume (e.g., a SPM based on fMRI data) to a number of matrices representing the prior covariance of source amplitudes within smooth patches on a 2D cortical sheet.