Sentence examples for act as passages from inspiring English sources
The inter-lamella pores may act as passages for molten salts.
They crammed into holding pens that, like submarine airlocks, acted as passages from one environment to another.
Act as quickly as possible.
In this sequence birth, maturity, death, and rebirth were ritually repeated and renewed through sacramental transitional acts, such as passage rites, ceremonies ensuring passage from one status to another.
And yet we act as though this passage were somehow a normal thing — and the terrible truth is that, in a symbolic sense, at least, it is.
It may close the nasal passages, act as a force pump for the bony nares, or serve in part as a hydrostatic organ by squeezing oil to one end or the other through contractions of its muscular sheath.
The gate can simultaneously act as a barrier to passage of water molecules while acting as a selective filter for other molecules, allowing them to access the active site.
But like the first purchase of a car or tractor and the arrival of electricity, the drought and Senator Joseph McCarthy act as signifiers of the passage of time where what really matters – and perhaps this is what really matters in life – is Rosanna and Walter rolling towards the centre of their saggy bed and still finding physical comfort in each other.
Firsts that act as a rite of passage.
The presence of charged particles in the biofilm matrix, such as DNA and sugar-acid residues [53], could act as repulsors to the passage of DNA probes but had no observable effect in our experiment.
