Sentence examples for an outer covering of from inspiring English sources

It was covered in fur, with an outer covering of long guard hairs and a shorter undercoat.

Older roots become triarch or tetrarch, eventually developing substantial amounts of wood and an outer covering of periderm.

Jenney's skyscrapers also first employed the curtain wall, an outer covering of masonry or other material that bears only its own weight and is affixed to and supported by the steel skeleton.

A common breakwater design is based on an inner mound of small rocks or rubble, to provide the basic stability, with an outer covering of larger boulders, or armouring, to protect it from removal by the sea.

The conjunctiva lines the lids and then bends back over the surface of the eyeball, constituting an outer covering to the forward part of this and terminating at the transparent region of the eye, the cornea.

The spherical spores measure 3 5 μm, including an outer covering (an epispore) of about 0.5 μm.

When scientists examined the barbules with a high-powered electron microscope, they saw that the barbules had as an outer covering a very regular structure built of tiny rods of melanin connected by keratin.

Such an outer covering, the scientists added, "is consistent with biological material and excludes the presence of crystalline mineral compounds".

The store, which until next month will have an outer covering that makes it look like a giant gift box, has 18,000 square feet of retail space and stocks 60,000 bras and 107,000 pairs of panties.

Smart locals, however, know they should always carry an outer covering, even if it's just a cheap raincoat.

Each year, the insurance industry pays out hundreds of millions of pounds in compensation to people who have developed mesothelioma - a cancer of the outer covering of the lung - as a result of exposure to asbestos at work.