Sentence examples for are pairs from inspiring English sources
noun
Two similar or identical things taken together; often followed by of.
- I couldn't decide which of the pair of designer shirts I preferred, so I bought the pair.
Among the particles created are pairs of electrons and positrons.
You have an infinite number of pigeons, which are pairs of primes, and you have seventy million holes.
More engaging are pairs and trios of vessels whose gouged, pocked and dented surfaces imply less conventional processes.
Also found are pairs of solid slabs ornamented in high relief, carrying carved tops of marble or wood.
On the walls of Jonathan Monk's new show are pairs of neon ovals like an "OO" dyed in acid hues.
For £15 people have been able to buy a door handle made from sawdust, there are pairs of Granby rock bookends at £40, while £150 will buy a pressed terracotta lampshade.
All she has of her mother are pairs of mostly elegant but wrong-size shoes, which Theobald begins giving her on her seventh birthday, and from which she tries to deduce the rest of her mother.
(Enantiomorphs are pairs of substances that have dissymmetric arrangements of atoms and structures that are nonsuperposable mirror images of one another).
There are pairs of photoreceptors with opposing microvillar orientations in the downward-pointing region of the eye, and when the photoreceptors are differentially stimulated by the polarized light from a reflecting surface, the insect makes a dive.
Novas appear to be binary stars that have evolved from contact binaries of the W Ursae Majoris type, which are pairs of stars apparently similar to the Sun in size but revolving around one another while almost touching.
Namely, they are pairs trading, statistical arbitrage, and trend following.
