Sentence examples for bent away from from inspiring English sources

As previously mentioned, in this case light rays are bent away from the normal of the interface between the media.

For those who are less geometrically minded, this means that if the light ray is bent away from the boundary, the refractive index is larger than one.

Blades bent away from the viewer capture more light and appear relatively pale; when the tips are bent toward the viewer, the grass looks darker.

He worked from the stretch, paused to look at the ground, looked up for the sign and threw a curveball that bent away from Boone.

The refractive index of X-rays is slightly less than 1.0, which means that an X-ray entering a piece of glass from air will be bent away from the normal, unlike a ray of light, which will be bent toward the normal.

In this circumstance, the nanowires got a heterogeneous volume expansion and then bent away from the incident direction.

Escapism by its nature must bend away from reality.

I remember when he hit Jim Ray Hart on the shoulder — he was bending away from a pitch — and broke his collarbone.

But even if public sentiment and electoral math on immigration might be bending away from his principles, Mr. Kobach is not budging.

Nor is the scheme followed literally: the instruments often bend away from the parent note, shifting by microtones, semitones, or larger intervals.

We make ourselves in our father's sunshine but also in his shadow: what he beams down we bend away from.