Sentence examples for drifting column from inspiring English sources

As The New York Times described, "Mount St. Helens exploded at 8 39 a.m. today with a thud felt 100 miles away and with a drifting column of steam and pumice that turned day into night".

If an observer fixates on the drifting columns (thereby placing the image of the drifting columns in the fovea), the columns are easily separated from the background and appear to drift back and forth horizontally.

If the observer looks several inches above the display (thereby placing the image of the drifting columns in the far periphery), the columns shift direction and appear to move obliquely at about 45 deg.

These errors were indicative of an unstable LIX column, likely drifting below 200 μm (18) and were minimized by creating an initially large 1000 μm column and letting the ISME set for an extra 12 hours (totalling ~24h) prior to use.

They also used to be convinced Democrats, but have been drifting into the Republican column by fits and starts since the election of Richard Nixon.

Voters in at least 10 swing states are receiving hundreds of thousands of automated telephone calls — uniformly negative and sometimes misleading — that the Republican Party and the McCain campaign are financing this week as they struggle to keep more states from drifting into the Democratic column.

The scientists say that the warming of ocean temperatures might be causing these hydrates to send bubbles of gas drifting through the water column.

The increased body depth and caudal area could increase predator escape performance (through increased burst speed; Langerhans 2008) and maneuverability for feeding on prey suspended in the water column (versus drifting prey in streams; Rincón et al. 2007) or through steady/unsteady swimming performance trade-offs (Langerhans 2008, 2009).

The equation proposed by Mackie and Stojadinovic (2007) for calculating the drift at column failure (i.e., lateral drift level beyond the peak strength that column reaches zero strength) was adopted to define the complete failure limit state.

This allowed any air bubbles to dissolve and allowed the LIX column to finish drifting in the tip.

The drift-based limit states developed by Dutta and Mander (1998) were adopted to define the bridge columns drift limits.