Sentence examples for extending downward from inspiring English sources

Those spindles extending downward form the legs and those extending upward form the back and arm rests.

Known as "high focal plane" buoys, for stability they require a cylindrical tail tube extending downward some 10 feet from the bottom of the hull.

Gomphotheres also possessed tusks (which were modified second incisors extending downward from the upper jaw), and most species also had a second set of two tusks that extended upward from the lower jaw.

Then, during the 11th century, the sleeves of the knight's mail shirt, or byrnie, became longer and closer-fitting, extending downward from the middle of the upper arm to the wrist; at the same time, the hem of the byrnie dropped from just above to just below the kneecap.

Vertisols are characterized by a clay-size-particle content of 30 percent or more by mass in all horizons (layers) of the upper half-metre of the soil profile, by cracks at least 1 cm (0.4 inch) wide extending downward from the land surface, and by evidence of strong vertical mixing of the soil particles over many periods of wetting and drying.

Nickell and Atkinson report several C. subterranea burrow casts from muddy Scottish Loch sediments with single, nearly vertical shafts extending downward from a lattice of horizontal tunnels.

IMAGINE a moral continuum that extends downward from Categorical Imperatives to Impractical Ideals.

As the toss is made, the racket arm extends downward to begin an upward and forward circular motion.

A redox gradient, evidenced by increasing iron and ammonium concentrations, extended downward with depth from the aerated peat surface.

One extends downward from the wall's upper right corner; the other passes through the center, aiming for its upper left corner, but never gets there.

Banners can extend downward along the side walls to absorb amplified sound further or recreate the quality of a movie theater for showings by the Film Society of Lincoln Center.