Sentence examples for firm substrata from inspiring English sources
Sea anemones that are attached to firm substrata can creep slowly on their pedal disks or detach altogether, often in response to unfavourable physical conditions or to attack by predators.
In contrast, the mouth and surrounding tentacles of polyps face upward, and the cylindrical body is generally attached by its opposite end to a firm substratum.
The focal contacts assembled by these cells allow firm adhesion onto the substratum but they are very stable (Chou et al., 2006; Calle et al., 2006b) and do not form and disassemble in coordination with the protrusion of the cell margin.
They worked surreptitiously, choosing to focus on the substrata of a business or event".
He didn't believe that the material substrata was the be-all and end-all".
You would have to burrow down to some substrata of my material existence to find the answer to that one.
Deep in the mineral substrata lay great bodies of water, cold and pure, unseen, locked in silence.
There are strong relationships among most of those musicians, but they also represent subtly different substrata of the experimental landscape.
"His observation," Christopher Middleton wrote, "is microscopic, but his sense of place drills through to the mythic substrata".
