Sentence examples for former shape from inspiring English sources

Wind-tossed cypress trees shake "as if they had been pushed off balance and did not quite know how to find their former shape".

Her head, which had approached the size of a soccer ball, began regaining its former shape, and for the first time since the bite, I felt confident enough to tell friends that I thought she was going to make it.

Adams' first encounter with the forces of nature left quite an impression: aged four, the boy who was to grow up to become of one America's finest photographers suffered a badly broken nose - destined never to recover its former shape - in the aftershocks of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

The shape memory effect refers to the phenomenon in which SMAs, if they are deformed, return to their former shape upon heating.

When an increasing force is applied to the femoral shaft using a cross-head, it leads first to fully elastic deformation of the bone so that if the force is released the bone assumes its former shape.

For some people it might only take six weeks, but others may have to wait a full year before their eyebrows regain their former shape.

He characterises China's historical role in east Asia as "conceptual", whereas that of the US is "pragmatic", the former shaped by a long history of external attacks on its borders.

The former, shaped by the liberal cum neo-liberal Weltanschauung, posits that the state should have a limited role in socio-economic development basically the creation of propitious conditions for the private accumulation of capital.

The Independent places emphasis on the comparisons between the story that evolves in Quicksilver and Stephenson's earlier novel Cryptonomicon, with the former "shaping up to be a far more impressive literary endeavour than most so-called 'serious' fiction.

Although some invaluable cultural artifacts may have been reduced to abstract fractions of their former shapes, Chaumont reminds us that we can still appreciate them for the fascinating events that sculpted their current form.

And as London grindingly transitions to more of a 24-hour city, with better transport links and all-night trains, more Zone 1 and 2 clubs will close, and more spots will open in Zones 3 and 4. "It's sad that Hackney is being slowly wound up," says former Shapes, and now FOLD, owner Seb Glover.