Sentence examples for horizontal sheet from inspiring English sources

The rain started as a dreary mizzle but soon turned into a driving horizontal sheet.

The Tegenaria build what I soon learned to call "horizontal sheet webs" — dense trampoline-like structures that are most often triangular, and range in size from that of a folded handkerchief to that of a placemat.

Here the performers, on our right, clamber over a horizontal sheet of glass suspended above a video camera; the video is shown on a vertical screen on our left.

This second test considers water infiltration from one side ((x_{1} = 0)) of a horizontal sheet ((alpha = 0) and (p = 0)) in evaporative environment [4].

Different from the flow induced by a stretching horizontal sheet, the effect of mixed convection due to a buoyancy force could not be neglected for the vertical sheet.

The areas of the largest triaxiality, along the horizontal sheet edge that is not in contact with the tool, were not subject to notable effective strains, and therefore, no cracks were observed there.

The Aran Islands are made up of horizontal sheets of Carboniferous limestone and do not have naturally occurring topsoil.

The horizontal sheets, thinly cut, alternate with empty spaces of the same size to create a continuous light-dark stripe pattern running through the rooms.

They concluded that the combination of vertical and horizontal sheets, together with a proper epoxy, could lead to a doubling of the ultimate shear load carrying capacity of the beam.

These lobes are cross-cut by a range of sand and gravel-filled troughs and channels cut by subaqueous outwash, and either overlie or are overlain by horizontal sheets of gravel and diamict deposited from a range of sediment-density flows.

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