Sentence examples for in checkerboard from inspiring English sources

It runs in checkerboard fashion along the 200 miles of the Rio Grande before it empties into the Gulf of Mexico.

In fact, it was a collection of small, well-integrated, well-coordinated phalanxes arrayed in checkerboard formation and operating as a team.

We arrived early and so were ushered out to the hotel's arcaded terrace, paved in checkerboard marble, with wicker chairs strewn about and a jaw-dropping view back across the bowl-shaped city and over the sea.

About 500,000 utility customers at a time in checkerboard patterns were denied power by Pacific Gas and Electric for about an hour, then had service restored as another block was blacked out.

It is the specter of the Iroquois accruing land, removing it from the tax rolls and surrounding landowners and businesses in checkerboard fashion to where non-Indians feel compelled to sell out.

The larger ones — 25 squares by 25 squares — combine Italian and Persian texts, contrasting geometric European letters and flowing Persian calligraphy in checkerboard patterns, alternating bands, grids or cruciform shapes.

Creating a more continuous fabric of lands in public ownership also helps the Forest Service in its firefighting duties, since a filled-in checkerboard reduces access issues in reaching interior areas of the forest.

So the pleasant, chatty Scottish police officers patrolling in their checkerboard hats and Heckler & Koch submachine guns would probably have to shoot him.

Biological interactions have been identified as a major structuring force in taxonomic assemblages: Direct, competitive interactions between species are of particular significance for ecological structure and often result in checkerboard-like distribution patterns, particularly between closely related species [ 2].

LaMnAsO has Mn magnetic moments (~2.4 μB at 300 K) aligned antiferromagnetically in a checkerboard pattern in the ab plane, stacked ferromagnetically along the c-axis (Fig. 1a).

The schematic shows the ordering of the Mn magnetic moments, which are antiferromagnetically aligned in a checkerboard pattern in the ab plane, but ferromagnetically aligned along the c-axis (i.e., C-type antiferromagnet).