Sentence examples for its definite shape from inspiring English sources

The match - which had lost a day through rain - had now taken its definite shape.

These macroscopic characteristics constitute the essential distinctions: a liquid flows, lacks a definite shape (though its volume is definite), and cannot withstand a shear stress; a solid does not flow, has a definite shape, and exhibits elastic stiffness against shear stress.

Nevertheless, to a large extent the colony is not individualistic; for example, it usually has no definite shape, can grow in any direction, and can be partially destroyed without harm to the rest.

An informal pond is more like a natural pond where it follows the ground's natural lines and has no definite shape.

There was a time — the late nineteen-eighties and nineties — when it seemed as if the American symphonic repertory was finally taking a definite shape.

It was the only piece of furniture we had with a solid and definite shape.

New zooids bud from the ancestrula to produce colonies of definite shape and growth habit.

The internal organs have a definite shape and assume some primitive function.

At the same time his historical novels (e.g., Jacob van Artevelde; 1849) took a more definite shape.

Upon the building of St. James's Palace across the fields, the City of Westminster took more definite shape around the court.

When Henry VIII in 1529 began to convert Cardinal Wolsey's York Place into the royal palace of Whitehall and to build St. James's Palace across the fields, the City of Westminster began to take more definite shape around the court.