Sentence examples for mantle top from inspiring English sources

Compression by the weight of mass above causes the mantle bottom to be about 62%% denser than the mantle top (Dziewonski and Anderson 1981).

The small amount of thermal expansion, <1 %, cannot lower the density of a parcel of bottom-mantle matter sufficiently so as to allow it to float to the mantle top.

Eastern secular coats of arms often display a shield before a mantle topped with a crown.

Van der Vaart's header flew past Begovic but, by then, Spurs' grip on third spot, and the mantle of top London side in the top flight, was already slipping.

By 2008 the world had largely lost interest in the man with racing in his blood – his father John was a rallycross driver in the 70s – whose mantle as top Brit had passed to Lewis Hamilton.

The benighted Tommy Haas, who had picked up the mantle of top seed by the semi-finals, duly went the way of all favourite flesh yesterday when he was defeated 6-7, 7-6, 3-6, 6-2, 6-2 by Safin.

Russia, which has in the past decade largely assumed the mantle of top drug-warrior on the international scene, used particularly retrograde language.

Nickelback claimed the mantle of top-selling hard rock and metal album of 2010.

Perched on the pinnacle of a knight's stall is his helm, decorated with a mantling and topped by his crest.

With Sam Burgess now off to rugby, Graham has the mantle as the top running forward in the game.

"Cyber Monday has assumed the mantle as the top online spending day for the past two years," said Gian Fulgoni, chairman of ComScore.