Sentence examples for nearly parallel to from inspiring English sources

On small patches of skin they run nearly parallel to one another.

Limited accuracy can become an issue when, for example, two streets run nearly parallel to each other.

The colours usually appear as bands nearly parallel to the cloud edges or as a mosaic pattern".

Unlike the harpsichord and spinet, the virginal's single set of strings runs nearly parallel to the keyboard.

Rip currents form at long coasts that are approached by wave trains oriented parallel or nearly parallel to the shoreline.

Cigarette-market growth has levelled off & begun to move nearly parallel to the growth curve for the adult population, despite the 7% increase in sales since 1970.

The Arauca flows nearly parallel to the Apure and the Meta rivers to join the Orinoco about 60 miles (100 km) southeast of San Fernando de Apure, Venezuela.

Shaving is done with a gardener's hoe and the aforementioned spade, this time used nearly parallel to the ground — "like a pool player lining up a shot," my father used to say.

That proved to be the proper technique: a long cast, take a few inches of slack out of the line, then let it ride freely with the tide until it was nearly parallel to the beach before retrieving it.

The skewed impact generated the peculiar pressure ridges nearly parallel to the flow.

On one side of the plate, there is a vertical wall nearly parallel to the sand.