Sentence examples for occluding from inspiring English sources

At each tooth position there was one functional, or occluding, tooth (the duckbills had two or three) along with several more unerupted replacement teeth beneath.

So now you can go anywhere without worrying about occluding the cameras.

At times, the author's determination to place Burma in a wider historical narrative risks occluding the country's peculiarities.

By cancelling out the ordinary neatness of narrative explanation, Shakespeare does not merely mystify his people, as the Mona Lisa is made mysterious by the occluding fog of her sfumato; he humanizes them.

In every era, the recent past is a rolling blind spot of culture, occluding things that are too stale for fashion and too fresh for nostalgia.

Perhaps the forms occluding the star with such beautiful irregularity are the wings on the flight of birds that brought the Little Prince to Earth, which would surely transit the starlight with exactly the right kind of fluttering irregularity.

(Mars will be as far away as 370m kilometres in 2013, and occluded for two weeks by the sun to boot, with data rate slipping to 500Kbps).From its first transmissions in 2005, MRO has sent back a stunning 174 terabytes of data, more than all previous planetary missions and probes of any kind combined.

As he puts it, this "fact" is "as clear an indicator as one might find of Hughes's desire simultaneously to include and occlude her influence".

And this simpler book, in any case, is occluded by a larger and far more complex enterprise, a work that is as much intellectual memoir as political essay.Mr Sullivan's religious conviction is the problem.

His black face is occluded by a white mask.

Thick plaques that severely occlude an artery can significantly decrease the flow of blood to vascular beds in tissues served by the artery, thereby causing severe tissue damage.