Sentence examples for passage channel from inspiring English sources

It merges (east) with the Backstairs Passage (channel), and its western entrance is marked by the three rocky Althorpe Islands, which rise to 285 feet (87 metres).

Anegada Passage, channel in the West Indies, connecting the Atlantic Ocean with the Caribbean Sea; it is 40 miles (65 km) wide and separates the British Virgin Islands (west) from the Leeward Islands (southeast).

GO is demonstrated to be amphiphilic: water molecules adsorb first at the hydrophilic edge (hydroxides) and then rapidly diffuse through the hydrophobic core (mainly carbon), forming a water passage channel that promotes high permeation flux.

It is recommended that exchanger intake air velocity should be controlled to a value below 0.3 0.5 m/s; height of air passage (channel) should be set to 6 mm or below and the length of the passage should be 200 time the height; the working-to-intake-air ratio should be around 0.4.

Between the eastern tip of the island and Puerto Rico flows the Mona Passage, a channel about 80 miles (130 km) wide.

The Libya Dawn militia alliance also said that it would open up "safe passage to channel humanitarian aid", according to the AFP news agency.

Antarctica's closest continental neighbor is South America, where the Antarctic Peninsula and Patagonia are separated by the Drake Passage, a channel that spans just 900 km with a depth of 4500 m [ 31].

Character is rarely revealed through a remolding of the body while the pure-movement passages could channel energy more strongly into shifts of mood.

He writes of going to the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, Mass., and (in a passage that channels Hawthorne's great triptych-essay, "Old News") approaching the "acid-free folders, stored on cool shelves with brass rollers — full of strange lost scandal".

Oil is taken from the sump by a pump, usually of the gear type, and is passed through a filter and delivered under pressure to a system of passages or channels drilled through the engine.

Last year, scientists at Duke University proposed that these heavyset hominids, who vanished about 35,000 years ago, might have been able to talk like modern humans, based on the large size of a pair of bony passages that channeled nerves to their tongues.