Sentence examples for plates extended from inspiring English sources

That made her difficult to turn, and worse, because the iron plates extended only a foot below the surface, it left her unprotected underside dangerously vulnerable to shots at her water line.

The side of the ship was entirely covered with three to five layers of armor plates, of which the three innermost plates extended 42 inches below the waterline.

Three of the plates extended the full 60 inches height of the side, but the two innermost plates did not extend all the way down.

The Mid-Atlantic Ridge plate boundary, separating the North American and the Eurasian plates, extends through the centre of Iceland.

The main Hercynian suture zone of the collided plates extends from the south side of Brittany to the Massif Central.

Some parts of the fence are 17 feet high, with metal plates extending ten feet below ground to prevent tunnelling.Along a two-mile stretch of the border just outside El Paso, five Border Patrol vehicles wait, ready to give chase should anyone manage to get past the fence.

However, the forces and moments acting on surface-piercing plates, plates slightly inclined to the vertical and plates extending close to a lower boundary have not received such attention.

They had bony armor in the form of two rows of plates extending from head to tail, and this armor is retained by most modern crocodilians.

Use of these plates extends potential scoring of loss of non-essential genes to perhaps 15 20% of the entire genome.

Dilution of peptone in bacterial plates extends worm lifespan because it is considered to reduce bacterial growth on the plates (Hosono et al., 1989).

Japanese Pacific sticklebacks are "completely" plated, with plates extending across the body segments encompassed by both the Ma and Mp lines, ending in a bony keel at the caudal peduncle.