Sentence examples for roughly in the direction of from inspiring English sources

That, too, was the occasion of a bewildering parade, moving up Avenue of the Americas, roughly in the direction of the Bronx.

Mr Ruddock, speaking later on television remarked emolliently that he "could still smell the garlic".Sadly, the idea that spitting is the preserve of nasty frogs and wops came a cropper last weekend when the best young English player for years, Everton's Wayne Rooney, launched a mouthful of phlegm roughly in the direction of some Liverpool supporters who had been barracking him.

These cells show some elongation roughly in the direction of DC progression (greater length than width aspect ratio: mean of 2.3±0.6 standard deviation, for 18 cells starred in Fig. 3A2′).

Start with your skis both pointed roughly in the direction of motion.

At one point she and Mr Roache left the dressing room, she said, and he pulled her "roughly" by the arm in the direction of a men's toilet.

Hauth et al. [ 24] demonstrated that the repeat region of the R. salina mtDNA roughly coincides with a change in the direction of 'cumulative GC skew' [calculated as (G-C /(G-C / and suG+Csted that the repeat corresponds to the origin of replication.

In the squeeze-flow mode of operation, electrorheological (ER) fluid is placed between two electrodes, which are free to translate in a direction roughly parallel to the direction of the applied electric field.

The birefringence domains in the forehead ran roughly parallel to the direction of RSTLs and the wrinkle lines and perpendicular to the Langer's lines.

Coil position was maintained at roughly 90° to the central sulcus in the direction of the precentral gyrus.

The eastward transport in a seaward area (points 1 and 2) roughly coincides with the direction of coastal (residual) currents (Coastal Oceanography Research Committee, The Oceanographic Society of Japan 1985; Figs. 1 and 4).

In the natural habitat, the sun, which serves as the light source, essentially shines from above, resulting in the direction of the light vector being roughly the same as that of the gravity vector.