Sentence examples for slender flat from inspiring English sources

The silverfish (Lepisma saccharina) is a slender, flat, wingless insect with three tail bristles.

The Chrysomelidae (leaf beetles) vary from simple egg-shaped forms to slender, flat, or wedge-shaped ones, with wide elytra in the tortoise beetles and often numerous spines or tubercles in the leaf-mining leaf beetles (Cassidinae).

She was best known for slender, flat-topped, human-scale monoliths resembling models of Modernist skyscrapers.

The first is a long, slender, flat-sided metal rod equipped with removable pronged metal holders that keep the chicken or roast from slipping on the spit.

These muscles have lost the ability to contract and have undergone considerable cellular reorganization, from slender fibres of ordinary muscle into thin, flat, electroplates, the structures in which electricity is produced.

And the seeds are small, slender and nearly flat.

Bentgrasses are typically tufted and have slender stems and flat leaf blades.

These are often called tapeworms because of their flat, slender but very long bodies – the name "cestode" is derived from the Latin word cestus, which means "tape".

Balams are slender, double-ended, flat-bottom craft with a shallow draft.

Larvae of click beetles (Elateridae) are cylindrical or flat and slender and have a hard surface.

His train was high atop a slender viaduct across a flat valley, and immediately ahead of him was train D3115, moving so slowly that it might as well have been a wall.