Sentence examples for slender tip from inspiring English sources

After the horn is cut off the carcass, its core is removed and the horn is heated by blowtorch or in oil so it can be straightened out for the drilling of a hole that joins the slender tip with the naturally hollowed-out fatter end.

The maxilla of the Rodrigues starling was shorter, less curved, had a less slender tip, and had a stouter mandible.

Hetaerina showed long, slender wings with a broad base and a slender tip.

Furthermore, a trace of twist at the slender tip of H3 was observed, which could be caused by the rotational manipulation in needling.

Leaves are simple, opposite in arrangement, narrowly elliptic, apiculate (with abrupt slender tip) and smaller than that of other Rhizophora species.

For forewings, shape changed from a long slender wing with a broad base at small size to a wing with a broad tip and narrower base at intermediate sizes, then changing towards a longer wing with a broad base and a more slender tip at larger sizes.

Habit: Rhizomes slender, tips abruptly thicker, tuber-like.

Recently a modified electrode construction technique has allowed us to use CASMs with very slender tips and longer lives made from thin-walled quartz glass.

Leaf: few to many in rosette; cauline few, 5--30 cm, narrowly oblanceolate to obovate, entire, tapered to long, slender petiole, tip acute or obtuse.

Leaf: few to many, reduced on lower part of stem or not, 4--11 cm, linear-oblanceolate, entire, tapered to slender base, tip blunt.

Virtually anywhere by the lake, however, is a fine place to be in summer -- from the pastures and coves of the Champlain Islands in the midst of its broad northern expanse to the orchards of Shoreham near its slender southern tip.