Sentence examples for slightly tapered from inspiring English sources

This season they came in silk, slightly tapered and cropped to just above the ankle.

The work bowls, which are slightly tapered, have a new pouring spout.

I would recommend keeping the foot clear and the toes slightly tapered.

Most of them are long, slender and slightly tapered, like the fingers of fashionable gloves in Jacobean portraits.

Instead of being a simple cylinder, it's slightly tapered at the top to create a weighted base.

It's a very firm, slightly tapered cylinder about six inches high and embossed with a basket weave.

Although this worked well for continuous specimens, in the case of particulates it was better to have the reference beam pass through a bare area of the specimen preparation, and by 1950 the use of half-silvered surfaces and slightly tapering slides allowed polarized light to be dispensed with.

The stem is 7 9 cm by 0.5 1 cm, roughly cylindrical or slightly tapering upward, with apex slightly expanded.

The stipes are club-shaped to cylindrical, slightly tapering towards both base and cap, with a height of about 20 60 mm and a thickness of 10 25 mm.

He writes that "the presence of a shorter horizontal line connecting with the slightly tapering top of the vertical stroke and completing it into a Γ form ... evidently precludes a "N".

These leaves are linear with the individual segments slightly tapering toward the tips.