Sentence examples for small piece of material from inspiring English sources

"I ingest a hallucinogenic substance," he said excitedly, recalling those days, "and then all of a sudden this small piece of material gets into my body and changes my sight and sounds and vision and memory.

When the then Princess Elizabeth, opening her wedding presents back in 1947, showed her grandmother the small piece of material she'd been sent by Mahatma Ghandi, spun, he said, by himself, Queen Mary assumed it was his loincloth and pronounced it distasteful (Penguin, £12.99).

While 20th-century analysis of material on several Saxon doors revealed their cladding to be nothing more sinister than cow hide, a small piece of material from Worcester Cathedral's doors was analysed by Birmingham University in the 1980s and verified as human skin.

This is an idea being pursued by many medical researchers, who would like to tailor treatments to individual patients using a combination of old-fashioned silicon chips, and new-fangled biochips, which are technically known as DNA microarrays.As its name suggests, a DNA microarray consists of a small piece of material (usually glass) divided into hundreds of thousands of tiny cells.

Along with the failed shaft, a small piece of material from the tooth of another shaft that rendered design life in service has also been analyzed.

In addition, small volume of medium, small number of cells, and small piece of material were enough to evaluate cell detachment by shear stress.

Rasp teeth are disconnected and round on top; they are formed by raising small pieces of material from the surface of the file with a punch.

Mosaic, in art, decoration of a surface with designs made up of closely set, usually variously coloured, small pieces of material such as stone, mineral, glass, tile, or shell.

The chipped flint knife, with its irregular edge, was not a saw in the proper sense, for though it could sever wood fibres and gash bone or horn, it could not remove small pieces of material in the manner of a saw.

If these needles had been used on patients, the metallic lumps and small pieces of material could have been deposited in human tissues, which could have caused adverse events such as dermatitis.

Sometimes small pieces of material get trapped in the guard mechanism and can rub against the blade until they fly out without warning!