Sentence examples for their metre from inspiring English sources

In acting he insisted upon a realistic rather than a declamatory style and made speaking pauses follow the sense of speeches rather than their metre.

(The culprit was that Ångström and Thalén had used a value for the length of their metre standard that was too small).

Her polished, intellectual verse appeared in A la orilla de un pozo (1936; At the Edge of a Well), a collection of neo-Gongoristic sonnets, and in Versos prohibidos (1978; "Prohibited Verse"), a mixture of unrhymed pieces that resemble in their metre blank verse and alexandrines and in their form epistles, sonnets, and odes.

The wadis and labyrinthine Afghan compounds, with their metre-thick walls, provide excellent cover.

Volunteers paced off sections of the beach, taking a certain number of steps along the shallows, laying down their metre-square frames, and counting the males and females in the frame.

All I can hear is the sound of my own breathing, but there is plenty to see: bright orange and blue creatures crawling around the forest floor, or tucked in rocky crevices waving their metre-long antennae at me.

[cartoon id= a18163"] Volunteers paced off sections of the beach, taking a certain number of steps along the shallows, laying down their metre-square frames, and counting the males and females in the frame.

Their 15 metre tunnel started in the store's cellar and ended in an empty shed.

They also resemble worms: they chew earth, excreting it along their 140 metre length into conveyors that carry it to the surface.

During the month that Chord is open to the public, the machines will make their 100 metre journey twice and produce two such ropes.

This mode allows players to continue to play, even if their performance metre hits the bottom.