Sentence examples for thin overlapping from inspiring English sources

They voyaged in longships with a strong oak keel, and thin overlapping planks fanning out to form the iconic, graceful hull - the gaps between the planks stuffed with animal hair and tar.

On top of each side the circle draw two long and thin overlapping ovals.

This shutter consists (as in a commercial camera) of very thin, overlapping metal blades, eight in number.

The scales lie in the dermis as thin, overlapping plates with the exposed part bearing the pigment cells.

Unlike the scales of the cartilaginous fishes, those of bony fishes, when present, grow throughout life and are made up of thin overlapping plates of bone.

Unlike the scales of the cartilaginous fishes, those of bony fishes, when present, grow throughout life and are made up of thin, overlapping plates of bone.

The distributions of within-groups and between-groups pairwise differences have a very thin overlap around 20 mismatches.

The large, barrel-shaped, resinous female cones, greenish or purplish, are borne on short stalks; they are covered by broad, thin, closely overlapping woody scales, each with a clawlike projection.

In more detail, Fhod3 localizes not at the pointed ends of thin actin filaments but to a more peripheral zone, where thin filaments overlap with thick myosin filaments (Kan-o et al., 2012).

Along the length of each myofibril alternate sets of thick and thin filaments overlap, or interdigitate, presenting alternate bands of dark regions (with thick filaments and overlapping thin ones) and light regions (with only thin filaments).

The SEM data of Figure 1 illustrate a low-density material comprised of overlapping, thin sheets of ZnO where the individual sheets appear to have a lateral dimension on the micrometer scale.