Sentence examples for was once joined from inspiring English sources

The family quartet was once joined by Britten and Peter Pears.

Brennan, who, as one former C.I.A. officer puts it, was once "joined to George Tenet at the hip" — he served as Tenet's chief of staff — now advises Obama on terrorism and other national-security issues.

He suggested that the continents were once joined and that the Americas were "torn away" from Europe and Africa.

1912 German meteorologist and geophysicist Alfred Wegener proposed that the continents were once joined in a supercontinent called Pangea.

The concept that all of the continents of the Southern Hemisphere were once joined together was set forth in detail by Alfred Wegener, a German meteorologist, in 1912.

The valley — with rust red escarpment, dusty mesas and forest — stretches out like an immense archaeological relic — a billion-year-old land where South America and Africa were once joined.

The mechanism for the breakup of Pangea is now explained in terms of plate tectonics rather than Wegener's outmoded concept of continental drift, which simply stated that Earth's continents were once joined together into the supercontinent Pangea that lasted for most of geologic time.

This is suggested by the common situation where innumerable smaller islands are found close to the coast of larger ones, to which they were once joined.

I briefly review ideas of continental displacement since the sixteenth century cartographic observations that suggest the continents were once joined and then separated.

Other researchers are investigating old plate movements by linking gravity signals on different continents, such as on Africa and South America, to show how they were once joined together.

These continents were once joined into the supercontinent Pangaea; the Atlantic Ocean formed when Pangaea split down the middle and formed a divergent boundary, now marked by the Mid-Atlantic Ridge (Fig. 6).