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Sentence Examples A scraggy goat has two Queen's College pupils to thank for its life after spending a week in a small crevice on a rugged mountain top. Oral malodour predominantly originates from the tongue coating, gingival crevice, and periodontal pockets. The younger man's boot scraped along the surface of the tower wall, finding a narrow crevice between the blocks of ashlar that might support him. A mile or two off the trail they found shelter in a crevice in the rock, deep and high enough to take the horses. I would, however, give the first place to rhyme, as a device which lodges a message firmly in some crevice of the mind. She pointed to a crevice in the wall of the mountain surrounding the vulture resting place. Veiled by rain and ringed with cloud which clotted every crevice and clogged up the view, it felt like the only place left on earth. The site could be in a woody crevice or tree hollow or tucked into a tangle of vines. The nest is built in a burrow under a tree root or rock, in a cave, or in a rock crevice. Every crack and crevice on this pinnacle seems to be home to something, whether it be a lobster or a wolf fish. Her left hand hit the token, and she lightly fingered it, letting her hands learn every crevice, indentation, every detail of that token. Smoke blasts through chimneys and the odd crevice, as if to remind you that this machine belongs to the era of steam power. Yet unless people find a way to steam-clean each crevice of the city every day, rats will continue to cohabit with us in uneasy harmony. He uncoiled a slim rope from his belt, looped it around a rock, and repelled down the wall into the crevice. He was trying to puzzle things out when an orb of light came slowly down into the crevice. For example, when Czech designer Josef Halda created Mineo's crevice garden, he planted several dwarf mugho pines. Squirming, goggle-eyed demons equipped with whips and pitchforks lurk in every crevice. A man was working in the woods collecting firewood when he came upon a snake wedged in the crevice of a tree. The Pythia were priestesses of Apollo who would sit in a tripod or throne over a crevice in the earth. Reaching the eighth plank, he pushed, and it swung inwards, revealing a small crevice that he quickly squeezed into. Show More Sentences By performing an entertaining pendulum across the shaft to the crevice, the rope can be belayed just inside. Wayne easily slipped through the crevice in the rock face, but I had to hold my breath so I wouldn't get stuck. The nest is a platform or shallow cup of twigs and stems built on a crevice, cliff, tree or the ground. He reached out and grabbed his wife's shoulder here, pushing his fingers into the soft crevice of flesh over bone. Both male and female build the nest, which is usually in a hole or crevice in the rocks. The females rear them alone, with the birth site and maternal den in a sheltered location such as a thicket, cave or rocky crevice. If I Can Dream pushes the ties of interactivity at the molecular level into every crevice of its stars' lives. The invitation fell into a crevice between the gear shift and the seat. They seem to prefer pinnacles of rock that are home for abundant populations of smaller fishes, and that have some suitable shelter site such as a large cave or crevice. It is a solitary creature, living in a crevice in the rocks or in a house fashioned for itself from an old pot or tyre or other piece of debris on the sea floor. At first glance the crevice seemed natural, but then his skilled eye noted that it was just too neat and had been carefully hewn by practiced, adept hands. Arnold grunted as he rappelled down the side of the crevice. It wedges hard-shelled nuts, such as hazelnuts, and other hard seeds in a bark crevice and then hammers them with its bill. While trying to negotiate a tricky crevice he slipped and fell, trapping his right forearm immovably between a boulder and the canyon wall. Scientists have observed a dolphin trying to get a reluctant moray eel to come out of its crevice by poking it with the spiny body of a dead scorpionfish. At fixing points, rigid fuel lines and flexible fuel lines shall be fitted in such a way that galvanic and crevice corrosion are prevented. A 56cm flexible crevice tool for navigating the hardest to reach nooks and crannies. In mixed forest areas the den may be located in an old pine stump or rock crevice. The two men stayed with the boat, which drifted to an island where they huddled in a rock crevice until rescued the next morning. A typically thin, sheet-like body that infills a crevice or crack in the rock. Show More Sentences Insert nozzle adapter in either the crevice nozzle or upholstery nozzle before fastening the shut-off valve to the adapter. He died while climbing the south face of Lhotse and was buried by his friends in a glacier crevice. Breeding in separated pairs, this snowy sheathbill has a large nest in a rocky crevice made of a variety of materials thrown up on the beach by the waves. Each subunit contains a heme prosthetic group located in a crevice near the exterior of the protein that is responsible for the functional ligand binding of the protein. However, even in species that do use some natural crevice, important nest structures may be built by groups of workers, as in wax combs in the honey bee. A small crevice in the cliff allowed them passage, into a very small, shadowy space between many boulders and the remains of a gnarled, weathered tree. The critique extends into nearly every little crevice and lacuna of our civic life. Without the right gradient to drain off onto the edges and without the drains, water, as is its wont, finds its own shape, filling every crevice and crater. The female deposits the eggs in a protective structure like a nest or crevice or simply on the ground. The site may be on a ledge or bank, in a crevice or drainpipe, or beneath a bridge. Stephanie pressed Steve's 25-inch chest into the crevice between her own spathic, hypertrophied milk-producing organs. Scramblers may prefer simply to walk up Southerndale and climb Longside via a distinctive crevice seen easily from Skiddaw summit. Weak, wet and cold, they crawled into a rock crevice. I plucked them from the crevice, hoping not to find a bent temple. In 2005, CNSC staff raised a concern regarding the increased number and severity of PT crevice corrosion flaws revealed in recent PT inspections at numerous OPG units. We will pull back the onion and explore every crack and crevice. Products made of nickel based alloy are highly resistant to erosion by cavitation, crevice and galvanic corrosion as well as stress corrosion cracking. The pilot escaped without major injuries, the Leopard Moth had seen its last Alpine flight, however, and was disposed of, so the story goes, in a glacial crevice. The couple then seek a nesting site in a crevice or dig a hole in wood or soil that has been softened by rain and seal the hole with their own fecal matter. As we crossed the border along the Pas d'Aspe – barely a crevice in the jagged peaks – I looked up to see, hovering above, the turrets of a chateau that appeared to have been carved into the rock. Show More Sentences At the fixing points the fuel lines, flexible or rigid, shall be fitted in such a way that they cannot make a metal to metal contact to prevent galvanic and crevice corrosion. The bird hops along a branch, clutches an upright trunk, or hangs upside down at the tip of an evergreen twig, examining every crevice and cranny for tiny hidden creatures. The snow as well manages to enter the smallest crevice or gap and by morning all machinery is choked up and air inlets have to be freed up before we can start it again. The bottom looms and there it is, a long reef crevice just wide enough to reach into, and inside, hidden from casual view, a stippled colony of molluscs. Near the summit of the road is Hause Well, a spring issuing from a crevice in the rock. The mineral water exists in the pyroclastic rock crevice from the Jurassic Period. The stoat is an opportunistic predator, which moves rapidly and checks every available burrow or crevice for food. Some sites are along ledges, however, crevice sites seem to be more successful due to reduced predation. The Mantis Electric Tiller can be used with optional attachments such as a border edger, furrower, crevice cleaner, lawn aerator, lawn dethatcher and plow. Examples from Classical Literature Just in front of him were two rocks, waist-high, with a crevice between them. It was not actually a pit, but a crevice in the face of the cliff on which Orvieto was built. Specimens from three miles south and 16 miles west of piedra were found in a crevice inside a cave. Yet, as I followed its footsteps, I saw its form darken a pin-spot of daylight at the end of a crevice of the cavern. It ought to be planted in a crevice of the rockery in gravel, sand, and peat. One of them he found in a dark crevice had a hexagonal shape that puzzled him. Harry Hawke had already drawn the pin and lobbed a hand grenade neatly through the crevice. Next, fill in with soil, packing it firmly and ramming it hard into every crevice. Blake came down close to the intake, scanning every foot of the cliff face for a scalable break or crevice. There is a thin crevice vegetation that outlines the joint pattern where seepage supplies the venturesome roots with moisture. There this fuse was connected with a dynamite charge placed in the crevice of the rock to be destroyed. Why not suspect him of having placed the hide in the crevice where it had later been found? Stephens relates how his men found an iguana in one of the ruins in a crevice. There seemed to be no interstice, no crevice into which he might insert the keen probe of his marvelous deductive power. And the man took off his hat and put it on the ground, when thumbkin jumped off and hid himself in the crevice of a tree. With an admonitory gesture to keep them back, he stooped, and looked in through the crevice in the wall. This crevice is called by the German-Swiss guides the bergschrund. He climbed upon the commode, put his eye to the crevice, and looked. A ground squirrel chirruped at him from a crevice of the wall. Before it could stop the pressure of the herd drove it into the crevice. Show More Sentences High up the bluff we climbed, higher than all the other caves, to a tiny crevice that could not be seen from the ground. On another day in the snow Steve crossed an ice bridge over a huge crevice where the team could not even see the bottom. Suddenly a large, round, glutinous mass issued from beneath the crevice. It was not until several days later that he had found it in the crevice. The lead line hung from a peg driven into a crevice in the rock. The ungainly, stubby forms seemed to rise from every crevice in the floor. An old rusty gun-barrel, without a lock, lay in a corner, which the mother put through a small crevice, and the savages, perceiving it, fled. But it struck the crevice fairly, and they heard it rattle on inside. The inner end of the pole she wedged in a crevice of the split rock. By mitra, the clothyard shafts find every crevice of their harness! Still he went on, for his mind was as utterly narrowed into that precipitous crevice of play as if he had been the most ignorant lounger there. They had been hurled down into the fathomless great deeps of the crevice. A search party was unable to find Lyra that evening, but the following morning Paul Simpson located the dog's whimper down the 25ft high crevice of a 90ft cliff. Holding by the door-handle, he peeped through a crevice of the curtain, and saw that the inner door, communicating with the passage towards the parlor, was closed. It was paved and clean, but grass was growing in every crevice. We have marksmen in the Company who will notch with a shaft every crevice and joint of a man-at-arm's harness, from the clasp of his bassinet to the hinge of his greave. Over the rocks, in the crevice of which the candle burned, there was thrust out an evil yellow face, a terrible animal face, all seamed and scored with vile passions. Nothing, however, could they see, nothing more valuable than a curious sea shrub, which was growing beneath the water, in a crevice of the reef of rocks. She set herself, therefore, to gathering violets and wood-anemones, and some scarlet columbines that she found growing in the crevice of a high rock. Find more words! 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