Example Sentences

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Mughal ceilings, let your mirrored convexities multiply me at once under your spell tonight.

From New York Times • Jul. 1, 2021

A research staff works on a trading floor behind convexities of smoked glass, at cockpit-like desks of kid-glove Bentley leather with three screens apiece.

From New York Times • Jan. 23, 2018

There are sides and curves, concaves and convexities, and angles of every degree, in the stones that make up my tower.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862 by Various

The lenses are usually plano-convex, the convexities being turned towards the object-glass in the negative eye-piece, and towards each other in the positive eye-piece.

From Half-hours with the Telescope Being a Popular Guide to the Use of the Telescope as a Means of Amusement and Instruction. by Proctor, Richard A. (Richard Anthony)

The surface is very uneven, with convexities and concavities on both sides.

From Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Vries, Hugo de