Example Sentences

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The savings would be delivered through lower design speeds, ballasted track, UK rather than European standard cross-sections and building on the existing rail network.

From BBC • Sep. 13, 2024

More walnuts — this time sliced so that their intricate innards are revealed as crisp cross-sections — are attached to the undersides of the beveled-glass tops of coffee tables, like specimens captured on microscope slides.

From New York Times • May 11, 2024

It can peer into layers of paint and detect chemical changes that mark the onset of a pigment's decay, without taking cross-sections of the original artwork.

From Science Daily • Apr. 29, 2024

At the outset, the highest priority has been to clean up and assess the archives, which included tens of thousands of items documenting cross-sections of Appalachian life over the decades, Scalos said.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 31, 2022

Now we want just such vivid, gripping, red-blooded cross-sections of life as these, your two latest accomplishments; in fact, we can’t get enough of them.

From A Breath of Prairie and other stories by Marchand, J. N.