Example Sentences

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“Landslide movement continues to manifest at the ground surface in the form of scarps, fissures, grabens/sinkholes, tensional cracking, shear zones and thrust features,” the city’s latest report said.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 26, 2024

Embedding steel adds that essential tensional strength, and sound design calculations, backed up by building codes, specify how much steel is needed, depending on the type, size and other features of a building.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 3, 2021

Clockwise from top left: tensional stress, compressional stress, and shear stress, and some examples of resulting strain.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017

Normal faults are created by tensional forces in the crust.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017

If in its downward course the bottom of the ravine suddenly becomes steeper, the top of the ice is put under a tensional strain which causes it to break, thus forming the crevasses.

From Nature's Miracles, Volume 1 Familiar Talks on Science—World-Building and Life. Earth, Air and Water. by Gray, Elisha