torsions
- plural of torsion.
Example Sentences
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Structural work, which will begin later this month, includes strengthening existing beams, reducing loads and putting in additional support for torsions, Jim Bell, director of structural engineers for Arup, said.
From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2019
Nothing should upset the horse’s digestion: no blockages, gas bubbles, or torsions.
From Slate ● Aug. 2, 2012
Her slender body shook as if she was undergoing the first rippling torsions of a convulsion.
From The Blue Wall A Story of Strangeness and Struggle by Child, Richard Washburn
The superposed magnetism then becomes a single directive force, and we can then by a few vibrations or torsions reduce the rod to its ordinary condition.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 392, July 7, 1883 by Various
The yacht was clothed with sublime torsions, peristaltic splendors, and immense radiations of living bodies.
From The Goddess of Atvatabar Being the history of the discovery of the interior world and conquest of Atvatabar by Bradshaw, William Richard
