Example Sentences

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From the rear it did not look right; it was lopsided, with a goodish-sized object hung unsymmetrically under its right wing.

From Time Magazine Archive

They hang loosely about shrubs in the forest, and have the extraordinary habit of stretching out their legs unsymmetrically, so as to render the deception more complete.

From Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays by Wallace, Alfred Russel

Their clerestory contains plain and uninteresting three-light windows, which are, moreover, unsymmetrically placed with regard to the arches beneath them.

From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Rochester A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See by Palmer, G. H. (George Henry)

Moreover we know from experiments on heliotropism, thermotropism, etc., that even intangible stimuli such as rays of light, etc., impinging unsymmetrically on these delicate cells cause alterations in their behaviour—e.g. arrest or acceleration of growth.

From Disease in Plants by Ward, H. Marshall

The north transept already had a large chapel of two stages upon its eastern side, so that the plan was treated unsymmetrically.

From The Ground Plan of the English Parish Church by Thompson, A. Hamilton (Alexander Hamilton)