Example Sentences

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An intermediate fly line with a one- to two-inch-per-second sink rate with a ten- to 12-pound untapered leader is the perfect match.

From Time Magazine Archive

Experts found plenty to criticize in Sovereign's construction: her untapered, top-heavy mast, her primitive rigging, her poorly cut sails.

From Time Magazine Archive

The failure of the voussoirs to radiate to the centre therefore seems to be simply the result of using untapered voussoirs in which the arch form must be obtained by wedge-shaped joints.

From Byzantine Churches in Constantinople Their History and Architecture by Van Millingen, Alexander

The roofs of tile or a long untapered shingle are not flat, as elsewhere, but with a slope for the tropical rains.

From Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras — Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond by Franck, Harry Alverson

Thirty feet long, it was, and six feet through, a blunt-ended, untapered serpent that glistened a moist crimson color in the rays of the sun.

From The Raid on the Termites by Ernst, Paul