Example sentences for: boyle

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  • Book -- Riven Rock , by T. Coraghessan Boyle;

  • According to a law of physics called Boyle's law, the pressure times the volume of a gas is always a constant--increasing pressure makes volume decrease, and vice versa.

  • Here was James Woods, talking a million miles a minute to Anthony Minghella, the director of The English Patient , and appearing for all the world like he was playing the manic Richard Boyle in Salvador . There was Gabriel Byrne, nursing a Heineken, every inch the handsome villain of The Usual Suspects . And here was Jeff Goldblum, angular and geeky, looking like he had just stepped out of that helicopter in Jurassic Park . He was just back from Hawaii, where he had been filming The Lost World , the sequel to that monster smash.

  • As Melville pointed out, if a sperm whale can spend more than an hour swimming at depths of up to 6,000 feet, and a sperm whale is composed mostly of gas (air-filled lungs and blubber), then Boyle's law would dictate that, as Spruch puts it, "a whale of regulation size at the surface should, at the pressures a thousand fathoms down, decrease its volume to the size of a bathtub!"


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