Example sentences for: depressions

How can you use “depressions” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Namma-holes have been variously described; to Carnegie they are depressions on the surface of rocks, often with a rounded bottom, where stones are often found, suggesting that the stones have something to do with the formation of the holes.

  • The radius of curvature of the depressions in the monkey must have been greater than that of the balls or they would not pile in the first place.

  • Brinkley, a highly class-conscious historian, is better at robber barons, depressions, strikes, and grass-roots politics than at wars and natural history.

  • He believes native wells are essentially rock-holes (depressions in rock) buried in fairly shallow sand, which, when hollowed out by the natives, appear to be wells.

  • As for the square brass monkey with circular depressions for stacking cannonballs, it would have to contract a great deal more than the iron balls to cause them to tumble.


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