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Example sentences for: gravity

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The fixative was instilled by gravity at a pressure of 30 cmH 2 O until the lung surface was firmly distended and small amounts of fixative were weeping through the pleural surface.
Her Catherine has no center of gravity: She doesn't walk when she can lurch, weave, or collide with objects, her balance shifting precariously.
Gangsta rap shifted hip-hop's center of gravity from the East Coast to the West Coast, and supplanted Public Enemy's machine-gun attack with a cooler, jazzier style.
The critics can't say enough about her tight, honed prose: She gets the speech patterns just right ("a stunningly authentic voice," declares Michael Knight in the Wall Street Journal ), she writes "sentences whose specific gravity mysteriously exceeds their size" (Walter Kirn, New York ), and her characters have an "absolute authenticity" (Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, the New York Times ). (Listen to this CBC interview with Proulx.)
It is possible that NORAD commanders would have ordered a shootdown in the absence of the authorization communicated by the Vice President, but given the gravity of the decision to shoot down a commercial airliner, and NORAD's caution that a mistake not be made, we view this possibility as unlikely.