Example sentences for: ribbon

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

  • Here is precisely what Clinton said (at an unrelated awards ceremony for "blue ribbon schools" at the Washington Hilton; interestingly, the transcription available on the White House Web site spells it "bum-fusseled," which is incorrect; Chatterbox here uses the text supplied by the Federal News Service, which spelled bumfuzzled correctly):

  • When the castle was built atop the hill, the original city of Edinburgh grew on this ridge, reaching down in a ribbon of development toward the Abbey of Holyrood, at the foot of the hill in the east.

  • Identification and statistical evaluation of conserved motifs in multiple protein sequences were performed using the Gibbs sampling method as implemented in the MACAW program [ 105 106 ] . Pattern searches were conducted using the GREF program of the SEALS package [ 107 ] , and pattern-initiated BLAST searches were carried out using the PHI-BLAST program [ 60 ] ?. Protein structure databases were searched for similar structures using the DALI program [ 108 ] . Protein secondary structure was predicted using the PHD program implemented on the PredictProtein server with a multiple alignment submitted as the [ 109 110 ] . Protein structures were visualized and manipulated using the Swiss-PDB viewer program [ 111 ] and the ribbon diagrams were made using MOLSCRIPT [ 112 ] .

  • Restaurants and discos have multiplied, as have hotels and apartment blocks, which now spread around the bay to form an almost unbroken ribbon of buildings 10 km (6 miles) long.

  • White shirts with ribbon ties made into bows, and the traditional wide-brimmed sombrero complete the ensemble.


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