toggle menu
menu
vocabulary
1000+ books

gradient
in a sentence

show 39 more with this conextual meaning
  • Because glucose phosphate is a different molecule, it does not contribute to the glucose gradient.
  • Pressure predictions can be based on temperature gradient rather than on temperature magnitude.
  • ...a "social gradient of health" exists even among the rich: the outlandishly wealthy live healthier and longer than the rich, who live better than the merely comfortable.   (source)
  • We came to a little flight of rough rock steps cut into the gradient.†   (source)
  • The gradient was almost sheer, straight down to the valley floor.†   (source)
  • I grabbed my gear and took a sideways step, trying to zigzag down the gradient.†   (source)
  • "Higher gravitational gradient detected." the sensor center commed.†   (source)
  • And, as programmed, having detected a high gravitational gradient, it spun up its breacher system.†   (source)
  • I will also need gravitational gradient detectors.†   (source)
  • It's not that high of a gravitational gradient, you understand."†   (source)
  • Speed of spin determines the gradient, and you can flex the field to extend.†   (source)
  • Then I started rolling, sliding very fast down the steep gradient, unable to get a grip, which may have been just as well.†   (source)
  • An area like this cannot, of course, flood, not up here, because the gradient is far too steep to hold water.†   (source)
  • He went past the window like a rocket, running hard up the gradient, possibly going for the Hindu Kusli all-comers 100-meters record.†   (source)
  • Ahead of us was a copse of trees on a slightly less steep gradient, and I knew this was our last hope before we plunged into the void.†   (source)
  • On the other side, they never broke stride and now began to make their way up a steep gradient through the trees.†   (source)
  • I can only plead the gradient.†   (source)
  • The gradient saved him, as it had saved Mikey and me, the way the steep mountain saves a ski jumper, enabling him to continue down at high speed without a terminal collision with flat ground.†   (source)
  • Except for two mitigating factors: (1) he was about two hundred years old, and (2) from where I stood, the mountain he was crossing had a gradient slightly steeper than the Washington Monument.†   (source)
  • They put their hands behind their backs in that peculiar Afghan way and broke into a very fast jog, up the steep gradient, the goats around us now trotting along to join them.†   (source)
  • The gradients were still very steep, and I was working my way through the forest, through the gutters of the mountain.†   (source)
  • But I saw his expression change as he looked at the pictures, at the obviously very steep gradients, truly horrible terrain, a mountain we would have to clomp up and down in order to find cover.†   (source)
  • And the village cop offered me his hand, helped me to my feet, and once more led me through the forest, half lifting me down the gradients, always considerate of my shattered left leg, until we reached a dried-up riverbed.†   (source)
  • One hundred gravity gradient.†   (source)
  • All morning the climb proceeded, slowly and by easy gradients; but at such height the physical effort was considerable, and none had energy to spare for talk.†   (source)
  • I stared at the last rays wreathing this peak, while shadows were gradually climbing its gradients.†   (source)
  • Above and below, the Ice Bank was subsiding in long gradients.†   (source)
  • We arrived at the mountain's lower gradients.†   (source)
  • The air grew cooler; they had surmounted the last gradient, and Oniton lay below them with its church, its radiating houses, its castle, its river-girt peninsula.†   (source)
  • Close on the rear of this came a couple of cabs, the forerunners of a long procession of flying vehicles, going for the most part to Chalk Farm station, where the North-Western special trains were loading up, instead of coming down the gradient into Euston.†   (source)
  • Having no urgent destiny, it strolled downhill or up as it wished, taking no trouble about the gradients, or about the view, which nevertheless expanded.†   (source)
  • A wall of superb rocks stood before us, imposing in its sheer mass: a pile of gigantic stone blocks, an enormous granite cliffside pitted with dark caves but not offering a single gradient we could climb up.†   (source)
  • Prices were like the roads of the period, steep in gradient, reflecting in their phases the local conditions, without engineering, levellings, or averages.†   (source)
  • The gradients got steeper and narrower.†   (source)
  • And I too could feel the difference created by the water's powerful density—despite my heavy clothing, copper headpiece, and metal soles, I climbed the most impossibly steep gradients with all the nimbleness, I swear it, of a chamois or a Pyrenees mountain goat!†   (source)
  • The ground rose appreciably as it moved away from the sand flats by the waves, and we soon arrived at some long, winding gradients, genuinely steep paths that allowed us to climb little by little; but we had to tread cautiously in the midst of pudding stones that weren't cemented together, and our feet kept skidding on glassy trachyte, made of feldspar and quartz crystals.†   (source)
  • O, get, rev on a gradient one in nine.†   (source)
  • …fish-dealer fishmonger floor-walker shop-walker fraternal-order friendly-society freight goods freight-agent goods-manager freight-car goods-waggon frog (railway) crossing-plate garters (men's) sock-suspenders gasoline petrol grade (railroad) gradient grain corn grain-broker corn-factor grip hold-all groceries stores hardware-dealer ironmonger haystack haycock headliner topliner hod-carrier hodman hog-pen piggery hospital (private) nursing-home huckster coster (monger) hunting shooting…†   (source)
  • …at an initial plant cost of 5 pounds per linear yard by way of the Dargle, Rathdown, Glen of the Downs and Callowhill to the 26 acre reservoir at Stillorgan, a distance of 22 statute miles, and thence, through a system of relieving tanks, by a gradient of 250 feet to the city boundary at Eustace bridge, upper Leeson street, though from prolonged summer drouth and daily supply of 12 1/2 million gallons the water had fallen below the sill of the overflow weir for which reason the borough…†   (source)
▲ show less (of above)