Sample Sentences for
concave
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    A deep depression in the middle, partially filled with water, was ringed by concave slopes that cantilevered dangerously over the water.  (source)
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    I placed three fingers against his side where the ribcage seemed concave and pressed.†  (source)
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    Her senses feasted, between changes, on that lean, concave, Christlike body.†  (source)
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    They'll go after anything that's warm and concave.†  (source)
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    In other habitats, the rim of sky above the horizontal is broken or obscured; here, together with the overhead portion, it is infinitely vaster than that of rolling countryside and forest lands......In an unobstructed sky the clouds seem more massive, sometimes grandly reflecting the earth's curvature on their concave undersides.†  (source)
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    He touched my head, which is our tradition, but my father was worried, as I had nothing but skin, no bone to protect my brain, and my head beneath the shawl was concave.†  (source)
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    Even with all the hiking and camping, I'd had a concave chest, sticking-out ribs, and skin so pale you could trace the road map of blue veins.†  (source)
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    They are used by Fremen to line concave planting depressions where they provide a small but reliable source of water.†  (source)
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    "Say, I'm starving," said Boris, standing up and stretching so that a band of stomach showed between his fatigues and ragged shirt: concave, dead white, like a starved saint's.†  (source)
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    I feel the ropy hardness of his arms, the warmth of his slightly concave chest, as he holds me tight, tighter than anyone has ever held me.†  (source)
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    There was a six-pack, a real one, and arms that looked like real man arms, like they could actually lift something without too much effort, and a chest that was much more than the almost concave skin board I'd always known.†  (source)
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    At the top of the cliff the globe wavered for a moment, tipped onto a railed ramp, rolled down it to a small concave platform and riddled to a halt.†  (source)
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    On the riverbank they found a bare concave rock facing south, and stayed there for as long as the sun warmed them, lost in love-making in which sometimes Ariane's hair hung over the edge of the rock and was lapped by the ice-cold Adige as it surged and relaxed.†  (source)
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