Sample Sentences forhelix (auto-selected)
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He'd been at college less than two months but had already stepped directly into the world he wanted, analyzing the stunning symmetry of the DNA molecule as if he'd crawled inside a glistening cathedral of coiling atoms and climbed the winding, acidic rungs of the helix. (source)helix = a spiral or coil (i.e., a curve that lies on the surface of a cylinder or cone shape and cuts the element at a constant angle)
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But it's the head of the sniper, spinning rapidly, throwing out a fine pink helix under the light.† (source)
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The running track stretched out ahead of me, rising, falling, and occasionally spiraling into a helix.† (source)
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There was the sudden, almost comic bloating of the little corpse, then the stretching of flesh into lesions, followed by the sudden appearance of maggots in the mouth, eyes, and open sores, and finally the sudden and incredible corkscrew cleaning of meat from the bones— there is no other phrase that fits the image-as the pack of maggots spiraled right to left, head to tail, in a time-lapsed helix of carrion consumption that left behind nothing but bones and gristle and hide.† (source)
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As soon as he completed his thesis, "An Analysis of Conical Helices", he transferred to Hughes's big California operation, where the real action was, eager to make his mark in the race for space.† (source)
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One was a tall boy of about thirteen, his skin burnished bronze and his cornrows woven like DNA helixes.† (source)
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Shimmying for the sand roads, down in a helix to a sculptured body of water named Lake Inverarity.† (source)
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The sound of groaning metal filled the air, and the billboard platform bent under the strain as the truck swung in a great helical arc underneath it.† (source)
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From the car window, Lourdes saw the island's wounded landscapes, its helices of palms.† (source)
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Tiny golden bubbles rose in double and triple helixes, evaporating with a hiss that sounded very nearly like a human sigh.† (source)
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It had required a Helix helicopter from the Kiev to the Tarawa, then a U.S. Navy Sea King to Norfolk.† (source)
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She began recognizing familiar structures, atomic linkages: a carbon atom here, helical wavering ....a glucose molecule.† (source)
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A long pointer, emerging from the area of no light beside the screen, rests on the volutes and helices, indicating which is which.† (source)
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Double helixes of DNA twisted and spiraled across my screen, then were overlaid with faded, unreadable newspaper clippings, staccato chunks of sound, colored postcards of New York.† (source)
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He dropped it back into the box and picked up instead the stretched helix of a small window-shade spring.† (source)
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Thoughts about the screw as combined rigidness and adhesiveness and about its special helical interlock might lead naturally to solutions of impaction and use of solvents.† (source)
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