Sample Sentences for
strata
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    Specimens associated with Morrison formation strata in Colorado, Utah, and Oklahoma.  (source)
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    And he remembered sunrise here on Arrakis—colored strata of the Shield Wall mellowed by dust haze.  (source)
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    I stopped for a long time to let my nerves settle, then leaned back from my tools and stared up at the face above, searching for a hint of solid ice, for some variation in the underlying rock strata, for anything that would allow passage over the frosted slabs.  (source)
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    She set down a bowl of tortilla chips and a casserole dish filled with elaborate dip in multicolored strata, like sedimentary rock.  (source)
    strata = layers
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    The entire operation was not unlike the digging of a trench in one's yard. The woman on the bed was no more than a hard stratum of marble they had reached.  (source)
    stratum = layer
    editor's notes: Strata, the plural form of this word is used much more commonly than the singular form. Many Latin words that end in "um" are made plural by changing the "um" to "a"--such as stratum to strata, bacterium to bacteria, and millennium to millennia. In modern writing, changing the "um" to "ums" is also accepted for many Latin words ending in um, but not for any of those listed above.
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    They were men from all across the social strata who had been trained by American World War II and Korea veterans—and those hardened U.S. vets were impressed by what they saw.  (source)
    strata = classes or groups
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    They are members of a social stratum which includes welfare mothers, housing project residents, immigrant families, the homeless and unemployed.  (source)
    stratum = class
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    It was not a bright or splendid summer evening, though fair and soft: the haymakers were at work all along the road; and the sky, though far from cloudless, was such as promised well for the future: its blue — where blue was visible — was mild and settled, and its cloud strata high and thin.  (source)
    strata = layers
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    But this was concrete evidence; it was a fragment of the abolished past, like a fossil bone which turns up in the wrong stratum and destroys a geological theory.  (source)
    stratum = layer
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    Countless times the strata bad creaked and shifted, as the unimaginable weight of water disturbed their precarious equilibrium.  (source)
    strata = layers
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    I don't mean that he had traded on his phantom millions, but he had deliberately given Daisy a sense of security; he let her believe that he was a person from much the same stratum as herself — that he was fully able to take care of her.  (source)
    stratum = class of society
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    The entire member seems a dense webbed bed of welded sinews; but cut into it, and you find that three distinct strata compose it:—upper, middle, and lower.  (source)
    strata = layers
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    His tales "The Masque of the Red Death" (1842) and "The Fall of the House of Usher" (1839) both deal with a stratum of society most of us only get to read about: the nobility.  (source)
    stratum = social class
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