Sample Sentences forinverse (auto-selected)
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One story described it as the inverse of the sky—a huge, hollow, upside-down dome of rock.† (source)
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Black birds pierce the sky like inverse stars.† (source)
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In the old and well-established code of dueling, it is understood that the number of paces the offender and offended take before shooting should be in inverse proportion to the magnitude of the insult.† (source)
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Out in the forsaken city, every other structure, it seems, is burning or collapsing, but here in front of him is the inverse in miniature: the city remains, but the house he occupies is gone.† (source)
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He went on, growing more and more relaxed, his ease the inverse function of their tightening stomachs.† (source)
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On the near side, the seawall makes an elbow crooked inversely, and its end too has a lighthouse.† (source)
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The Count went for the quick kill, the inverse Bonetti.† (source)
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Only in this way can our basically two-party nation avoid the pitfalls of multiple splinter parties, whose purity and rigidity of principle, I might add—if I may suggest a sort of Gresham's Law of politics—increase inversely with the size of their membership.† (source)
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When one has this feeling then he also sees the inverse side of caring, Quality itself.† (source)
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But the strength of the donkey mind lies in adopting a course inversely as the arguments urged, which, well considered, requires as great a mental force as the direct sequence; and the present donkey proved the first-rate order of his intelligence by coming to a dead standstill just when the blows were thickest.† (source)
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Sure enough, their clothes were inverse colors.† (source)
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The feelings of husband and wife varied, in some measure, inversely with their positions.† (source)
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Their English skills were in inverse proportion to their ages.† (source)
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Surveying the room, Cedric decides to display his mastery and answers a question about inverse trigonometric functions.† (source)
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I'll admit, he has one of the best builds this side of the Mr. Olympia contest, but that body is in inverse proportion to his brain.† (source)
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Its value and its civilization are in inverse ratio to that extortion.† (source)
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