angle of repose in a sentence
Examples
- Slanted walls of dirt are left at the angle of repose after the canal is built.
- On a typical business-class seat, in contrast, the maximum angle of repose is about 130 degrees.
- Since leaving the A's, McGwire seems to have reached a comfortable angle of repose with the Cardinals.
- The angle of repose seemed just right; the feet were elevated and the lower back gently elongated.
- The angle of repose of melty snow is far, far lower than the steep surface of the signs.
- The angle of repose is sometimes used in the design of equipment for the processing of particulate solids.
- This is known as the angle of repose, and a prime example is the surface of sand dunes.
- Her angle of repose _ fists clenched, arms upthrust _ should help her father in the midlife crisis department.
- The North Star House was the setting for Wallace Stegner s Pulitzer Prize winning novel, " Angle of Repose ".
- The steepest angle that a cohesionless slope can maintain without losing its stability is known as its angle of repose.