out of register in a sentence
Examples
- For example, Sarandon's highly polished delivery of Mimi's sniffier lines can be very funny, but since most of them are directed at the character's younger son, they feel out of register with Culkin's more organic zingers.
- Once the pair-rule genes had been identified at the molecular level it was found that each gene is expressed in alternate " parasegments " regions in the embryo that are closely related to segments, but are slightly out of register.
- I have a sentence " . . . affinity of the polydactyl ZFP can be adversely affected by a short linker by forcing the helical periodicity of the zinc fingers out of register with the helical periodicity of the DNA subsites ( the exact periodicity of which is sequence-dependent ) ( [ bt ]; [ bu ] ) ."