angle of repose in a sentence
Examples
- Brown : Her favorite author is Wallace Stegner, who wrote one of her favorite books " Angle of Repose ."
- The arthropod trackways are thought to have been formed in shallow water, and supersaturated sand has a shallow angle of repose.
- None of the narrators get to circle back in time, or the story, to lend depth or an angle of repose.
- Different supports will modify the shape of the pile, in the illustrations below sand piles, though angles of repose remain the same.
- Failure caused by dry "'granular flow "'occurs typically on non-cohesive banks at, or near to, the angle of repose, which are undercut.
- When the buildup of sand at the brink exceeds the angle of repose, a small avalanche of grains slides down the slipface.
- Designers choose the angle of the corner tanks to be less than that of the angle of repose of the anticipated cargoes.
- The larva readies the pit once again by throwing out collapsed material from the center, steepening the pit walls to the angle of repose.
- Stegner's novel " Angle of Repose " ( first published by Doubleday in early 1971 ) won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1972.
- This protracted deformation and shaking ensures that the inner trench slope is controlled by the angle of repose of whatever material it is composed of.