compound curve in a sentence

Examples

1. The Company was a substantial investor in the TG & BR . The first passenger cars were notable in having a compound curved roof with a high centre section giving extra headroom over the centre gangway; an arrangement often seen on horse-drawn streetcars of the period.
2. Gehry buildings often bristle with energy edging out of control _ the flip at the end of a compound curve, the raking angle of a wall _ and unless Gehry follows through on the details, the intimations of wildness risk being tamed : the champagne goes flat.
3. I'm sitting here contemplating the perfection of a dark-chocolate coated almond, with a perfectly smooth compound curve at every point on the chocolate's surface, un-marred by any flat spot that would have formed by the almond resting on a surface as the chocolate coating cooled and hardened.
4. Though Charles got the lion's share of the credit for the creative work of the office, it was Ray, working with Charles out of a bathroom laboratory, who shaped the bewitching pretzels of plywood _ free-form sculpture molded in compound curves _ that would lend lilt to their Eames chair . ( She died in 1988, 10 years to the day after her husband .)