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How To Use diurnal In A Sentence

• What mattered was the planet's diurnal position relative to the horizon - whether it was rising in the east or culminating overhead.
• This apparently inefficient system gives us the ability to deal with the natural variability of the diurnal rhythms of light and temperature.
• Scientists have now observed that one of these atmospheric tides, known as diurnal wavenumber Science Blog
• Accipitrids are diurnal birds of prey with broad wings, hooked beaks, strong legs and feet and sharp talons.
• To the insatiable bloody appetite of this creature nothing comes amiss; he takes the male ostrich by surprise, and slays that wariest of wild things on his nest; He captures little birds with the dexterity of a cat, and hunts for diurnal armadillos; he comes unawares upon the deer and huanaco, and, springing like lightning on them, dislocates their necks before their bodies touch the earth. The Naturalist in La Plata
• God then willed the revolution of the outermost sphere, known as the diurnal sphere, which caused all the other spheres to revolve with it, thereby producing changes in the hyle in accordance with the motions of the sphere. A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy
• The sample traces (a, b) are representative of the diurnal pattern of leaf extension rate for each species.
• Most communication systems in luminescent fireflies have been studied in nocturnal species; little is known concerning communication in crepuscular and diurnal species.
• Elephant shrews (no relation), pikas, and Tupaia treeshrews share both absentee-like maternal care and diurnality - that is, they are active during the day, when prey is more easily spotted by predators.
• The tuatara, a nocturnal lizardlike reptile from New Zealand, shares a nest with the diurnal petrel, a sea bird. For young readers: ‘How to Clean a Hippopotamus'