How To Use Tapering In A Sentence

The cue maker then carefully chooses and seasons the wood, before tapering and sanding it down on a lathe.
The house, with its steeply pitched red-tiled roof, precipitous gables and tall tapering chimneys, is L-shaped with a well-head in the angle, its conical top resembling a Welsh wizard's hat.
With its wildly outsized fender flares, saucer-eyed round headlamps, squat fuselage, tapering roofline and curiously latent, not-quite-formed rear contours, the Juke looks like a Nissan Murano at the larval stage. Nissan's Jazzy Juke, Imperfect on Purpose
Black; the head and thorax very closely punctured, thinly clothed with griseous pubescence, that on the face, thorax beneath, and on the coxæ most dense and glittering; antennæ more slender than is usual in this genus, and tapering to their apex, the joints slightly subarcuate; the mandibles bidentate at their apex and with a yellow spot at their base. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
The center of the pole was thickest, the other two points tapering slightly before ending at a sharp point.

Cut the dough in two and roll it into sausage shapes, tapering at each end.
Black; the head and thorax very closely punctured, thinly clothed with griseous pubescence, that on the face, thorax beneath, and on the coxæ most dense and glittering; antennæ more slender than is usual in this genus, and tapering to their apex, the joints slightly subarcuate; the mandibles bidentate at their apex and with a yellow spot at their base. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
Black; the head and thorax very closely punctured, thinly clothed with griseous pubescence, that on the face, thorax beneath, and on the coxæ most dense and glittering; antennæ more slender than is usual in this genus, and tapering to their apex, the joints slightly subarcuate; the mandibles bidentate at their apex and with a yellow spot at their base. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
Doctors recommend gradually tapering doses before quitting. Times, Sunday Times
His interest in poetry seems to be tapering off.
Its massively thick silver body often measures more than 2m in length, powerful and muscular, cylindrical in section, and gradually tapering to the tip of the tail.
The cutlassfishes are characterized by a scaleless, band-shaped body tapering to a slim pointed tail, with one dorsal fin extending the whole length of the body; the anal is also long but is very low.
Flowers 3½ inches across, produced from the end of July to the end of September, bright golden yellow; leaves large, ovate, tapering from the middle to both ends; stalk leaves sessile and nearly connate, that is, clasping the stalk by their opposite base. Scientific American Supplement, No. 484, April 11, 1885
The red sandstone tower of Qutab Minar is 72.5 m high, tapering from 14.32 m at its base to 2.75 m in diameter at its peak, and alternating in angular and rounded flutings.
They look vaguely similar to the sharks of Jaws infamy, huge midriffs tapering to a point at snout and tail.
This tapering was the natural growth of the trunk; it was not, I mean, cut tapering with an ax. Buffalo Bird Woman's Garden
Some companies have found the gimmick expensive and are gradually tapering off. Take Care of Your Skin
The endearing Eastern Barred Bandicoot is a small animal characterised by a slender, elongated head tapering to a pink nose and well whiskered muzzle.
The cairn is wedge shaped, tapering towards the west with a court which exceeds 50 feet in length. A Guide to Megalithic Ireland
The form of the minarets, indeed, brings to mind the battlements of Rajput fort rather than the graceful tapering classical Islamic minaret.
I distinctly recall the quivering of the full glasses of jelly on tapering disks that formed attractive table ornaments. A Backward Glance at Eighty
Besides, such is the breadth of the upper part of the front of his head, and such the tapering cut-water formation of the lower part, that by obliquely elevating his head, he thereby may be said to transform himself from a bluff-bowed sluggish galliot into a sharppointed New Moby Dick; or the Whale
Tomorrow (Thursday): Rain arrives from west to east during the early-to-mid morning, and falls moderate at times before tapering in the same direction during the mid-afternoon into early evening. Forecast: Thursday rain, otherwise cooler but nice
From the long tapering fingers of her right hand a golden chain dangled and swinging idly from its end hung a small iridescent vial.
This comes on top of stamp-duty increases and the tapering of mortgage relief forcing many landlords to reconsider their position. Times, Sunday Times
The dosage ranges from using the inhaler intensively for 5 minutes 24 to 48 times a day gradually tapering off after 3 months.
This comes on top of stamp-duty increases and the tapering of mortgage relief forcing many landlords to reconsider their position. Times, Sunday Times
The turned tapering legs with carved upper sections and brass toes and castors are again typical of the William IV or early Victorian period.
Termite mounds dot the roadside, rising in vertical shafts to tapering points, each one a tiny architectural marvel, a many-towered Camelot.
The number of applicants for the course has been tapering off recently.
Giant yellow-poplars are remarkable for their lofty heights and barely tapering columnar shapes.
You could have a tower of them, tapering in size, if you fancied it. Times, Sunday Times
The end of tapering could be good news for some businesses in Japan, though. Times, Sunday Times
The foreface is broad and well filled in under the eyes, tapering gradually to form a medium length, deep, powerful muzzle with the skull and muzzle on parallel planes. Undefined
This tree is described as tapering and cone-like, with upright branches growing close to the trunk, and in its general appearance a little resembling a poplar. Among the Trees at Elmridge
These volcano and feeder systems have similarities to igneous centres, which also have cone-shaped edifices, calderas and downward tapering cones created during magma chamber collapse and ring-dyke intrusion.
Abdomen very smooth and shining; the node of the petiole incrassate and tapering upwards into an acute spine. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
The Rolls proprieties are observed, of course: the tall, long hood ending in a chromic bluff; the short front overhang; the tapering rear quarters drawn back from the wheels; the steeply sloped C-pillar; the high body-to-glass ratio. Rolls-Royce Builds a Real Car20%
Nissan With its wildly outsized fender flares, saucer-eyed round headlamps, squat fuselage, tapering roofline and curiously latent, not-quite-formed rear contours, the Juke looks like a Nissan Murano at the larval stage. Purposely and Deliberately Imperfect
The acicular crystals are sometimes intergrown or twinned, causing a distortion that results in seemingly single crystals with relatively fat bases tapering to pointed terminations.
The body is dumpy, tapering to an acorn-shaped posterior; the legs are very long, resembling those of the spider when outspread; the hinder legs are disproportionately long and curved, being thus excellently adapted to enlace and press the little pilule of dung. Social Life in the Insect World
The conic hand is usually medium sized and the palm is slightly tapering.
Six feet tall, he was in his forties, had a long bony face tapering to a pointed jaw.
As he chipped the stone away, Michael realized it was a cylindrical object, tapering gradually to a point at each end, made entirely of the odd, silvery metal.
The _leaf-blade_ is flat, narrow, linear, tapering to a fine point, suberect and rather rigid, glabrous and with a narrow base, varying in length from 3 to 10 inches and 1/8 to 1/3 inch in breadth. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
By tapering the roof around the bedrooms and angling the front facade of the house, you maximise space on the ground floor, where you need it most. Times, Sunday Times
There were a few locals about, mostly Keklir, a bipedal race with short, powerful limbs and faces dominated by a wide, tapering snout with two mouthlike openings. Orphaned Worlds, 1st Draft, 2nd Excerpt « INTERSTELLAR TACTICS
This comes on top of stamp-duty increases and the tapering of mortgage relief forcing many landlords to reconsider their position. Times, Sunday Times
There was an unfacetted crimson gem (he vaguely remembered having heard a similar gem called a bloodstone) in the grip, just behind one of the smooth, tapering arms of the guard. Nightside The Long Sun
The blimbi is about three or four inches long, and in the middle about as thick as a man's finger, tapering towards each end: It is covered with a very thin skin of a light green colour, and in the inside are a few seeds disposed in the form of a star: Its flavour is a light, clean, pleasant acid, but it cannot be eaten raw; it is said to be excellent as a pickle; and stewed, it made a most agreeable sour sauce to our boiled dishes. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 13
The sharp buzz of the miter saw filled the backyard soon after, its noise gearing up to a tearing crescendo before tapering off to a low whine and then starting up again. O' Bending Light
Her foot pointed artfully toward tapering toes.
Like a razor also, it seemed massy and heavy, tapering from the edge into a solid and broad structure above.
Flat-fronted trousers that have a slouchier fit at the waist before tapering into the knee and ankle. Times, Sunday Times
The final result is that the internal structure of the downward tapering cone is a complex mosaic of faults, dykes and pipes feeding the volcanic edifice.
But while coffers of this type are generally supported on stands with straight tapering legs, the Blenheim stands have handsome cabriole legs at both front and back, mounted at the top with acanthus volutes topped by female heads.
The stele is divided into three parts, the tetramerous proxistele closest to the theca tapering through the mesistele to the dimerous dististele furtherest from the theca.
Body cylindrical, scales small; ventral shields brown, rounded; tail rather short, tapering; subcaudal plates two, round. Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2
Simple and erect. its leaves are cauline, and Spredding. the leafits are jointed & oppositly poinnate 3 par and termonateing in one, cessile widest at the base and tapering to an accuminated point, an inch and The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806
Friends of mine have taken more gradual tactics that have also worked well, such as tapering off by allowing the pacifier only at certain times, such as bed and naptime, but not between. Time to ditch the paci?
There are signs that inflation is tapering.
If this creates excess tissue in the front neckline, tuck it out across the upper-bust, tapering the tuck to nothing at the armhole seam.
The body is stiff and flexible due to the tapering and fullering as well as the spring tempered martensitic body.
It is also easy on the eye with its long bonnet, steeply raked windscreen, wide doors and short boot, with an extra 30 mm on the wheelbase helping to provide it with its distinctive arrow-like tapering front.
Shell short, broadly fusiform; spire and mouth equal; whorls seyen, the first nuclear, the other regularly sloping above, obsoletely nodose on the angle and tapering in advance. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society
The = stem = is cylindrical, even, or slightly tapering upward, hollow or stuffed, not bulbous, smooth, or with mealy particles or prominent floccose scales. Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
The rafters are three and one-half inches thick by six inches wide at the eaves tapering to four inches wide at the ridge.
Without the palisade was a space of waste land, marsh and thicket, tapering to the narrow strip of sand and scrub joining the peninsula to the forest, and here and there upon this waste ground rose a mean house, dwelt in by the poorer sort. To Have and to Hold
Other than the cut, they also layered my hair all over the back to give it more body but left the front layers long and without any tapering in order to better frame my face.
It's formed by walls at least 50 yards high that look like flat-topped hills, tapering from roughly 65 yards thick at their base to 45 yards at their tops, which are covered in vegetation and trees. Toxic Sludge Could Spill Again, Hungary Government Warns
In their natural and unimproved state, the Highland cattle are frequently well formed; their fine eyes, acute face, and lively countenances, give them an air of fierceness, which is heightened by their white, tapering, black-tipped, and sharp horns. Delineations of the Ox Tribe The Natural History of Bulls, Bisons, and Buffaloes. Exhibiting all the Known Species and the More Remarkable Varieties of the Genus Bos.
TAIL: long, wide at base, and tapering. Fur long and flowing.
With their papery bark, aromatic leaves, red sap, and rapidly tapering trunks, elephant-trees are as absurd, beautiful, and intriguing as their namesakes.
Towering high in the air, and almost filling the glade from end to end with her enormous length, was an object measuring no fewer than six hundred feet long, of cylindrical shape, sixty feet in diameter at her so-called "midship" section, and tapering away fore and aft by a series of finely curved lines, to the pointed extremities of the bow and stern. With Airship and Submarine A Tale of Adventure
At the front, large tapering light covers flank a steeply rising, scalloped bonnet that features a central crease line.
A long, tapering flag bearing heraldic devices distinctive of a person or corporation.
From the femoral ring the canal extends down the thigh for an inch and a-half or two inches in a tapering form, supported by the pectineus muscle, and covered by the iliac part of the fascia lata. Surgical Anatomy
By tapering the roof around the bedrooms and angling the front facade of the house, you maximise space on the ground floor, where you need it most. Times, Sunday Times
The tapering anterior end of the vomer enters between the premaxillae, forming a loose contact that results in slit-like fontanelles on either side.
Big grocers now sell bendy turnips, irregular spuds and tapering carrots. Times, Sunday Times
Until the stubborn into today's once, until bei shadow tapering off, leaving only a sigh.
The trouble is, that tapering shape means there is not much room at the top. Times, Sunday Times
Behind the glasses, her brown eyes were equally huge, her face tapering down to a small mouth.
They were unbelievably sturdy, with action-figure bulk, barrel chests, and sharp-tapering lats. THE KILL CLAUSE
About three feet long, blade broad on top and not tapering much to a bluntish point, it had a short, straight iron guard and a wide, flat-bottomed pommel rounded like a scoop of ice cream. Operation Luna
The men swung axes and hammers into the aluminum skin on the tapering wings and fuselages.
The original 1954 A-frame church had tapering glulam columns and a stone exterior.
Manufacturing a swamped barrel involves tapering it inward towards the center point and flaring the muzzle and breech ends outward for balance.
In the entresol of this house was one of his finest treasures — a carved and floriated base bearing a tapering monolith some four feet high, crowned by the head of a peculiarly goatish Pan, by the side of which were the problematic remains of a lovely nude nymph — just the little feet broken off at the ankles. The Financier
Some companies have found the gimmick expensive and are gradually tapering off. Take Care of Your Skin
A quoin is a solid which differs from a wedge in having its sharp end formed by the steep inclination of one side, instead of the mutual tapering of both sides. Moby Dick; or the Whale
The number of applicants for the course has been tapering off recently.
The waistline seam at the center front may need to be lowered, tapering it back to normal at the side seam.
MAYOR ADRIAN FENTY, WASHINGTON: I think people who are used to the normal storm in Washington, d.c., would probably expect some kind of tapering off by now. CNN Transcript Dec 19, 2009
The tapering anterior end of the vomer enters between the premaxillae, forming a loose contact that results in slit-like fontanelles on either side.
They were gaited animals, with a fast jog-walk and a fine single-foot, small and well-proportioned, with tapering legs and small feet. Head Hunters of the Amazon: Seven Years of Exploration and Adventure
The massive green curve of the flank, rising up and tapering to the top of the fuselage, is surely the side of ship?
Good though it was, it was eclipsed by the fantastic tapering baby carrots on which it sat.
Below the downward tapering cone, stratal geometries change to a dominantly convex-up form defining a minor, upwards pointing cone that is reminiscent of reactive diapir geometry.
Big grocers now sell bendy turnips, irregular spuds and tapering carrots. Times, Sunday Times
Their fur is lighter and less dense than European wild cats, and their tails are thin and tapering.
Ewers and vases often combine unusual elements: eccentrically shaped openwork handles and covers on bulbous bodies with flaring, tapering, or segmented necks inspired by Near Eastern shapes.
He created the buzz cut with regular-size clippers, leaving the top longer and tapering the sides.
The ebony diapason was marked at the fifth, seventh, and twelfth frets with a pattern of ivory dots, and the rounded belly of it was composed of tapering strips of close-grained maple, separated skilfully by thin fillets of rosewood. Captain Corelli's Mandolin
Twelve long tendrils stretched out from a central mountain, with smaller mounds branching off from the main stem in a leaf-like pattern and eventually tapering down to become one with the landscape.
Processes generally hollow, tubiform to tapering, sometimes with striae and annular thickenings along their length; they are distally open or closed and furcated.
Processes generally hollow, tubiform to tapering, sometimes with striae and annular thickenings along their length; they are distally open or closed and furcated.
The rectangular slab is slightly curved, measuring 17 inches thick at the center and tapering to 10 inches on the sides.
The thick part of the backbone that lies between the shoulders, called griskin or chine, is separated from the tapering, bony part, called backbone by way of distinction, and used as flesh. Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889
-- "Fur above sooty black without any ferruginous smear, beneath lighter coloured; whiskers long, silvery grey; some parts of legs and feet greyish, clothed with adpressed hairs; claws short, whitish; ears large, round, naked; outer margin lying on a level with the fur of the head and neck, the ears being thus concealed posteriorly; tail tetragonal, tapering, shorter than head and body. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
Abdomen smooth, shining, and ferruginous; the node of the petiole incrassate, cylindric, and tapering upwards into a very acute spine. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
We were not very long in getting our preventers rigged, after which we not only set our royal and flying-jib, but also shifted our gaff-topsail, hauling down Number 3, a jib-headed affair, and setting Number 2 in its place, a sail nearly twice as big as the other, with its lofty, tapering head laced to a yard very nearly as long as the topmast. A Middy of the Slave Squadron A West African Story
The control group accepted drug withdrawal immediately, while the observed group accepted dose tapering gradually after a 12-week treatment course.
The height of the forms and the tapering of the tower necessitated mechanical rebar splices.
The turned tapering legs with carved upper sections and brass toes and castors are again typical of the William IV or early Victorian period.
Though the idea of tapering has received some attention on Wall Street of late, officials seem unlikely to want to follow that course this time unless they have some evidence that ending the program all at once in June might disrupt the functioning of the Treasury market. Fed Unlikely to Remove Its Economic Stimulus Just Yet
THE perfectly shaped brow is thicker at the inner corner, tapering to a thinner point at the outer corner. The Sun
After that I start tapering, which is the phase in an athletes 'training programme where the training work they perform is reduced. Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Frontpage RSS Feed
The appendage is divisible into three parts - a broad proximal section where it joins the theca then a median section tapering to narrower distal section.
These greenish larvae are typical fly maggots in appearance; legless, broadest at the tail end and tapering to a point at the head, with hook-like mouthparts.
The trouble is, that tapering shape means there is not much room at the top. Times, Sunday Times
Leaves on mature plants exposed to full sun are narrower and hastate, usually only slightly acuminate, and truncate or slightly tapering at the base, not cordate.
These magnificent north American specimens soar to a height of 40m on a perfectly straight, gently tapering trunk.
Stalactites hung down like stone drapery from the arched ceiling far above; an occasional drop of limewater fell from their tapering ends. Conan Of The Isles
the doctor prescribed the tapering of the dose
The stele is divided into three parts, the tetramerous proxistele closest to the theca tapering through the mesistele to the dimerous dististele furthest from the theca.
Cones from 6 to 20 cm. in length, pendent on peduncles of various lengths, the peduncle often remaining on the tree after the fall of the cone; apophyses fulvous brown, dull or sublustrous, the margin rounded or tapering to an acute apex, sometimes a little prolonged and reflexed, the umbo inconspicuous. The Genus Pinus
The _leaf-blade_ is narrow, rigid, thickly coriaceous, concavo-convex tapering from the base to the tip, spreading and recurved, 4 to 6 inches long. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
The stem of the 2nd. is procumbent abo [u] t the size of the former, jointed and unbranched. it's leaves are cauline, compound and oppositely pinnate; the rib from 14 to 16 inches long celindric and smooth. the leafets 2 1/2 inches long and 1 inch wide. greatest width 1/2 inch from their base, to which they are regularly rounded, and from the same point tapering to an accute apex, Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806
It has tapering, leathery leaves and white flowers held high above the leaves. Times, Sunday Times
Its form was what we may call a lengthened oval, tapering off at the head and tail, which were under the water, only part of the scaly back being exposed to the air. The Wizard of the Sea A Trip Under the Ocean
Doctors recommend gradually tapering doses before quitting. Times, Sunday Times
For their anterior three-fourths they lie in intimate apposition with one another, but behind they diverge in the form of two tapering processes, known as the crura, which are firmly connected to the rami of the pubic arch. XI. Splanchnology. 3c. 5. The Penis
The center of the pole was thickest, the other two points tapering slightly before ending at a sharp point.
FRIDAY'S FORECAST: Heavy rain tapering off, high 66. Relative Values
However, these materials were still too weak to support their own weight without tapering, although in the case of graphite whiskers the taper ratio was a more manageable 100.
Her foot pointed artfully toward tapering toes.
Doctors recommend gradually tapering doses before quitting. Times, Sunday Times
The long, tapering, full-coated tail is carried lower than the body but does not trail.
The waterleaf is a broad, unribbed, tapering leaf curving up towards the angle of the abacus and turned in at the top.
The fuselage is tubular and cigar-shaped tapering to the rear with a rounded, glassed-in nose and bubble canopy.
From the long tapering fingers of her right hand a golden chain dangled and swinging idly from its end hung a small iridescent vial.
On shelves opposite Lapham's desk were tin cans of various sizes, arranged in tapering cylinders, and showing, in a pattern diminishing toward the top, the same label borne by the casks and barrels in the wareroom. The Rise of Silas Lapham
Her red, curving mouth of a child, cleft chin, and dimpled, tapering hands all promised a certain yieldingness of disposition -- a tendency to take always the line of least resistance -- but it was a charming, appealing kind of frailty which most people -- the sterner sex, certainly -- would be very ready to condone. The Hermit of Far End
Galia Amsel, working with translucence and opacity, pushes grey and white glass to its densest, tapering her squared slabs towards narrow, light edges.
The new tapering projectiles could be directed with greater accuracy when rifling was introduced in artillery barrels.
Cones indehiscent, from 9 to 14 cm. long, short-pedunculate, ovoid-conical or subcylindrical; apophyses dull pale nut-brown, rugose, shrinking much in drying and exposing the seeds, prolonged and tapering to a more or less reflexed tip, the umbo inconspicuous; seeds large, wingless, the spermoderm entire. The Genus Pinus
The bodies of catsharks are fusiform (cylindrical, tapering at the ends) to slightly depressed.
The pods, which are typically ridged and tapering, but may be almost round, contain many small seeds and a gummy substance which gives okra its special character.
A tapering, strongly lanceolate to ovate frond attached to a basal disc by a cylindrical stem.
The _leaf-blade_ is narrow, linear, tapering to a fine point, convolute in bud, scabrid above and smooth below, with a minutely serrate, very narrow, hyaline margin, 1 to 10 inches long and 1/12 inch broad. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
Big grocers now sell bendy turnips, irregular spuds and tapering carrots. Times, Sunday Times
The end of tapering could be good news for some businesses in Japan, though. Times, Sunday Times
Each carried an iron-headed axe in a girdle, a bow about six feet in length strung with twisted bark, and a few ill-made arrows with peacocks 'feathers at one end and an iron unbarbed head tapering to a point at the other. My First Voyage to Southern Seas
long tapering fingers
Argus of Borneo, excessively elongated secondaries; and its tail is not formed of normal rectrices, from the middle of which spring two very long feathers, a little curved and arranged like a roof; but it consists of twelve wide plane feathers, regularly tapering, and ornamented with ocellated spots, arranged along the shaft. Scientific American Supplement, No. 360, November 25, 1882
The center of the pole was thickest, the other two points tapering slightly before ending at a sharp point.
The Jumma musjid, which we also visited, was remarkable for its magnificent screen, 120 feet in height by 70 in breadth, and covered with curious inscriptions and fantastic devices; the top is slightly narrower than the base, tapering in depth as well as in breadth. A Journey to Katmandu (the Capital of Napaul), with The Camp of Jung Bahadoor; including A Sketch of the Nepaulese Ambassador at Home
The soft blue dress fell down to my ankles, and was tight on the arms from shoulder to elbow where it flared out, tapering down.
The exaggeration in the entasis of the archaic column disappears, its tapering was diminished, its height increased, and the overhang of the capitals reduced, till in the Theseion (465 B. C.) and the Parthenon (450-438 B. C.) we reach the final inimitable type. The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield
This is called the broach; and it is the only form thus far spoken of wherein the tapering surfaces rise directly from the tower-cornice, without mutilating the tower or violating the pure outlines of the spire. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860
The laniards of the shrouds had been cut away on both sides, and the tall and tapering mast was quivering and bending like a whipstock, from the action of the wind and the waves. Jack in the Forecastle or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale
Interest in the scandal seems to be tapering off.
Oblique is an indirect luminaire, made in die-cast aluminium and fibreglass reinforced polyester resin, mounted on a 4m painted steel, stainless-steel, or an aluminium tapering pole.
Variations in the diameter of the shaft (called a culm), in the prominence of the nodes, and in the rate of tapering at the end of the culm all make certain applications difficult. Chapter 7
Conelets short-pedunculate, dark purple during the second season, their scales often tapering to an acute apex. The Genus Pinus
His ears are wide at the base, tapering gradually to rounded tips.
Sometimes, strategic alterations, such as tapering the legs, can do wonders. A New Look for Old Pleated Pants
The body is a bronze peacock herl tied fat and tapering to the rear.
For men, the geometry of jacket lapels, shoulder pads and waist tapering emphasize the strong upper body of a male.
The floors' areas are somewhat smaller near the top, giving the structure a gently tapering appearance on the skyline.
The _leaf-blade_ is linear-lanceolate or linear, tapering to a fine point, glabrous, flaccid, margins finely serrulate and glandular, base rounded, varying in length from 1/2 to 10 inches and in breadth 3/16 to A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
And then the tapering waist, the comfortable bottom, the well-turned calves, the thighs, the energetic feet. CONFESSIONS OF AN UGLY STEPSISTER
He wears iridescent formal clothes, prances around with a tapering rod that ignites anything it touches, and trails a gust of hot air.
Cones from 30 to 50 cm. long, pendent, subcylindrical, tapering to a rounded apex; apophyses pale nut-brown, thick, a narrow border of the under surface showing on the closed cone, the margin rounded or tapering to a blunt slightly reflexed tip; seed with a large nut and a broad short opaque wing. The Genus Pinus
I then work back to the drill chuck turning the tapering stem.
Don't worry, you're going to see these Apple titles tapering off soon in favour of the emerging PC and the burgeoning console market. Games You Should Have Played - 1984
They may be elongated, swollen in the middle and tapering towards the blade or they may form a bulbous float containing air-filled lacunate tissue.
The cue maker then carefully chooses and seasons the wood, before tapering and sanding it down on a lathe.
The engineering module was the largest part of the ship, the vehicle tapering off to a pointed nose-cone.
an elongate tail tapering to a point
In their right fists they clutched the symbols of their trade, called picas of varas, eight foot long wooden poles capped by four and a half inch spikes tapering abruptly to blunt points one inch long.
Most rods are made from hollow tapering tubes from a mixture of carbon and glass fibres bonded by a resin.
The plant itself is characterised by its long tapering sharp leaves with ribbed thorny ridges along the spine.
They include a white or orchre-painted cone surmounted by a tapering spire and standing on a square pedestal.
her foot pointed artfully toward tapering toes
The cairn is wedge shaped, tapering towards the west with a court which exceeds 50 feet in length. A Guide to Megalithic Ireland
The structure itself is a pure white nonagonal building, of original and unique design, rising from a flight of white stairs encircling its base; and surmounted by a majestic and beautifully proportioned dome, bearing nine tapering symmetrically placed ribs of decorative as well as structural significance, which soar to its apex and finally merge into a common unit pointing skyward. God Passes By
The wine is soft yet juicy with sweet fruit concentration, well-handled oak and a smoky, tapering finish.
Doctors recommend gradually tapering doses before quitting. Times, Sunday Times
Most have the typical prismatic hexagonal shape, but some crystals are extremely flattened; others display steep, pyramidal tapering toward the termination.
You could have a tower of them, tapering in size, if you fancied it. Times, Sunday Times
It is called a ‘coachwhip’ because the large scales on its long, slowly tapering tail, give it the appearance of a braided bullwhip.
The use of plasmapheresis may also permit steroid tapering before surgery, allowing for better post-op healing.
For men, the geometry of jacket lapels, shoulder pads and waist tapering emphasize the strong upper body of a male.

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