How To Use Veined In A Sentence

Gnarled and veined like branches of an old olive tree, her hands rested in her lap.
Sinai, grey granite dyked with decaying porphyritic trap, and everywhere veined with white and various-coloured quartzes. The Land of Midian
The veined and variegated appearance of the colors suggests the polished marble stone used in architecture and monuments.
Baronet, kneeling in a square beard opposite his wife in a ruff: a very fat lady, the Dame Rebecca Clavering, in alto-relievo, is borne up to Heaven by two little blue-veined angels, who seem to have a severe task — and so forth. The History of Pendennis
A thin, veined hand lay on the coverlet.

I recall his beery breath and purple veined nose peering through my car window, then there was my dad pushing him out of the way. P_n_elrod: Da Winnah and a ** Newer** Drawing!
Wildlife spotted in East SussexButterflies (13) meadow brown; hedge brown; speckled wood; essex skipper; small skipper; large skipper; comma; small tortoiseshell; large white; small white; green-veined white; purple hairstreak; white admiral How to get back to nature when camping
What Rosa sells is sheep's heads, brains, intestines, stomach linings, pig's feet, and big, white, oval, veined bulls' testicles.
I could see his white Nike shoes, his sharply creased trousers, the powerful veined forearms and blacksmith's hands, the fingers round and surprisingly short, like chipolatas.
The sink and toilet and enormous bath, complete with tiled steps, were all black while the porcelain floor and wall tiles were a dusky rose veined with cream.
Its leaves are slightly wrinkled, velvety and grey-green in colour, the flowers are pale lavender, boldly veined with deep violet.
At the foot of Hance Rapid, the river leaves Marble Canyon; its regular and stately sandstones, shales, limestones, and quartzites tower higher and higher above, while the river quickly incises itself a thousand feet into the black and pegmatite-veined Precambrian schists of the Inner Gorge. President Garfield's "spine, removed during autopsy, was passed around to jurors during the trial of his assassin."
Billy looked again at the large wings of the butterfly, veined and mottled from dark green to black and with a sheen in the sunlight
Its small white flowers, about 1/2 to 3/4 inches across, are veined with deep violet blue and self-sow profusely.
The veined octopus under study manages a behavioral trick that the researchers call stilt walking. Impact Lab
The ruddy syenite is dyked and veined by the familiar network of green-black porphyritic trap; the filons are disposed in parallels striking north-south, with a little easting; the dip is westerly (about 35 degrees mag.), and the thickness extends to hundreds of feet, often forming a foundation for the upper cliff. The Land of Midian
Here is the haunt of the lady-slipper, (_cypripedium_,) a shy, rare flower, like a little sack delicately veined, with a faint musky scent, and large-flapped leaves shading its flower. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860
The countryside is veined by new broad highways.
In the autumn, net-veined aster and hollow-stemmed goldenrod add flashes of white and yellow, respectively.
And so we have a blue veined marble in the living room, a sepia tinged marble in the bedroom and a pink-streaked one in my mother-in-law's room.
A telling image shows her veined hand on the distended stomach of a baby suffering from malnutrition.
But from every side of the peninsula, its crown jewel, the mountainous 900,000 acre Olympic National Park is visible, veined with snow and glacier ice, even in July.
There is a species of huckleberry common to the piny lands from the commencement of the Columbian valley to the seacoast; it rises to the hight of 6 or 8 feet. is a simple branching some what defuse stem; the main body or trunk is cilindric and of a dark brown, while the colateral branches are green smooth, squar, and put forth a number of alternate branches of the same colour and form from the two horizontal sides only. the fruit is a small deep perple berry which the natives inform us is very good. the leaf is thin of a pale green and small being 3/4 of an inch in length and 3/8 in width; oval terminateing more accutely at the apex than near the insertion of the footstalk which is at the base; veined, nearly entire, serrate but so slightly so that it is scarcely perceptible; footstalk short and there position with rispect to each other is alternate and two ranked, proceeding from the horizontal sides of the bough only. The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806
Extant endemics on Rakiura and its offshore islets include subspecies of southern robin (Petroica australis rakiura), weka (Gallirallus australis scotti), and fernbird (Bowdleria punctata stewartiana), as well as a leaf-veined slug, a Paryphanta spp., and the harlequin gecko (Hoplodactylus nebulosis). Rakiura Island temperate forests
Wetter areas are home to the silken surfaces of green-veined whites, while some heathlands host the dazzling green hairstreak. Are butterflies the UK's most beautiful endangered species? | Dan Flenley
Platyptera: flat and broad-winged: an ordinal term applied to insects with four net-veined wings, secondaries longitudinally folded beneath primaries; mouth mandibulate; prothorax free; transformations complete: Psocidae, Termitidae, Perlidae and Mallophaga. Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology
On a warm summer day, a number of butterfly species can be seen on the reserve including common blue, green veined white and meadow brown.
I could see his white Nike shoes, his sharply creased trousers, the powerful veined forearms and blacksmith's hands, the fingers round and surprisingly short.
Pregnant women are therefore advised to avoid unpasturised dairy products and soft or blue-veined cheeses.
Two wildflowers that are striking because of their white-striped leaves are giant rattlesnake plantain and white-veined wintergreen.
The leaves of the root are spoon-shaped, and those of the stems broadly lance-shaped, varying in length from 3in. to 5in., entire, veined, of good substance, and having attenuated stalks; the younger leaves have a changeable satiny hue; all the leaves at their junction with the stems are marked with a bright redness; the main stems are furnished with many side branches, which assist in maintaining floriferousness until late autumn. Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.
Perennial scapose herbs with simple stems from short, stocky, horizontal rhizomes bearing a whorl of 3 net-veined, green or mottled, ovate-obovate or elliptical bracts, petiolate or sessile, flower solitary.
Glausidium palmatum displays its large, silky lilac-pink flowers, measuring up to three inches across, above large, veined, and crinkled maplelike leaves. Christian Science Monitor | All Stories
The Belgian _savant_ considers this somewhat improbable explanation as supported by a case wherein there were five calyx lobes of uniform size, and a detached feather-veined leaf proceeding from the side of the ovary lower down ( 'Bull. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
It's a predominantly flat landscape veined by creeks and rivers that meander haphazardly across vast flood plains.
The leaves of the root are large and pedate, the divisions wide apart and unevenly toothed; the under sides are distinctly veined with purplish-brown when in a young state. Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.
The most common elements are parallel-veined leaves that resemble cordaites but that could be isolated pinnules of a pinnate leaf.
Jim was an indefatigable gatherer of vegetable products, and one thing which attracted him immensely was the branch of a tree which bore a number of star-leaved clusters, each leaf being feather-veined, and the stems carried numerous yellowish purple-spotted flowers, and also nuts about the size of pigeon eggs. The Wonder Island Boys: Conquest of the Savages
Its owner turned to face Paul, goosegog eyes red veined with rage. 'Life Class'
-- The engraving conveys the impression that the leaves are parallel-veined; but the coca is a dicotyledon, with the under surface of the leaf strongly marked with veins, of which two, in addition to the midrib, run parallel with the margin. The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America
Leaves are parallel veined and appear to be helically arranged.
Stunted forms of tree species such as dwarf birch, alder, arctic willow, white spruce, black spruce, tamarack, least willow, net-veined willow and blue-green willow grow here.
Ward against listeriosis by avoiding blue-veined, mould-ripened cheeses, pâtés, ready-made salads and soft-whip ice creams until the birth.
Neuroptera: nerve-winged: an ordinal term applied to insects with four net-veined wings; mouth mandibulate: head free: thorax loosely agglutinated; metamorphosis complete: in its older use, the term applied to all net-veined insects irrespective of metamorphosis or thoracic structure. Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology
Easy Quick Hot Sauce (fairly mild) 1 can Rotel Tomatoes & Green Chilies (pick your heat level) 3-4 fresh jalapenos seeded and deveined (leave in veins for extra heat) 1/2 white or yellow onion Hot Sauce
Further up section the geology is dominated by a succession of unmetamorphosed but strongly fractured and veined blocky andesites, basalts and tuffaceous rocks.
The man, in a veined body stocking, is a helpless victim, thrashing, lolling and collapsing like a mad puppet on twisted strings, to musical pings and wheezes.
A flight of veined marble steps leads to the vestibule, with a floor of scagliola, and twelve large Ionic columns and sixteen pilasters of _verde antique_. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 389, September 12, 1829
Previous studies suggest inbred green-veined-orchid embryos are twice as likely to abort as those arising from cross-fertilized flowers.
The walls are veined with rose and polished beryl - An ichor that you don't know how to tap.
Maithris and I took our time, wandering through halls and chambers trimmed with gold leaf, floored with veined marble.
(Samburu: naisichoi), a stout plant with palmately veined leaves and relatively larger basal lobes. Chapter 7
She cradled my face with her veined hands and began weeping all over again.
It is studded with pale golden clusters of tiny florets in the axils of lance-shaped, feather-veined leaves for nearly its entire length. Wild Flowers Worth Knowing
The green-veined Gorgonzola is quite different from the mould-ripened taleggio.
Its mature bark is strikingly veined in gray and black, and its pest- and disease-resistant leaves are pleasantly oval.
She drank her tea and ate her own cake, and noticed that Helen's hands were thin and veined under the rough skin. THE WHITE DOVE
They deveined some shrimps, cooked a curry sauce with coconut milk, strained it and then dropped the shrimps in and let it boil and simmer.
The leaves are very large, pedate, dentate, and distinctly veined. Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.
But never mind, though their blue-veined old hands might be trembling their fingers could still pull a trigger.
The massive wooden doors, intricately carved with ornate scrollwork and inlaid with green-veined ruatinite, dominated the courtyard. Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire
A thin, veined hand lay on the coverlet.
Swanson's big, veined hands were laced across his round belly, feet propped solidly on the footrest of the wheelchair, his legs useless. THE SERPENT'S MARK
As far as I'm concerned, all she had to say was that they were already deveined.
It gathered flowers from the forest floor as they walked: yellow celandine and primrose, pale anemone, pink-veined wood sorrel, purple hepatica, lilac and plum violets.
The Basilica dates from the sixth century and contains forty eight pillars hewn from the while veined stone of the surrounding countryside.
It had pulled itself up and was starting to galumph after them, heavy blue-veined lips smearing against the rock. Jasper Dash and the Flame-Pits of Delaware
She had turned and looked down, as she always did when human complexities made her seek reassurance as to the worth of this world, on the shiny mud-flats, blue-veined with the running tides, and green marshes where the redshanks choired. The Judge
Now he was a greying elder, spectacled in thick bifocals, wrinkled in his once handsome features, and knotted and veined in limbs.
The region was bitter cold in winter and was composed largely of woodland tracts veined heavily with water.
At the center of this array stood a pedestal of white-veined marble topped with a cushion of tanned and stuffed leather upon which rested a large golden key.
Her cheeks were pale and veined with dark tear-tracks, her eyes, usually a beautiful deep chestnut, were red and swollen.
The nine-foot long boulder, deeply veined with coloured sandstone sediments, has been cut into three four-inch thick slabs using massive diamond-toothed saws.
The old man's eyes were closed, the thin lids veined, mauve leaf patterns on the milky white.
a swell as to compose her a wellformed fulness of bosom, that had such an effect on the eye as to seem flesh hardening into marble, of which it emulated the polished gloss, and far surpassed even the whitest, in the life and lustre of its colours, white veined with blue. Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
This article discusses the application of veined pattern, color and modeling of Fengxiang Clay sculpture to modern design.
The alabaster's milky translucence and variegated, veined surfaces suggest the body, celestial charts and tide-roiled seashores.
It bears small, rather insignificant flowers with a collar of white-veined deeply toothed bracts above impressive prickly glaucous greyish-green leaves.
Researchers have found that the veined octopus manages a behavioral trick called stilt walking, in which it can carry a coconut shell under its body while making its eight arms into stilts. Impact Lab
The H.Reticulatum is a big round bulb, native to Brazil, with large pink flowers, deeply veined in a darker shade.
Decorative painter John Canning worked out an extraordinarily subtle color scheme in which chromatic background wall and ceiling tints "bleed" into one another — from pale yellow into a soft gold in the finely articulated plasterwork of the sanctuary ceiling, and from the greenish hue on the walls and arcade piers flanking the nave into the dark-veined, deep-ochre imitation marble of the pilaster shafts on the piers. A Return to Grace
Pulling a leaf out, he gently brushes the veined side with his fingers.
The _first glume_ is coriaceous, convex, polished, smooth or pitted, hairy below, flat and veined above the middle, with broad or narrow ciliate equal wings and with margins narrowly inflexed above and broadly so below. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
He wore a blue buttoned-down shirt with the cuffs rolled halfway up his surprisingly ropey and thickly veined forearms. A RODENT OF DOUBT
This brought out the butterflies too: red admiral, green-veined white and common blue on the black medick, and then we were back down to Welton again. Country diary: East Yorkshire
Fruiting surface usually on the under side and exposed toward the earth, lamellate, or prominently folded or veined. Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
Some held boxes from which dangled strings of jewels, while others held ornate and begemmed candelabras, or single golden candlesticks, and yet others garments across outstretched hands-garments of the finest silks and cloth of gold, into which had been set rubies and emeralds, or scores of tiny brilliants, or thousands of tiny round, gold-veined mirrors. Fortress Of Frost And Fire
Gnarled and veined like branches of an old olive tree, her hands rested in her lap wrapped around distaff and spindle, paused for the moment from spinning wool from the basket at her feet.
Sowerby's plate of it under the name 'palustris' is pale purple veined with darker; and the spur is said to be 'honey-bearing,' which is the first mention I find of honey in the violet. Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers
Two wildflowers that are striking because of their white-striped leaves are giant rattlesnake plantain and white-veined wintergreen.
He ran his veined hand over his slicked back gray hair, straightened his tie, then proceeded forward to the set of stairs.
Throughout the week, unusually large amounts of crustae (marble revetment slabs) have been found that are mainly composed of green-white cipollino from Euboia, purple veined pavonazetto marble from Dokimeion, white marble, and even some small pieces of red porphyry, which is a type of igneous rock. Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Roman Baths Report 6
Helen's hands were thin and veined.
Adrienne and her family live at Frontier House, a 1,100-acre tract of open Montana countryside ringed by towering mountains and veined with rushing streams.
He looks back and down towards his enlarged, veined, pustular, phlebitic left leg.
The veined octopus under study manages a behavioural trick that the researchers call stilt walking. Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
Ward against listeriosis by avoiding blue-veined, mould-ripened cheeses, pâtés, ready-made salads and soft-whip ice creams until the birth.
The veins of the leaves are almost always much-branched, the veins either being given off from one main vein or midrib (feather-veined or pinnate-veined), as in an apple leaf, or there may be a number of large veins radiating from the base of the leaf, as in the scarlet geranium or mallow. Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses
His wife said that his smoking had killed her red-veined maranta. The New Yorker Stories
Studying his veined hands, de Ruiter was obviously struggling with his ethics. CORMORANT
Albert was taken by a third of this species—really an upright mantid of sorts, its carapace like a gleaming veined topcoat in swallowtail. Locust Valley Breakdown
He looks back and down towards his enlarged, veined, pustular, phlebitic left leg.
The granite hills, here as throughout Midian, were veined and dyked with two different classes of plutonic rock. The Land of Midian
Mr. Asa's face was ruddy, his veined cheeks shiny with more than sweat, and he had a wild look to his eyes, like Pop did the time a rattler sunk fangs into his best hound.
It's worth scrambling into some of the tombs to see the finely marbled stone, ribbed and veined into extraordinary patterns by the forces of nature.
Its spectacularly veined silver leaves eject barbed blooms that can really bite.
A thin, veined hand lay on the coverlet.
The clawlike, heavily veined hand looks like a sea creature. Amy | clusterflock
I looked at her narrow wrists: blue-veined, delicate, and unmarred. Raziel
Baronet, kneeling in a square beard opposite his wife in a ruff: a very fat lady, the Dame Rebecca Clavering, in alto-relievo, is borne up to Heaven by two little blue-veined angels, who seem to have a severe task — and so forth. The History of Pendennis
In Dubautia plantagina, the parallel-veined leaves are reminiscent of those of the common North American weed known as plantain.

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