corrugation

Example Sentences

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The wall is lined with thick, vertical grooves, described by Vargas as “almost like a lattice surface because the corrugation is so deep.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 23, 2026

The researchers set out to determine if the corrugation of a dragonfly's wing is a secret ingredient for boosting lift.

From Science Daily • Jan. 26, 2024

But if the order originates with a poultry producer, the boxes are going to be larger, significantly stronger in composition and corrugation and lined with a coating to prevent leakage.

From New York Times • Nov. 28, 2022

Gibson’s future seemed already to have aged: the counterfeit young are “marked by a certain telltale corrugation at the knuckles, something the surgeons were unable to erase.”

From The New Yorker • Dec. 9, 2019

Slabs of sandstone and shale often retain what is called the ripple-mark—that is, the corrugation of surface produced by the gentle agitation of shallow water over sand or mud.

From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 459 Volume 18, New Series, October 16, 1852 by Chambers, Robert