surface
Example Sentences
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Near the town of Interior: Parts of Badlands National Park depict the surface of an asteroid in “Armageddon,” starring Bruce Willis.
"Their basic metabolism didn't change either. On the surface, they seemed to be doing fine."
From Science Daily
The team studied short chains of phosphorus atoms that naturally arrange themselves at specific angles on a silver surface.
From Science Daily
"The dancing molecules spun out all these long neurites on the surface of the organoid but, when we used molecules that had less or no motion, we saw nothing. This difference was very vivid."
From Science Daily
These images feel like little worlds pressed up against the surface of each painting, akin to the ubiquitous screens — phones, TVs, computers — that routinely flatten our reality.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
