tapering point
Example Sentences
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Each kalamos he whittled to a tapering point and handed with ink to his master, who forthwith wrote out the accounts of his battles and of his business deals.
From Time Magazine Archive
An ideal point would have a hard bottom of sand or clay, an extensive, broad, shallow flat with weed or shell beds, and on the clean, tapering point there would be periodic, well-defined dropoffs.
From Time Magazine Archive
The lower end has a sharp tapering point, 5/8ths of an inch in length.
From Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War by Talbot, Frederick Arthur Ambrose
The smooth tapering point is rarely wanting, in which case the extremity presents a blunt end, the spiral ridges running to the end.
From The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio by Morgan, A. P. (Andrew Price)
The line of the heavy beak cut the opening between the tapering point of the Lido and the misty outline of Tre Porti.
From Literary Love-Letters and Other Stories by Herrick, Robert
