transversed
Example Sentences
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Our bodies are transversed by millions of nerve fibres that transmit information.
From Science Daily • Nov. 28, 2023
The distance was perhaps two hundred yards and Captain Jack felt that if this distance could be transversed without discovery, the success of the raid was assured.
From The Boy Allies with Uncle Sam's Cruisers by Hayes, Clair W. (Clair Wallace)
It may be mentioned that on some of the bindings of his quarto volumes the broken pitcher is transversed by the wimble or toret—an obvious pun on his name.
From Printers' Marks A Chapter in the History of Typography by Roberts, W. (William)
A transversed section of the wool fibre shows the presence of a large number of cells.
From The Dyeing of Woollen Fabrics by Beech, Franklin
They are all transversed, because if a shell or bomb should burst in one part of the trench the transverse prevents the spread of the shrapnel.
From Over the top with the 25th Chronicle of events at Vimy Ridge and Courcellette by Lewis, R.
