INDENTATION in a Sentence
Learn INDENTATION from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
Example sentences for INDENTATION, such as:
1. You should indent the paragraphs of a letter.
2. Gently make a small indentation in the center of each cookie.
2. Gently make a small indentation in the center of each cookie.
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Meanings and Examples of INDENTATION
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indentation
n. concave cut into a surface or edge; small hollow or depression
Classic Sentence:
1 One piece, about three feet in length, had a very marked indentation at one end, while several were flattened at the sides as if they had been compressed by some considerable weight.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In VI. The Adventure of The Musgrave Ritual
Context Highlight In VI. The Adventure of The Musgrave Ritual
2 As long as the criminal remains upon two legs so long must there be some indentation, some abrasion, some trifling displacement which can be detected by the scientific searcher.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In VI. THE ADVENTURE OF BLACK PETER
Context Highlight In VI. THE ADVENTURE OF BLACK PETER
3 The chairs were also damaged, many of them severely; and deep indentations deformed the panels of the walls.
4 Not even the long rows of windows and stores, the indentations of the chimneys, and the roofs, and the vague reflections which are cast back by the wet and muddy pavements, were visible.
5 To the north stretched the limpid, and, as it appeared from that dizzy height, the narrow sheet of the "holy lake," indented with numberless bays, embellished by fantastic headlands, and dotted with countless islands.
Example Sentence:
1 You can tell one tree from another by examining their leaves and noting the differences in any indentation along the edges of the leaves.
2 Gently make a small indentation in the center of each cookie.
3 The first paragraph isn't indented, which is slightly problematic; it should be as second and third paragraphs.
4 You should indent the paragraphs of a letter.