mantle - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • don: To assume an identity is to don the mantle appropriate to the account to be offered.
  • inherit: Thus, the modern embalmer inherits the mantle passed on through the centuries.
  • assume: Tony Blair, almost of my generation, which makes me feel very old, assumes the mantle of Prime Minister.

Adjective modifier

  • lithospheric: Alkaline igneous rocks and geochemical enrichment in the lithospheric mantle.
  • uppermost: Lithosphere is called the solid part of the earth, including the crust and the uppermost mantle.
  • incandescent: But please bear in mind that in terms of light output, they can't compete with incandescent mantles or filaments.
  • icy: To a limited extent, attempts have been made to study icy grain mantles using traditional matrix isolation techniques in high vacuum.
  • upper: These plates float on the partially molten rocks of the upper mantle.
  • wooden: Original fire with tiled hearth, backing and wooden mantle.

Modifies a noun

  • plume: The location of mantle plumes during the initial stages of Gondwana break up.
  • convection: A view into a high resolution mantle convection simulation.
  • lymphoma: Which is good news, but with mantle cell lymphoma, you cannot become complacent.
  • cavity: They feed on detritus and plankton which they trap on a mucous net in their mantle cavity.
  • shelf: Originally displayed on the mantle shelf over the fire.

Noun used with modifier

  • cement: The inner and outer contours of the cement mantles was traced from CT scans and the thickness and cross-sectional area determined.
  • timber: Coal effect living flame gas fire with marble hearth and inset with timber mantle surround.
  • marble: There is an open fire place with a marble mantle and a gas log fire along one wall there are shelves with cupboards below.

Possessives

  • earth: The behavior of the Earth's mantle remains a first order problem in the Earth Sciences.
  • lady: Damper areas support species such as meadowsweet, ragged robin, water avens, lady's mantle and meadow fescue.

Preposition: of

  • drumlin: Below ca 350m, there is an almost complete mantle of drumlins forming an internationally acknowledged type example of a'drumlin swarm ' .

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