slit - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • cut: Use a sharp Stanley knife to cut slits in the liner across the internal width of the drain sump.

Adjective modifier

  • narrow: However, narrow slits produce a much broader array of bright fringes than do wide slits.
  • horizontal: Near the top of the north facing wall, horizontal slits opened.
  • thin: The face has long, thin eye slits surmounted by three horizontal arches of blue beads indicating eyebrows.

Noun used with modifier

  • gill: Most fish have gill slits on the sides where the head joins the body.
  • arrow: Then there are the arrow slits, several on each tower.
  • ventilation: I now have a little PCB edge sticking out one of the ventilation slits on the side of the machine.

Modifies a noun

  • width: The effect of these slit widths can be quite easily calculated.
  • sampler: Air samples were taken continuously every two minutes with a Casella slit sampler placed within 1 meter of the dental chair.
  • aperture: Above these a small slit aperture in the gable.

Noun used with modifier

  • arcsec: The specification for the former can be estimated using the 0.25 arcsec slit width.
  • throat: Dead bodies with their throats slit lay in the streets.
  • exit: The exit slit is movable ( ± 10 cm ).

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