6 sentences with 'directions'
Example sentences and phrases with the word directions and other words derived from it.
• « A traditional pizza oven radiates heat from several directions, but also directly from the wood. This not only gives the pizza a delicate smoky flavor, but also leaves the edges nicely browned. »
• « However, to his chagrin, Luther watched as some groups who considered themselves Lutheran took his message in directions of which he thoroughly disapproved. »
• « The background radiation from the Big Bang, discovered by the two New Jersey radio astronomers in 1965, caused concern because it had the same temperature (about 270°C. below zero) in all directions. This implied that the Big Bang was even and uniform. But Hawking and others had predicted that, in order for clouds of gas to form - which would then contract, cool and clump together under gravity - the explosion must have had fluctuations. »
• « In the 1980s came the Advancing Blade Concept for helicopters, with two rotors turning in opposite directions. It is true that this model improved speed records, but as William of Occam would say, why unnecessarily duplicate the entities? Moreover, its manufacture was very complicated and the consumption of its engines was enormous. »
• « Is it possible to travel through time in both directions, past and future, or only in one direction? »
• « The Holy Book of India, the Mahabharata, has several descriptions of flying machines that travelled vast distances and moved in all directions. It even specifies that they were mercury-powered. »