8 sentences with 'boundaries'
Example sentences and phrases with the word boundaries and other words derived from it.
• « It also happens - and the religious boundaries become flimsy - that the belief in immortality undoubtedly offers great comfort to all those who were deprived of the company of a loved one on earth. »
• « In The Birth of Venus, Botticelli pushed the boundaries of Renaissance art (and what was culturally acceptable to his contemporaries) by glorifying not only the beauty of the human body, but openly celebrating the sexuality of Venus. »
• « Hawking's image as a struggling man, determined to live like a normal person, soon transcended the boundaries of Cambridge. »
• « The most pathetic situation is, of course, in the Sahara desert: its boundaries are increasing year by year, already affecting the vast savannahs of the Sahel, and its influence is even being felt in the Iberian peninsula and parts of Greece and Italy. »
• « On the southern border, geologists have found that the Sahara's boundaries have shifted 500 kilometres in the last 20,000 years. »
• « The boundaries between Saturn's rings were called the Cassini Division, and they separated the outer ring, called the A ring, from the inner B ring, which is somewhat brighter than its neighbour. Within the B ring, there is a much fainter division of rings which was called, unsurprisingly, Ring C. Other parts of the ring were even identified and referred to as D, E and F. »
• « We do not know whether Saturn is a planet of shifting boundaries, or whether the rings rotate as they please, changing the molecular structure that makes them up. »
• « In the areas that form the boundaries or margins of the tectonic plates, telluric activity is concentrated and volcanoes are formed there. »