Sentences with 'needle'
Example sentences and phrases with the word needle and other words derived from it.
• « What did Christ mean when he said, "Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God" (Matthew 19:24)? »
• « Since ancient times it has been known that a magnetised needle, suspended by its centre of gravity, always points in the same direction. Although this was used by man to orient himself, he never knew the reason or the cause of this phenomenon. »
• « In the 17th century, William Gilbert, while experimenting, brought a magnetised needle close to a sphere of magnetite and found, not without astonishment, that it oriented in the same direction as that observed on the Earth's surface. The analogy came naturally: the Earth is - or acts - like a gigantic spherical magnet. »
• « The earth's magnetic field is directed north-south, and the magnetisation of the core causes the northward pull of the needle, which cannot resist pointing there in perpetuity. The convective movement of ionised matter in the interior of the planet would cause this magnetisation through magnetic currents which, by induction, magnetise the core. »