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Aperture in sentence

42 examples of Aperture in a sentence

And then the aperture closes, and we have to flush the pipes with toxins, or we have to dig them up.
Here we've reimagined the mashrabiya, an archetype of ancient Arabic architecture, and created a screen where every aperture is uniquely sized to shape the form of light and heat moving through it.
And so designers have become very adept at creating interfaces that allow you to manipulate parameters while you're attending to other things, such as taking a photograph and changing the focus or the aperture.
You can see it light up these gray aperture blades.
Suddenly, those aperture blades are poking through that reflection the way nothing else has.
Now WALL-E has the black of an eye, the gray aperture blades and the black pupil.
We bring that light back to bring the aperture blades back, and he returns to that sweet, soulful robot we've come to love.
We get every person doing whatever he wants, with every aperture of every other person and every other animal.
Anyway, I wanted to show you a little bit about the world of toy design, at least from my small aperture of the world.
We capture light from all of those objects into our aperture, and that light is then focused at the focal plane, where our instruments sit and process that light.
I had to use a very small aperture to get the depth of field.
I realize a period piece is expensive to make, and that this style of shooting (close framed shots to camera, moving camera, wide aperture shots, washed-out) allows such films to be made for a price.
Then the camera aperture opens (like the old hand crankers) on a black & white placard.
The reverend gentleman gradually opened the door by almost imperceptible degrees, until the aperture was just wide enough to admit of the passage of his lank body, when he glided into the room and closed it after him, with great care and gentleness.
Over the edge there peeped a clean-cut, boyish face, which looked keenly about it, and then, with a hand on either side of the aperture, drew itself shoulder-high and waist-high, until one knee rested upon the edge.
The ejaculation had been drawn from my companion by the fact that our door had been suddenly dashed open, and that a huge man had framed himself in the aperture.
The woman was standing in the aperture, the darkness of the hall behind her, the yellow light from my lamp beating upon her eager and beautiful face.
D’Artagnan remained for a moment motionless, asking himself where he could be; but soon a ray of light which penetrated through the chamber, together with the warm and perfumed air which reached him from the same aperture, the conversation of two of three ladies in language at once respectful and refined, and the word "Majesty" several times repeated, indicated clearly that he was in a closet attached to the queen’s apartment.
I raised my head and saw straight above me the upper aperture of the cone, framing a bit of sky of very small circumference, but almost perfectly round.
A rope fastened to the edge of the aperture might have helped us down.
When I lifted my head I perceived the gradual contraction of its aperture.
Full of self possession, he calmly wore his way through the rock with a steady succession of light and skilful strokes, working through an aperture six inches wide at the outside.
The aperture, which was almost round, was about five feet in diameter; the dark passage was cut out in the live rock and lined with a coat of the eruptive matter which formerly issued from it; the interior was level with the ground outside, so that we were able to enter without difficulty.
"Yes, if nothing stops us; if this well has an aperture.
Harding applied his eye to the aperture, which overlooked the ground from a height of eighty feet.
Soon he redoubled his attack, when another ball having torn away the leafy screen, disclosed a gaping aperture in the granite.
The aperture of the crater being thus enlarged projected towards the sky a glare so intense that by the simple effect of reflection the atmosphere appeared red-hot.
Out of the recesses of a dark closet, into which this aperture gave admittance, he brought a large pasty, baked in a pewter platter of unusual dimensions.
"You must not--you shall not!" exclaimed Ivanhoe; "each lattice, each aperture, will be soon a mark for the archers; some random shaft--""It shall be welcome!"
The Black Knight's eyes seemed to flash fire even through the aperture of his visor.