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Plate in sentence

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All record is gone, erased by plate tectonics and erosion.
The dinner plate by which material falls onto the black hole is called the accretion disc, shown here in blue.
So it was exciting for me to be part of the navigation of the oceans of the sky, and as I developed different types of satellite communication systems, the main thing I did was to launch bigger and more powerful satellites, the consequence of which was that the receiving antennas could be smaller and smaller, and after going through direct television broadcasting, I had the idea that if we could make a more powerful satellite, the receiving dish could be so small that it would just be a section of a parabolic dish, a flat little plate embedded into the roof of an automobile, and it would be possible to have nationwide satellite radio, and that's Sirius XM today.
There's a big family, there's a very beautiful tree, and I make these pictures with this very large, extremely cumbersome, very awkward technical plate film camera.
They finished one meal with this plate of perfect, long-stemmed strawberries, and as they handed them to me, they said, "Aren't these the kind of strawberries you eat with somebody special in the States?
And his smug smile quickly dropped to one of maternal respect, grabbed his plate, walked off, went back to work.
If you knew that any injury could kill you, would you ride a motorcycle, bomb down a ski slope, climb a ladder to hang your Christmas lights, let your kid slide into home plate?
Thus I've learned, for example ... "Don't slam the door!" "Don't make too much noise when you're eating from the potato-chip bag!" (Laughter) "Don't burp, and when you're eating, make sure you don't scrape your utensils on the plate."
Ultimately, with the passage of years, the survivors will increase in size, from that of a dinner plate at year one to that of a dinner table, in the case of one species at least, the leatherback, a decade or so later.
This is more about looks than etiquette, but it's rare to see nothing under a plate unless you're eating at a picnic table.
Notice, too, that the knife blades are both pointed toward the plate.
Next we'll anchor our setting with the plate.
The bread plate goes up and to the left of the setting, and the butter knife goes on the plate at an angle, again, with the blade pointing in.
B, your bread plate, is on the left; M, your meal, is in the middle, and W, your water, is on the right.
And using a fork to pick up a piece of broccoli from a Styrofoam plate without driving the fork through the plate is going to be as difficult as brain surgery.
Out of their work came the rock cycle, which combined with plate tectonics in the mid-twentieth century to give us the great molten-crusting, quaking, all-encircling theory of the Earth, from a gallstone to a 4.5 billion-year-old planet.
Faced with a plate of fried crickets, most people today would still recoil, imagining all those legs and feelers getting stuck between their teeth.
How blessed were the days when we could just enjoy food that was on our plate, whatever it was.
They're one of the reasons we might feel calm after eating a large plate of pasta, or more alert after a protein-rich meal.
The gun's on top welded to a steel plate.
I build a photograph based on time, and this is what I call the master plate.
I'll take those best moments that I pick over a month of editing and they get seamlessly blended into the master plate.
But I was enraptured, and in my graduate years was the dawn of plate tectonics.
In plate tectonic theory, we knew that if you had plates collide, it made sense: they would crush into one another, you would thicken the crust, you'd uplift it.
When I imagine what that would feel like if, every time I left my house, there was a chance a police officer would run my license plate, see a warrant for unpaid debt, seize my body they way the did in DC and then take me to a jail cell, I feel a little sick.
But I'm pretty sure that stormtrooper is going to be toast, regardless if we have an AED or not, since what happens is the chest plate is going to be quite hard to get off, and like that tauntaun, the AED has a very short window of time at which it's highly effective.
Going back to that stormtrooper: If I did get that chest plate off in time, what would you do if you suddenly found there was a Wookiee under there, or possibly two Ewoks?
In each bug, for example, a wasp, we see a microscopic jungle unfold in a petri plate, a world of hundreds of vibrant species.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives concocted a plan to find out what Americans were going to gun shows by using license plate detectors to scan the license plates of cars that were in the parking lots of these events.
Today, we believe that over 70 percent of police departments have automatic license plate detection technology that they're using to track people's cars as they drive through town.
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