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Precipitate
"Precipitate" in a Sentence (22 examples)
The clouds thickened and it started to precipitate.
“She speaks truly,” said Lady Ashton, “it WAS I who, authorised alike by the laws of God and man, advised her, and concurred with her, to set aside an unhappy and precipitate engagement, and to annul it by the authority of Scripture itself.”
While ingredients and conditions for storms forming over the Indian Ocean differ from the catalysts that can precipitate storms over the Atlantic, climate specialists are hoping to enhance the predictability and understanding of tropical storm formation in general.
Silver nitrate solution added to an aqueous solution of salvarsan acidified with dilute nitric acid yields a dark-yellow precipitate which rapidly becomes black.
to precipitate a journey, or a conflict
it precipitated their success
if they be stout and daring, it may precipitate their designs, and prove dangerous
Back to his sight precipitates her steps.
Freshly arrived in Paris in 1871 at the age of 17, Rimbaud proceded ^([sic]) to precipitate the collapse of Verlaine's marital menage, and with it his social position.
In gallopping heedlessly along, with her eyes turned upwards, she had unwarily approached too near the bank; it had given way with her, and she and her horse had been precipitated to the pebbled margin of the river.
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we were precipitated into a conflict
Adding the acid will cause the salt to precipitate.
It will precipitate tomorrow, but we don't know whether as rain or snow.
The light vapour of the preceding evening had been precipitated by the cold.
When the full stores their ancient bounds disdain, / Precipitate the furious torrent flows.
Though thoughtful far beyond your years, you are very inexperienced; and I would not have a preference that may originate in your little knowledge of others, or a romantic exaggeration of slight kindnesses, lead you into a precipitate union with me, unless you most seriously examine your own heart, and weigh the various consequences.
The king was too precipitate in declaring war.
a precipitate case of disease
Being a trifle precipitate in his entry, he trod on a bottle, and was instantly extinguished by a Japanese screen, which appeared to collapse on him out of pure decrepitude.
'One moment!" said Malone. "I beg, sir, that you will not be precipitate. I value your friendship too much to risk the loss of it if it can, in any way, be avoided."
It had cost me a distinct psychological effort to do so, and now that I was shut inside I had a momentary longing for precipitate retreat.
As for the musculature it is a precipitate of Spirit and the signature of the cosmos is in it.
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