How To Use Superincumbent In A Sentence
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superincumbent layers of dead plants cut off the air and arrested decomposition
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The precipitate, after standing for some hours, is freed from the superincumbent water by decanting, and the sediment is completely dried on blotting-paper, on which other blotting-paper is laid, and weights laid on it, until all moisture is removed.
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But in life — as we have elsewhere seen — this inclined plane is angularly filled up, and almost squared by the enormous superincumbent mass of the junk and sperm.
Moby Dick; or the Whale
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Rational Review
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It is much more probable to suppose, that the sea had washed away the relics of the broken and disordered strata, before those that are now superincumbent had been begun to be deposited.
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Mrs. Poyser has something almost of Yankee shrewdness and angularity; but the figure of a New England rural housewife would lack a whole range of Mrs. Poyser's feelings, which, whatever may be its effect in real life, gives its subject in a novel at least a very picturesque richness of color; the constant sense, namely, of a superincumbent layer of "gentlefolks," whom she and her companions can never raise their heads unduly without hitting.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866
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The patient could not breathe because of superincumbent weight, Dionne remembered.
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These would penetrate the lower course at selected points halfway through the block, as well as into the superincumbent stone of the course above.
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As they form the upper strata of the atmosphere, with very little pressure from superincumbent air, that current which is in any degree lighter than the other rises and rides over it, compressing and forcing down the other; and this process of one stratum gliding over another is being constantly renewed by fresh air pressing on behind from the opposite sides.