indentation
Example Sentences
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Even from here I can see the strands of my hair on the pillow, and the narrow indentation running lengthwise down the mattress.
From Literature
The single set of temporal fascia—indentations behind the eye sockets that are doubled on a reptile—is one means of scientific definition.
He’d been squeezing the key so hard he could feel every indentation.
From Literature
Akira stopped Dodger and pointed behind them, where a line of horseshoe marks left indentations in the ashy road.
From Literature
When the cell's receptors detect that the virus has attached, the membrane begins forming a small indentation at that spot.
From Science Daily
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