quartering
Example Sentences
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Shortly afterward, Diane Hartley, a student at Princeton writing a thesis on the project, draws attention to the effect of quartering winds—winds hitting the building’s facades at an angle.
For the founding generation, their defining experience of the dangers of domestic deployment of the military was the Boston Massacre and the quartering of British troops in private homes.
From Salon
Interestingly, in the case of quartering waves, there was a negligible effect of propulsion power on the deviations.
From Science Daily
“Drawing and quartering is a great way to lose some pounds too,” another said.
From Seattle Times
Once you start, say, quartering a recipe, you may veer too far away from how it was originally developed, which is always a gamble.
From Seattle Times
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