rounding-off
Example Sentences
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She says this slightly, as a mere rounding-off speech.
From Somehow Good by De Morgan, William Frend
It is here that the finishing touch must be applied; here the rounding-off take place; here the heterogeneous be brought into homogeneity, and the discordant be reduced to harmony and system.
From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 by Various
But this rounding-off of the Trojan cycle is, on the other hand, a final separation from the Orient; the scission is now unfolded, explicit, quite conscious.
From Homer's Odyssey A Commentary by Snider, Denton Jaques
It might be, in some cases, used simply as a sort of euphonic rounding-off of a name which might seem meagre and insignificant without something of the sort.
From Surnames as a Science by Ferguson, Robert
This in itself, of course, enlarged the exposition section; but the transition passage from first to second theme, and the rounding-off of the section, both grew in proportion.
From The Pianoforte Sonata Its Origin and Development by Shedlock, J. S. (John South)
