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straight edges

n. (plural of straight edge English)

Usage examples of "straight edges".

As each wave fell back, I had glimpses of what might be several large black stones with straight edges.

In order to cleave a flake from the core that would have the same dimension as the flat oval top, but with sharp straight edges, there was one important preliminary step -- a striking platform.

Most of the floor was missing, although the straight edges of the five-meter-square hole showed that this was not an accident.

The camera swung in that direction and suddenly there was something different, something with hard, straight edges, embedded in the brain tissue.

Blood drops welled up along the cut, spilling over the straight edges in a growing cascade of firetouched crimson.

Shadows stood out starkly, marking straight edges, windows and arches of a towering facade that he recognized from sketches in books.

Underneath layers of dust and rubble she thought she could discern straight edges.

Yet removing Trees to create a pair of perfectly straight Edges, is to invite Sha, as Captain Zhang, ever eager upon the Topick of the Line and its Visible expression upon the Landscape, with its star-dictated indifference to the true inner shape, or Dragon, of the Land, will be happy to indicate to them.

Once the rough slabs were evened out, cut to straight edges and flat surfaces, they moved down a roller path where teams scoured and polished them with coarse corundum abrasives on rotating heads.

With an extended finger, he touched smooth and straight edges on either side of the depressions but found they extended forward farther than he could reach.