Sentences with phrase «like branch of a tree»

But the breast ducts are complex structures, like the branches of a tree.

Lift your arms up and spread them like the branches of a tree.

For example, a paintbrush appears as both a creative tool — used to apply paint to the ceramic vessel containing beads and gourds on which it sits — and a structural component holding aloft the antler - like branch of a tree.

Not exact matches

As you discover and practice new emotional intelligence skills, the billions of microscopic neurons lining the road between the rational and emotional centers of your brain branch off small «arms» (much like a tree) to reach out to the other cells.

Like Miles Davis and other «superboss» artists, Prince prided himself on being the foundation of a talent tree, and watching his branches find their own paths.

The local government's crippling debt of more than $ 73 billion and PREPA's own obligations of $ 9 billion made it hard to keep up with critical maintenance like trimming tree branches away from power lines, let alone make upgrades to make the energy network.

Sort of like after you prune branches from a tree: it grows stronger afterwards.

We like to sit there in the near - dark and watch them, swooping down to the forest floor, returning to rest on the branches of the trees with their prizes.

It's like a branch on a tree, there's still the rest of the tree, it's not like it just disappears.

Sounds like you only base your criticism on one religious / philosophical branch of the tree of knowledge.

NL HeavenSent - Picking from the same branch of the cherry tree we have: Ezekiel 1:5 - 10 «and in the fire was what looked like four living creatures.

It is a like a tree that is growing toward the sky, with enough branches for all the birds of the air to find a place to nest.

It is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and cast into his garden; and it grew, and waxed a great tree; and the fowls of the air lodged in the branches of it.»

I am glad you write about the roots of Attachment Parenting, as it is a beautiful tree and like all trees — there are branches we can hold onto as parents.

Talk about the sparrow lookin» like a toy Pickin'through the branches of a tree; Talk about the girl, talk about the boy Countin» all the ripples on the sea.

Each print is as unique as a fingerprint, and it's so exciting to see the variety of cord insertions, vessel branches and that beautiful «tree like» art made by your baby, forever saved for you.

Cut a tree trunk out of brown construction paper, or find a small tree branch that has smaller stems sticking off of it, so that it looks like a mini-tree.

Trees look like random conglomerations of branches.

«In the Cretaceous amber we examine, the ants and termites represent the earliest branches of each evolutionary tree, and the species are wildly different from what their modern relatives look like today,» said co-author Phillip Barden, a recent graduate of the comparative biology doctoral program at the Museum's Richard Gilder Graduate School and a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at Rutgers University.

As an arbuscule is formed, new plant and fungal membrane must be generated, like the bark on the extending branches of a growing tree.

As a few researchers had been arguing ever since microbial evolutionist Carl Woese of the University of Illinois first suggested it in the 1970s, archaea may look like bacteria, but they actually belong on a third branch of the tree of life.

If the sequence of possible moves branches like a tree, the group found that main branch after main branch led to a draw.

However, there's clearly much to learn, particularly in the realm of microbial ecology, from studying the microflora of seemingly mundane items like tree branches,» he says.

To this carbon and hydrogen backbone, they added branches made of benzene rings and nitrogen, as well as carbon and hydrogen, producing a tree - like structure.

Cordaites are most like trees we know today: Branches fanned out to form the round shape of tall modern trees, while bunches of leathery leaves sprouted from the end of each limb.

In particular, the highly branched tree - like fungal structures, called arbuscules, normally found inside cells of the host root — which are required for nutrient exchange — remain underdeveloped.

Rather than storing most of the extra carbon in long - lasting woody parts like trunks and branches, trees in an experimental forest in Tennessee instead make tiny roots that quickly degrade in the soil — sending the CO2 right back into the atmosphere.

The right side was dramatically different from the left, like someone arbitrarily hacked off huge branches of a tree.

Like the gene trees, there appeared to be a successive decrease in the percentage of indels that supported deeper branches of each major clade (Fig. 3A).

Computer programs created 3D models of the glowing neurons and their projections, called axons, which can be half a metre long and branch like a tree.

Lichens stipple landscapes of granite, blanket the ground like snow, and drip from tree branches as if they were tinsel.

As time progresses (moving up the tree,) the disturbance splits and branches as it encounters boundaries, just like a beam hitting an optical boundary branches into a reflected ray and a transmitted ray, resulting in a complex network of branches near the canopy top.

The most intriguing and novel finding was that some parts of the tree were more like a bush than a tree, with many branches originating at the same point.

Like Clarke, Berger believes the labels on the tree of human evolution could be wrong because we haven't found all the species, or branches, that make up the tree.

It took more than two years to strip the stone from the whale skull, and when he did, «there before me was what looked like an entirely new branch on the evolutionary tree of whales.»

Members of an earlier arachnid branch, called the Uraraneida, known from 385 - million - year - old fossils, were also spiderlike in appearance, Garwood said, but had a long, tail - like structure called the flagellum that disappeared before I. brasieri branched off the family tree.

Anthropologists have long assumed that the short stature of australopithecines like Lucy was related to treetop living: Having short legs makes it easier to climb trees and gives stability when balancing on branches.

When she dissected the animals, she pulled out of their lungs white clots called casts that looked like «tree branches,» she says.

Georgi suggested that a property known as scale invariance — seen in fractal - like patterns that remain unchanged even when you zoom in and out to different scales, like the branching of redwood trees and the jagged edges of coastlines — could apply to individual particles too.

And while other factors — like where birds lay their eggs and how many they lay at once — weren't significantly related to egg shape across birds as a whole, they could be important within certain branches of the bird family tree.

Like the bizarre, beaver - tailed creature, which represents the earliest branch of mammals, the large shrub with off - white flowers sits on the lowest branch of the flowering plants» family tree.

Within three years, Steinman would identify the catalyst, a newly discovered cell that he called the dendritic cell — named after the Greek word for tree because of its branched or star - like shape.

They string atoms together, sometimes forming a trunk and branches of atoms like a tree.

«Finding two distinct groups of exoplanets is like discovering mammals and lizards make up distinct branches of a family tree.»

Megafauna like the mastodon, wooly rhinoceros, or the saber - toothed tiger lived on every continent until the Pleistocene epoch, about 125,000 years back, when the human branch of the evolutionary tree spread from Africa to other continents.

The team found two teeth belonging to rat - like animals that date back 145 million years, meaning they're among the earliest creatures on our particular branch of the tree of life to have been discovered.

We all know the obvious answer of «do bodyweight exercises like pushups and crunches and squats while holding a gallon of water and pullups on a tree branch» and things like that.

Remember to fluff and straighten your tree branches (with an artificial tree like mine) and don't stress over making sure your ornaments are perfectly placed — it takes the fun and magic out of the decorating process!

My fears seemed to be confirmed in the first few minutes Favreau's film, as it begins with jittery close - ups of young «man - cub» Mowgli (newcomer Neel Sethi, who's neither a standout nor annoying like most child actors) running and jumping across tree branches in the jungle.

Voiced by Liam Neeson, the giant is constructed of branches and tree roots and is shaped like a man.