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    friction example sentences

    friction


    1. What should be a friction wheel


    2. The door to that church, though rugged and strong, was shiny from friction and sweat


    3. The trout can hover against the edge of the stream right where the friction causes the water to slow down, making the swimming easy


    4. I reckon Bert was half in love with her … seems to have caused friction with his wife


    5. Something that is laggard has too much friction against it


    6. In Practice: Give control to the friction you wish to have


    7. friction warming the small house


    8. index finger, as if the friction would erase the evil voice in his head


    9. Putting his back to the wall, Rafe slid downward, using his entire body to create any friction possible in order to slow his fall


    10. His back was raw from the friction of the slide

    11. That way you avoid any friction


    12. Then imagine friction arising from emotions or interpersonal conflicts that use up that energy


    13. Notice the way friction uses energy but accomplishes nothing


    14. Now, imagine how your actions would be without this friction


    15. Chuang Tzu describes the kind of friction that wastes ch’i


    16. cause friction between some of the rival


    17. The coefficient of internal friction relies mainly on the coarseness of aggregates and can be approximately calculated on the Lermit and Turnon formula: where d - middle diameter of particles of


    18. Martin feared it could cause great friction between the leaders of Atlantica and Alleghenia, which made his discovery of Sloan’s disappearance even more important


    19. The reduction in friction caused his boot to lose its grip on the rock


    20. It would have shot up into the atmosphere for miles at supersonic speeds, bringing with it millions of tons of sediment from friction caused by the water rushing past miles of rocks through the cracks on its way up to the surface of the planet, and sweeping sediment with it, as it rushed out into the air and onto the surface of the Earth

    21. While the water was released (through the cracks and the sides of the rocks eroded away by the friction and resulting in sediment that was deposited onto the surface of the Earth) the floating landmasses that were still cushioned by water, would start to move away from each other


    22. with words, friction and opportunistic men looking for


    23. dimpled ones but they created too much friction and therefore


    24. in as well to add a bit of friction


    25. He had been unsure before, not wanting to cause friction between them, but they had made so much progress since then


    26. As with our system, there is friction between those with power and those without


    27. His only way to hold on was to slow his fall by creating friction on the dirt wall he was falling against


    28. The dust was hard to produce and the grinding stone was smoking with the friction and the heat


    29. He completed fastening the gear on Hilderich, binding the ropes and setting the large leaf across Hilderich’s back, as a sort of cushioning to ease the friction without which he believed he’d be unable to move him more than a foot


    30. The conflicting land-use needs of nomadic peoples—followers of wild, then gradually domesticated, herds—and members of more settled communities have created a friction between them that has had a long tradition

    31. So, the larger meaning of the parable story of Cain and Abel might be the friction generated between settled people and nomadic people, as ever-larger populations of each disputed with one another over land usage


    32. That man was causing an incredible amount of friction


    33. ” i had been a headstrong teenager causing a lot of friction be-


    34. “How about his relationship with Delitah? Did that cause any friction or fights?”


    35. He feels the outside of the UFO getting hot as it creates friction against the air


    36. commodity and many times it becomes a point of friction anywhere abroad


    37. passage, thereby heightening the friction between us


    38. thought, without delay and friction


    39. 2006 “on left foot there is a 1” long friction mark on the posterior aspect of


    40. If it chances to coincide with the child’s activity it will get a leverage; if it does not, it will result in friction, or disintegration, or arrest of the child nature

    41. Another source of friction between Prussia and Bavaria was that Bavaria is overwhelmingly Catholic, whereas Prussia is largely Protestant


    42. Without any friction


    43. “Let’s see, I’ll start with a standing levitation at a consistent height above the ground,” she rose a meter in the air, floating along beside him as he walked, “I’ll apply a coefficient of friction and a state of resiliency similar to those of the moss to my pseudo-surface,” she bounced on her toes, “I’ll apply a horizontal movement locked to my motion over the ground,” she started walking beside him with quick little steps to match his pace, “And I’ll reduce the horizontal component by a ratio equivalent to the proportional difference between your pace and mine


    44. “Let’s see, I’ll start with a standing levitation at a consistent height above the ground,” she rose three and a half feet in the air, floating along beside him as he walked, “I’ll apply a coefficient of friction and a state of resiliency similar to those of the moss to my pseudo-surface,” she bounced on her toes, “I’ll apply a horizontal movement locked to my motion over the ground,” she started walking beside him with quick little steps to match his pace, “And I’ll reduce the horizontal component by a ratio equivalent to the proportional difference between your pace and mine


    45. As it moves, the friction of rock on rock makes a groaning sound


    46. fast that the friction of my penis threatened to set a wild fire in my


    47. license), which I was cooking up with friction as my mother came


    48. At first there was predictable friction between the Jews and Muslims


    49. Natural y, this led to a friction between the


    50. This morning they would issue a public statement designed to quell the growing friction between the church lobby and the majority of the public














































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    Synonyms for "friction"

    detrition friction rubbing clash conflict disagreement irritation dissension strife agitation discord abrasion rasping resistance attrition wearing away chafing

    "friction" definitions

    a state of conflict between persons


    the resistance encountered when one body is moved in contact with another


    effort expended in moving one object over another with pressure