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He began to shape the dough into rolls.

Hey, you know, I've never actually seen a board shaped.

But there is a new theory that says that thaw slumping, not wind, is what shapes the thaw lakes. 

Over many thousands of years, the symbols evolved through several stages of abstraction until they became wedge- shaped (cuneiform) signs on clay tablets, recognizable as writing.

But about 3500 B.C.E., more complex tokens came into common usage, including many naturalistic forms shaped like miniature tools, furniture, fruit, and humans.

Yeah. So they attached food to paper models of moths with different shaped marks drawn on the wings to see how birds reacted.

Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is shaped like a flat disk surrounding a central bulge.

Then in the secondary phase, the disks were reheated, and shaped into decorative objects.

There's been considerable research done to try to figure out what causes them to be shaped and oriented this way.

Even though early exhibitors shaped their film programs by mixing films and other entertainments together in whichever way they thought would be most attractive to audiences or by accompanying them with lectures, their creative control remained limited.

I know that copper can be shaped into all sorts of things:sheets, tubing, and my cousin's house has a copper roof.

The theatron was shaped in a semi-circle with rows of seating rising up the sides of the bowl.

A regular cluster is sphere shaped, symmetrical, and most dense in the middle.

They're not spherical or spiral shaped, but the cluster itself shows spherical symmetry.

So our guide was talking about how the human need for resources had shaped the environment.

Because different plants produce differently shaped phytoliths, scientists can identify the type of plant from ancient remains.

The dramatic literature of early periods is hugely influential in shaping later dramatic works.

During the fifth century B.C. the council of 500 was extremely influential in shaping policy.

What shape is the room?

The buds are conical or pyramidal in shape.

A moon in the system is complex at Saturn's, and Saturn has at least 49 known moons which vary tremendously in size and shape.

Fluids flow easily and conform to the shape of their containers.

He believed, though, that the shape of Earth was that of a cylinder rather than the sphere that later Greek philosophers would conjecture.

One of the most fascinating things about these lakes and this is important, is that they mostly have the same shape like an elongated oval or egg shape, and what's more, all the ovals are oriented in the same way.

We know that the shape and orientation are caused by the way the lakes grow once they are formed.

Those that survived are in surprisingly good shape.

The shape of the bowl captured sound and funneled it upwards so that even in the top rows, spectators were able to hear the performers very clearly.

And that alters the shape of the droplets.

There was some natural variation to accommodate the size and shape of the site, but as far as the basic elements went, those remained constant.

And symmetry just refers to its shape?

Whether the shape of the cluster was the same on the left side as on the right side.

You are talking about the shape of the cluster though, not the shape of the galaxies within the cluster.

It's a symmetrical cluster basically spherical in shape, but the individual galaxies within it are elliptical.

There's no symmetry to its overall shape, no central concentration of galaxies, but it happens to have both elliptical and spiral galaxies within it.

Cort also developed heavy-duty, steam-powered rolling mills, which were capable of producing finished iron in every shape and form.

Features such as color, scent and shape attract pollinators, as does the reward in the flower, the pollen or the nectar, that feeds the pollinator.

He standardized the length of alif, the first letter of the Arabic alphabet, and then determined what the size and shape of all other letters should be, based on the alif.

The shape of that space corresponds exactly to what Houdin thought the ramp would look like.

She designed a house with a hexagonal shape. Josh?

The house’s shape also allowed for more windows.

The price you can get for a text depends on the shape it’s in.

But besides the size of the room, another variable affecting reverberation is the shape of the room.

They are strong, alright, but aren’t they just very short little cylinders in shape?

Oh, their dimensions, shape, their fingerboard height, uh, general craftsmanship.

He pointed out that the shape of sunspots, well, the sunspots weren’t circular.

And he also noticed that the shape of the sunspots changed as they seemed to move across the Sun’s surface.

The original tokens (circa 8500 B.C.E.) were three-dimensional solid shapes—tiny spheres, cones, disks, and cylinders.

The earliest tokens, dating from about 10,000 to 6,000 years ago, were of only the simplest geometric shapes.

These are geometrical shapes or patterns consisting of dots or lines.

Ok. It said the experiment looked at the shapes of the markings on moths’ wings.

And what’s interesting is they realized the round marks were not more effective in scaring bird than other shapes.

The spaces inside even the largest roundhouses were modest, and the use of rounded shapes and organic building materials gave buildings a human scale.

The government needs to decide what shape its response should take.

We can change the shape of people's lives.

The great grey shape of a tank rolled out of the village.

We could see the dark shapes of bats silhouetted against the moon.

The Greeks shaped the thinking of Western man.

Our families shape our lives and make us what we are.