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Examples of helical in a Sentence
Sirius, the brightest star in the heavens, travels a helical path through space.
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Still, no matter what their arrangement, the amino acids fold themselves into just a handful of helical shapes and sheets.
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Yes, the helical limited-slip differential puts the power down without wasteful wheelspin.
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The scientists saw mineral crystals just five nanometers in diameter unexpectedly twisting into and around these collagen strands—forming a helical structure.
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That movie showed, for the first time, the twisting motions of the plasma, suggesting that the jet has a helical structure.
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The folded shape of the i-motif only occurs in a relatively small region of a genome — sticking out like a bumpy knot in the smooth helical shape of the rest of a strand of DNA.
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But an 18-ton gearbox in each nacelle (the mechanical room at the top of the tower) connects the driveshaft to two sets of planetary gears (cogs within a cog) and a helical gearset, like what most cars use, to wind up to 1,900 rpm at the generator.
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They were generated by scientists who made amino acid sequences at random and then kept any that folded into the stable helical structures commonly found in proteins.
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Driven hard into a corner, the R rotates smartly yet never abruptly so, with the helical limited-slip differential yanking it out of bends with only a slight tug at the steering wheel.
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