concaves

plural of concave

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for concaves
Noun
  • Yes, dental cavities are common.
    Daryl Austin, USA Today, 13 Sep. 2025
  • In addition to maintaining good oral hygiene habits at home, such as brushing and flossing, experts recommend tactics like drinking plenty of water, limiting snacks and sugary foods, and quitting smoking to help prevent cavities.
    Cristina Mutchler, Verywell Health, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Firefighters are working to extinguish hotspots, burning tree stumps, and hot ash pits to ensure there is no threat to containment lines.
    CA WILDFIRE BOT, Sacbee.com, 12 Sep. 2025
  • To mine the site, Perpetua would operate across three open pits and use cyanide for processing next to the East Fork South Fork Salmon River.
    Kevin Fixler, Idaho Statesman, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • From this research, Motiva created its unique surface, which features depressions (approximately 16,000 nanometers in depth) that are the smallest available, according to a study published in the journal Case Reports in Plastic Surgery & Hand Surgery.
    Megan McIntyre, Allure, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Parcels on the block had been subdivided, depressions in the curb laid for future driveways.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Comfort definitely improved, but performance didn’t always keep pace — there were times when traction suffered, leading to more slipping and, in my opinion, the softer spikes could leave deeper indentations on greens that sometimes-affected putting.
    Vicki M. Young, Footwear News, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Mabel is able to shade in the adjacent page to read the pencil indentations, which at first seems to be just more notes on birds.
    Tom Smyth, Vulture, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Fill in any deeper scratches or dents with a wax wood repair kit to match.
    Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Speculation has also risen over whether the couple posed for the pictures after their record-breaking appearance together on Kelce's own podcast, New Heights, due to the dents in Swift's hear resembling the kind that headphones can create.
    Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The wells are drilled much longer and more are fracked at once—called simul-frac—so fewer rigs, frac fleets, and people are required.
    Jordan Blum, Fortune, 14 Sep. 2025
  • In 2015, Crawford and Person visited Uganda and Rwanda to help build and drill wells to give communities clean water.
    Adam England, PEOPLE, 13 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The body feathers in Figure 2 are the hills and valleys between Maunder Minimum and Modern Maximum.
    Ian Dexter Palmer, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Forecasters say the marine layer is likely to spread to the inland foothills and valleys, cooling areas like Escondido, where the high is predicted to be 80 on Tuesday, 76 on Wednesday and Thursday, and 79 on Friday.
    Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Here was the postwar American housewife—neatly dressed, pretty, poised, active—stepping unwittingly into a scene of utter depravity and sadism that reflected back at this wholesome young mother the darkest recesses of the human mind.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Sep. 2025
  • August is typically the slowest month of the year for restaurants in Washington, as Congress recesses and families head out on last-minute vacations.
    Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 19 Aug. 2025
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“Concaves.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/concaves. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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