How to Use corrugate in a Sentence

corrugate

verb
  • The inner liner of the tank will consist of a thin layer of corrugated steel.
    — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 21 July 2017
  • Her body is vast and soft and lumpy, furrowed at the middle with slumping folds of flesh, roughly corrugated around her hips and thighs.
    — Lori Waxman, chicagotribune.com, 22 July 2019
  • Storm panels are corrugated, and each piece overlaps the next for maximum strength.
    — Sun-Sentinel.com, 6 Sep. 2017
  • The wall panels are then welded together, the sheets are corrugated for strength and square tubing is welded to the top of the walls.
    — Cmg Containers, Sun Sentinel, 1 May 2024
  • But if the surface is heavily corrugated, sandy, or dusty, lower the pressure to 30 psi.
    — Ben Murphy, Popular Mechanics, 23 Oct. 2017
  • The walls of the bathrooms are corrugated tin, and the bathtubs are glossy white six-foot soakers; an outdoor platform has comfortable chairs in which to lounge.
    — Cheryl Strayed, Vogue, 17 July 2018
  • For five hours, all that can be seen is an endless expanse of ocher shifting to vermilion, corrugated by ancient crags and pocked with swirling violet salt pan lakes.
    — David Prior, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Jan. 2017
  • The underside was corrugated with a series of trenches that ran perpendicular to the direction of ice flow, like waves offshore from a beach.
    — Douglas Fox, Scientific American, 1 Nov. 2022
  • Many companies offer heavy-duty cardboard, which is usually corrugated or extra thick to hold up better to drops or heavy items that may bend or warp thinner boxes.
    — Tom Price, Popular Mechanics, 29 Aug. 2023
  • No roads run between towns in Greenland—planes and boats are the only options for traversing a coastline corrugated by innumerable fjords and glacial tongues.
    — Tim Folger, Smithsonian, 2 May 2017
  • No roads run between towns in Greenland—planes and boats are the only options for traversing a coastline corrugated by innumerable fjords and glacial tongues.
    — Tim Folger, Smithsonian, 29 Mar. 2017
  • The wings and fuselage were constructed from corrugated duralumin, a light, strong alloy of aluminum, copper, manganese, and magnesium, while the landing gear and bracing were all steel.
    — Laurie Gwen Shapiro, Longreads, 16 Jan. 2018
  • In the Soura area of Srinagar, which has seen some of the biggest protests and clashes, residents have barricaded the neighborhood by digging trenches, laying barbed wire and erecting poles and corrugated tin sheets to stop the raids.
    — NBC News, 21 Aug. 2019
  • In the Soura area of Srinagar, which has seen some of the biggest protests and clashes, residents have barricaded the neighborhood by digging trenches, laying barbed wire, and erecting poles and corrugated tin sheets to stop the raids.
    — Aijaz Hussain, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Aug. 2019

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