rectangle

Example Sentences

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Carrots and papaya plants have already pushed up through a rectangle of dark soil, thanks to a technique based on organic fertilisers made from a mixture of compost and chicken manure.

From Barron's

A “salon” of multiple smaller works introduced each section, enlarging on Mr. Whitney’s shift from gatherings of blunt, sometimes layered, rounded forms to the abutments of rectangles that have preoccupied him since the 1990s.

From The Wall Street Journal

Paintings of city scenery from Rothko’s early career lead to his experiments with Surrealism; to the abstract, foggy rectangles he’s known for; and finally to the dark, colorless canvasses that embodied his later work.

From New York Times

Like the mother statue, Alki’s, facing northwest into Elliott Bay near the tip of the West Seattle peninsula, watches cargo ships laden with their kaleidoscopic, multicolored rectangles passing in the distance.

From Seattle Times

The trial room is a rectangle, so the geometric possibilities are limited.

From Salon