parabola

Example Sentences

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Christopher swung in a long, fevered parabola and landed on hands and knees on the other side of the abyss.

From Literature

This was not the barefoot frolic I knew from picnics, not the game of lazy parabolas.

From The Wall Street Journal

The stone, with the rope trailing it, made a small parabola in the air, and the line, as if with a sigh, fell limply into the river only ninety tails away.

From Literature

They interlock, forming a three-dimensional-looking beam comprised of geometric patterns — a rotated hyperbolic parabola .

From Los Angeles Times

Among his discoveries was a need to move his takeoff point farther back for higher jumps, so he could change the apex of the parabola shape of his jump to clear the bar.

From Seattle Times