curvilinear

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

By design, it doesn’t tower over its neighboring vinyl-sided houses but, with its curvilinear roof, it does seem to want to envelop them.

From New York Times • Aug. 3, 2023

The primary suite — one of two bedrooms in the main house and five bedrooms total — boasts concrete walls and a curvilinear bathroom with a tile tub.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 17, 2022

Its curvilinear form unfurls like a wood shaving.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 25, 2021

“There’s really been no study to date that put everything together and examined this curvilinear relationship.”

From Washington Post • Sep. 21, 2021

These doctrines of inertia, and of the composite character of curvilinear motion, were scarcely apprehended even by Kepler or Galileo; but they follow naturally from the geometrical analysis of Descartes.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" by Various