ellipse

Example Sentences

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“The central space is simply a regular ellipse, and the walls that surround it are vertical,” he would later recall.

From New York Times • Mar. 28, 2024

The capsule’s drop area in Utah is an ellipse that measures 36 by 8.5 miles.

From Scientific American • Jul. 27, 2023

Our star’s lopsided locale within Earth’s orbital ellipse means that over the course of a year, our planet’s motion brings it alternately a bit closer to the sun and then farther away again.

From Scientific American • Jun. 30, 2023

The new decorative bulbs come in three shapes: triangle, ellipse, and globe.

From The Verge • Aug. 26, 2022

Kepler had found that Mars moves about the Sun not in a circle, but in an ellipse.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan