helix
Example Sentences
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You can look at friendship as a journey that is like a double helix: Sometimes you and a friend will be in sync financially or emotionally, and other times you’ll be out of alignment.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 28, 2026
Form and content, the visual and the physical, create art’s spellbinding double helix.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 25, 2025
When she loses her cycle, she is forced to run up the helix of a parking garage at normal human speed, giving a pathetic comedic element to someone who ought to be terrifying.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025
Normally, alpha-synuclein's natural or "native state" is like a flexible strand, but when active it shapes itself into a helix, which is critical for its function in binding and transporting parcels of dopamine.
From Science Daily • Oct. 8, 2025
Interrupting her harangue, I asserted that the simplest form for any regular polymeric molecule was a helix.
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
