hexagon

Example Sentences

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I’ll just add more shapes — I think it’s really like a love hexagon because you have to bring Ms. Casey into the picture too, right?

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2025

The French sometimes refer to their country as “L’Hexagone” — the hexagon — because of its shape.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 8, 2024

Yet for some species, the hexagon comes with a nasty catch: It isn't one-size-fits-all.

From Salon • Jul. 27, 2023

In 1975 he conjectured that the optimal packing of n circles is an arrangement in a triangular lattice that forms the shape of a hexagon that is as regular as possible.

From Scientific American • Jun. 6, 2023

A square for Ungifted by Gordon Korman, a triangle for A Tangle of Knots by Lisa Graff, a hexagon for Twerp by Mark Goldblatt, and an oval for The Postcard by Tony Abbott.

From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein