Sentence examples for rectangle from inspiring English sources

The word "rectangle" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it any time you want to refer to a shape with four straight sides and four right angles. For example: The playground was lined with rectangle-shaped flowerbeds.

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rectangle

noun

A quadrilateral having opposing sides parallel and four right angles.

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"How close did the car go to your blanket?" He traces a rectangle, in the dirt, with his finger: "My blanket".

On a floured surface, roll out the dough into a rectangle about twice the size of the butter length-wise (40cm) and the same width (15cm).

Roll out to a rectangle shape about 2cm thick and repeat the folding as above.

The figures are placed high in the paper's rectangle or dramatically to one side, the blank space of the undrawn-on surface as much a key to the overall composition as the drawn figure itself.

Put the butter onto a board, and flatten into a rectangle 2cm thick (roughly 20cm long by 15cm wide).

The world is spherical, a map is flat, and there is no obvious way to get around this. Try to flatten out, for example, the hollow peel of an orange and two things become quickly apparent: 1) there are an infinite number of ways to do that, and 2) none is particularly satisfactory, let alone a neat rectangle.

Each test involved a jazzy rectangle crossing the screen either before or after a plain one.

Mori's Yoshimitsu Isoi says his firm found it hard to put everything into a written contract in China, rather than relying on verbal agreements as in Japan.As for the Shanghai building itself, a giant circular opening at the top had to be changed to a rectangle in 2005 after the Chinese public objected that it looked like the rising sun of Japan's imperial flag.

But it is sapping the competitiveness of the country's industrial heartland.In this section Never walk alone Revving up Ladies in red Aisle be damned Teen spirit Bitter medicine Fees fi fo fum The hated body politic ReprintsTrace a rectangle 110 miles long and 90 miles wide, with Blackpool at its north-west corner and Birmingham to the south.

On average, an observer reckoned such a fast, jazzy rectangle was going 7% slower than was actually the case.Ships, then, travel too slowly for dazzle camouflage to have an effect.

Atop the old Bankside power station, which now houses the new "Tate Modern" gallery, a two-storey rectangle of light is illuminating a once-gloomy stretch of the south bank of the Thames.

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