Example Sentences

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The Baku street circuit is notorious for creating incident - its combination of long straights and tight, right-angled corners are bounded by walls, so mistakes tend to be punished.

From BBC • Sep. 20, 2025

As they watched, they saw the two stars wobbling around on their orbits, and worked out that this pattern could only be caused by an exoplanet on a right-angled, ferris-wheel like path.

From Space Scoop • May 6, 2025

Other tools are conversions to green left-turn arrows, and yellow centerline curbs that protrude into the crossing, so drivers choose a slow, right-angled path.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 30, 2023

She doesn’t make harsh, brash, right-angled, all caps music.

From Washington Post • Oct. 8, 2021

Shoving back his baseball cap, Neves levered himself into the excavation site, a six-foot, rectangular hole with the right-angled corners and precisely vertical walls that are a hallmark of archaeological investigation.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann