Example Sentences
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Her sentences end not in periods but in ellipses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2024
Known by his colleagues as the “poet of iron,” Serra became world-renowned for his large-scale steel structures, such as monumental arcs, spirals and ellipses.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 26, 2024
In the simulations the researchers observed ellipses, triangles and squares.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2023
“Masterpiece” then pans very slowly — with lots of emphatic italics, arch ellipses and a few footnotes — over the full arc of the fake movie’s development.
From New York Times ● May 7, 2023
Eventually the detailed observations of the apparent motion of the planets forced him to abandon the idea of circular paths and to realize that planets travel in ellipses.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
