Example Sentences

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On Thursday, the NBA’s most slapstick franchise stepped on an equatorially long line of rakes and traded 23-year-old star center Kristaps Porzingis to the Dallas Mavericks.

From Slate • Jan. 31, 2019

Many Nigerian students, like their colonial counterparts in Asia and the rest of Africa, have long felt equatorially Oxonian about their education.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Earth was forty-three kilometers stouter when measured equatorially than when measured from top to bottom around the poles.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

In 1844 he conceived the bold idea of constructing a reflector of two feet aperture, and twenty feet focal length, to be mounted equatorially.

From James Nasmyth: Engineer; an autobiography by Smiles, Samuel

The brass strip a looks like a transparent globe when whirled, and bulges out equatorially.

From Pioneers of Science by Lodge, Oliver, Sir