Example Sentences

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He’s as spot-on as the production design’s gridded tile floors or a crisp camera move that pans precisely to a visual gag.

From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2025

This was not the wildland–urban interface of the Sierra Nevada, but entire neighborhoods of densely packed houses on gridded streets in and around the country’s second-largest city.

From Slate • Jan. 14, 2025

They must be overlaid with aerial imagery and gridded coordinates, “oriented true north” and “contain site-specific labeling” for rooms, doors, hallways, stairwells, utility locations, hazards, key boxes, trauma kits and automated external defibrillators.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 7, 2024

In this case, lead author Grace Casselberry, a postdoctoral researcher at UMass Amherst, and her colleagues deployed 16 receivers in a gridded array in the Bahia Honda Channel.

From Science Daily • Jan. 22, 2024

He has already given up trying to crack the code: he has written out the numbers, gridded them, added, multiplied; nothing has come of it.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr