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

The New Jersey-based company’s CEO Mike Rodgers recently told lawmakers in Maryland how he used gridded digital maps during deployments and was surprised the school where his wife taught had nothing similar.

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

The perfectly gridded streets of Manhattan disappear behind me.

From "The Sky at Our Feet" by Nadia Hashimi