pentagonal
- a word derived from pentagon.
Example Sentences
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Continental Drift is Earth in miniature, mapped onto a truncated icosahedron — a soccer ball — with its regular patchwork of 12 pentagonal faces and 20 hexagonal faces.
From New York Times ● Jan. 1, 2023
The 20 hexagonal and 12 pentagonal panels were traditionally made of leather and stitched together.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 19, 2022
Berlin’s politicians are fine-tuning a redevelopment plan, unveiled in June, for a 3.2-acre site that includes a cold war museum, apartments and commercial areas, as well as a pentagonal open space.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 13, 2019
Florida also wore a special helmet sticker in the pentagonal shape of home plate with the No. 16 encased in the Panthers’ red and blue colors.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2016
Squirrels scurry across the pentagonal deck, a space reserved for guests, holidays, and serious Choi family conversations.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
