Example Sentences

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The new World Cup ball comes from historic stock: the original Telstar was the first ball to use the now-familiar truncasted icosahedrom — 12 black pentagonal panels and 20 white ones.

From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2018

So a few days ago, I decided to unfold a pentagonal billiard table and figure out what surface it made.

From Scientific American • Aug. 5, 2017

But it sported a more impressive shield, or frill, at the back of its skull, decorated with large triangular and pentagonal plates.

From The Guardian • Jun. 4, 2015

Rooted in Klishball and Stiffleball, Squamish is supposed to be played on a pentagonal field, or Flutney.

From New York Times • Apr. 1, 2015

It was smooth, pentagonal, with three display windows that all blinked with numbers.

From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles