Example Sentences

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It's like jumping into a kaleidoscope, with constantly shifting triangles, pentagons and octagons.

From BBC • May 25, 2025

This process starts with the assembly of small, triangular parts into hexagons, which subsequently join up with pentagons to form the icosahedral structures of viral capsids.

From Science Daily • Apr. 4, 2024

If the loop encompasses two adjacent pentagons, then the tile returns to the starting point rotated 120 degrees.

From New York Times • Jan. 1, 2023

The circles represent End Devices, and the pentagons represent Routers.

From The Verge • Jul. 29, 2022

For some reason, knowledge of a solid called the dodecahedron having twelve pentagons as sides seemed to them dangerous.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan