polygonal
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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These images revealed craters that expose ice, patterned ground known as polygonal terrain, and other surface features that often indicate ice just below the surface.
From Science Daily • Dec. 27, 2025
The pangrams from yesterday’s Spelling Bee were nonapology and polygonal.
From New York Times • Dec. 9, 2022
Buckminster Fuller favored the geodesic dome — an arrangement of triangular or polygonal panels — because it was lightweight and cost-effective.
From Washington Post • Sep. 26, 2022
At one point I dropped into a polygonal comedy club and quickly fled, mortified.
From Slate • Sep. 1, 2022
What must the previous history of the planet have been to create sheared rocks, buried boulders, polygonal gouges in the ground?
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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