rectangle
noun
a parallelogram having four right angles.
rectangles
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pluralof rectangle.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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And while such daily interactions are reduced to thumbs slipping over greasy rectangles of glass, pinball is irreducibly concrete: physics and mechanics turned into dazzling entertainment, a silvery dance with gravity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026
Those red rectangles that you step off and get on for people in wheelchairs, those are probably our No. 1 priority, making sure they’re accessible.
From Slate ● Feb. 24, 2026
That memorial includes 805 hanging steel rectangles representing each of the counties in the United States where lynchings took place.
From Salon ● Apr. 18, 2025
In L.A.’s brittle landscape of concrete rectangles and choking freeways, Eaton Canyon, just seven miles from where we live, was a sanctuary to thousands of people.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2025
Here the clay had been cut away in neat slabs, leaving a pattern of staggered rectangles in the riverbank.
From "A Single Shard" by Linda Sue Park
