Example Sentences

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As the straight line is best for the ideal city, the curved line being too rococco and impractical in an age of metal construction, the city of the future must be planned rectangularly.

From Time Magazine Archive

Head of Washington, faced three quarters to left, on a rectangularly hatched ground, bordered by four bands, forming a sort of oval.

From History of the Postage Stamps of the United States of America by Tiffany, John Kerr

Vicia faba: radicle, rectangularly bent at A, after the amputation of the tip, due to the previous influence of geotropism.

From The Power of Movement in Plants by Darwin, Charles

The Square was built about 1698, and is curiously laid out, with streets running diagonally from the corners as well as rectangularly from the sides.

From Holborn and Bloomsbury The Fascination of London by Besant, Walter, Sir

The carina is either straight or curved, but never rectangularly bent, and is always of considerable breadth.

From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Darwin, Charles