Example Sentences

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It was just wonderful: dimpled with pinky-prints, scattered with rhombi of flake salt and apostrophes of rosemary, and the bread's interior: marshmallowy, pillowy, cotton-candied, a tufted thing under an oleaginous crust.

From Salon • Aug. 27, 2018

The A of his alphabet is the square, and the rest proceeds through ovals, rhombi, etc., in a code of images down to the Z shape itself.

From Time Magazine Archive

A path of broken rectangles and rhombi spilled crazily down the stairs, coming to rest on the heads of the wooden monkeys at the base.

From "Chasing Vermeer" by Blue Balliett