Example Sentences

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As they watched, they saw the two stars wobbling around on their orbits, and worked out that this pattern could only be caused by an exoplanet on a right-angled, ferris-wheel like path.

From Space Scoop • May 6, 2025

Leclerc and Sainz likened it more to the Baku track in Azerbaijan, with its long straights and right-angled corners and said Monaco was very different.

From BBC • Nov. 18, 2023

Made up of right-angled kites, it was nothing like the gnarly, complicated kind of shape many mathematicians would have predicted.

From Scientific American • Jul. 31, 2023

Vessels must execute a sharp right-angled turn at the strait’s northern end, where the strong winds common in winter could strike a large ship broadside and blow it off course.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 10, 2021

Shoving back his baseball cap, Neves levered himself into the excavation site, a six-foot, rectangular hole with the right-angled corners and precisely vertical walls that are a hallmark of archaeological investigation.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann