right angles
- plural of right angle.
Example Sentences
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And the reflectors and lights on her bike were at right-angles to the Uber car's path.
From BBC • May 24, 2018
To: Vaux Populi Subject: Bowl of Light I suppose I’ll give you the Mall — though it stretches for only a few hundred feet, and seriously undermines your right-angles claim.
From New York Times • Jul. 11, 2010
The sun shone at right-angles to the north wind, leaving the east side of the furrows white with frost.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
How to remember that “Complement” relates to one right-angle, and “Supplement” relates to two right-angles, is a difficulty for a poor memory.
From Assimilative Memory or, How to Attend and Never Forget by Loisette, A. (Alphonse)
But unfortunately for the Alabama, the right-angles were not there.
From Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States by Semmes, Raphael
