Example Sentences

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Both teams have complained about the Dukes balls going soft, which led Stokes to question the brand of rings used by umpires to test the roundness.

From BBC • Jul. 9, 2025

I compared it to my own visual lexicon of roundness: cleft chin, tight curls, bumpy nose.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 8, 2023

The group, which included Professor Motoki Shiga from Tohoku University's Unprecedented-scale Data Analytics Center, created new ways in which to quantify the rings' three-dimensional structure and structural symmetries: "roundness" and "roughness."

From Science Daily • Nov. 21, 2023

Green relished every morsel, with a bright sound in his higher range and burnished roundness in lower-slung passages.

From New York Times • Mar. 3, 2023

The roundness in his face had thinned out, sinking his eyes further into his skull.

From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken