Example Sentences

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To precisely position the sensing components, the team built DNA tetrahedrons, which are small pyramid shaped nanostructures formed entirely from DNA.

From Science Daily • Feb. 16, 2026

Off the shores of Long Beach, where sails could catch wind, a white fleet clustered around orange buoys shaped like tetrahedrons.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 16, 2022

But Georgia-born Dylan Neuwirth’s sculptures have the weight of esoteric significance, like symbols you’d find in a medieval alchemy book: lines, circles, tetrahedrons in eerie blues and reds.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 26, 2018

“There is no me. . . . There are clusters of tetrahedrons moving around together. . . . We don’t matter.”

From Washington Post • Nov. 29, 2017

We passed, silently; behind us she came, followed by three of the great globes, by a pair of her tetrahedrons.

From The Metal Monster by Merritt, Abraham