How to Use convex in a Sentence

convex

adjective

• Strapped inside the truck was a breakfront with four doors, each set with three convex panes of glass.
  — Celia Barbour, ELLE Decor, 15 May 2015
• And, second, when the Earth was folded in half, what would be the concave part and what part would be convex?
  — Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023
• The slightly convex shape also adds to the spinal support, and the benefits can be felt throughout the whole back up to the shoulders.
  — Michelle Pugle, Health, 9 Mar. 2023
• Turn the spoon down toward the ginger so the convex part is facing toward you and with the edge of a spoon, gently scrape down on the ginger to peel the skin away.
  — Bhg Test Kitchen, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Mar. 2023
• On the convex part, life would go on as usual, but on the concave part major changes could be expected.
  — Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023
• Plait hypothesizes that these aren't convex tubes at all but concave gulleys lined with ridges of sand.
  — Erik Davis, WIRED, 1 Aug. 2004
• Also, the blade has a slightly convex shape to reduce friction, meaning the knife won’t get stuck mid-performance.
  — Elaheh Nozari, Bon Appetit, 26 Feb. 2018
• That question was answered in 2017 when Michaël Rao proved that all convex tiling pentagons — and with them, all convex tiling polygons — had been found.
  — Quanta Magazine, 30 Oct. 2023
• This is a thing -- so much so that the Japanese have convex mirrors at the end of interior aisles, to see oncoming traffic.
  — Miss Manners | Judith Martin, Anchorage Daily News, 8 June 2023
• This is a thing — so much so that the Japanese have convex mirrors at the end of interior aisles to show oncoming traffic.
  — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 8 June 2023
• The experience was enhanced by the sound of an acoustic guitar and followed by the celestial tones of an instrument called the Hang, a convex steel drum played with the hands or soft mallets.
  — Dallas News, 20 Apr. 2020
• Its legs had been shortened, the shell was gouged and dirty, convex Perspex windows had been removed, and the interior had been flooded by rainwater and slathered in plaster.
  — Eve M. Kahn, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2018
• Clerics who were reading scholarly manuscripts started using convex pieces of clear glass to magnify the text.
  — Joe Bargmann, Popular Mechanics, 15 Oct. 2014
• Grimmer’s paper focused only on smooth functions, which have no sharp kinks, and convex functions, which are shaped like a bowl and only have one optimal value at the bottom.
  — Quanta Magazine, 11 Aug. 2023
• All four screens are slightly convex with 3.9mm-resolution LED modules.
  — Brad Townsend, Dallas News, 18 Apr. 2023
• The new release swaps traditional convex lenses for a concave design, in an effort to reduce reflections by up to 70 percent.
  — Kristy Alpert, Travel + Leisure, 9 July 2023
• The original boathouse and shoreline observation tower are still standing and look straight out of early-’60s sci-fi: metal structures with convex round windows that were meant to evoke a boat’s (or perhaps a spacecraft’s) portholes.
  — Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics, 27 Dec. 2018
• Fluted white marble columns sit on black granite pedestals, carrying the eye upward to where lines slide over, folds narrow, and concavities become convex.
  — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 3 Aug. 2023
• Here, the classic Vans waffle sole design is echoed in the Ultra Range by essentially inverting it, creating a sole with convex rubber ridges that give you additional grip on rugged terrain.
  — Jake Woolf, GQ, 23 July 2017
• It was built from 756 prefabricated convex oval concrete modules, which give the building its perfectly gridded facade.
  — Liz Stinson, Curbed, 12 Dec. 2018
• The festival grounds were strewed with funhouse-style concave/convex mirrors (so ticklishly distortive!), giant replica Minions and even a basketball court scaled down to backyard dimensions.
  — M.t. Richards, Chicago Tribune, 24 June 2023
• The shots, spanning nearly 40 years, include one of an elegant woman, face out of frame, slipping out of a pair of heels, and another depicting Hendricks’s reflection in a convex mirror, a twist on Parmigianino’s famous self-portrait.
  — Caitie Kelly Julia Halperin Jinnie Lee Caitie Kelly Gisela Williams Mahira Rivers, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2023
• The most aggressively three-dimensional entries are by Graham Caldwell, who mounts multiple glass objects, such as transparent orbs or convex mirrors, on black metal armatures that jut from the wall.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2023
• With a canny blend of concave and convex surfaces, the Gravity’s exterior design announces its progressive intent, with a backbone of elegant understatement.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 18 Nov. 2023
• The inventorying reduces to a finite, though still formidable, task when mathematicians consider only convex polygons: simple, flat-edged shapes like triangles and rectangles whose angles all bend in the same direction.
  — Quanta Magazine, 11 July 2017

Last Updated: 3 Sep 2024