How to Use convex in a Sentence
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Plait hypothesizes that these aren't convex tubes at all but concave gulleys lined with ridges of sand.
—Erik Davis, WIRED, 1 Aug. 2004
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Clerics who were reading scholarly manuscripts started using convex pieces of clear glass to magnify the text.
—Joe Bargmann, Popular Mechanics, 15 Oct. 2014
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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
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All four screens are slightly convex with 3.9mm-resolution LED modules.
—Brad Townsend, Dallas News, 18 Apr. 2023
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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
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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
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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
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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
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It was built from 756 prefabricated convex oval concrete modules, which give the building its perfectly gridded facade.
—Liz Stinson, Curbed, 12 Dec. 2018
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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