How to Use ellipse in a Sentence

ellipse

noun

• The storm will move into the right entrance region of the jet streak, shown by the large red ellipse.
  — Washington Post, 3 Aug. 2020
• That’s because the moon’s orbit around the Earth is an ellipse, not a circle.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 18 Aug. 2017
• The capsule’s drop area in Utah is an ellipse that measures 36 by 8.5 miles.
  — Leonard David, Scientific American, 27 July 2023
• The exact speed varies a little over the course of the year, because Earth’s orbit is an ellipse.
  — Corey S Powell, Discover Magazine, 24 Jan. 2018
• The space telescope will fly in a large ellipse that takes it out beyond the moon and then in close to the Earth to downlink its data.
  — Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 18 Apr. 2018
• There are constantly rallies on the ellipse, Bopp told the court.
  — Aaron Navarro, CBS News, 22 Apr. 2022
• Supermoons occur because the moon orbits the Earth in the shape of an ellipse.
  — Isabel Garcia, House Beautiful, 11 Mar. 2020
• For context, an ellipse is just a circle that has been stretched in one direction to give it an oval shape.
  — Sarah Wells, Popular Mechanics, 16 Aug. 2021
• This is because the shape of the moon's orbit is not a perfect circle, but rather an oval or ellipse, much like a chicken egg.
  — Miriam Fauzia, USA TODAY, 26 May 2021
• Every Star Wars title crawl trails off with an ellipses.
  — Matt Patches, Esquire, 27 May 2015
• The circle became an ellipse, expanding east, pushed by the gust.
  — Kevin Dupzyk, Popular Mechanics, 4 Oct. 2018
• Instead, the moon traces out a geometric figure known as an ellipse.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 29 Jan. 2018
• Next, determine the style and size of the arch (half circle, partial circle, or ellipse), and make a pattern out of cardboard.
  — Kate McGregor, House Beautiful, 2 June 2023
• The moon orbits the Earth in an ovular shape called an ellipse, meaning sometimes the moon is closer, and sometimes the moon is farther away from Earth.
  — Drew Dawson, Journal Sentinel, 28 Aug. 2023
• The form movement takes the shape of a double ellipse as opposed to a traditional round movement.
  — Cait Bazemore, Robb Report, 24 Mar. 2023
• Any straight line drawn from one focus to the circumference of the ellipse is reflected to the other focus.
  — Quanta Magazine, 30 June 2016
• Now, Inoue will head back to the lab and look at the ellipse, the most common of the four species found in Poplar Creek this week and a species of greatest conservation concern in Illinois.
  — Morgan Greene, chicagotribune.com, 25 Sep. 2020
• Imagine seeing a tiny sliver of a line and being asked to draw the ellipse that line was a part of — that was the mathematical challenge.
  — Brian Resnick, Vox, 30 Apr. 2018
• The final garden is laid out in an ellipse that spans the full width of the property and is home to flowering shrubs native to China, Japan, and Virginia.
  — Victoria Johnson, ELLE Decor, 1 June 2022
• And, over the course of each day, an ellipse of light traverses the floor and concrete walls, which were cast in corrugated iron formwork and act as sound diffusers.
  — New York Times, 5 Jan. 2022
• The floor of the upper ellipse also curves up and down, giving the hall an unfixed, fluctuating profile.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 22 May 2017
• This one had deformed into a long, narrow ellipse, like a flaccid rubber band.
  — Laura Preston, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2022
• Populations of the ellipse are declining across the state, Inoue said.
  — Morgan Greene, chicagotribune.com, 25 Sep. 2020
• In other words, the orbit can be elliptical, but the ellipse can have any orientation in space.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 17 May 2020
• In the twelve untitled poems that ran on quarto-size pages, scattered with varied-length ellipses, his long lines expand and contract between the margins like the steady crash of waves.
  — Jeffrey Yang, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2017
• Just like the shape of an ellipse, all these laws can be described using mathematical equations.
  — Max Tegmark, Discover Magazine, 3 Nov. 2013
• At some point in that heads-down work, the organizers will task the teams with writing code that can take control of the actual on-orbit satellite, which will be carving an ellipse around Earth.
  — Sarah Scoles, Wired, 6 Aug. 2020
• While the ellipse Lightguide is still being manufactured, Hrank says the $89.99 bulb is currently out of stock, with a tentative restock date of March.
  — Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, The Verge, 10 Feb. 2023
• The Earth orbits the Sun in an ellipse that is pretty close to being a perfect circle, and by definition the semi-major axis of our orbit is 1.0.
  — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 26 June 2011
• If the two objects are slightly off-center from each other, the distant star will sometimes appear to move in an ellipse as the nearer object passes, which is what the researchers saw here.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 7 June 2017

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