How to Use ellipse in a Sentence
ellipse
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The storm will move into the right entrance region of the jet streak, shown by the large red ellipse.
—Washington Post, 3 Aug. 2020
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That’s because the moon’s orbit around the Earth is an ellipse, not a circle.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 18 Aug. 2017
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The capsule’s drop area in Utah is an ellipse that measures 36 by 8.5 miles.
—Leonard David, Scientific American, 27 July 2023
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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
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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
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There are constantly rallies on the ellipse, Bopp told the court.
—Aaron Navarro, CBS News, 22 Apr. 2022
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Supermoons occur because the moon orbits the Earth in the shape of an ellipse.
—Isabel Garcia, House Beautiful, 11 Mar. 2020
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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
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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
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Every Star Wars title crawl trails off with an ellipses.
—Matt Patches, Esquire, 27 May 2015
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The circle became an ellipse, expanding east, pushed by the gust.
—Kevin Dupzyk, Popular Mechanics, 4 Oct. 2018
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Instead, the moon traces out a geometric figure known as an ellipse.
—Martin Weil, Washington Post, 29 Jan. 2018
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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
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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
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The form movement takes the shape of a double ellipse as opposed to a traditional round movement.
—Cait Bazemore, Robb Report, 24 Mar. 2023
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Any straight line drawn from one focus to the circumference of the ellipse is reflected to the other focus.
—Quanta Magazine, 30 June 2016
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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This one had deformed into a long, narrow ellipse, like a flaccid rubber band.
—Laura Preston, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2022
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Populations of the ellipse are declining across the state, Inoue said.
—Morgan Greene, chicagotribune.com, 25 Sep. 2020
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In other words, the orbit can be elliptical, but the ellipse can have any orientation in space.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 17 May 2020
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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
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Just like the shape of an ellipse, all these laws can be described using mathematical equations.
—Max Tegmark, Discover Magazine, 3 Nov. 2013
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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
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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
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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
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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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