How to Use equator in a Sentence

equator

noun

• The clouds moved fastest around Venus' equator, where the heat from the sun is the most intense.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Apr. 2020
• So much of the trip was unforgettable, like a daytime swim across the equator.
  — Stephanie Wu, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Mar. 2020
• Earth’s magnetic field lines plunge into the ground at angles that increase from the equator to the poles.
  — Paul Voosen, Science | AAAS, 22 Apr. 2020
• Deimos is slightly tilted by two degrees to the Martian equator.
  — Fox News, 4 June 2020
• But scientists realized that the moons are nearly in the same plane as the Martian equator.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 3 June 2020
• Near the equator, the decline in daylight may be barely noticeable, so trees there are more sensitive to other cues.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 16 May 2020
• That seems to be a result of the equatorial bands changing from a ring-like shape at the equator to something closer and closer to a flat disk at the pole.
  — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 8 June 2020
• The clouds also moved from the equator toward either of the planet’s poles, distributing the momentum needed for fast super-rotation.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Apr. 2020
• Ryugu has a somewhat angular shape and is a little less than a kilometer across, and its equator bulges out in a distinctive ridge that makes the asteroid resemble a spinning top.
  — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 7 May 2020
• Permafrost, which lies beneath one quarter of all the land north of the equator, is a relic of colder times on Earth, when frigid temperatures penetrated deep.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 13 June 2020
• Similarly, countries in cooler climates, which offer more ideal circumstances for the virus to spread, benefited more from stringent measures than warmer countries near the equator.
  — Joshua Aizenman, The Conversation, 22 May 2020
• Again, the Ethiopian Ocean is west of Africa and south of the equator.
  — Mary Alexander, Quartz, 2 May 2021
• But first SpaceX had to find a launch site near the equator.
  — Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2021
• The oil palm plant grows best at ten degrees to the north and south of the equator.
  — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 28 Jan. 2021
• Cut the melon in half through the equator and stand up with the cut side down.
  — Washington Post, 24 Aug. 2020
• For now, it's expected to hit the far side of the Moon near the equator on March 4.
  — Matthew Humphries, PCMAG, 27 June 2022
• It’s the only species of penguin found north of the equator.
  — Dan Fellner, The Arizona Republic, 5 Jan. 2022
• They are found in all deep oceans, from the equator to the edge of the pack ice in the Arctic and Antarctic.
  — al, 23 Nov. 2020
• The donut shape follows the equator, leaving the North and South Poles free.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 16 Dec. 2020
• The Earth’s rotation moves winds west to east around the globe and from the equator toward the poles.
  — USA Today, 12 Sep. 2022
• March 20, also known as the spring equinox, marks the day when the sun crosses the equator and heads north.
  — Travel + Leisure, 3 Mar. 2022
• Then much of the warm surface water heads east, along the equator.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Aug. 2022
• The rover will land at Oxia Planum, an area just north of the Martian equator.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 29 Dec. 2021
• On a slow spinner, however, winds could flow all the way from the equator to the poles.
  — Paul Voosen, Science | AAAS, 9 June 2021
• For people south of the equator, this equinox signals the coming of spring.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 25 Sep. 2021
• The equinox is the moment the sun's rays shine directly on Earth's equator.
  — Editors, USA TODAY, 20 Mar. 2022
• An equinox occurs when the sun lines up so that the equator bisects it.
  — Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 20 June 2020
• All spots north of the equator will have less than 12 hours of daylight today.
  — Leigh Morgan, al, 21 Dec. 2021
• This equinox happens when the sun crosses the celestial equator, an imaginary line above the Earth’s equator, going from south to north.
  — Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 20 Mar. 2024
• Large planets’ magnetic fields can capture electrons, building up a carousel of electricity that zips around their equators and beams out radio waves like an antenna.
  — Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 19 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 26 Oct 2024