How to Use equatorial in a Sentence

equatorial

adjective
  • This splits the equatorial axis in two, one for the long axis at the side, and a second for the short one.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 11 Oct. 2017
  • Then to dress the leaves with an equatorial fruit evocative of blue skies and green seas and balmy ease?
    Bill Buford, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2021
  • But it was also found that in the equatorial regions, there isn’t much wind.
    Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 4 Oct. 2018
  • Collapsing to the size of a hockey puck, the lamp charges in about four hours in Kenya’s bright equatorial sun and provides up to 10 hours of light.
    Becca Blond, Travel + Leisure, 17 Mar. 2024
  • Warmer air from the equatorial regions is drawn northward to fill this void.
    Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2017
  • Farmers in Brazil were burning down tracts of the largest equatorial rainforest on earth to ready the land for their ploughs.
    Girish Shahane, Quartz India, 30 Aug. 2019
  • In the equatorial monsoon climate, June was the coolest month, with the most plentiful rain.
    Wired, 1 Sep. 2021
  • The Apollo missions went to the equatorial regions of the moon, where there are long stretches of daylight — for as long as two weeks at a time.
    Christian Davenport, Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2022
  • The weather could shift in an hour from fierce equatorial sun beating down on sapphire seas to high swells and pin-sharp rain.
    Peter Guest, The Atlantic, 8 Aug. 2017
  • Eight of them placed in the Arktek would keep the thing at the right temperature for up to a month, even in the most sweltering equatorial heat.
    Adam Rogers, WIRED, 29 May 2018
  • The toxic ponds are still there, bubbling black in the intense equatorial sun.
    Melody Schreiber, The New Republic, 18 May 2018
  • This is because when El Nino is present the winds tend to be stronger around the equatorial belt east of South America.
    Dave Epstein, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Aug. 2019
  • Trade winds are permanent winds that blow from east-to-west in the Earth’s equatorial region.
    Jennifer Fitchett, Quartz Africa, 16 Feb. 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 study focused on a part of the Marshall Islands in the equatorial Pacific Ocean.
    Chris Mooney, Brady Dennis, Philly.com, 25 Apr. 2018
  • Once there, Dragonfly will land in the equatorial region of the moon, which is covered by large sand dunes.
    Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 27 June 2019
  • Like the asteroid Bennu, Ryugu is shaped a bit like a spinning top: a round shape with a sharp equatorial ridge.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 26 Sep. 2022
  • The waves are strongest—or rather, their impact to the magnetic field is the greatest—near the equatorial region of the outer core.
    Popular Mechanics, 26 May 2022
  • So, Apollo was focused on one kind of pretty easy to get to equatorial area.
    CBS News, 28 Aug. 2022
  • Iapetus has a massive equatorial ridge—reaching heights of more than 12 miles, more than twice the height of Mount Everest—that runs three-fourths of the way around the moon.
    Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 11 Sep. 2017
  • Lying there looking up at the stars of the inky equatorial sky, I was filled with respect for all that surrounded me.
    David Jefferys, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Nov. 2019
  • Brewers knew that ale would turn sour in casks on the four-month ocean voyage through tropical and equatorial heat en route to Asia.
    Tony Rehagen, Washington Post, 25 Jan. 2024
  • The equatorial regions, which will feel this the most, will be hit with a variety of other issues as the climate warms.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 2 Jan. 2018
  • What’s more, if all of Mars’ equatorial lakes did this, enough hydrogen gas would be released to push the climate above the freezing point.
    Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 9 Aug. 2018
  • In front of the showroom, dozens of life-size sculptures of seals perch incongruously in the equatorial heat.
    Neil Gough and Cao Li, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2017
  • White streams of light belonging to the corona were merely restricted to the equatorial regions of the star.
    Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 13 Mar. 2024
  • The weather has caused droughts in North and South America and equatorial eastern Africa.
    Teddy Grant, ABC News, 8 Sep. 2022
  • This is not the first time that Ebola has hit Mbandaka, an equatorial port city on the Congo River.
    Ruth MacLean, BostonGlobe.com, 2 June 2020
  • Last year, equatorial countries that account for two-thirds of the global cocoa supply saw record rainfall.
    Brittney Melton, NPR, 13 Sep. 2024
  • When astronomers simulate this kind of capture, the moons never end up in the orbits that Deimos and Phobos have today, which are both approximately equatorial.
    The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 31 May 2024

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