How to Use equatorial in a Sentence

equatorial

adjective

• Two more are likely to go into halo orbits, and a fifth satellite will be placed into an equatorial orbit.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 20 Sep. 2024
• 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

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024