How to Use figure eight in a Sentence

figure eight

noun

• The skater traced a figure eight on the ice.
• And those differences in speed mean the sun makes the figure eight.
  — Katie Peek, Popular Science, 21 Dec. 2020
• Using a whisk over low heat, make figure eights in the egg and vinegar mixture, banging the whisk against the sides of the pan.
  — Bill Buford, The New Yorker, 8 May 2020
• The frogs are blue-black with a bright yellow ring around their head and back, which may be broken or joined to form a figure eight.
  — Michael Allen, Science | AAAS, 13 June 2018
• Sit in the stretch for 10 seconds, moving your hands in small figure eights for balance.
  — Jenna Dedić, Redbook, 25 May 2017
• The fourth, twisted like a figure eight, leaned against the sandstone wall as if protective of the others.
  — Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 8 Nov. 2022
• To tie a figure eight, also known as a Flemish bend, simply pass the free end of a line over itself to form a loop.
  — Tim MacWelch, Outdoor Life, 2 Apr. 2019
• Even after moving to a bench role, Green scored in double figures eight times in 20 games.
  — Jon Hale, The Courier-Journal, 11 June 2018
• The routing is an out-and-back figure eight, with the front nine being flat and the back nine ascending and then descending the canyon.
  — Michael Williams, GQ, 2 Apr. 2018
• The retrace figure eight is the most secure and efficient way to connect the end of a rope to a climbing harness.
  — Chris Brinlee Jr., Outside Online, 16 Mar. 2016
• To rig it, tie a figure eight on a bight in the bouncer’s factory webbing, then clip the bight to a daisy chain with a carabiner.
  — Emily Stifler Wolfe, Outside Online, 26 Apr. 2021
• Dean, who started 21 games as a freshman last year, leads the team in blocks with 21 and has scored in double figures eight times this season.
  — Shelby Dermer, Cincinnati.com, 9 Feb. 2018
• The drone then starts swerving haphazardly, cutting figure eights and zigzags in the air.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2023
• Take a two-foot length of webbing—essentially flat rope—and tie the two ends together with a stopper knot such as a figure eight.
  — Andrew Northshield, Popular Mechanics, 2 Dec. 2018
• Thick fluids form straight lines when being spread rapidly across a canvas, but will form loops and squiggles and figure eights if poured slowly.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 26 Dec. 2018
• For the second round, researchers set boundaries on Marco's chocolate hunt: instead of roaming freely, he was forced to turn left or right in a maze shaped like a figure eight.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 31 Aug. 2018
• At the spot where the helicopter went down, a white rose was placed upright in the soil next to rocks piled in a figure eight — 8 is one of two jersey numbers Bryant wore during his 20-year NBA career.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2021
• Make sure there is sufficient slack in the working end of the rope, then tie an overhand on a bight (a curved section of the rope) or a figure eight on a bight, and clip it to the standing end of the rope with a carabiner.
  — Ari Schneider, Outside Online, 8 June 2020
• Kohler and Lutzke incorporated a figure eight design over those 27 acres, which will allow for players to work out three-, six- or 12-hole course.
  — Jim Owczarski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7 Aug. 2020
• Leslie herself was gliding around like an ice skater doing figure eights, making sure everyone had something to drink and someone to talk to.
  — Lucinda Rosenfeld, Harper's magazine, 10 Feb. 2019
• To win, an aircraft must start from rest, complete two circuits, including a figure eight, and complete the distance of 42 kilometers — the length of marathon — within one hour.
  — James McCommons, Discover Magazine, 28 May 2015
• This nub moves in an elliptical motion, making a figure eight.
  — Suzannah Weiss, Glamour, 3 Oct. 2022
• Eight Follow Through knot, more commonly known as the figure eight, is the first knot every climber learns and the most important one in climbing, because it’s used to connect the rope to your harness—that is, tying in.
  — Jayme Moye, Outside Online, 9 June 2017
• Flying in figure eight patterns maximizes the kite’s pulling force and therefore energy yield.
  — Aylin Woodward and, WSJ, 10 Mar. 2022
• The Low-Level Obstacles portions will teach the correct ways up and down a hill, a slalom, figure eight, cones, traversing and braking on low obstacles and backing up skills for parking.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Oct. 2019
• The motif—which is shaped somewhat like an elongated figure eight—was first noticed by Robert Duman, the son-in-law of Emilie Hermès, while on vacation by the sea.
  — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 19 Aug. 2021
• Our first exercise is to do a large figure eight in a box to test timing, breaking, accelerating and cornering all at once.
  — Chuck Tannert, Popular Mechanics, 7 Feb. 2019
• More complicated knots include the trefoil and the figure eight, in which the string crosses over and under itself some number of times before its ends join together.
  — Quanta Magazine, 16 June 2022
• In the most basic sense, the F-35 is performing a figure eight with the nose pointed up and not necessarily in the direction the jet is actually going.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 11 June 2019
• The Lorenz attractor is a set of chaotic solutions of the Lorenz system which, when plotted, resemble a butterfly or figure eight.
  — Sarah Wells, Popular Mechanics, 22 Sep. 2022

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