How to Use hexagon in a Sentence
hexagon
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On the blue walls with hexagon windows, the icy Arctic peeks through.
—Roger Catlin, Smithsonian, 28 June 2017
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There could be, say, a 1% chance that each hexagon is empty.
—Quanta Magazine, 7 Feb. 2024
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There is also a sun room — three sides of windows with a glass roof that a hexagon.
—Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 28 Nov. 2020
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Chunky black hexagons spill out of the center of its grille, and matte plastic clads all the sharp body lines on the tiny SUV.
—Elana Scherr, Car and Driver, 13 Mar. 2023
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The hexagon circles Saturn at 77 degrees north and is wider than two Earths.
—Alexis Madrigal, WIRED, 9 Dec. 2009
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The researchers now used a similar but larger hexagon of prisms placed in a fish tank.
—Philip Ball, Scientific American, 11 June 2013
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Made of gold vermeil, the hexagon shape evokes the panel structure of a classic soccer ball.
—Jasmine Gomez, Women's Health, 9 Aug. 2023
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The beehive is embedded in a hexagon, called a symbol of strength and unity.
—Palak Jayswal, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Nov. 2022
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And though the metals are a mix of chrome and brass, all of the tiles are white marble, from the subway pattern on the walls to the small hexagons on the floor, as is the vanity.
—Catherine Romano, WSJ, 15 June 2018
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The couple carried the hexagon pattern into the lapel of his tux and their accessories.
—Lisa Gutierrez, kansascity, 24 July 2017
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Draw a hexagon connecting the intersecting lines of the snowflake.
—Carly Cardellino, Cosmopolitan, 16 Oct. 2017
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But unlike those other homes, 57 is arranged in a series of four hexagons.
—Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 15 Aug. 2023
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Stripped of their brown paint and polished, each fragment will weigh 18 grams, or just over half an ounce, and be fashioned into a hexagon — the shape of France.
—Aurelien Breeden, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2024
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There, an all-black subway-tiled shower packs a punch, while white hexagon flooring gives a little homage back to the rest of the master suite.
—Nena Farrell, Sunset Magazine, 3 Mar. 2020
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Nearby are three detached cabins that are shaped like hexagons and form a circle.
—Janet Eastman, OregonLive.com, 5 May 2018
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Add modern appeal to your home's flooring with a large-scale hexagon design.
—Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Dec. 2022
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Using a sliding table saw, the sheets are cut into squares, hexagons and other shapes.
—Jane Margolies, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2020
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The rings are six feet to 115 feet wide and are regularly spaced out in a hexagon or honeycomb pattern.
—Nicholas St. Fleur, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2017
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The floors are polished concrete with bits of the hotel's original hexagon tile floors peeking through.
—Sarah Gish, kansascity, 14 June 2018
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The arc of hexagons above her left eyebrow is speciogynine, thought to be a smooth muscle relaxer.
—Emma Grey Ellis, Wired, 22 Jan. 2020
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Some hexagons are empty; others are filled by a 6-foot tall column of solid concrete.
—Quanta Magazine, 7 Feb. 2024
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For example, the cells of a real wax honeycomb are not all perfect hexagons.
—Elise Cutts, Quanta Magazine, 21 June 2023
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Since these mirrors are put together in a hexagon, there are six main diffraction spikes.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 25 Jan. 2024
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Tegel’s hexagon-shaped terminal was completed in the 1970s when Berlin was an island in a sea of communism.
—Stefan Nicola, Bloomberg.com, 24 May 2020
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The wasp nest held a score or more wriggling, creamy white, worm-like larvae, each sequestered beneath the papery caps covering most of the of nest’s hexagon cylinders.
—Shannon Tompkins, Houston Chronicle, 6 July 2019
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The house was stuck in 1995 with builder-grade standard features, from tiny track lights and a hexagon island to Palladian windows and layers of sponge paint.
—Jennifer Blaise Kramer, House Beautiful, 14 May 2019
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The six carbons of benzene are joined in a ring, having the planar geometry of a regular hexagon in which all of the C—C bond distances are equal.
—Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 9 Mar. 2020
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So in a mosaic of hexagonal bath tiles, for example, each cell is a hexagon, which has six vertices.
—Quanta Magazine, 19 Nov. 2020
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In the middle, superimposed on the star background and part of the spectrum, is a large hexagon outlined in gold with two hexagonal outlines.
—Camilo Garzón, Scientific American, 9 Sep. 2022
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The hexagon surrounding it represents strength and unity.
—Olivia Munson, The Courier-Journal, 5 Jan. 2024
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