How to Use hexagonal in a Sentence

hexagonal

adjective

• How does the hexagonal storm at Saturn's north pole retain its non-circular shape?
  — Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 6 Dec. 2016
• In the hexagonal entryway, the air smelled lightly of roses and musk, as if an elegant madame had passed through the space just before us.
  — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2024
• Scientists are befuddled by the storm’s hexagonal shape.
  — Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Sep. 2024
• Adler was not afraid to hang hexagonal and sunburst mirrors, place animal figurines and Warhol bananas and cut off hands on desks.
  — Ko Im, Town & Country, 14 July 2015
• The 18 hexagonal mirror segments are polished sparkly clean.
  — Marissa Fessenden, Smithsonian, 21 Apr. 2017
• With his own special recipe, Shipley hand-cut his doughnuts into the now-iconic hexagonal Shipley shape.
  — Abigail Wilt, Southern Living, 18 Sep. 2024
• Ann Sacks's Carrara hexagonal floor tiles brighten a coastal cottage's bathroom, with contrasting bands on the walls.
  — House Beautiful, 8 Jan. 2017
• Machinery could easily make the wooden bodies of pencils rounded or hexagonal.
  — Jonathan Schifman, Popular Mechanics, 16 Aug. 2016
• FiveThirtyEight uses hexagonal tiles to create the cartogram below.
  — National Geographic, 11 Oct. 2016
• The rocker panels on the doors are more pronounced, and the hexagonal grille extends at its widest point into horizontal LEDs.
  — Robert Duffer, chicagotribune.com, 15 May 2017
• The maelstrom is centered within the planet’s powerful jet stream, which marks out a peculiar, hexagonal weather system large enough to swallow four Earths.
  — Discover Magazine, 15 Feb. 2013
• Conventional volleyballs have six panels, but more recent designs have eight panels, a hexagonal honeycomb pattern, or dimples.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 13 Aug. 2024
• At 2:20 there is an eerie scene of what looks like light pillars to me ; vertical glowing columns caused by flat, hexagonal ice crystals in the air bending reflecting the light from sources beneath them.
  — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 29 Aug. 2011
• The pieces are cut in hexagonal shapes that evoke a soccer ball.
  — Alex Tudela, New York Times, 13 June 2018
• These hexagonal steel frames, about 3 feet wide, bridge the gaps where coral has died.
  — Lindsey McGinnis, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 June 2021
• Rendered in classic gray in a hexagonal shape, the are the best peel and stick tiles for floors.
  — Sarah Halverson, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Jan. 2024
• These cool hexagonal bulbs are featured in our guide to the Best Smart Bulbs.
  — Louryn Strampe, Wired, 26 Nov. 2021
• The hexagonal frame means users raised the bar around them, instead of in front like a barbell.
  — Anthony Marcusa, chicagotribune.com, 22 Mar. 2021
• The wall and hexagonal floor tiles are by Artistic Tile.
  — Peter Terzian, ELLE Decor, 29 Aug. 2017
• The glow, the researchers found, came from a layer of silk stitched across the openings of the hexagonal cells at each nest’s base.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 24 Aug. 2021
• The hexagonal shape of the steering wheel is atrocious.
  — Fortune, 3 Oct. 2021
• To get a hat tiling from a hexagonal tiling, first connect the midpoints of the opposite sides of the hexagons.
  — Erica Klarreich, Quanta Magazine, 4 Apr. 2023
• This hexagonal set boasts a design that is half wood and half stone.
  — Megan Boettcher, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Dec. 2023
• At the top of the structure, three LED lights fill the hexagonal holes and light up like a lamp when skin touches the outside of the concrete.
  — Liz Stinson, Curbed, 2 July 2018
• Dumbbells with hexagonal ends are much less likely to roll away when placed on the floor.
  — Leila Najafi, NBC News, 20 Nov. 2020
• Concrete hexagonal tubes that cities place off shore to help break up storm surge.
  — Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 13 Mar. 2023
• The hexagonal nanopattern of peptides acts as a lethal weapon.
  — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 1 July 2024
• It’s this interaction between the light and the hexagonal ice crystals that forms the ring around the moon.
  — Kathryn Prociv, Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2018
• On a floor with small hexagonal tiles, a rotary tool fitted with a 1/16-inch bit works well.
  — Washington Post, 23 May 2021
• All of the medals from the Paris Games also feature an 18-gram, hexagonal piece of wrought iron from the Eiffel Tower.
  — Chuck Schilken, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Nov 2024