How to Use pentagon in a Sentence

pentagon

noun

• The general attended a meeting at the Pentagon.
• There was disagreement between the President and the Pentagon over the new military budget.
• The screens are tall and wide, arranged side by side in a pentagon.
  — Fernanda Santos, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2016
• At the south pole, five storms formed a pentagon around a central tempest.
  — Amina Khan, latimes.com, 7 Mar. 2018
• But the pentagon shape of the burner looks sharp in overhead photos.
  — Bee Wilson, WSJ, 16 Mar. 2018
• The black and white pentagon panels of that product, the Telstar Elust, became synonymous with the sport.
  — Kevin Baxter, latimes.com, 21 May 2018
• His 6-foot-5 frame towers over the 17-inch rubber pentagon at his white-cleated feet.
  — Shayna Rubin, The Mercury News, 19 Sep. 2019
• Instead of your standard rectangle, the newest styles come in ovals, squares, and even a pentagon.
  — Lindsay Peoples Wagner, The Cut, 7 Mar. 2018
• After 1996, the founders also began putting up a fence around the city, a pentagon with perfectly straight sightlines.
  — Emily Badger, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2019
• The sets on sale comes with colorful squares, triangles, and pentagons that can be pieced together to build 2-D or 3-D patterns.
  — Lindsey Murray, Good Housekeeping, 9 Aug. 2018
• To understand the problem with pentagons, let’s start with one of the simplest and most elegant of geometric structures: the regular tilings of the plane.
  — Quanta Magazine, 11 Dec. 2017
• Kind of a pentagon or home plate, with straight sides, a meandering river boundary below, and a partly straight top with a friendly bite mark out of it on the northeast side from Lake Erie.
  — Andrew J. Tobias, cleveland.com, 27 Feb. 2018
• Moresnet was an irregular pentagon tapering to a point at a hill called Vaalserberg at what is today the southeastern tip of the Netherlands, and still the country's highest point.
  — Ken Jennings, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Mar. 2017
• By early August, though, the lopsided pentagon will be available for very early morning viewing in the pre-twilight northeast sky.
  — Mike Lynch / Sky Watch, Twin Cities, 3 June 2017
• But squash and stretch a pentagon into an irregular shape and tilings become possible.
  — Quanta Magazine, 11 July 2017
• The images that the lines create in a mandala become symbols that can include the pentagon, meaning perfection and dots that represent everything is one.
  — Lyndi McNulty, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 20 Nov. 2019
• The geometry of the pentagon precludes wallpaper patterns with five-fold symmetry; the same is true for seven- and higher-fold rotations.
  — Quanta Magazine, 5 Mar. 2013
• In addition, the intersection was improved with a roundabout, including a pentagon dedicated to the five armed branches of the U.S. military.
  — Allison Sampite-Montecalvo, sandiegouniontribune.com, 3 May 2017
• In the 1970s, Marjorie Rice, a homemaker with no mathematical background, ran across a Scientific American column about pentagons that tile the plane.
  — Evelyn Lamb, WIRED, 30 Apr. 2018
• Sides denote privilege, with hexagons trumping pentagons, for instance.
  — John J. Miller, WSJ, 8 June 2018
• For Olympic organizers, however, the most urgent concern was the opening ceremony at the Olympic Stadium, an open-air pentagon of massive bleachers.
  — John Branch, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2018
• Swapping out one hexagon for a polygon with fewer sides — a pentagon, say — introduces a singularity and generates positive curvature, like the outer curve of a doughnut.
  — New York Times, 29 July 2019
• The party will introduce a five-member executive that will accommodate all five of the alliance’s leaders, known as the pentagon, including Mudavadi as prime minister with two deputies.
  — Felix Njini, Bloomberg.com, 27 Apr. 2017
• The general attended a meeting at the Pentagon.
• There was disagreement between the President and the Pentagon over the new military budget.
• The screens are tall and wide, arranged side by side in a pentagon.
  — Fernanda Santos, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2016
• At the south pole, five storms formed a pentagon around a central tempest.
  — Amina Khan, latimes.com, 7 Mar. 2018
• But the pentagon shape of the burner looks sharp in overhead photos.
  — Bee Wilson, WSJ, 16 Mar. 2018
• The black and white pentagon panels of that product, the Telstar Elust, became synonymous with the sport.
  — Kevin Baxter, latimes.com, 21 May 2018
• His 6-foot-5 frame towers over the 17-inch rubber pentagon at his white-cleated feet.
  — Shayna Rubin, The Mercury News, 19 Sep. 2019

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