How to Use polygon in a Sentence

polygon

noun

• Pentagons, hexagons, and octagons are all kinds of polygons.
• When that happened, a polygon was drawn on a map and the alert was sent.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 30 Aug. 2021
• The projector is spraying the floor with a swirling mass of three-inch polygons.
  — Kevin Dupzyk, Popular Mechanics, 21 June 2018
• For decades, nobody could come up with a polygon that had the same property.
  — Quanta Magazine, 15 Feb. 2024
• The tattoo, only a few inches long, is a spare linear outline of one rod in the form of a polygon.
  — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2022
• Each site had an eight-sided polygon and measured 3,000 feet across.
  — Clifton Leaf, Fortune, 2 Feb. 2022
• At the lowest level, the atoms in each molecule combine to form a polygon.
  — Elise Cutts, Quanta Magazine, 21 June 2023
• The simplest tilings are made of identical polygons with sides of equal length and angles of equal measure joined full edge to full edge.
  — Quanta Magazine, 30 Oct. 2023
• Using a 96-sided polygon, Liu Hui was able to determine that the ratio had to be greater than three.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 14 Mar. 2022
• The first was the average number of vertices, or corners, per polygon.
  — Elise Cutts, Quanta Magazine, 21 June 2023
• In other areas, the rock happens to stick up through the red dust as flat polygons resembling pavers in a garden, or as taller, boulder-sized blocks.
  — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 18 Sep. 2023
• The most obvious one is that the series finally gets a visual upgrade and advances from sprites to a 2.5D look built on polygons.
  — Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 28 June 2019
• Glasshouse Media In a callback to the living room windows, the primary suite forms a polygon and, at 231 square feet (according to the listing sheet), is one of the largest spaces in the house.
  — John R. Ellement, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Sep. 2023
• Residents have also held protests and formed polygon and neighborhood groups to try to influence the process.
  — Jess Nocera, baltimoresun.com, 18 Nov. 2019
• Other areas had polygons to trace, 3D shapes to play with, simple abacuses, pens and pencils and paper, and so on.
  — Andrew McAfee, Fortune, 14 Nov. 2023
• Trails of black and iridescent vinyl polygons fanned across the floor and up the walls, as though an elaborate origami creature was in the process of unfolding itself.
  — Zoë Lescaze, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2020
• With ray tracing, the skeletal rig can be rendered as a simple small-polygon figure or in a more complex human form.
  — Discover Magazine, 29 June 2010
• CuLitho produces otherwise hard-to-calculate curvy polygons on the mask, which results in a greater depth of focus for the pattern cast onto the wafer.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 23 Mar. 2023
• The two sat together on the library floor studying polygons one afternoon last week.
  — Joe Rubino, The Denver Post, 1 Mar. 2017
• In those games, Mario himself is an obvious 3D polygon positioned on a flat, 2D plane.
  — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 31 Aug. 2023
• Plunked into the center of this field is an irregular polygon, built from six or seven shards of bright color.
  — Roberta Smith, Martha Schwendener, Jason Farago and Will Heinrich, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2018
• For years, investigators looked for suspects who worked in Manhattan and had lived in the polygon.
  — Joseph Goldstein Johnny Milano, New York Times, 20 July 2023
• The red polygon is one of a series of tornado warning boxes issued by the Weather Service.
  — Washington Post, 2 July 2021
• The wheel itself is ensconced in a polygon lined with colorful panels that reflect sunlight on it.
  — Domenica Bongiovanni, The Indianapolis Star, 12 Mar. 2021
• The developers at Square Enix managed to create touching epics with 16-bit pixels and crude polygons.
  — Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 4 Jan. 2017
• This shows that every polygon with area A is scissors congruent to every other polygon with area A.
  — Patrick Honner, Quanta Magazine, 21 Nov. 2022
• The simplest tilings use one type of regular polygon with equal sides and angles; only squares, triangles or hexagons (which bees use to make honeycomb) will work.
  — Eugenia Cheng, WSJ, 10 Mar. 2022
• In one instance, an intricate braid pattern mirrored the shape of the oversized, polygon sunglasses the model was wearing.
  — Lauren Valenti, Vogue, 22 Sep. 2019
• The game uses low-polygon models for Pokémon that are farther away from you, but often (as with Tangela here) those models are visible from close up and stick out like a sore thumb.
  — Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 26 Jan. 2022
• Apparently, this property — called a constructible polygon — was known to the ancient Greeks.
  — Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2020

Last Updated: 29 Jul 2024