How to Use protractor in a Sentence

protractor

noun

• Now hold the protractor upside down and aim the straight part towards the North Star.
  — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 3 May 2018
• Step 2: Use a protractor to mark three lines from the center of the blade, 120 degrees apart.
  — Nick Moreau, Popular Mechanics, 2 Aug. 2017
• Sure, a protractor works, but a sextant does this even better.
  — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 3 May 2018
• The pieces will include sterling silver protractors, rulers, a drinking straw, a first aid kit, and a paper cup.
  — Stellene Volandes, Town & Country, 12 Sep. 2017
• Inside the fly’s head are protractor and retractor muscles, pulling and pushing at the base of the maxillae.
  — Popular Science, 20 Oct. 2020
• There have been sterling silver protractors, and tin cans, and even a greenhouse, as well as bone china to-go coffee cups in Tiffany blue.
  — Reed Krakoff, Town & Country, 27 Nov. 2018
• The mark is shaped like a protractor every geometry student used to have.
  — Helaine Fendelman and Joe Rosson, Star Tribune, 18 May 2021
• The fixture's arm is clipped to some nearby object to anchor the protractor dial, which must be returned to zero after the initial torque is applied.
  — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 21 May 2021
• The fixture's arm is clipped to some nearby object to anchor the protractor dial, which must be returned to zero after the initial torque is applied.
  — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 21 May 2021
• His physical therapist could only measure his range of motion with a flat protractor, which could lead to serious errors.
  — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 16 Oct. 2019
• But for many families, the tradition of trekking to a store and pushing a cart loaded with pencils, notebooks, folder, tissue boxes, a protractor and a first-day outfit remains intact, one of the last strongholds in a fast-changing retail industry.
  — Lauren Zumbach, chicagotribune.com, 27 July 2017
• Either get out your high school geometry book to calculate the angles based on the diagonal difference, or use a carpenter’s protractor to measure them.
  — James Dulley, Dallas News, 12 Jan. 2020
• Key school supplies such as backpacks are tax-free, as are binders, calculators, compasses, composition books, pens, pencils, protractors, legal pads and more.
  — Anna M. Tinsley, star-telegram, 9 Aug. 2017
• But apologies, forgiveness, and reconciliation are not points on a protractor.
  — cleveland, 10 May 2022

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024