How to Use spherical in a Sentence

spherical

adjective
  • Sphere As the largest spherical structure in the world, the Sphere has reshaped the city’s skyline.
    David Morris, Travel + Leisure, 12 June 2024
  • The plant is a little taller than the snowdrop, the blooms bigger and more spherical.
    Adrian Higgins, Washington Post, 19 Feb. 2020
  • Eggs laid in the water tend to be smaller and more spherical.
    Quanta Magazine, 21 Feb. 2024
  • The vase has a spherical body and a long cylindrical neck.
    CNN, 4 Oct. 2022
  • In the first clip shared, James filmed the spherical interior of the venue before the band played.
    Escher Walcott, Peoplemag, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Two of them had a cylindrical shape while the third was spherical.
    Moira Ritter, Miami Herald, 5 Mar. 2024
  • Our hero, the mouse, is a tan-and-white fellow who befriends a goldfish in a spherical bowl.
    Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 18 June 2021
  • For a spherical snow globe, get a glass or hard plastic water globe with a lid.
    Angela Watson, chicagotribune.com, 14 Mar. 2021
  • The boundary where light becomes trapped is thus a spherical event horizon around the center of the black hole.
    Edgar Shaghoulian, Scientific American, 22 Aug. 2022
  • The painting is spherical and depicts the child as an angel.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Nov. 2021
  • Surrounding the core is a spherical shell of rock and a 497-mile-thick ice shell that envelops and makes up the moon's surface.
    Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 June 2021
  • If not, the crushing wave of spherical compression would be uneven and the bomb a dud.
    New York Times, 27 Jan. 2020
  • The spherical fruit has a thick orange or green knobby peel.
    Michael J. Coren, Washington Post, 23 July 2024
  • The mine is spherical with a large, porthole-type aperture.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 4 Dec. 2020
  • In one group, the structures—small and more or less spherical—have cilia all over their surface and don’t tend to move at all.
    Philip Ball, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2023
  • One clip of a video showed the view from the cockpit of an aircraft and a split second flash of a spherical object flying to the right of the aircraft.
    Joseph De Avila, WSJ, 17 May 2022
  • The project was meant to consist of thousands of small spherical sensors strung like pearls along lines tethered to the seafloor near Hawaii.
    Daniel Oberhaus, Wired, 12 June 2020
  • The Globe of Death is an act where performers will ride dirt bikes around the inside of a spherical metal cage.
    National Geographic, 15 Dec. 2020
  • The space-age spherical design isn't the only thing new about the latest Amazon Echo.
    Dan Diclerico, Good Housekeeping, 3 May 2021
  • The nanowires do not swell as much as spherical nanoparticles.
    IEEE Spectrum, 4 May 2023
  • Inside, the gear lever is a spherical aluminum unit meant to recall the magnesium ball from the 956’s gear shifter.
    Caleb Miller, Car and Driver, 8 Nov. 2021
  • The Piazza acts as the ship’s three-story atrium, a more spherical look than most, and apropos for the Sphere class.
    Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 15 Sep. 2022
  • Held up by three steel beams, the spherical structure Molecule of Light, on the front lawn, also emits a sound beam.
    Joanne Shurvell, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2021
  • The students were supposed to use their fourth-grade math skills to program spherical robots, small enough to fit in their hands, to move.
    Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2020
  • The venue, the world’s largest spherical building, has been championed by Jim Dolan with a plan to build similar venues around the world.
    Kurt Badenhausen, Variety, 24 Oct. 2023
  • The concept includes a lander that acts as a home base for a spherical robot.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 14 July 2022
  • This is a big, almost spherical cloud of objects at the very edge of our Solar System.
    Eva Frederick, Science | AAAS, 8 Jan. 2020
  • The spherical creation is between the size of a softball and a volleyball.
    Alex Chun, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Her husband juxtaposed the sharp shapes with spherical feet and round pulls on his handmade ash-wood vanity.
    Morgan Goldberg, Architectural Digest, 11 Sep. 2024
  • It was later washed into Precambrian rivers and eventually carried to a beach, where its grains were worn smooth and spherical by the waves.
    Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2024

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