How to Use tangent in a Sentence

tangent

noun

• When the bear reaches B, the swimmer, at T, takes off on a tangent.
  — Quanta Magazine, 25 Aug. 2021
• The pop-culture send-ups went off on some loopy tangents.
  — Hal Boedeker, OrlandoSentinel.com, 13 May 2018
• Spoiler alert: Most of them missed the memo and went on tangents instead.
  — Natalie Gontcharova, refinery29.com, 21 Jan. 2020
• The bull can graze on a semicircle of area πL2/2 bounded by the tangent.
  — Quanta Magazine, 9 Dec. 2020
• Fired up, Levi goes on a tangent about 1979 film Stalker.
  — Samantha Hissong, Rolling Stone, 7 July 2021
• Create a set agenda and do not allow the team to go off on tangents.
  — Tom Cooney and Crystal Faulkner, Cincinnati.com, 27 June 2019
• Stop at a point equidistant to the tangent point from your original point.
  — Kevin Hartnett, Scientific American, 17 Jan. 2018
• And the circle packing proof tells you that there’s a polyhedron that has all its edges tangent to a sphere.
  — Quanta Magazine, 19 Mar. 2018
• Shakespeare's script has a lot of wayward tangents, and Pelsue trims many of them.
  — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 6 June 2017
• The path of the hammer will be some straight line coming off a circular path—a tangent—into the sky.
  — Kyle Hill, Discover Magazine, 7 Feb. 2013
• But then on Monday night, the Cincinnati Reds first baseman went on a tangent.
  — Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 17 Aug. 2021
• There might be some tangents about our lives, our friendship, our cats and our Target runs.
  — Ashley Boucher, PEOPLE.com, 11 Sep. 2019
• Barkley went on a tangent when discussing Spurs big man LaMarcus Aldridge.
  — Nick Schwartz, USA TODAY, 3 Nov. 2017
• His tangent was met by appreciative hoots in all corners of the club.
  — Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 20 Aug. 2022
• She’s been known to veer into conversational tangents about the oneness of her body, mind, and the Earth.
  — Allison P. Davis, The Cut, 1 Mar. 2018
• Still, the movie soars, veering off the rails under the weight of its plots, subplots, themes, subthemes, montages, tangents, and non-sequiturs.
  — K. Austin Collins, HWD, 2 May 2018
• Scenes tease out at great length and regularly swerve off on tangents.
  — Jordan Hoffman, HWD, 6 Apr. 2017
• During his speech, Trump went on a tangent about a New York Times story that published earlier in the day.
  — Andrew J. Tobias, cleveland, 19 Sep. 2022
• When Ruby drifts onto a tangent that can be hard to follow, Jean quickly brings her back.
  — Jenny Gold, Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2018
• With the freedom a big hit affords, his sequel chases after all sorts of weirdo tangents.
  — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 2 May 2017
• Schiff and other Democrats have called this line of inquiry a tangent and distraction from the committee’s work.
  — Billy House, Bloomberg.com, 30 Nov. 2017
• Some people are off on their own personal tangents, getting ready for a few days off.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 25 Oct. 2019
• To speculate about his talent is to set him off on a tangent about how BYU just needs an oversized water boy.
  — Joan Niesen, SI.com, 21 July 2016
• But Mad Men never left the rest of the cast behind — and the concluding smile retconned the whole tangent as a career-capping ad campaign.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 12 Aug. 2022
• From random role-playing skits to full on tangents, the 19-year-old has social media covered.
  — Justin Kirkland, Esquire, 27 Feb. 2018
• More of the tangents and tentacles that a meaningful playoff series with the Rockets would have.
  — John Canzano, OregonLive.com, 21 Mar. 2018
• The amount of power absorbed by the dielectric is often measured by something called the loss tangent.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 15 Jan. 2018
• Was the shuttle a tangent or a detour in spaceflight history?
  — Corey S. Powell, Discover Magazine, 30 May 2020
• Trump has also made factual mistakes while on the stump during his off-script tangents.
  — Lalee Ibssa, ABC News, 31 Oct. 2023
• Moore rarely gives a straightforward answer to questions, preferring stories to sound bites, and tends to race off on lively tangents.
  — Lexi Pandell, WIRED, 31 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024