How to Use trapezoid in a Sentence

trapezoid

noun

• He was placed on the injured list with a right trapezoid strain Aug. 13.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2019
• At the top corners of the trapezoid, sew ribbons for ties.
  — Terri Robertson, Country Living, 22 Aug. 2022
• There is a craze for the long-but-short denim piece that covers the leg like a trapezoid!
  — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 22 July 2022
• Just to the upper left of the lopsided trapezoid is the very bright planet Jupiter.
  — Mike Lynch / Sky Watch, Twin Cities, 15 Apr. 2017
• The shape of the building is an exaggerated trapezoid and the roof surfs up from the harbor like the top of a wave.
  — Derek Blasberg, Vanities, 7 Dec. 2017
• Scotty Bag puts a unique spin on the colorful baguette bags of late with a chic trapezoid shape.
  — Sarah Boyd, Forbes, 15 Apr. 2021
• So, what's that plastic trapezoid perched atop the steering column of the 2021 Ford Mustang Mach-E?
  — Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 17 Mar. 2021
• The credit looks a bit like a trapezoid: an upward-sloping line on the left, a plateau in the middle, and then a downward-sloping line on the right.
  — Dylan Matthews, Vox, 15 July 2019
• That means that the dovetails on either side of a corner form a sort of trapezoid and are connected by a slanted track.
  — Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics, 25 Apr. 2017
• Why a trapezoid, which is a four-sided figure with one pair of parallel sides?
  — Mike Cason | [e-mail], al, 18 Dec. 2021
• The aluminum green trapezoid represents greenspace that could occupy the void where the Trade Center plaza once stood.
  — William Neuman, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2018
• At night, in the battalion C.P., the Major in command would sit reading his maps, staring vacantly at the trapezoid of the Citadel.
  — Esquire, 24 June 2016
• Samsonov, who made 40 saves in his playoff debut and first action since May 1, stopped the puck in the trapezoid for his defense and was slow getting back to his crease.
  — Mike Brehm, USA TODAY, 20 May 2021
• At the top corner of the trapezoid, sew a corresponding color ribbon for ties.
  — Terri Robertson, Country Living, 18 Aug. 2022
• The screen and speaker wrapped in a chunky trapezoid of plastic have more in common with the cathode-ray TVs your parents grew up with than any gadget from this decade.
  — David Pierce, WIRED, 26 June 2017
• The trapezoid is the predominant structure shape, not the rectangle or square.
  — Lauren Beale, Forbes, 20 May 2021
• The shape of the State House-- not a rectangle but a trapezoid -- was one of the findings Derry explained during her presentation.
  — Mike Cason | [e-mail], al, 18 Dec. 2021
• From an angle, a square looks like a trapezoid, so Vector can just translate that skewed shape into a position.
  — Dieter Bohn, The Verge, 8 Aug. 2018
• Some of them are straight lines, some are spirals and rectangles and trapezoids, and some are animals: whales, ducks, hummingbirds.
  — Angela Chen, The Verge, 15 May 2018
• The monument, a 5,000-pound trapezoid of white concrete, is in a small clearing near the center of this tiny Berkshires town, overlooking the Housatonic River.
  — Dugan Arnett, BostonGlobe.com, 9 May 2018
• The bedroom’s shape could be described as a parallelogram attached to a trapezoid.
  — Joan Walden, courant.com, 13 Apr. 2018
• The lighting is discreet and natural wood abounds — walls, wine racks, benches and even the ceiling are mosaics of timber triangles and trapezoids.
  — Providence Cicero, The Seattle Times, 20 July 2017
• Among those neighborhoods is Mott Haven, part of the 40th Precinct, a two-square-mile trapezoid at the southern tip of the Bronx that is one of several pockets in the city where domestic violence and killings persist.
  — Benjamin Mueller, Ashley Southall and Al Baker, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2016
• The tablets explicitly link this formula to calculating the area of a trapezoid, with sides representing the speeds and elapsed time.
  — National Geographic, 28 Jan. 2016
• Floors require specialized cuts with trapezoids and tiny triangles at the edges, and cabinet makers have a tough time working with curved walls.
  — Janet Eastman, OregonLive.com, 13 July 2017
• The collection will include seven styles that are all made of leather and include a clutch with an angular trapezoid flap inspired by the futuristic style of the ’80s and ’90s and a roomy everyday tote bag.
  — New York Times, 3 Feb. 2022
• In true Christo form, the trapezoid will rest on a floating platform in the middle of the Serpentine Lake, totally and blissfully out of the context of its natural surroundings.
  — Liz Stinson, Curbed, 9 Apr. 2018
• To the north, where the facade meets Milan’s skyline and becomes mostly glass, cantilevering over the street, the block breaks into a zigzag of shifting floor plates, rectangles and trapezoids, the whole building wedged onto a triangular plot.
  — Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, 15 June 2018
• Almost all use arithmetic, but several make baffling references to trapezoids.
  — Jonathon Keats, Discover Magazine, 19 Dec. 2016
• The Montreal native was the last real standup goaltender as the position moved almost exclusively to the butterfly technique, and his puck-handling prowess led the NHL to institute the trapezoid behind the net as a way to increase scoring.
  — Stephen Whyno, chicagotribune.com, 26 June 2018

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