How to Use conical in a Sentence

conical

adjective

• The tree has a conical shape.
• The new conical barrel gives a tighter curl at the top and a looser one at the bottom.
  — Celia Shatzman, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
• The conical skirt featured a tiered element with a black bow at the waist.
  — Julia Teti, WWD, 3 Sep. 2019
• Another must-have is one of Dolce & Gabbana’s iconic conical bra dresses or bustiers — truly epic.
  — WWD, 3 Sep. 2019
• Most of the time, a conical grinder will be your best bet.
  — Haley Sprankle, Wired, 13 July 2022
• The hands cup the slime into a conical mound, then flatten the pile with the bulb end of a ladle.
  — Jamie Lauren Keiles, The New Yorker, 17 May 2017
• Fall food stores will look like a pile of brush in the water anchored next to the conical beaver lodge.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Sep. 2022
• Shad darts have a conical body and a sharp sloping face.
  — Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 4 Jan. 2024
• So Spinosaurus has conical teeth, which are great to grab and catch slippery prey, like fish.
  — National Geographic, 24 Nov. 2020
• The creature had a long, dolphin-like snout and conical teeth.
  — Rasha Aridi, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Jan. 2022
• The cropped jacket showed off her midriff, and featured a conical bust.
  — Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 23 Jan. 2022
• In a conical grinder, coffee beans are crushed and ground between two rings of burrs.
  — Jaina Grey Scott Gilbertson, WIRED, 24 Aug. 2022
• To help the wheels stay on the track their shape is usually slightly conical.
  — Svenja Lohner, Scientific American, 12 Sep. 2019
• The meat must be of high quality and layered on the spit, not minced and pressed into a conical slab.
  — 1843, 10 July 2019
• The angled conical tapered legs and soft edge corners grant room for those who sit at the end.
  — Shannon Quimby, Better Homes & Gardens, 31 Oct. 2023
• Suspended from the ceiling over the stage was a white conical curtain, narrow at the top and wide at the base.
  — Mick Stevens, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2021
• Hike the three-quarter-mile trail to the top of the conical land formation and breathe in history.
  — Laura Kiniry, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 June 2023
• Their steep, conical slopes are built by the eruption of viscous lava flows and rock, ash and gas.
  — Audrey McAvoy, ajc, 3 Nov. 2022
• For the occasion Moore chose a black gown with yellow dots on the skirt and a conical leather bustier.
  — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 30 Aug. 2022
• The Ahyi Seamount is a large, conical volcano that rises to within 259 feet of the sea surface.
  — Julia Musto, Fox News, 15 Nov. 2022
• It is shaped like the love child of a conical junonia sea shell and the spindle-like fusilli pasta.
  — Nik Sharma, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Dec. 2017
• Keep in mind the daring conical shade directs all light toward the floor.
  — Maria Conti, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Sep. 2023
• The lid’s conical shape allows moisture to condense and return to the pot, keeping the dish moist.
  — Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2022
• Some villages now have windsocks, the conical tubes flown at airports, to show the direction and strength of the wind.
  — The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Aug. 2021
• The bat's stomach is shaped like a conical tube that fills up like a water balloon.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Mar. 2022
• Hario sells paper filters to fit the V60’s unique conical shape.
  — Joe Ray, WIRED, 8 Feb. 2023
• These capsules had a roughly conical shape and fell with the base toward the water.
  — Discover Magazine, 1 July 2024
• The fruit itself is the size of a small orange and somewhat pear-shaped with a barely conical top and rounded base.
  — Ozoz Sokoh, Bon Appétit, 16 Feb. 2022
• Their flattened skulls held slender conical teeth used to catch fish and squid.
  — Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 19 June 2024
• Most of the girls had beautiful flowered circlets in their hair or conical princess hats with scarves on the top, but not my girl.
  — Ellie Delano, Woman's Day, 18 Oct. 2013

Last Updated: 9 Dec 2024