How to Use globular in a Sentence

globular

adjective

• Unlike humpbacks, Baird’s beak whales have a globular head from which a long, snout-like beak then extends, hence the name.
  — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 12 June 2019
• E.L.) or a globular lightning in ionosphere by using lasers to shift the focal point of the aerials.
  — Sharon Weinberger, WIRED, 8 Jan. 2008
• The secretion contains whole globular cells called hemocytes, some of which burst outside the body to add more to the plaster.
  — Anna Funk, Discover Magazine, 18 Apr. 2019
• The three forms of proteins are fibrous, globular, and membrane, each with its own purpose.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 15 Dec. 2022
• Cowboy Bebop is a castle of sand, with some edges firm and impressive, and others globular or in pieces on the ground.
  — Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 19 Nov. 2021
• Exactly how globular clusters came to be in the first place, though, is still a cosmic mystery.
  — Popular Science, 3 Aug. 2020
• Lou Doillon took to Big Sur to celebrate our planet, and showed off a baby bump that echoed its globular shape.
  — Calin Van Paris, Vogue, 1 May 2022
• The process of metabolism is carried out through the action of a globular proteins known as enzymes.
  — Erik Kobayashi-Solomon, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2021
• The male widows, like most spider species, are much smaller than the females and may have a variety of streaks and spots on a browner, less globular abdomen.
  — Tim MacWelch, Outdoor Life, 11 Nov. 2019
• The Hercules Cluster is a prime example of a globular star cluster.
  — Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 8 Sep. 2019
• Tiny globular dots could be seen with a magnifying glass.
  — Ben Okri, The New Yorker, 12 Sep. 2022
• There are types with gigantic, white, globular flower heads that can reach 10-12 inches long.
  — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 8 May 2020
• My colleague Lila Seidman wrote about a fish — globular, with razor-sharp teeth, and a stalk protruding from its head — that washed ashore off Encinitas.
  — Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 2021
• Those metal-poor stars exist in great abundance in the outskirts of our galaxy: members of ancient structures known as globular clusters.
  — Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2021
• But closer inspection reveals globular black accretions, like oil or tar, that pin down pieces of the netting, which also creeps into — or out of — rough gouges that have been made in the wall behind it.
  — OregonLive.com, 22 Oct. 2017
• The globular colony is frozen in mid-rupture, releasing its brightly colored daughter colonies into the world to reproduce.
  — Ben Panko, Smithsonian, 4 Oct. 2017
• The globular and sinuous formations provide a dreamscape for a young man to come under the spell of three fantastical beings.
  — Guillermo Perez, Sun Sentinel, 22 Sep. 2022
• Hints of additional mergers have been spotted in bundles of stars known as globular clusters.
  — Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 15 Dec. 2020
• These stunners by Cult Gaia juxtapose a pointy toe with a globular heel for an architectural pair that will take you into high summer.
  — Nicola Fumo, Forbes, 5 Apr. 2021
• The brown widow spiders have relatively spindly legs and deep, globular abdomens.
  — Tim MacWelch, Outdoor Life, 3 May 2023
• Visible objects this season include the sun, the planets Jupiter and Saturn, a globular star cluster, a binary star and the Ring Nebula.
  — Elena Mejia Lutz, Indianapolis Star, 8 Aug. 2017
• Now, researchers have conducted an analysis of Webb’s first deep field and spotted the most distant globular clusters ever seen.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 29 Sep. 2022
• The telescope will also be observing globular star clusters and aurorae on the giant planet Jupiter.
  — Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY, 20 July 2021
• Such stars were once common in globular clusters, or dense clumps of extremely old stars that orbit galaxies, including our own.
  — National Geographic, 1 June 2017
• But by age 1 or so, modern humans had grown globular brains, whereas Neandertal babies had not.
  — Andrew Moseman, Discover Magazine, 9 Nov. 2010
• Or, alternatively, groups of stars called globular clusters can spin into the galaxy’s center, where they’re ripped into the building blocks of new stars by the supermassive black hole.
  — Chelsea Gohd, Discover Magazine, 13 Sep. 2018
• At a new Danone facility near Paris, researchers feed dollops of yogurt into globular glass vessels and plastic tubes designed to mimic the human gut.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 19 June 2023
• On top of Hubble capturing an image of this star cluster, the space telescope has also captured images of other globular clusters within the region.
  — Joe Wituschek, BGR, 5 Jan. 2023
• Galaxies are often surrounded by dense clumps of stars called globular clusters.
  — Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 2 Sep. 2020
• But the proof is in the pudding—namely, a handful of plush, palpably luxurious beds and sofas, and sleek tables and benches that look at once carved from prehistoric stone and somehow firmly of-the-moment with their globular edges.
  — Liam Hess, Vogue, 23 Sep. 2022

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024