How to Use helical in a Sentence

helical

adjective

• Sirius, the brightest star in the heavens, travels a helical path through space.
• The mine has a helical tunnel that goes a kilometer and a half down.
  — Valerie Ross, Discover Magazine, 26 June 2012
• The latest twist in the origin-of-life tale is double helical.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 25 Aug. 2012
• That movie showed, for the first time, the twisting motions of the plasma, suggesting that the jet has a helical structure.
  — Eileen Meyer, Smithsonian, 15 May 2018
• Or maybe Wilkins would have done so if Franklin hadn't left him with the impression that a helical structure had been ruled out.
  — George Johnson, Discover Magazine, 25 Apr. 2013
• The gear for reverse usually has square cut gear teeth instead of the helical cut on the forward gears.
  — Bob Weber, chicagotribune.com, 6 Dec. 2019
• The spokes follow a helical pattern, like a spiral staircase leading through the inside of the bone.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Apr. 2021
• In it, Kompfner revealed that the crucial idea of using a helical electrode was not his own.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 25 Aug. 2015
• The microorganisms all had an S-shaped or helical form, and the infections coated the stomach.
  — Pamela Weintraub, Discover Magazine, 7 Apr. 2010
• At the Ed Roberts Campus, the firm designed a helical, bright-red ramp, a dramatic focal point emerging from the middle of the first-floor lobby.
  — Emily Nonko, The Atlantic, 22 June 2017
• The folded shape of the i-motif only occurs in a relatively small region of a genome — sticking out like a bumpy knot in the smooth helical shape of the rest of a strand of DNA.
  — Deborah Netburn, latimes.com, 23 Apr. 2018
• The task with the helical molecule took about the same amount of time in both environments, however.
  — Veronique Greenwood, New York Times, 3 July 2018
• The helical grooves of the Sequel tampon make the liquid flow path longer, thereby reducing the risk of leakage, the company’s co-founders say.
  — Katie Deighton, WSJ, 9 Aug. 2023
• Still, no matter what their arrangement, the amino acids fold themselves into just a handful of helical shapes and sheets.
  — Charles S. Cockell, WSJ, 7 June 2018
• Best of all are helical cutter heads, which have a couple dozen small square knives that can deliver a near-perfect surface.
  — Bob Beacham, chicagotribune.com, 6 Oct. 2020
• The helical teeth in the reduction gears have also been micro-polished to reduce their friction.
  — Csaba Csere, Car and Driver, 5 Apr. 2023
• The test, called a spiral or helical CT scan, detects lung abnormalities as small as 5 millimeters, less than a fifth of an inch.
  — Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2017
• Often the magnetic field within a solar storm has a helical structure, twisted like a corkscrew.
  — Neel Savani, University Of Maryland, Discover Magazine, 10 June 2015
• The curving and converging flights of steps also suggest the book’s many braided or helical plot twists, its mirroring and doublings.
  — Francine Prose, The New York Review of Books, 23 Feb. 2022
• To solve this problem, the researchers looked at how helical waves are generated in light beams and then translated the idea to mechanical waves.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 2 Mar. 2022
• These helical tube lights create the effect of a meteor shower or falling snow, with each strand including eight foot-long tubes.
  — Corinne Sullivan, Woman's Day, 5 Aug. 2022
• Nearly half had taken on new shapes; some had even developed twisting helical forms to swim, just like Spiroplasma.
  — Saugat Bolakhe, Scientific American, 17 Mar. 2023
• This green algae Spirogyra has one of the most fascinating chloroplast shapes of all algae – a helical shape, or spiral.
  — Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 20 Oct. 2021
• But actually, the tokamak is just one approach; there's a more complicated version that is helical in shape.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 9 June 2017
• Instead of the layers of material neatly stacking one on top of another, the layers are twisted, almost like the helical structure of DNA.
  — Matt Simon, Wired, 22 Feb. 2021
• The helical detailing pops up elsewhere, too, including on the electric chair that Benicio del Toro’s Moses Rosenthaler briefly straps himself into.
  — Radhika Seth, Vogue, 9 Dec. 2021
• As is typical with helical models, this type of cutterhead commands a higher price.
  — Alex Rennie, Popular Mechanics, 18 Nov. 2022
• Traditional perforating is when perforations (perfs) are shot in a helical pattern, with lots of holes all around the casing.
  — Ian Palmer, Forbes, 27 June 2022
• To effectively drill through the mucus, the pill uses surface features like spiral turbine fins, inspired by torpedo fins, and helical grooves.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 18 Oct. 2022
• Driven hard into a corner, the R rotates smartly yet never abruptly so, with the helical limited-slip differential yanking it out of bends with only a slight tug at the steering wheel.
  — Mike Sutton, Car and Driver, 8 July 2017

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