How to Use helix in a Sentence

helix

noun

• The dark shadows in the deep pink wavy lines are the rungs of the DNA helix.
  — Discover Magazine, 23 Feb. 2018
• That gives it enough oomph to spiral up a triple helix.
  — Arthur Levine, USA TODAY, 20 June 2019
• A view of the helix traveling up to the top of the 7-story hourly parking deck.
  — Ely Portillo, charlotteobserver, 28 Aug. 2017
• Closer inspection shows some of the rungs of the helix are askew.
  — Time, 12 Jan. 2023
• Unlike a forward helix, a flat helix isn't meant to be seen from the front.
  — Leah Prinzivalli, Allure, 29 Oct. 2022
• That stress triggers changes in shape, most notably opening up the helix to be read.
  — Quanta Magazine, 5 Jan. 2016
• By evening, an empty half-helix was all that remained of every bean on the vine.
  — Murr Brewster, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 June 2018
• This is different from the twist of the double helix, and is instead like the curling of an old-school phone cord.
  — Nick Stockton, Wired News, 12 May 2015
• The light emerges looking like a helix corkscrewing around a central point.
  — Adam Mann, National Geographic, 27 June 2019
• Behind him, light glints off the rungs of a golden helix rising up through the staircase’s airy well.
  — Time, 12 Jan. 2023
• This time around, people are gluing crystals to their brows in a helix-like shape.
  — Devon Abelman, Allure, 1 Sep. 2017
• But in real life, these amino acids tend to curl up into a helix or stretch out into a sheet.
  — Vineeth Venugopal, Science | AAAS, 3 Apr. 2020
• A man exits Swing’s Coffee up the block, a helix of steam convecting from his cup and into the air.
  — Chad Pergram, Fox News, 6 July 2017
• Seek told me the urine-covered plant was common ivy (Hedera helix).
  — Catherine Leclair, Wired, 26 Feb. 2020
• The spiral helix will rotate downwards and extract the cork.
  — Maya Polton, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 Jan. 2023
• Before the end you will be taken on a wild ride with a 540-degree helix, one spiral, a camelback hill and a carousel curve.
  — Julia Fawal, Woman's Day, 24 July 2015
• What a waste of time for a human to have to find the nearest facility, drive there, helix up endless ramps, and then cruise the aisles.
  — Alex Davies, WIRED, 25 Mar. 2018
• Another one is that triple piercing on the fore helix, the flower and the two diamonds.
  — Sarah Wu, Teen Vogue, 24 July 2017
• His was the first example of what later came to be called a helix traveling-wave tube.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 25 Aug. 2015
• The letters formed rungs on the ladder of a spiraling double helix.
  — Kristen Philipkoski, WIRED, 14 Feb. 2003
• If someone asked me five years ago to locate the forward helix on my body, a wild guess would have been my only option.
  — Fiona Ward, refinery29.com, 14 Jan. 2020
• One common feature is a spiral stretch of amino acids called an alpha helix.
  — Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 26 Dec. 2017
• To get their head around the physics of the problem, the team simplified the challenge to two strands of relatively wavy hair that wound around each other like a DNA helix.
  — Douglas Belkin, WSJ, 2 May 2022
• That is, instead of being a right-handed helix, the molecules turned in the wrong direction.
  — Matthew Herper, STAT, 9 Jan. 2020
• Off-season, the waterfall pool and double-helix slide and pool are heated to over 85 degrees.
  — Robin Soslow, Chron, 16 Feb. 2023
• The steel helix expands like a tornado from the middle of the room, covered in fluorescent fish.
  — Kevin Dupzyk, Popular Mechanics, 21 June 2018
• Like the helixes your solar system makes spiraling through the ether.
  — Paul Salopek, National Geographic, 16 Oct. 2019
• It is located at the interface within a helix bundle at the base of the prefusion spike.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2023
• Ideal for mixing and matching, this labret earring is fit for your helix, as well as the upper, lower and higher lobe.
  — Bernd Fischer, Men's Health, 25 July 2022
• Emerging from two knitting needles in its hands is the recognizable double-helix of a strand of DNA.
  — Ben Panko, Smithsonian, 21 Aug. 2017

Last Updated: 15 Oct 2024