How to Use hemisphere in a Sentence

hemisphere

noun
  • That was to become the rule throughout the hemisphere over the next three centuries.
    Mark Stevenson, ajc, 20 May 2021
  • But the fall affected the lives of many people over a hemisphere.
    Matthew Sherrill, Harper's Magazine, 26 Oct. 2021
  • What is the probability that all three of the points will be in the same hemisphere?
    Richard Malena, Popular Mechanics, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Over several months, the organoids grew to occupy about one-third of the hemisphere of the rat brains.
    Emily Mullin, WIRED, 12 Oct. 2022
  • Relatives drove over from the mainland or flew in from around the country and across the hemisphere.
    Washington Post, 26 June 2021
  • The year’s end can be a gratifying time to listen to the world, at least in this hemisphere.
    Chris Richards, Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2022
  • The roughly golf ball-sized tumor grew in the womb, engulfing much of the right hemisphere of his brain.
    Angie Leventis Lourgos, chicagotribune.com, 19 Feb. 2022
  • There’s no simple answer for what went wrong across the hemisphere.
    Washington Post, 25 May 2021
  • Bora Bora happens to be one of the best places to view the Southern hemisphere sky.
    Sarah Sekula, USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2021
  • At the equinox, both hemispheres are equally receiving the sun’s rays.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 27 Feb. 2023
  • In this part of Florida, there are Latinos from across the hemisphere.
    Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2021
  • Many of these species spend their lives in motion, moving like tides back and forth across the hemisphere every year.
    Julie Wraithmell, Sun Sentinel, 2 Jan. 2024
  • That positions one hemisphere of the planet to get more sunlight than the other for half of the year's orbit around the sun.
    Forrest Brown, CNN, 21 Sep. 2021
  • Even in a different hemisphere, Scott was the same person.
    Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Dec. 2022
  • The hold of this little sadist, Ortega, and his comrades over Nicaragua is one of the horrors of our hemisphere and our time.
    Nr Editors, National Review, 17 Mar. 2022
  • The movie ends with sheets of ice stretching over the hemisphere, its events all having taken place within days.
    Washington Post, 26 Nov. 2021
  • The longer the Maduro mafia is allowed to operate, the worse the consequences will be for the Venezuelan people and for the entire hemisphere.
    Marshall Billingslea, National Review, 9 May 2021
  • These waves ultimately alter the path of the jet streams that encircle both hemispheres of the globe.
    Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 15 Feb. 2023
  • The eighties were turbulent times in the lower hemisphere, to put it mildly.
    Cressida Leyshon, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2023
  • Cuba belongs to the hemisphere, like the other countries.
    Tracy Wilkinsonstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2022
  • Six cyclones are spinning through the tropics right now, churning over the ocean and sometimes over land in both hemispheres.
    Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2023
  • Earth is about to rendezvous Thursday with the spot on its orbit where our hemisphere tilts neither toward the sun, nor away.
    Martin Weil, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2022
  • Should the United States throw a lifeline to the worst tyrant in the Western hemisphere in order to undermine an even worse tyrant in Europe?
    Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 8 Mar. 2022
  • In 2019, China became the first country to safely land a spacecraft on the far side of the moon, a hemisphere which cannot be seen from Earth—as the moon is tidally locked.
    IEEE Spectrum, 7 Sep. 2022
  • If Earth’s tilt was perpendicular to its orbit around the sun, then the one hemisphere exposed to the sun would remain the same at all times of year.
    Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 23 Aug. 2023
  • If Lula wins and Petro succeeds, this coalition could be a powerful force in the hemisphere — and could leave the United States on the sidelines.
    Samantha Schmidt, Washington Post, 20 June 2022
  • But, Margaret, not just in Mexico, but for the entire hemisphere.
    CBS News, 8 Jan. 2023
  • And with temperatures dipping across the hemisphere, the new line couldn’t have arrived at a better time.
    Mario Abad, Robb Report, 20 Dec. 2023
  • The city’s subway system is the second busiest in the hemisphere after New York and transports some 4.5 million people a day.
    Anthony Harrup, WSJ, 4 May 2021
  • Rumor has it that lefties are more creative because creativity resides in the right side of the brain (and the right hemisphere of the brain controls the left side of the body).
    Jaclyn Greenberg, Good Housekeeping, 25 May 2022

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