How to Use hemisphere in a Sentence

hemisphere

noun
  • There has to be a way for people to live in the hemisphere.
    Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2019
  • The homicide rate — among the highest in the hemisphere — plunged.
    Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2019
  • The brain is known to process music in both hemispheres.
    Staff, cleveland.com, 1 Apr. 2018
  • Between now and the end of the month, Griffin will switch hemispheres.
    Beth Bragg, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Apr. 2018
  • On the ground, Abaco was at the time one of the most unlucky, unsafe places in the hemisphere.
    Reis Thebault, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Sep. 2019
  • As for me, that hemisphere of my brain seems to be missing.
    BostonGlobe.com, 2 Dec. 2019
  • Both hemispheres share the sun’s rays equally at the equinox, and night and day are roughly the same length.
    Jill Gleeson, Country Living, 19 Mar. 2019
  • One the day of the equinox passes, both of Earth’s hemispheres get an equal amount of sunlight.
    Alix Langone, Time, 18 Mar. 2018
  • The zone moves to whichever hemisphere, north or south, is warmest at the time.
    Robin George Andrews, National Geographic, 11 Nov. 2019
  • That was to become the rule throughout the hemisphere over the next three centuries.
    Mark Stevenson, ajc, 20 May 2021
  • However, it wasn't built in the state ― or even in this hemisphere.
    Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 9 Aug. 2024
  • While the oven is heating, score the apples by making a ½-inch deep slit along the hemisphere.
    Christian Reynoso, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Nov. 2020
  • 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
  • The summer of 2023 was marked by heat waves throughout the Northern hemisphere.
    Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 May 2024
  • 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
  • Large plateaus of lava spread across the planet's hemispheres.
    Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 5 Jan. 2020
  • 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
  • Breeze said the sale was timed to the Spring Equinox, which took place on Tuesday, the time of the year when both of the Earth’s hemispheres receive an equal amount of sunlight.
    Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 20 Mar. 2024
  • Because the westerlies form at the edge of each hemisphere’s Hadley cell that is closest to the pole, the bigger the size of the cell, the more the winds move toward the pole.
    Anil Ananthaswamy, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Feb. 2020
  • The simplest mode raises the pressure in one hemisphere and lowers it in the other.
    Quanta Magazine, 13 Aug. 2020
  • 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’s because, like Earth, its spin axis is tilted with respect to its orbit around the sun, so the hemisphere tilted sunward changes, causing seasons.
    Jamie Carter, Forbes, 6 Sep. 2024
  • The Anatomy Prize went to a team studying whether people’s hair swirls in opposite directions in different hemispheres.
    Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Sep. 2024

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