How to Use parabolic in a Sentence

parabolic

adjective

• Bigelow said, giving the parabolic cooker a nudge, to keep it aligned with the sun.
  — Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2019
• The pavilion, which was sponsored by Hyundai, is made of steel and has a parabolic façade.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 9 Feb. 2018
• By getting a parabolic fit to this data, the term in front of the t2 must match up to the (1/2), a term in the kinematic equation.
  — Rhett Allain, Wired, 29 Apr. 2021
• Some are more parabolic than others, with the bend occurring all the way from the tip to the butt section.
  — Alberto Knie, Field & Stream, 22 June 2023
• They are made of stiff, lightweight glass, cast in molds that spin as the glass cools to bring it into a parabolic shape.
  — Eric Hand, Science | AAAS, 21 May 2018
• In recent weeks, its stock price seems to have reached a parabolic state.
  — Joel Shulman, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
• The sound hit the parabolic reflector in the ceiling and bounced back down to the audience.
  — Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com, 4 Jan. 2022
• The parabolic canopies point the sound back at the field — and at the offenses unfortunate enough to hear it all.
  — Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 18 Oct. 2019
• While in the air, the skilled pilots will perform a series of parabolic arcs, which cause a brief state of weightlessness in the air.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 27 Sep. 2020
• Amid euphorias and parabolic curves, no one knows when the peak will come.
  — Gail Marksjarvis, chicagotribune.com, 31 Aug. 2017
• In other plants, pipes full of fluid run in front of parabolic mirrors, and the fluid heats up in those pipes.
  — Megan Geuss, Ars Technica, 28 Oct. 2017
• At the four-minute mark, the capsule will reach the peak of its parabolic flight and then begin to descend back into the atmosphere.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 7 June 2021
• There are just so few cars to buy that vehicle prices have gone parabolic.
  — Mark Zandi For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 8 Sep. 2021
• That will keep the center of mass for the head-feet system in a parabolic trajectory.
  — Rhett Allain, Wired, 12 Dec. 2019
• At the top, six overlapping steel arches would rise above each side of the tower to form a crowning parabolic dome.
  — Jonathan Schifman, Popular Mechanics, 27 Mar. 2019
• This says that an angle-time plot should be a parabolic function.
  — Rhett Allain, Wired, 16 Nov. 2020
• This method even works for baseballs that have a non-parabolic path and air resistance.
  — Rhett Allain, Wired, 19 May 2021
• The one Milo was bent over—folio 855 recto, with its design for a parabolic swing bridge—rested on the glass of an LED light box.
  — Cullen Murphy, The Atlantic, 7 July 2023
• Notice how the data from Josh's jump sort of oscillates around the parabolic plot?
  — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 25 Apr. 2018
• Located in Guizhou Province, the telescope has a parabolic dish the size of 30 football fields.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 13 Oct. 2017
• It is not widely believed that Archimedes used a single parabolic mirror, as it cannot be aimed the same way a flat mirror can.
  — Taylor Nicioli, CNN, 8 Mar. 2024
• In ordinary times, a few months before each Olympics, a flame is lighted using the sun’s rays and a parabolic mirror in Olympia in Greece.
  — Chieko Tsuneoka, WSJ, 21 July 2021
• To prepare for the flight, the Inspiration4 crew flew a Zero-G flight, an airplane that flies in parabolic arcs that create weightlessness for a few minutes at a time.
  — Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2021
• Only two of those shots were launched from an area outside the paint and inside the three-point line -- a parabolic swath of hardwood that has become the new no-man's land in basketball.
  — Rainer Sabin, AL.com, 23 Feb. 2018
• The firm built its headquarters there in 1958 — a distinct building with a parabolic roof that looked like a bicycle seat.
  — Bob Levey, Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2017
• The artist’s parabolic monoliths are tapered columns that evoke bullets, fuselages and the tusks of cyber-mastodons.
  — Washington Post, 18 June 2021
• Curry has spent his career filling games with parabolic 3-pointers and dazzling drives to the hoop.
  — New York Times, 13 June 2022
• The 72 Heavy Moderate Legend Glass rod has enough tip to rip the bait out of grass, enough backbone to hoist big fish out of the grass, and that parabolic bend to help keep those hydrilla gorillas pinned.
  — Kristine Fischer, Outdoor Life, 17 Dec. 2020
• On car headlights, a parabolic surface reflects light back out toward the road.
  — Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 22 July 2024
• As Zhou watched the heated container during 20 of these parabolic free falls, some water did creep into the wedge’s far corners.
  — Andrew Chapman, Scientific American, 18 July 2024

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024