How to Use perfect square in a Sentence

perfect square

noun
  • Find a perfect square, all of whose digits are in the set {2, 3, 7, 8}.
    Quanta Magazine, 18 Nov. 2020
  • Greengrass captures the two of them outside the house, viewed through a window that frames them in a near-perfect square.
    Chris Hewitt, Star Tribune, 11 Jan. 2021
  • The painting is enormous (about 53 square feet) and a quarter-of-an-inch shy of being a perfect square.
    Washington Post, 23 Nov. 2022
  • Use the plastic and metal presses to form indents for fillings and create the perfect square shape.
    Popular Science, 6 Aug. 2020
  • Chin frames up another perfect square in a seasonal ice cave that forms on the Athabasca Glacier.
    Grayson Schaffer, Outside Online, 14 May 2015
  • Basically, this is a perfect square with no soft edges.
    Chelsea Hall, Marie Claire, 26 Mar. 2020
  • Since no perfect square can end in 2, 3, 7 or 8, no perfect square exists with only those digits.
    Quanta Magazine, 18 Nov. 2020
  • Each piece of fruit and cake is divided into perfect squares, like a delicious chess board.
    Sarah Slutsky, Glamour, 15 May 2018
  • Pale orange, velvety smooth, and tangy as Pinkberry, a perfect square of American cheese or Velveeta melts all in one piece.
    Veronique Greenwood, Discover Magazine, 18 Sep. 2011
  • Silicon ice cube trays come in an array of sizes and shapes, for these shot bites a perfect square mold was used but the possibilities are endless.
    Charlotte Palermino, Marie Claire, 2 July 2014
  • The perfect square of frozen American cheese, bright, plasticky yellow circles of egg-cornstarch-milk patties—is this Lego food?
    Alex Beggs, Bon Appétit, 7 Oct. 2021
  • Wisconsin’s capital is surrounded by perfect squares of farmland dotted with red barns and grain silos.
    Dionne Searcey, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2020
  • Calculating square roots of perfect squares, meaning the integers that have integer square roots, is logically complicated, but can still be done with mechanical circuitry and logic gates.
    Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 2 Jan. 2020
  • This is because perfect squares are never negative: Squaring a positive or negative integer always results in a positive integer.
    Quanta Magazine, 5 Nov. 2019

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