How to Use quadrant in a Sentence

quadrant

noun
  • The town is located in the northwest quadrant of the state.
  • Draw two intersecting lines that divide the page into four quadrants.
  • Open your Google Maps app, and get ready to fill up the Tokyo quadrant.
    Megan Spurrell, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Dec. 2023
  • In the northeast quadrant of the city, there’s nothing close to that price.
    Dallas News, 13 Sep. 2018
  • Narrow your search to the top left quadrant of the seek-and-find puzzle.
    Christy Piña, Woman's Day, 15 Dec. 2020
  • In Colorado, all roads were closed in the northeast quadrant of the state.
    Jamie Stengle, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Dec. 2022
  • All roads were closed in the northeast quadrant of the Colorado.
    CBS News, 14 Dec. 2022
  • District 1 is the oldest quadrant and has the least room for growth.
    Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Nov. 2021
  • In one quadrant of the park, the team laid out birth control for female rats.
    Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 6 Oct. 2024
  • Try narrowing your search for the red heart to the top left quadrant.
    Christy Piña, Woman's Day, 12 Jan. 2021
  • Calipari’s team is just 1-2 against teams ranked in the top two quadrants of the NET rankings.
    Jon Hale, The Courier-Journal, 27 Dec. 2019
  • The deaths occurred in each quadrant of the city amid a recent rise in homicides.
    Fredrick Kunkle, Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2021
  • Tip: Narrow your search for the pocket watch with the wrong time to the bottom right quadrant.
    Christy Piña, Woman's Day, 28 Dec. 2020
  • This year, though, the fun will be moved from the southwest quadrant to the northwest section of the Circle.
    Cheryl V. Jackson, The Indianapolis Star, 18 Apr. 2024
  • Sanchez will need to be a little quicker to snap up balls in the upper quadrants of the strike zone.
    Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Feb. 2020
  • Like well this one has a certain number on it and a quadrant on it.
    Sam Blum, Dallas News, 27 Jan. 2020
  • Most of these stars are relatively close to the Sun and so sit in just one quadrant of the Milky Way.
    The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Two other chapels — the Venier and the Olivieri — are in other quadrants.
    New York Times, 21 May 2018
  • At first the commission wanted four – one in each quadrant of the city.
    Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Oct. 2020
  • Where to watch: Fireworks will be shot from the northwest quadrant of the park, north of Lagoon Drive.
    Jenna Scherer, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 June 2018
  • Go to the richest quadrant of a major city and do your best to get run over by a Tesla.
    Meghana Indurti, The New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2022
  • The pool deck was laid on the southeastern quadrant of that base slab, with a pool and Jacuzzi in one corner.
    Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2021
  • The first, in the northeast quadrant of the interchange, is owned by Sherwin-Williams.
    Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 17 May 2022
  • Opponents say the plan will not relieve traffic in the city, just move it to a new quadrant of the city.
    Marcy Oster, sun-sentinel.com, 4 June 2019
  • Around two o’clock, that one grew a hook echo off the southwestern quadrant.
    Tony Earley, Harper's Magazine, 20 July 2021
  • This time, the aggressive form of the disease was in the lower quadrant of her breast, closer to the chest wall.
    Amy Sinatra Ayres, USA TODAY, 9 Dec. 2019
  • The first part of the project involved 75 homes around the northwest quadrant of Olmsted Falls.
    John Benson, cleveland, 30 Oct. 2019
  • One clue, though: Limit your search to the upper left quadrant.
    Christy Piña, Woman's Day, 2 Dec. 2020
  • The object is a horary quadrant, which tells the time by tracking the sun’s position in the sky.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Dec. 2023
  • However, the left lobe of this organ extends into the left upper quadrant.
    Joy Emeh, Health, 19 Sep. 2024

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