How to Use radius in a Sentence

radius

noun

• Measure the radius of the circle.
• There are three restaurants within a one-block radius of our apartment.
• The new museum is expected to draw people from a wide radius.
• But the blast radius wouldn’t reach the end of the runway.
  — Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2022
• Most all-mountain skis have a turn radius in the 15 to 20 m range.
  — Aaron H. Bible, Popular Mechanics, 8 Feb. 2023
• Here x could be any number from 0 to 1, and 1 is the radius of the circle.
  — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 31 Aug. 2022
• With a radius of almost 2,200 miles, Earth’s core is about the size of Mars.
  — Lianne Kolirin, CNN, 25 Jan. 2023
• If a glacier was at the equator, this r value would be the radius of the Earth plus the height of the mountain.
  — WIRED, 4 Sep. 2022
• Ten types of Asian cuisine in a 100-yard radius of the city center.
  — New York Times, 10 Apr. 2022
• No matter how tall the N is, the radius of the sector will always be 1: That’s the length of the needle.
  — Patrick Honner, Quanta Magazine, 29 Sep. 2023
• Its mass is almost 30 times that of Earth, and its radius is about half of Jupiter’s.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 July 2023
• Limbs from the bottom one-third of trees and within a 10-feet radius of the chimney.
  — Carlos Rico, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Oct. 2023
• In this formula, M is the mass of the planet or moon and R is its radius.
  — Wired, 31 July 2022
• To see how to create a 17-gon, start with a unit circle (where the radius equals one) and a point A on the circle.
  — Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 12 Sep. 2024
• The radius of the turns are so different, the speeds are so different.
  — Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 6 Apr. 2022
• The blast would flatten buildings across a five-mile radius.
  — Washington Post, 17 Apr. 2022
• The fire department shut down streets and buildings in a two-block radius.
  — Amy McDaniel, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 Jan. 2024
• The blast can impact those quite far out of the radius of the explosion because of fallout.
  — Devika Rao, The Week, 25 May 2023
• That lethal radius jumps to nearly 600 feet for a one-ton version that explodes just above the ground.
  — John Ismay, New York Times, 11 May 2024
• Here, we’re told the larger circle’s radius is three times that of the smaller circle.
  — Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 20 June 2023
• Notice that each edge of the triangle is also a radius of one of the circles.
  — Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 12 Sep. 2024
• The fee will be reduced to zero at the end of the purchasing process for rides within that 5-mile radius.
  — David Lyons, Sun Sentinel, 13 Jan. 2023
• But most people there had not left that town their entire life, 60-mile radius was the extent of it.
  — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 8 May 2024
• Coogler has likened it to the blast radius of an explosion: The people who are most likely scarred are the ones closest to it.
  — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 9 Nov. 2022
• The steering lacks feel but is accurate, and the turning radius is tight.
  — Caleb Miller, Car and Driver, 6 June 2022
• There's a lockdown in effect within a one-mile radius of the standoff scene.
  — Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 11 Aug. 2022
• The five-hour radius of Athens, Georgia, gives us a chance to be around some of the best football student-athletes there are in the country.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 20 July 2022
• Over the coming decade, tens of thousands of housing units will be built within a two-mile radius of this spot.
  — Megan Kimble, New York Times, 31 May 2024
• The camera swivels 360 degrees and tilts to capture anything that moves in its radius.
  — Nicol Natale, People.com, 29 Nov. 2024
• Benjamin Walker’s Peter Jennings has a jaw-dropper of a line about knowing the kill-zone radius of a grenade.
  — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 4 Jan 2025