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.
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • 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 | Jgoodman@al.com, 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
  • Each of the women lived in ground-floor apartments within a one-mile radius in Cockeysville.
    Cassidy Jensen, Baltimore Sun, 2 Aug. 2023
  • But the interviewers did not provide the diameter of the ball, or the length and radius of the fuselage.
    Jacob Bacharach, The New Republic, 12 Oct. 2023
  • Currently, there are 14 walking the streets within a mile radius of Mass. and Cass.
    Danny McDonald, BostonGlobe.com, 2 July 2023
  • The rule placed restrictions on the number of long-distance flights over a 1,250-mile radius allowed from the airport.
    Rachel Schilke, Washington Examiner, 17 July 2023
  • Thanks to a good turning radius, the Wienermobile offers a smooth ride that feels just like being in a large car.
    Talia Avakian, Travel + Leisure, 23 June 2023
  • In many states, including Wisconsin, this radius is within 100 feet of the polling place.
    Maia Pandey, Journal Sentinel, 28 Oct. 2024
  • There are about 30 Walgreens locations in Louisville within a 10-mile radius of Downtown.
    Eric Lagatta, The Courier-Journal, 16 Oct. 2024

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