How to Use sphere in a Sentence
- All points on a sphere are the same distance from the center.
- Women at that time were confined to the domestic sphere.
- They recognize that jobs in the public sphere are valuable.
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As a result, they all get pushed apart and end up on the surface of the sphere.
— WIRED, 27 Oct. 2023 -
And even as the universe expands, there’s still the same amount in that sphere, right?
— Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 22 Feb. 2023 -
And up close, the best star in the universe—our sun—is an orangey sphere of flame.
— Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 15 Sep. 2023 -
The show went off the air in 2009, but the brothers continue in the acting sphere.
— Lisa Raphael, EW.com, 21 Mar. 2024 -
The spheres are the right size for little hands to grasp, and their tight seal prevents mold and mildew growth.
— Maya Polton, Parents, 17 Jan. 2024 -
The silicone bottom of the mold means no wrestling to free your frozen sphere.
— Sean Evans, Glamour, 6 Dec. 2023 -
The impact on the public sphere has been, to say the least, substantial.
— Jaron Lanier, WIRED, 13 Feb. 2024 -
But across the broader Trump sphere, the signs of fiscal strain are showing.
— Maggie Haberman, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2023 -
Butler and the Heat delivered the first shot on the court and in the social media sphere.
— Christopher Kuhagen, Journal Sentinel, 17 Apr. 2023 -
Then, in a satellite studio on the same street, Morris carves scores of spheres from dense foam.
— Julie Belcove, Robb Report, 22 Oct. 2023 -
These points would eventually be the centers of the spheres in the packing.
— Quanta Magazine, 30 Apr. 2024 -
If anything goes wrong in any of those spheres, the rest of their lives are most likely still intact.
— Silas Allen, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 May 2024 -
Many of the allegations against Paxton had been in the public sphere for more than two years.
— Philip Jankowski, Dallas News, 16 Sep. 2023 -
This is not the first time the congresswoman’s personal life has been brought to light in the public sphere.
— Peyton Sorosinski, Washington Examiner, 10 Jan. 2024 -
To get a sense of how this all might work, imagine our four-dimensional world as the surface of a sphere.
— Steve Nadis, Quanta Magazine, 1 Feb. 2024 -
The sphere whizzed through the sky at unsettling speeds, then disappeared behind a grove of trees.
— Lucas Ropek / Gizmodo, Quartz, 19 Mar. 2024 -
Below are our favorite products in the pre-shave sphere—and two from Gonzalez and his staff, too.
— Adam Hurly, Robb Report, 15 Feb. 2023 -
All of this existed in a separate sphere from the work itself.
— Kara Panzer, Fortune, 1 Apr. 2024 -
But what is the company doing to sort of expand that social sphere?
— Michael Calore, WIRED, 8 Sep. 2023 -
YouTubers in the fashion sphere were showing off theirs in a haul video every other week.
— Essence, 12 Apr. 2024 -
Hyperbole doesn’t serve any good purpose in that sphere.
— Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2023 -
A lot of your success has come from singles and collaborations with artists in and out of your sphere.
— Thania Garcia, Variety, 20 Apr. 2023 -
For cocktails, ice spheres and guests who don’t like the strange shape of tasting glasses, my favorite is the Tiara tumbler from Baccarat.
— G. Clay Whittaker, Bon Appétit, 8 Dec. 2023 -
Having a group rally around causes gives them more of a voice in the political sphere.
— Devika Rao, The Week, 12 May 2023 -
For these and many other reasons, a Dyson sphere costs energy.
— Paul Sutter, Ars Technica, 27 Mar. 2023 -
At the Palais de Tokyo, Le Hamo acts as a bridge between the health care sphere and the general exhibition area of the museum.
— Colette Davidson, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Feb. 2024 -
For now, her reach is still somewhat limited to the digital sphere.
— Harper's BAZAAR, 6 Feb. 2023
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The meridians cut that sphere like orange wedges, the ship cuts the line that cuts through time.
— Claudio Magris, Harper's Magazine, 25 May 2021 -
There's the car that flipped over, the near-plane crash and the 12-pound metal sphere that whacked him on the head during a high school shot put event.
— Jordan Runtagh, PEOPLE.com, 21 Jan. 2022 -
The Light takes the form of a giant metal sphere that characters in-game call the Traveler.
— Boone Ashworth, Wired, 21 Feb. 2022 -
Step 5To serve, place one chocolate sphere into a mug, and pour 1¼ cups steaming milk on top.
— People Staff, PEOPLE.com, 30 July 2022 -
There was a time when Infiniti was new to the scene, but Genesis is the hottest thing in the premium sphere these days.
— Connor Hoffman, Car and Driver, 1 Jan. 2021 -
The fourth, and largest, sphere in that mix contains a wealth of extra information—none of which can be discerned by the human eye.
— Nick Scott, Robb Report, 21 Mar. 2022 -
There are few trans voices in the news and politics sphere, partly due to the relentless abuse trans creators face.
— Taylor Lorenz, Washington Post, 26 June 2022 -
For context: Bloomberg reporter Steven Dennis, with the best of intentions, shared to the Twitter-sphere his hack for a low-cost, inflation-friendly meal heavy on protein and fiber.
— Serena Dai, Bon Appétit, 2 Sep. 2022 -
There are other indicators outside the health care sphere that suggest that Biden’s plan to end factionalism is to largely ignore what the left wants.
— Libby Watson, The New Republic, 21 Aug. 2020 -
Two jointed sampling arms—the upgrade will give it a third—extend from the front of the crew sphere and are used to shovel up to 500 pounds of sediment and other material into a sample hold on the craft.
— Daniel Oberhaus, Wired, 21 Dec. 2020 -
After ruling the reality television sphere for over a decade, E! series Keeping Up with the Kardashians will end in 2021, marking the end of an era.
— Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 9 Sep. 2020 -
Those complaints will no doubt grow louder, as Apple continues to experiment in the payments sphere.
— Andy Meek, BGR, 13 July 2021 -
Holds and pauses certainly aren’t restricted to Covid-19 trials in the clinical trials sphere.
— Adrian Hernandez, STAT, 14 Oct. 2020 -
According to the majority of participants in the Small Business Trends survey — and countless leaders in the entrepreneurship sphere — the best way to learn about entrepreneurship is simply: Start a business.
— Patrick Scherzinger, Forbes, 16 May 2022 -
Inside, the Genesis X Concept is an equally stylish mix of typical concept-car whizbangery (such as the crystal sphere in the armrest that flips over to become the gear selector) and eco-friendly materials.
— Steve Siler, Car and Driver, 31 Mar. 2021 -
Outside China, media experts caution the posts do not show a holistic view of public opinion in China -- though could still be valuable in bringing these elements of China's media sphere to light.
— Simone McCarthy, CNN, 13 Apr. 2022 -
To the south, Ukraine is still going through a concerted effort to detach itself from Russia’s sphere that some Belarusians find inspirational, and others view as cautionary.
— Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Sep. 2020 -
For the uninitiated, prolific scholar Freeman Dyson first described his namesake Dyson sphere concept in a landmark 1960 paper.
— Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 6 Sep. 2021 -
If the spheres of different pieces of information overlapped, however, there would be an unsolvable ambiguity, since the recipient wouldn’t be able to tell which sphere each piece belonged in.
— Eugenia Cheng, WSJ, 13 Jan. 2022 -
Yet the Betz mystery sphere conspiracy theory continues to persist.
— Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 31 Dec. 2020 -
This might sound crazy to Black people who cope with oppression and injustice on a daily basis, but in the cultural sphere the prominence that African Americans have held for more than a century in music is increasingly evident across many genres.
— The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2022 -
American drinking culture, in my humble opinion, has long been too focused on creativity in the alcohol sphere instead of the more accessible non-alcoholic.
— Serena Dai, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Nov. 2021 -
Some Biden administration officials have expressed concern over US standing in the international climate sphere after four years of neglect, and are hoping this week's summit will once again cement their seat at the table.
— Kevin Liptak, CNN, 21 Apr. 2021 -
Manhattan Project scientists sometimes skimped on the safeguards for the dangerous experiment—like removing the shims separating the two halves of the beryllium sphere housing the plutonium core.
— Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 10 Aug. 2020 -
Cybersecurity is a serious business and La Jolla Logic, in just nine years of existence, has grown into a small business to be reckoned with in the cybersecurity sphere.
— Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Nov. 2020 -
Putin’s regime rests on corruption, domination of the information sphere, and a narrative of legitimacy created by phony elections; Navalny attacks on all of these fronts.
— Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 19 July 2021 -
The center of the National Ignition Facility is the target chamber, a metal sphere 33 feet wide with gleaming diagnostic equipment radiating outward.
— New York Times, 17 Aug. 2021 -
Adoption of the Sibros platform differs between older legacy automakers and newer companies including those elsewhere in the mobility sphere according to Albert Lilly, Sibros vice president of marketing.
— Ed Garsten, Forbes, 10 June 2022 -
The meridians cut that sphere like orange wedges, the ship cuts the line that cuts through time.
— Claudio Magris, Harper's Magazine, 25 May 2021 -
There's the car that flipped over, the near-plane crash and the 12-pound metal sphere that whacked him on the head during a high school shot put event.
— Jordan Runtagh, PEOPLE.com, 21 Jan. 2022
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