elliptical

Example Sentences

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Watching “Enys Men” unfold, I kept thinking of the classic 1963 version of “The Haunting,” and the well-seeded notion from that ghost story’s elliptical terror that a house could want something from a visitor.

From Los Angeles Times

Our hero is plagued by oddballs wanting to chitchat, but it’s only after years pass that the elliptical mystery of the homeowner becomes clear.

From Washington Post

More visual than literary, “Chocolat” is at once open and elliptical, austere and vivid.

From New York Times

The first paper addresses some of the ways that black holes form and accumulate mass, by looking at elliptical galaxies at different stages of evolution.

From Salon

To test this possibility, Farrah and his colleagues studied elliptical galaxies, which contain black holes with millions or billions of times the sun’s mass in their centers.

From Science Magazine