Example Sentences

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But it didn’t take an exercise in Euclidian Geometry to see that the procedural vote was going to fail on Sunday afternoon.

From Fox News • Mar. 22, 2020

Perhaps the furthest from Euclidian principles are Peter Fox’s jungles of multicolor drips, each applied with an eyedropper.

From Washington Post • Mar. 3, 2016

The artist’s style is very orderly, if not always Euclidian: Two of these constructions arrange wooden pieces in a series of gyres, suggesting a sea full of whirlpools.

From Washington Post • Dec. 26, 2014

Variously superimposed upon the images are obstetric implements, Euclidian drawings, a lead model of a U-boat and the presence of Kiefer himself.

From The Guardian • Mar. 21, 2011

Thus the natural sciences were as really fixed by the conceptions of the community as were the exact sciences by the conceptions of a Euclidian geometry and the mathematics which the Greeks formulated within it.

From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Bode, Boyd H.