right-angled
Example Sentences
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The Baku street circuit is notorious for creating incident - its combination of long straights and tight, right-angled corners are bounded by walls, so mistakes tend to be punished.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2025
As they watched, they saw the two stars wobbling around on their orbits, and worked out that this pattern could only be caused by an exoplanet on a right-angled, ferris-wheel like path.
From Space Scoop ● May 6, 2025
Vessels must execute a sharp right-angled turn at the strait’s northern end, where the strong winds common in winter could strike a large ship broadside and blow it off course.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 10, 2021
Walking up to the lighthouse’s back door, I wonder at thick, right-angled oyster shell pathways surrounding the lighthouse.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 14, 2019
Shoving back his baseball cap, Neves levered himself into the excavation site, a six-foot, rectangular hole with the right-angled corners and precisely vertical walls that are a hallmark of archaeological investigation.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
