ellipse

Example Sentences

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“The central space is simply a regular ellipse, and the walls that surround it are vertical,” he would later recall.

From New York Times • Mar. 28, 2024

The moon doesn’t orbit Earth in a circle, however, but in an ellipse.

From Scientific American • Sep. 29, 2023

The capsule’s drop area in Utah is an ellipse that measures 36 by 8.5 miles.

From Scientific American • Jul. 27, 2023

The new decorative bulbs come in three shapes: triangle, ellipse, and globe.

From The Verge • Aug. 26, 2022

Kepler’s first law of planetary motion is simply this: A planet moves in an ellipse with the Sun at one focus.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan