parabola
Example Sentences
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This was not the barefoot frolic I knew from picnics, not the game of lazy parabolas.
The stone, with the rope trailing it, made a small parabola in the air, and the line, as if with a sigh, fell limply into the river only ninety tails away.
From Literature
They interlock, forming a three-dimensional-looking beam comprised of geometric patterns — a rotated hyperbolic parabola .
From Los Angeles Times
Among his discoveries was a need to move his takeoff point farther back for higher jumps, so he could change the apex of the parabola shape of his jump to clear the bar.
From Seattle Times
Seen from the ground, their ephemeral parabolas look like calligraphic brushstrokes.
From Washington Post
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