Example Sentences

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Rectangles are easier on the ears and create space by placing the screen and audience on far sides of the room.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 10, 2022

Rectangles and diamonds overlaid the compositions like flags at a stadium, or signs at an airport terminal.

From New York Times • Mar. 25, 2021

Rectangles of pale blues and greens lie scattered across a sea of grey sand, looking a bit like someone dropped their Farrow & Ball colour swatches in a cat litter tray.

From The Guardian • Sep. 15, 2016

Rectangles of painted cardboard were pinned around the walls, and Calder was seized with the desire to see them move.

From Time Magazine Archive

Hitherto we have spoken of certaine common and generall matters belonging unto parallelogrammes: specials doe follow in Rectangles and Obliquangles, which difference, as is aforesaid, is common to triangles and triangulates.

From The Way To Geometry by Bedwell, William