rectilinear
Example Sentences
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“The idea behind Storybook is to have something fanciful and whimsical, which involves movement rather than rectilinear rooms,” Libow said.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 21, 2025
Lowry’s rectilinear buildings suggest immobility beyond time, and urban orderliness without elegance.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025
There is, however, one group of burrowing creatures that uses rectilinear locomotion.
From Slate • Mar. 8, 2024
Inside Notre-Dame it is still a futuristic film décor - a towering mass of rectilinear metal scaffolding set against the curves and arches of the ancient Gothic stone.
From BBC • Apr. 14, 2023
The guest house repeated the clean, rectilinear lines of the main house.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
