rectangle

[ US /ˈɹɛktæŋɡəɫ/ ]
[ UK /ɹˈɛktæŋɡə‍l/ ]
NOUN
  1. a parallelogram with four right angles
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How To Use rectangle In A Sentence

  • It was a simple rectangle of crudely mounded basalt rocks, a distinctive arrangement reminiscent of the way Samoans and other Polynesians marked their dead in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
  • Some houses were reduced to neat rectangles of foot-high rubble.
  • Can trim to keep rectangle shape. The Sun
  • The paintings are long or tall rectangles or approximately square panels and are about as big as game boards.
  • The main room was a rectangle with various antechambers and vestibules branching off down its length.
  • The room was darkish; the slant of the late afternoon sun made only a small orange rectangle on the dark wood floor. Two Poets
  • When Leila was seven years old, her stepfather ran out of fuel when mowing, leaving a large rectangle of unmown orchard grass.
  • Rather than make the top an ordinary rectangle, I put some mild curves on the sides which give it a ‘butterfly’ shape and spokeshaved some chamfers on the underneath of the table
  • The infirmary, or hospital, was across the rectangle of stone walkways from the stables.
  • TV programmes and books try to persuade us that we, whoever we are, can make over scrubby lawns, and construct a little Blenheim in a rectangle of twenty by thirty feet.
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