Examples of figure eight in a Sentence

The skater traced a figure eight on the ice.

Recent Examples on the Web For the first time, the number of people hospitalized for COVID-19 statewide has exceeded 20,000, a figure eight times higher than that on Nov. 1. — Los Angeles Times, "California hits new 1-day COVID-19 death record as hospitals plan for potential rationing," 30 Dec. 2020 And those differences in speed mean the sun makes the figure eight. — Katie Peek, Popular Science, "What is a solstice? And other questions about the shortest day of the year, answered," 21 Dec. 2020 Kohler and Lutzke incorporated a figure eight design over those 27 acres, which will allow for players to work out three-, six- or 12-hole course. — Jim Owczarski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "Kohler golf to add par 3 course in 2021: The Baths of Blackwolf Run," 7 Aug. 2020 My own experience with nitrous came at the very end of my labor, after about a dozen drug-free hours of pacing hospital halls, bouncing on balls and wiggling my hips in a figure eight to make the baby’s head dance out from behind my pelvic bone. — Sarah Baird, New York Times, "The Rise of Laughing Gas in the Delivery Room," 15 Apr. 2020 In one of the fields, a more modest model, a small blue tractor manufactured by the Japanese company Iseki & Co. drove a figure eight in the wet grass of a fenced-in enclosure without anyone sitting in its seat. — Simon Akam, Bloomberg.com, "Driverless Tractors Are Getting Ready for Harvest Season," 10 Nov. 2019 Using a whisk over low heat, make figure eights in the egg and vinegar mixture, banging the whisk against the sides of the pan. — Bill Buford, The New Yorker, "Béarnaise, the French Sauce That Makes Ordinary Food Spectacular," 8 May 2020 To tie a figure eight, also known as a Flemish bend, simply pass the free end of a line over itself to form a loop. — Tim Macwelch, Outdoor Life, "Essential Knots: How to Tie the 20 Knots You Need to Know," 2 Apr. 2019 The Low-Level Obstacles portions will teach the correct ways up and down a hill, a slalom, figure eight, cones, traversing and braking on low obstacles and backing up skills for parking. — San Diego Union-Tribune, "Land Rover launches teen off-road driving courses," 6 Oct. 2019

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