How to Use conical in a Sentence

conical

adjective

• The tree has a conical shape.
• One of the most common beak types is the conical beak.
  — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Aug. 2025
• Castles with conical roofs sat astride spurs and paths led into dark forests.
  — Stanley Stewart, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Nov. 2020
• In a conical grinder, coffee beans are crushed and ground between two rings of burrs.
  — Jaina Grey Scott Gilbertson, WIRED, 24 Aug. 2022
• The cropped jacket showed off her midriff, and featured a conical bust.
  — Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 23 Jan. 2022
• The creature had a long, dolphin-like snout and conical teeth.
  — Rasha Aridi, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Jan. 2022
• Fall food stores will look like a pile of brush in the water anchored next to the conical beaver lodge.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Sep. 2022
• So Spinosaurus has conical teeth, which are great to grab and catch slippery prey, like fish.
  — National Geographic, 24 Nov. 2020
• The new conical barrel gives a tighter curl at the top and a looser one at the bottom.
  — Celia Shatzman, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
• The bat's stomach is shaped like a conical tube that fills up like a water balloon.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Mar. 2022
• To help the wheels stay on the track their shape is usually slightly conical.
  — Svenja Lohner, Scientific American, 12 Sep. 2019
• The angled conical tapered legs and soft edge corners grant room for those who sit at the end.
  — Shannon Quimby, Better Homes & Gardens, 31 Oct. 2023
• Keep in mind the daring conical shade directs all light toward the floor.
  — Maria Conti, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Sep. 2023
• The hands cup the slime into a conical mound, then flatten the pile with the bulb end of a ladle.
  — Jamie Lauren Keiles, The New Yorker, 17 May 2017
• Their steep, conical slopes are built by the eruption of viscous lava flows and rock, ash and gas.
  — Audrey McAvoy, ajc, 3 Nov. 2022
• Mount Mayon, known for its picturesque conical shape, is one of them.
  — Naomi Schanen, Washington Post, 12 June 2023
• These capsules had a roughly conical shape and fell with the base toward the water.
  — Discover Magazine, 1 July 2024
• The meat must be of high quality and layered on the spit, not minced and pressed into a conical slab.
  — 1843, 10 July 2019
• It is shaped like the love child of a conical junonia sea shell and the spindle-like fusilli pasta.
  — Nik Sharma, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Dec. 2017
• Meanwhile the first-to-market conical brush ensures there never a clump in sight.
  — Jackie Fields, People.com, 1 Apr. 2025
• Suspended from the conical peak of each yurt is a fixture shaped like a flying saucer that gives off both heat and light.
  — New York Times, 12 Jan. 2021
• Lean into a Space Age vibe with this conical hammock.
  — Bailey Berg, Architectural Digest, 21 Apr. 2021
• With a classic, conical shape and dark green hue, these tabletop trees have big Christmas vibes.
  — Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2023
• Suspended from the ceiling over the stage was a white conical curtain, narrow at the top and wide at the base.
  — Mick Stevens, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2021
• Hike the three-quarter-mile trail to the top of the conical land formation and breathe in history.
  — Laura Kiniry, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 June 2023
• The fruit itself is the size of a small orange and somewhat pear-shaped with a barely conical top and rounded base.
  — Ozoz Sokoh, Bon Appétit, 16 Feb. 2022
• The spiders build their conical traps around dusk by attaching silk tension lines to a leaf, a task that can take as long as four hours.
  — ArsTechnica, 30 June 2026
• Barely visible below us is a conical pile of rocks.
  — Jen Murphy, Robb Report, 8 Mar. 2026
• For the occasion Moore chose a black gown with yellow dots on the skirt and a conical leather bustier.
  — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 30 Aug. 2022
• The lid’s conical shape allows moisture to condense and return to the pot, keeping the dish moist.
  — Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2022