How to Use equatorial in a Sentence

equatorial

adjective

• Then to dress the leaves with an equatorial fruit evocative of blue skies and green seas and balmy ease?
  — Bill Buford, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2021
• Warmer air from the equatorial regions is drawn northward to fill this void.
  — Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2017
• But it was also found that in the equatorial regions, there isn’t much wind.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 4 Oct. 2018
• This splits the equatorial axis in two, one for the long axis at the side, and a second for the short one.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 11 Oct. 2017
• The toxic ponds are still there, bubbling black in the intense equatorial sun.
  — Melody Schreiber, The New Republic, 18 May 2018
• The weather could shift in an hour from fierce equatorial sun beating down on sapphire seas to high swells and pin-sharp rain.
  — Peter Guest, The Atlantic, 8 Aug. 2017
• So, Apollo was focused on one kind of pretty easy to get to equatorial area.
  — CBS News, 28 Aug. 2022
• Trade winds are permanent winds that blow from east-to-west in the Earth’s equatorial region.
  — Jennifer Fitchett, Quartz Africa, 16 Feb. 2020
• Once there, Dragonfly will land in the equatorial region of the moon, which is covered by large sand dunes.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 27 June 2019
• Farmers in Brazil were burning down tracts of the largest equatorial rainforest on earth to ready the land for their ploughs.
  — Girish Shahane, Quartz India, 30 Aug. 2019
• The coffee aficionado in you can pick beans from a variety of warm equatorial climates around the world.
  — Eden Lichterman, PEOPLE.com, 25 Aug. 2020
• In the equatorial monsoon climate, June was the coolest month, with the most plentiful rain.
  — Wired, 1 Sep. 2021
• The equatorial regions, which will feel this the most, will be hit with a variety of other issues as the climate warms.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 2 Jan. 2018
• Brewers knew that ale would turn sour in casks on the four-month ocean voyage through tropical and equatorial heat en route to Asia.
  — Tony Rehagen, Washington Post, 25 Jan. 2024
• This daily dose of sun also burns off mist from equatorial oceans and rivers, raising a belt of clouds from the planet’s midsection.
  — Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 5 Dec. 2023
• Lying there looking up at the stars of the inky equatorial sky, I was filled with respect for all that surrounded me.
  — David Jefferys, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Nov. 2019
• In front of the showroom, dozens of life-size sculptures of seals perch incongruously in the equatorial heat.
  — Neil Gough and Cao Li, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2017
• That makes the northern and southern parts of the equatorial region appealing.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 11 Dec. 2019
• That seems to be a result of the equatorial bands changing from a ring-like shape at the equator to something closer and closer to a flat disk at the pole.
  — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 8 June 2020
• Next comes a kitchen team—the president’s personal chefs from Cameroon—hauling jugs of palm oil and equatorial spices.
  — Joe Parkinson, WSJ, 4 Nov. 2018
• White streams of light belonging to the corona were merely restricted to the equatorial regions of the star.
  — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 13 Mar. 2024
• The waves are strongest—or rather, their impact to the magnetic field is the greatest—near the equatorial region of the outer core.
  — Popular Mechanics, 26 May 2022
• The Apollo missions went to the equatorial regions of the moon, where there are long stretches of daylight — for as long as two weeks at a time.
  — Christian Davenport, Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2022
• In the photo, there's a line around the moon's equator that resembles the equatorial trench around the Death Star.
  — Ailsa Harvey, Space.com, 17 Jan. 2025
• Instead, the quadcopter will explore the moon’s vast equatorial deserts, which are likely fed by a grab bag of material from all over the moon.
  — Paul Voosen, Science | AAAS, 27 June 2019
• What’s more, if all of Mars’ equatorial lakes did this, enough hydrogen gas would be released to push the climate above the freezing point.
  — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 9 Aug. 2018
• Iapetus, at its equator, has an enormous equatorial ridge.
  — Big Think, 9 Oct. 2025
• Eight of them placed in the Arktek would keep the thing at the right temperature for up to a month, even in the most sweltering equatorial heat.
  — Adam Rogers, WIRED, 29 May 2018
• The Apollo program was expensive and designed to land in equatorial regions on the moon.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 11 July 2019
• This species can be found in groups of tens to hundreds of individuals in the tropical rain forests of equatorial Africa.
  — Scientific American, 1 July 2020