How to Use polygon in a Sentence

polygon

noun

• Pentagons, hexagons, and octagons are all kinds of polygons.
• When that happened, a polygon was drawn on a map and the alert was sent.
  — Carol Robinson | [email protected], al, 30 Aug. 2021
• For decades, nobody could come up with a polygon that had the same property.
  — Quanta Magazine, 15 Feb. 2024
• So even if your car has a weird polygon screen, Android should fill it completely.
  — ArsTechnica, 12 May 2026
• Each site had an eight-sided polygon and measured 3,000 feet across.
  — Clifton Leaf, Fortune, 2 Feb. 2022
• The tattoo, only a few inches long, is a spare linear outline of one rod in the form of a polygon.
  — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2022
• At the lowest level, the atoms in each molecule combine to form a polygon.
  — Elise Cutts, Quanta Magazine, 21 June 2023
• This technique means the graphics engine needs to draw fewer polygons to render a strand.
  — Michael Justin Allen Sexton, PCMAG, 15 Jan. 2025
• The first was the average number of vertices, or corners, per polygon.
  — Elise Cutts, Quanta Magazine, 21 June 2023
• Here's a map showing the storm warnings (yellow polygons) and tree damage reports.
  — Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 15 July 2024
• The simplest tilings are made of identical polygons with sides of equal length and angles of equal measure joined full edge to full edge.
  — Quanta Magazine, 30 Oct. 2023
• The two sat together on the library floor studying polygons one afternoon last week.
  — Joe Rubino, The Denver Post, 1 Mar. 2017
• Think of bathroom floors, with regular polygons repeating in a pattern wall-to-wall.
  — Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Sep. 2024
• Plunked into the center of this field is an irregular polygon, built from six or seven shards of bright color.
  — Roberta Smith, Martha Schwendener, Jason Farago and Will Heinrich, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2018
• The wheel itself is ensconced in a polygon lined with colorful panels that reflect sunlight on it.
  — Domenica Bongiovanni, The Indianapolis Star, 12 Mar. 2021
• With ray tracing, the skeletal rig can be rendered as a simple small-polygon figure or in a more complex human form.
  — Discover Magazine, 29 June 2010
• The result of this is a very general idea, a polygon, of where the contamination is.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 29 May 2024
• Residents have also held protests and formed polygon and neighborhood groups to try to influence the process.
  — Jess Nocera, baltimoresun.com, 18 Nov. 2019
• The grabens form a labyrinthian network and meet to form much larger versions of the polygons seen on the floors of the scalloped depressions.
  — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 23 Apr. 2026
• That happened on Wednesday when the Eaton fire approached a polygon in the Pasadena area.
  — David Schechter, CBS News, 11 Jan. 2025
• In other areas, the rock happens to stick up through the red dust as flat polygons resembling pavers in a garden, or as taller, boulder-sized blocks.
  — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 18 Sep. 2023
• The hat can be regarded as a polygon with edges of length 1 and √3 (where two consecutive edges of length 1 form one longer edge).
  — Craig S. Kaplan, Scientific American, 14 Dec. 2023
• For years, investigators looked for suspects who worked in Manhattan and had lived in the polygon.
  — Joseph Goldstein Johnny Milano, New York Times, 20 July 2023
• Using a 96-sided polygon, Liu Hui was able to determine that the ratio had to be greater than three.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 14 Mar. 2022
• This shows that every polygon with area A is scissors congruent to every other polygon with area A.
  — Patrick Honner, Quanta Magazine, 21 Nov. 2022
• Trails of black and iridescent vinyl polygons fanned across the floor and up the walls, as though an elaborate origami creature was in the process of unfolding itself.
  — Zoë Lescaze, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2020
• Other areas had polygons to trace, 3D shapes to play with, simple abacuses, pens and pencils and paper, and so on.
  — Andrew McAfee, Fortune, 14 Nov. 2023
• The Paper Mario games also have simple 3D models due to their art style, so there isn’t much space to add more polygons.
  — PCMAG, 21 May 2024
• The lamp stacks out to the far sides appear much the same as before, albeit with rectangles replacing the angled polygons at the lowest level.
  — New Atlas, 20 Dec. 2025
• The simplest tilings use one type of regular polygon with equal sides and angles; only squares, triangles or hexagons (which bees use to make honeycomb) will work.
  — Eugenia Cheng, WSJ, 10 Mar. 2022