How to Use radius in a Sentence

radius

noun
  • Measure the radius of the circle.
  • There are three restaurants within a one-block radius of our apartment.
  • The new museum is expected to draw people from a wide radius.
  • The blast radius could be a half-mile wide.
    Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Wider catch radius than some may expect.
    Tony Catalina, Austin American Statesman, 27 Jan. 2026
  • The shock radius is even larger.
    Richard Hall, Time, 3 Mar. 2026
  • An alias reduces the blast radius.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • If there is a breach, the blast radius is contained to a very small area.
    Maxwell Alles, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Its blast radius even reached as far as southern Italy.
    James Horncastle, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2026
  • The goal is to shrink the blast radius when controls inevitably fail.
    Emil Sayegh, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
  • There are like eight projects going on within a three-mile radius of our house.
    Joe Kinsey Outkick, FOXNews.com, 6 July 2026
  • His catch radius, his ability to get in and out of breaks [stand out].
    Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 30 July 2025
  • He was found to have an active warrant, which was out of the pick-up radius.
    cleveland, 8 Oct. 2021
  • The stick is sort of like a part of a circle with a radius r centered on your eye.
    Rhett Allain, Wired, 3 Mar. 2021
  • Money guardrails like these mean that even if someone clicks once, the blast radius is small.
    Michael Cannivet, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
  • This is because the volume depends on the length and the square of the radius.
    Rhett Allain, Wired, 7 Apr. 2021
  • And clinging to the very end of it was the matching end of the lower arm, the radius.
    Elizabeth Sawchuk, The Conversation, 1 Jan. 2026
  • The fire department shut down streets and buildings in a two-block radius.
    Amy McDaniel, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 Jan. 2024
  • His turning radius is that of a much smaller forward.
    Aaron Portzline, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Most all-mountain skis have a turn radius in the 15 to 20 m range.
    Louis Mazzante, Popular Mechanics, 25 Nov. 2020
  • There are 41 cell towers within a three-mile radius.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Now there are about 100 houses within a one mile radius of the site.
    Sarah Henry, AZCentral.com, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Here x could be any number from 0 to 1, and 1 is the radius of the circle.
    Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 31 Aug. 2022
  • Within a two-block radius of the shooting, there are about 10 bars and about eight strip clubs.
    oregonlive, 18 July 2021
  • The radius of the turns are so different, the speeds are so different.
    Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 6 Apr. 2022
  • Wing says the drones will be able to serve thousands of people within a 4-mile radius of the store.
    Matt O'Brien, Chron, 20 Oct. 2021
  • But there’s some radius around the Oval Office which is a pardon zone.
    NBC news, 28 June 2026
  • Spread the mulch 3 to 6 inches deep in a circle at least 3 feet in radius from the trunk.
    oregonlive, 14 Aug. 2021
  • The piece required the entire radius of Hsieh’s life to be constrained by the clock.
    Zachary Fine, New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2025
  • One-touch ignition makes this a dummy-proof patio heater, which can heat up a nine-foot radius.
    Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 27 Oct. 2025

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