How to Use sphere in a Sentence
- All points on a sphere are the same distance from the center.
- Women at that time were confined to the domestic sphere.
- They recognize that jobs in the public sphere are valuable.
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Shape each into a tight sphere.
—Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Jan. 2026
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There are lots of ways to embed the sphere.
—Konstantin Kakaes, Quanta Magazine, 13 Apr. 2026
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The Earth is not a perfect sphere.
—Hanna Rosin, The Atlantic, 22 Jan. 2026
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But the irony is that the manosphere is really no sphere at all.
—Rob Picheta, CNN Money, 23 June 2026
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But try to wrap the sheet of paper around a sphere, and that’s no longer the case.
—Elise Cutts, Quanta Magazine, 20 Jan. 2026
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That old stitched blue and orange sphere, with the bridge and the skyline?
—Jayson Stark, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2026
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If their edges are poking out from your ice sphere, your ice will melt and break apart faster.
—Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 June 2026
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What’s your take on AI in the creative sphere?
—Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 1 May 2026
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As a result, they all get pushed apart and end up on the surface of the sphere.
—WIRED, 27 Oct. 2023
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Here's what stands out to me most from the past week in the Windows sphere.
—Chris Hoffman, PC Magazine, 24 June 2026
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And even as the universe expands, there’s still the same amount in that sphere, right?
—Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 22 Feb. 2023
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And up close, the best star in the universe—our sun—is an orangey sphere of flame.
—Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 15 Sep. 2023
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Once the ice has set, roll each sphere in edible food glitter.
—Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Dec. 2025
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The tussle has been a lengthy one, and one that has played out very much in the public sphere.
—Max Goldbart, Deadline, 27 Feb. 2026
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Let’s see what else is going on in the infosec sphere this week.
—Alan Henry, PC Magazine, 3 Apr. 2026
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The silicone bottom of the mold means no wrestling to free your frozen sphere.
—Sean Evans, Glamour, 6 Dec. 2023
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Burson turned off the lights, and the statue and the spheres began to glow.
—Shanti Escalante-De Mattei, ARTnews.com, 27 Apr. 2026
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So far, the company has done more work in the kitchen than in the public sphere.
—David Goldman, CNN Money, 17 July 2026
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With floured hands, shape the dough into 15 evenly-sized spheres.
—Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 June 2026
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The spheres are the right size for little hands to grasp, and their tight seal prevents mold and mildew growth.
—Maya Polton, Parents, 17 Jan. 2024
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These are gold NPs that clump together and form tiny spheres.
—Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 29 Jan. 2026
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If anything goes wrong in any of those spheres, the rest of their lives are most likely still intact.
—Silas Allen, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 May 2024
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With only so much space on the sphere, this is unlikely to happen.
—Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 26 June 2026
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The room is filled with light-weight silver spheres which swirl through the air around guests like a tornado.
—Caroline Reid, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
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Years later, that vision was what would draw Reeves into their sphere.
—Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2025
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At this point, Earth looks like a dark sphere hovering behind it.
—CBS News, 6 Apr. 2026
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The impact on the public sphere has been, to say the least, substantial.
—Jaron Lanier, WIRED, 13 Feb. 2024
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The meridians cut that sphere like orange wedges, the ship cuts the line that cuts through time.
—Claudio Magris, Harper's Magazine, 25 May 2021
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Silver and Spellman have both have put their stamps on the comic book sphere in different ways.
—Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Oct. 2022
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Step 5To serve, place one chocolate sphere into a mug, and pour 1¼ cups steaming milk on top.
—People Staff, PEOPLE.com, 30 July 2022
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There are few trans voices in the news and politics sphere, partly due to the relentless abuse trans creators face.
—Taylor Lorenz, Washington Post, 26 June 2022
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There's the car that flipped over, the near-plane crash and the 12-pound metal sphere that whacked him on the head during a high school shot put event.
—Jordan Runtagh, PEOPLE.com, 21 Jan. 2022
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The fourth, and largest, sphere in that mix contains a wealth of extra information—none of which can be discerned by the human eye.
—Nick Scott, Robb Report, 21 Mar. 2022
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The Light takes the form of a giant metal sphere that characters in-game call the Traveler.
—Boone Ashworth, Wired, 21 Feb. 2022
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There was a time when Infiniti was new to the scene, but Genesis is the hottest thing in the premium sphere these days.
—Connor Hoffman, Car and Driver, 1 Jan. 2021
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Those complaints will no doubt grow louder, as Apple continues to experiment in the payments sphere.
—Andy Meek, BGR, 13 July 2021
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There are other indicators outside the health care sphere that suggest that Biden’s plan to end factionalism is to largely ignore what the left wants.
—Libby Watson, The New Republic, 21 Aug. 2020
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Lining the bottom of each tube were thousands of silicon spheres the size of BB-gun pellets, embedded in a translucent matrix.
—IEEE Spectrum, 30 Sep. 2016
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Holds and pauses certainly aren’t restricted to Covid-19 trials in the clinical trials sphere.
—Adrian Hernandez, STAT, 14 Oct. 2020
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Yet the Betz mystery sphere conspiracy theory continues to persist.
—Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 28 June 2022
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Since Dyson first proposed the existence of massive space structures, many papers have explored the possibility of different types of Dyson spheres.
—Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 28 Jan. 2026
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American drinking culture, in my humble opinion, has long been too focused on creativity in the alcohol sphere instead of the more accessible non-alcoholic.
—Serena Dai, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Nov. 2021
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Two jointed sampling arms—the upgrade will give it a third—extend from the front of the crew sphere and are used to shovel up to 500 pounds of sediment and other material into a sample hold on the craft.
—Daniel Oberhaus, Wired, 21 Dec. 2020
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If the spheres of different pieces of information overlapped, however, there would be an unsolvable ambiguity, since the recipient wouldn’t be able to tell which sphere each piece belonged in.
—Eugenia Cheng, WSJ, 13 Jan. 2022
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To the south, Ukraine is still going through a concerted effort to detach itself from Russia’s sphere that some Belarusians find inspirational, and others view as cautionary.
—Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Sep. 2020
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Outside China, media experts caution the posts do not show a holistic view of public opinion in China -- though could still be valuable in bringing these elements of China's media sphere to light.
—Simone McCarthy, CNN, 13 Apr. 2022
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Putin’s regime rests on corruption, domination of the information sphere, and a narrative of legitimacy created by phony elections; Navalny attacks on all of these fronts.
—Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 19 July 2021
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For the uninitiated, prolific scholar Freeman Dyson first described his namesake Dyson sphere concept in a landmark 1960 paper.
—Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 6 Sep. 2021
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Inside, the Genesis X Concept is an equally stylish mix of typical concept-car whizbangery (such as the crystal sphere in the armrest that flips over to become the gear selector) and eco-friendly materials.
—Steve Siler, Car and Driver, 31 Mar. 2021
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Manhattan Project scientists sometimes skimped on the safeguards for the dangerous experiment—like removing the shims separating the two halves of the beryllium sphere housing the plutonium core.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 10 Aug. 2020
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Cybersecurity is a serious business and La Jolla Logic, in just nine years of existence, has grown into a small business to be reckoned with in the cybersecurity sphere.
—Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Nov. 2020
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Some Biden administration officials have expressed concern over US standing in the international climate sphere after four years of neglect, and are hoping this week's summit will once again cement their seat at the table.
—Kevin Liptak, CNN, 21 Apr. 2021
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This might sound crazy to Black people who cope with oppression and injustice on a daily basis, but in the cultural sphere the prominence that African Americans have held for more than a century in music is increasingly evident across many genres.
—The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2022
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The center of the National Ignition Facility is the target chamber, a metal sphere 33 feet wide with gleaming diagnostic equipment radiating outward.
—New York Times, 17 Aug. 2021
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Adoption of the Sibros platform differs between older legacy automakers and newer companies including those elsewhere in the mobility sphere according to Albert Lilly, Sibros vice president of marketing.
—Ed Garsten, Forbes, 10 June 2022
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The new study, carried out by Professor of Engineering Science Colin McInnes at the University of Glasgow, presents a mathematical argument for the existence of Dyson spheres.
—Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 28 Jan. 2026
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