How to Use spherical in a Sentence

spherical

adjective
  • Five of those have a spherical ball at the end of the string.
    Anna Halkidis, Parents, 14 Nov. 2025
  • Sher used a lot of the same spherical lenses as the first film.
    Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 11 Oct. 2024
  • Eggs laid in the water tend to be smaller and more spherical.
    Quanta Magazine, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Two hundred of each type of bead were placed inside each of the spherical cages.
    Ben Coxworth may 27, New Atlas, 27 May 2025
  • For a spherical snow globe, get a glass or hard plastic water globe with a lid.
    Angela Watson, chicagotribune.com, 14 Mar. 2021
  • Two of them had a cylindrical shape while the third was spherical.
    Moira Ritter, Miami Herald, 5 Mar. 2024
  • The cult-favorite, spherical lip care was once a bestseller for the brand.
    Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 11 June 2025
  • The nanowires do not swell as much as spherical nanoparticles.
    IEEE Spectrum, 4 May 2023
  • Part of the ball should be sticking out of the top of the cup; this will help to form the spherical head shape for your ghost.
    Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Aug. 2025
  • For the first, start by freezing ice cubes into small balls using a spherical tray.
    Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Dec. 2025
  • The plant is a little taller than the snowdrop, the blooms bigger and more spherical.
    Adrian Higgins, Washington Post, 19 Feb. 2020
  • Sweet gums drop a fruit that is small and spherical and bristling with sharp points like a porcupine the size of a golf ball.
    John McPhee, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025
  • Our hero, the mouse, is a tan-and-white fellow who befriends a goldfish in a spherical bowl.
    Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 18 June 2021
  • The sponge is spherical in shape and is covered in tiny hooks that trap prey, the marine researchers said.
    Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 30 Oct. 2025
  • The concept includes a lander that acts as a home base for a spherical robot.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 14 July 2022
  • If not, the crushing wave of spherical compression would be uneven and the bomb a dud.
    New York Times, 27 Jan. 2020
  • Bolt a pair of spherical rod ends to the steering arm at the bottom of the shaft, using nylock nuts.
    Harry Sawyers, Popular Mechanics, 9 Mar. 2015
  • The blade has a rectangular tip, and the handle ends in a spherical bulb.
    Aspen Pflughoeft july 4, Miami Herald, 4 July 2025
  • The Moon is mostly spherical like Earth.
    Ray Petelin, CBS News, 18 Apr. 2026
  • The small disc that holds the spherical toy together can break, causing the beads to escape.
    Mallory Schlossberg, Redbook, 3 Mar. 2017
  • The boundary where light becomes trapped is thus a spherical event horizon around the center of the black hole.
    Edgar Shaghoulian, Scientific American, 22 Aug. 2022
  • Images showed the spherical tank was partially collapsed and bowed to the side with a large side ripped open.
    David Douglas, NBC news, 27 May 2026
  • In one group, the structures—small and more or less spherical—have cilia all over their surface and don’t tend to move at all.
    Philip Ball, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2023
  • This spherical one checks the boxes for getting that soft, sculptural effect.
    Erika Owen, Vogue, 1 July 2026
  • However, when scaled up to full size, the casing on the spherical bombs would break apart on impact with the water.
    Hugh Hunt, Smithsonian, 17 May 2018
  • The students were supposed to use their fourth-grade math skills to program spherical robots, small enough to fit in their hands, to move.
    Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2020
  • The science behind the glass sphere design The spherical shape is more than a design choice.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 23 Oct. 2025
  • In the first clip shared, James filmed the spherical interior of the venue before the band played.
    Escher Walcott, Peoplemag, 2 Oct. 2023
  • The spherical creation is between the size of a softball and a volleyball.
    Alex Chun, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Its armor-like outer plates act as a shield, while its spine supports the body from inside, keeping it in a spherical shape.
    Maryna Holovnova, New Atlas, 9 June 2026

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