How to Use surface area in a Sentence

surface area

noun

• There’s a lot of surface area to clean and much of it may be out of reach.
  — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 3 July 2025
• But the black hole has entropy too, and the amount depends on the black hole’s surface area.
  — Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 27 May 2025
• This means there’s less surface area that needs to be trimmed away later.
  — Mary Squillace, Robb Report, 17 July 2023
• Canada's forest is 15 times the surface area of all of the Great Lakes combined.
  — Keith Matheny, Detroit Free Press, 12 July 2024
• Lake Huron is the second-largest Great Lake by surface area and the fifth-largest freshwater lake in the world.
  — Amy Huschka, Detroit Free Press, 20 June 2024
• Smaller items will cook faster and have more browned surface area.
  — Katie Workman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Aug. 2023
• This technique creates more surface area on the spuds, which in turn means more crispy bits.
  — Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 20 July 2024
• The more loops there are, the more surface area for absorbing water.
  — Charlotte Observer, 25 Jan. 2024
• However, the lake is only about 146 acres in surface area, a fraction of the size of Green Lake.
  — Maia Pandey, Journal Sentinel, 12 Aug. 2024
• All those wrinkles allow more surface area of the brain to fit in the cranium.
  — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 24 Apr. 2025
• Tea leaves and cellulose bags both have a lot of surface area, which helps absorb the lead.
  — Stephanie Brown, Verywell Health, 24 Mar. 2025
• But in this study, the burn wounds had to be less than 10 percent of the total body surface area (TBSA) and be on the limbs (arms or legs).
  — Nick Blackmer, Verywell Health, 2 Mar. 2023
• That broad, flat outsole has greater surface area than a standard lug sole that has a gap between the heel and the toe box.
  — Tony Carrick, Field & Stream, 25 Oct. 2023
• So the total entropy of the region is a sum: the surface area of the black hole plus the entropy of nearby quantum stuff.
  — Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 27 May 2025
• Peru has lost over half its glacier surface area since 1962.
  — Ari Caramanica, The Conversation, 8 Apr. 2025
• About 71% of Earth's surface area is oceans, which contain 97% of Earth’s water.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 8 Dec. 2024
• The more panels and greater surface area of mesh used, the more water is harvested.
  — Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 20 Feb. 2025
• The trestle will have a total surface area over tidal waters of 9.18 acres.
  — Todd Karpovich, Baltimore Sun, 5 Dec. 2024
• Bigger, pointy ears would have more surface area, which would result in the faster transfer of heat.
  — Carin Leong, Scientific American, 6 June 2024
• But the suction cup stretches the cheek, creating a larger surface area for the drug to pass through.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Sep. 2023
• When there is a disruption in the smooth surface area on a glass, bubbles begin to form there.
  — Parker Hall, Wired News, 25 June 2025
• Over time, the skateway grew and today, its surface area is the equivalent of 90 Olympic-size ice rinks.
  — Kelsey Ables, Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2023
• With trees still covered with leaves this time of year, wind has more surface area to catch and pull off tree limbs, Edwards said.
  — Killian Baarlaer, The Courier-Journal, 28 Sep. 2024
• The largest and deepest of the Great Lakes, Lake Superior is also the world’s largest lake by surface area.
  — Story Hinckley, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Sep. 2024
• The perimeter of the fire is 260 miles, making the fire’s footprint three times larger than the surface area of Lake Tahoe, Cal Fire stated.
  — Nollyanne Delacruz, The Mercury News, 31 July 2024
• Bonus: Using a larger tool will help speed up the process as there’s much more surface area on your limbs than there is on your face.
  — Lisa Desantis, Glamour, 13 Jan. 2025
• This is a very small place, both in surface area and in terms of residences, with only 86 households.
  — Andrew Depietro, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
• Wide and padded shoulder straps offer a bigger surface area which helps disperse the load and will feel lighter.
  — Max Inchausti, Field & Stream, 8 June 2023
• Yet this effort failed for the simple reason that the governors knew the game that Comer and his colleagues were playing and refused to give them more surface area to attack.
  — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 13 June 2025
• The shallower basin of a food processor, on the other hand, allows for more surface area of the sugar to come into contact with the blade, enabling you to work in larger amounts.
  — Molly Baz, Bon Appetit Magazine, 16 June 2025