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Recent Examples of rectangle
Saddleback Caterpillar has a stout, brown body about an inch long with a bright green rectangle and an oval saddle marking on its back.
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Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 1 Apr. 2025
The full kitchen is also circular, an unexpected break from the usual rectangles in everyday kitchens.
—Tim Nelson, Architectural Digest, 31 Mar. 2025
This county is an upright rectangle encompassing Lincoln and its surrounding environs.
—Andrew Depietro, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
The piece resembling an Aeolian harp is a tall rectangle, and its strings should make faint sounds as the wind blows through them.
—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 May 2025
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Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 1 Apr. 2025
The full kitchen is also circular, an unexpected break from the usual rectangles in everyday kitchens.
—Tim Nelson, Architectural Digest, 31 Mar. 2025
This county is an upright rectangle encompassing Lincoln and its surrounding environs.
—Andrew Depietro, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
The piece resembling an Aeolian harp is a tall rectangle, and its strings should make faint sounds as the wind blows through them.
—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for rectangle
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rectangle
Noun
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Banners draped around the square showed Leo’s smiling face, 10 feet high.—
Caitlin Stephen Hu,
CNN Money,
12 May 2025
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In the careful selection of a pocket square, in the perfect dimple of a tie knot, in the deliberate shine of oxfords, these women continue a tradition of using style as both survival strategy and self-announcing act.—
Skylar Mitchell,
Essence,
12 May 2025
Noun
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With dominant notes of sweet pineapple, a hint of vanilla, and a pinch of sea salt, Kasama is a dream in tropical cocktails but also perfect on its own, perhaps over a big ice cube, to enjoy its unique profile.—
Claudia Alarcón,
Forbes.com,
8 May 2025
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The large cube, made in Shapes’ own facility—Bauhaus Warehaus, just down the road—holds a square glass prism inside like some kind of tesseract, another reference to the frame-within-a-frame motif of Malevich’s painting.—
Sam Stone,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
5 May 2025
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“Rectangle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rectangle. Accessed 20 May. 2025.
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