How to Use equator in a Sentence

equator

noun
  • At the equator, days and nights are equal throughout the year.
    — Rich Exner, cleveland.com, 13 June 2017
  • Cut the melon in half through the equator and stand up with the cut side down.
    — Washington Post, 24 Aug. 2020
  • As the dry season moves south, away from the equator, the fires come with it.
    — Daniel Wolfe, Quartz, 14 Jan. 2020
  • The oil palm plant grows best at ten degrees to the north and south of the equator.
    — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 28 Jan. 2021
  • Cut them in half ‘round the mater-equator and squeeze gently to splorsh out the seeds.
    — James P. Dewan, chicagotribune.com, 13 Aug. 2019
  • To make things harder, the two stars' equators aren't quite aligned to our field of view.
    — John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, 6 June 2018
  • An equinox occurs when the sun lines up so that the equator bisects it.
    — Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 18 June 2019
  • Then much of the warm surface water heads east, along the equator.
    — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Aug. 2022
  • Most countries near the equator have no need to change time for more daylight hours.
    — Kurt Snibbe, The Mercury News, 11 Mar. 2017
  • And any microbes and critters the ships picked up near the equator would be dumped, too.
    — oregonlive, 9 Oct. 2019
  • The perfect place to hit an egg is along its equator, which is the flattest part of the egg.
    — Sarah Rense, Esquire, 26 Apr. 2017
  • The clouds moved fastest around Venus' equator, where the heat from the sun is the most intense.
    — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Apr. 2020
  • The rover is near the equator on Mars, where summer is about to begin.
    — Loren Grush, The Verge, 11 June 2018
  • All winters are dark, and get darker the farther one lives from the equator.
    — Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2020
  • For people south of the equator, this equinox signals the coming of spring.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN, 25 Sep. 2021
  • Because of its rapid spin, Altair is much wider at its equator than at its poles.
    — Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 7 June 2026
  • On a slow spinner, however, winds could flow all the way from the equator to the poles.
    — Paul Voosen, Science | AAAS, 9 June 2021
  • On or near the equator, the light can be seen before dawn and after dusk throughout the year.
    — Rebecca Coffey, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2021
  • All spots north of the equator will have less than 12 hours of daylight today.
    — Leigh Morgan, al, 21 Dec. 2021
  • An equinox occurs when the sun's center is on the same plane as the Earth's equator.
    — Janet Loehrke, USA Today, 15 Mar. 2026
  • Or to build a sidewalk that would go completely around the Earth at the equator.
    — Roger Naylor, azcentral, 23 May 2018
  • Again, the Ethiopian Ocean is west of Africa and south of the equator.
    — Mary Alexander, Quartz, 2 May 2021
  • The spring equinox occurs when the sun shines directly on the Earth's equator.
    — Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 16 Feb. 2026
  • The equinox is the moment the sun's rays shine directly on Earth's equator.
    — Editors, USA TODAY, 20 Mar. 2022
  • March 20, also known as the spring equinox, marks the day when the sun crosses the equator and heads north.
    — Travel + Leisure, 3 Mar. 2022
  • Hawaii, though, sits about 20 degrees north of the equator, right at the extreme edge of tree’s range.
    — Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian, 14 Feb. 2018
  • The sun was hanging above the equator of Saturn and, therefore, right above the rings.
    — Stav Ziv, Newsweek, 6 Sep. 2017
  • The equinox marks the moment the sun shines directly over Earth's equator.
    — Alex Perry, Cincinnati Enquirer, 20 Mar. 2026
  • The Earth’s rotation moves winds west to east around the globe and from the equator toward the poles.
    — USA Today, 12 Sep. 2022
  • For now, it's expected to hit the far side of the Moon near the equator on March 4.
    — Matthew Humphries, PCMAG, 27 June 2022

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