How to Use geodesic in a Sentence

geodesic

adjective
  • And there have been other modern uses for the shape, from geodesic domes to soccer balls.
    — Eugenia Cheng, WSJ, 10 Aug. 2017
  • Things get granola-crunchier in the geodesic dome.
    — Michael Deeds, Idaho Statesman, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Above, thick steel pipes connect to geodesic domes, each of which houses a geothermal well.
    — Danielle Bochove, Fortune, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Guests will be staying in modern, eco-friendly, geodesic domes.
    — Jem Aswad, chicagotribune.com, 28 Apr. 2017
  • Among the prizes are three months of free tunnel fares, a sunset river cruise and a weekend retreat in a geodesic dome.
    — Neal Rubin, Freep.com, 10 Aug. 2025
  • Octavia now terminates in a long, grassy park with a geodesic children's play structure at one end.
    — Adam Rogers, Wired, 1 Apr. 2020
  • Raised in a geodesic dome on the teachings of Buckminster Fuller, a teen rebels and starts a punk band.
    — Times Staff, latimes.com, 22 Apr. 2018
  • The farm consists of a pair of greenhouses — a geodesic dome and a hangar-like tunnel — draped in plastic sheeting.
    — Markian Hawryluk, CNN, 3 Aug. 2019
  • Humanity survives under a huge geodesic dome (the plastic sky of the title) and has learned to feed on itself.
    — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Instead, Tokyo Crafts turns to a geodesic construction meant to emulate the size and flow of a sphere.
    — New Atlas, 19 Dec. 2025
  • There is a wide variety of greenhouse options, from farmhouse-style A-frames to modern geodesic domes.
    — Shagun Khare, Martha Stewart, 26 Feb. 2026
  • The antennas sit inside plastic, geodesic radomes of varying sizes.
    — Laura Mallonee, WIRED, 8 June 2018
  • Along the way, viewers might see anything from geodesic domes to disappearing sand castles to human zoo satellites.
    — Josh Kramer, The Atlantic, 12 July 2017
  • The 500-year ceramic geodesic dome home is vaporware no more.
    — John Koetsier, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023
  • The Yucca Valley offers stays big and small from mansion to tiny homes and even geodesic domes equipped with loungers for stargazing and coyote watching.
    — Jessica Cherner, Architectural Digest, 13 Aug. 2025
  • And during the winter months this greenhouse will require 40 percent less heat than your average greenhouse because the geodesic shape helps keep it warm.
    — Tainaya Nash, House Beautiful, 19 June 2019
  • The designer, who’s debuting a line of portable lighting, looks to geodesic domes and bicycles.
    — Kurt Soller, New York Times, 8 Nov. 2023
  • Guests relax with traditional Nordic spa rituals by day, and crash in one of three unique and luxurious geodesic glamping domes by night.
    — Christian Gollayan, Men's Health, 27 June 2023
  • Trade in four walls for a geodesic dome at WV Glamping Domes, a short drive from Lewisburg in Alderson.
    — Kristy Tolley, Travel + Leisure, 14 Apr. 2026
  • The players are the two inhabitants of a biosphere sealed off from the toxic outside world, a self-sustaining geodesic dome with a hydroponic garden as a food source.
    — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2023
  • That's what this geodesic dome looks like, translucent from some sides (almost like a window), but opaque in others to provide the perfect blend of natural light and protection from the outside.
    — Kelly Corbett, House Beautiful, 30 Jan. 2020
  • Before employing the fleet of buzzing machines, Chaltiel worked with a team of students to build a lightweight geodesic timber frame and cover it with a light formwork of burlap sacks filled with sand.
    — Liz Stinson, Curbed, 27 Sep. 2018
  • Geodesic domes, 400 botanical species — and treehouse meeting rooms.
    — Jackie Burrell, The Mercury News, 28 May 2017
  • Indeed, for a brief period, more geodesic homes sprouted up, particularly on the West Coast.
    — Wendy Moonan, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 July 2023
  • They are represented by a toy Hoberman sphere, one of those geodesic structures that can shrink from several meters in diameter into a small ball as its joints fold in.
    — Byclaudia Lopez Lloreda, science.org, 13 Mar. 2023
  • The short-term rental company is giving away one night in a geodesic dome in Oregon and a private jet flight through the path of totality, when the sun is completely covered by the moon.
    — Mary Bowerman, USA TODAY, 9 Aug. 2017
  • In Arizona, a veteran scientist and his assistant establish a research base in a geodesic dome, next to a cluster of ant structures three times their height.
    — Elizabeth Horkley, Quartz, 30 Oct. 2019
  • Salty the Sea Lion performed in comedic shows under the Seaquarium’s landmark golden geodesic dome.
    — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 9 Oct. 2025
  • And Instagrammable Airbnb rentals abound along Highway 62, from rustic desert cabins to geodesic dome houses.
    — Shawnté Salabert, Outside Online, 28 Oct. 2019
  • As weather grows more extreme, geodesic domes and other resilient home designs are gaining new attention from more climate-conscious homebuyers — and the architects and builders who cater to them.
    — Christopher Flavelle, BostonGlobe.com, 16 July 2023

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