How to Use hemisphere in a Sentence

hemisphere

noun
  • Left and right hemispheres again talking.
    — Sean Woods, Rolling Stone, 5 Aug. 2025
  • That Chevron has a lot of business in this hemisphere.
    — CBS News, 26 Apr. 2026
  • There’s no simple answer for what went wrong across the hemisphere.
    — Washington Post, 25 May 2021
  • However, it wasn't built in the state ― or even in this hemisphere.
    — Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 9 Aug. 2024
  • The zone moves to whichever hemisphere, north or south, is warmest at the time.
    — Robin George Andrews, National Geographic, 11 Nov. 2019
  • Each hemisphere cools down during the part of the year it's tilted away from the sun.
    — Matt Cardy, National Geographic, 21 Dec. 2017
  • The league giveth, and the league sendeth you to another hemisphere.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 15 May 2026
  • The homicide rate — among the highest in the hemisphere — plunged.
    — Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2019
  • Large plateaus of lava spread across the planet's hemispheres.
    — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 5 Jan. 2020
  • But the fall affected the lives of many people over a hemisphere.
    — Matthew Sherrill, Harper's Magazine, 26 Oct. 2021
  • Who, indeed, does the hemisphere belong to?
    — Aj Hess, Time, 6 May 2026
  • Both hemispheres share the sun’s rays equally at the equinox, and night and day are roughly the same length.
    — Jill Gleeson, Country Living, 19 Mar. 2019
  • Between now and the end of the month, Griffin will switch hemispheres.
    — Beth Bragg, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Apr. 2018
  • That was to become the rule throughout the hemisphere over the next three centuries.
    — Mark Stevenson, Star Tribune, 19 May 2021
  • That was to become the rule throughout the hemisphere over the next three centuries.
    — Mark Stevenson, ajc, 20 May 2021
  • People should join the nearest group to them or one of the more global groups in each hemisphere.
    — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 2 Apr. 2025
  • The first, a circle where the hemispheres meet, is the ventral striatum.
    — Dhruv Khullar, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026
  • While the oven is heating, score the apples by making a ½-inch deep slit along the hemisphere.
    — Christian Reynoso, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Nov. 2020
  • At the equinox, both hemispheres are equally receiving the sun’s rays.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 27 Feb. 2023
  • One the day of the equinox passes, both of Earth’s hemispheres get an equal amount of sunlight.
    — Alix Langone, Time, 18 Mar. 2018
  • This region is a strip across the top of the brain that spans the left and right hemisphere—like a headband over the brain.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 27 June 2017
  • What is the probability that all three of the points will be in the same hemisphere?
    — Richard Malena, Popular Mechanics, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Many of these species spend their lives in motion, moving like tides back and forth across the hemisphere every year.
    — Julie Wraithmell, Sun Sentinel, 2 Jan. 2024
  • The year’s end can be a gratifying time to listen to the world, at least in this hemisphere.
    — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2022
  • Definitely something to keep on the mood board for when our hemisphere heats up.
    — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 25 Nov. 2025
  • Relatives drove over from the mainland or flew in from around the country and across the hemisphere.
    — Washington Post, 26 June 2021
  • Three years later, the country boasts one of the lowest homicide rates in the hemisphere.
    — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Over several months, the organoids grew to occupy about one-third of the hemisphere of the rat brains.
    — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 12 Oct. 2022
  • The roughly golf ball-sized tumor grew in the womb, engulfing much of the right hemisphere of his brain.
    — Angie Leventis Lourgos, chicagotribune.com, 19 Feb. 2022
  • On the ground, Abaco was at the time one of the most unlucky, unsafe places in the hemisphere.
    — Reis Thebault, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Sep. 2019

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