How to Use hemispheric in a Sentence

hemispheric

adjective
  • Some could be hemispheric focus.
    — CBS News, 26 Apr. 2026
  • The lake is also a site of hemispheric importance for migrating birds.
    — Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 May 2021
  • Each section of fence is supported by a vertical pipelike pole with a hemispheric metal cap.
    — Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2022
  • In fact, the African slave trade was not only a translantic phenomenon but also a hemispheric one.
    — Samuel Goldman, The Week, 22 Sep. 2021
  • More than a million Venezuelans had fled, triggering a hemispheric refugee crisis.
    — Zach Dorfman, WIRED, 31 Oct. 2024
  • But Loeb’s team found a break in the hemispheric symmetry, which suggests that there’s a limit to the role clouds play in maintaining it.
    — Ryan Green, Scientific American, 22 Oct. 2025
  • When the hemispheric tournament was scrubbed in the spring the entries were determined instead by global rankings.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 22 July 2021
  • No one fingered an extra-hemispheric accomplice.
    — Alan McPherson, The Conversation, 2 Nov. 2025
  • Meanwhile, in the southern hemispheric winter, fewer stretches of the Antarctic sea are freezing over.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 31 July 2023
  • The former aspires to global, or at least hemispheric, coverage, while the latter is inevitably a little blinkered.
    — Colton Valentine, New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2026
  • The collapse or recovery of the Great Salt Lake will have regional and even hemispheric impacts.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Jan. 2023
  • Not since 1994 has the United States convened the hemispheric gathering on its soil.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 10 June 2022
  • And the Atlantic subpolar gyre is just a tiny subsample of the hemispheric circulation.
    — Gregory Barber, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Its primary vision of the world comes from a 360-degree fish-eye hemispheric lens on the top deck, then there are six more directional cameras.
    — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 23 May 2023
  • Apparently hemispheric brain asymmetry—and thus perhaps language—is an ancient human trait.
    — David W. Frayer, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2022
  • The Tatra engine was advanced for the time, with overhead valves in hemispherical combustion chambers and dry-sump lubrication for the oil system.
    — Robert Ross, Robb Report, 23 Jan. 2023
  • The hemispheric differences are down to the visibility of the constellation Aquarius, which is much higher in the southern hemisphere.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 5 May 2023
  • The economic plan amounted to a recitation of progressive talking points that seemed aimed more at segments of the Democratic base than at hemispheric leaders or their populations.
    — William Neuman, The Atlantic, 13 June 2022
  • The path forward is a fundamental reimagining of the United States’ hemispheric relations.
    — Matias Spektor, Foreign Affairs, 1 Apr. 2025
  • Just as the tariffs could lead to inflation, so too could destabilizing hemispheric trade, creating uncertainly in financial markets.
    — Ken Roberts, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
  • The overview of America’s current immigration problems is rooted in hemispheric problems.
    — Gillian Brassil, Sacramento Bee, 5 Feb. 2024
  • The New Shepard capsule is equipped with some of the largest windows in a currently-flying spacecraft, giving Shatner and his crewmates hemispheric views of Earth far below.
    — William Harwood, CBS News, 13 Oct. 2021
  • Trump should ask himself whether stirring a hornet’s nest serves any purpose other than pointlessly alienating a benevolent neighbor that is beginning to pad its insurance policy by reaching out to non-hemispheric powers.
    — Daniel Depetris, Chicago Tribune, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Machado ended by describing Venezuela’s struggle as part of a broader hemispheric effort against authoritarianism and organized crime.
    — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 28 Jan. 2026
  • The absence of these left-leaning autocrats led to a de facto boycott of the proceedings by a number of other prominent hemispheric politicians, including the Mexican president.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 15 June 2022
  • The real issues were that Venezuela has great oil resources and has been fomenting instability by offering a hemispheric base for China, Russia and Iran.
    — John Brummett, Washington Post, 7 Jan. 2026
  • The up-firing speakers are designed to fire overhead effects onto your ceiling, completing the full hemispheric sound stage around your seating position that’s a key part of a true Dolby Atmos experience.
    — John Archer, Forbes.com, 12 Apr. 2025
  • Mexico, with friendly ties to Caracas and Havana, criticized that decision, and López Obrador boycotted the hemispheric gathering.
    — Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2023
  • Chronicling Indigenous slavery 'a hemispheric effort' Rael-Gálvez, too, had been inspired by personal history.
    — Marc Ramirez, USA TODAY, 6 Feb. 2025
  • The world was brought to the brink of nuclear war when the Soviet Union was found placing missiles in Cuba, in violation of America's hemispheric interests and safety.
    — Kerry J. Byrne, Fox News, 2 Dec. 2022

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