How to Use hexagon in a Sentence

hexagon

noun
  • What was going on with that hexagon?
    — Big Think, 15 Apr. 2026
  • The fighters will use four-ounce gloves and will face off inside a hexagon cage.
    — Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb. 2026
  • There is also a sun room — three sides of windows with a glass roof that a hexagon.
    — Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 28 Nov. 2020
  • Six metal appendages set the hexagon in its place at the center of the medal.
    — Chantelle Lee, TIME, 10 July 2024
  • On the blue walls with hexagon windows, the icy Arctic peeks through.
    — Roger Catlin, Smithsonian, 28 June 2017
  • Those chunks make up the hexagon figure in the middle of the Olympic gold medal.
    — Lukas Weese, The Athletic, 27 July 2024
  • There, on a little cartoony hexagon of green, sat what looked like a fishbowl or snow globe.
    — Eric Boodman, Vulture, 25 Mar. 2026
  • The researchers now used a similar but larger hexagon of prisms placed in a fish tank.
    — Philip Ball, Scientific American, 11 June 2013
  • Add modern appeal to your home's flooring with a large-scale hexagon design.
    — Sarah Halverson, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Jan. 2024
  • The beehive is embedded in a hexagon, called a symbol of strength and unity.
    — Palak Jayswal, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Made of gold vermeil, the hexagon shape evokes the panel structure of a classic soccer ball.
    — Jasmine Gomez, Women's Health, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Since these mirrors are put together in a hexagon, there are six main diffraction spikes.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Using a sliding table saw, the sheets are cut into squares, hexagons and other shapes.
    — Jane Margolies, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2020
  • But unlike those other homes, 57 is arranged in a series of four hexagons.
    — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Each hat is made of eight adjacent kites, combined from neighboring hexagons.
    — Erica Klarreich, Quanta Magazine, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Keeping with the neutral tones, the next slide reveals samples of stone hexagon tiles next to a slab of white marble.
    — Natalia Senanayake, PEOPLE, 31 Jan. 2026
  • This led to our current model of how this hexagon was created and sustained itself.
    — Big Think, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Some hexagons are empty; others are filled by a 6-foot tall column of solid concrete.
    — Quanta Magazine, 7 Feb. 2024
  • Draw a hexagon connecting the intersecting lines of the snowflake.
    — Carly Cardellino, Cosmopolitan, 16 Oct. 2017
  • The couple carried the hexagon pattern into the lapel of his tux and their accessories.
    — Lisa Gutierrez, kansascity, 24 July 2017
  • For example, the cells of a real wax honeycomb are not all perfect hexagons.
    — Elise Cutts, Quanta Magazine, 21 June 2023
  • The arc of hexagons above her left eyebrow is speciogynine, thought to be a smooth muscle relaxer.
    — Emma Grey Ellis, Wired, 22 Jan. 2020
  • The hexagon circles Saturn at 77 degrees north and is wider than two Earths.
    — Alexis Madrigal, WIRED, 9 Dec. 2009
  • Scientists think that the edge, in the shape of a hexagon, has marked Saturn’s northern tip for centuries.
    — Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Sep. 2024
  • So in a mosaic of hexagonal bath tiles, for example, each cell is a hexagon, which has six vertices.
    — Quanta Magazine, 19 Nov. 2020
  • The Mickey's logo displays a smiling cartoon moose inside a red hexagon.
    — Faith Bugenhagen, Austin American Statesman, 26 Feb. 2026
  • Disks of gold, silver and bronze surround the central Eiffel Tower hexagon.
    — Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 8 Feb. 2024
  • The rings are six feet to 115 feet wide and are regularly spaced out in a hexagon or honeycomb pattern.
    — Nicholas St. Fleur, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2017
  • When the information is stripped of personal identifiers, the hexagon is blue.
    — Flavie Halais, Wired, 4 Mar. 2020
  • The result is a soccer-ball-like shape composed of 20 hexagons and 12 pentagons.
    — Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 24 Apr. 2026

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