How to Use longitude in a Sentence

longitude

noun
  • The regions are on roughly the same longitude.
  • The lines that are already on the basketball are like lines of longitude.
    — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 3 May 2018
  • Very few studies of this longitude have been completed, and none at this scale.
    — Carolyn Barber, Fortune, 21 Aug. 2023
  • No team bases its draft on the longitude/latitude where players played in college.
    — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 26 Jan. 2022
  • Imagine the earth is covered with a checkerboard or a grid, like latitude and longitude.
    — Pamela Weintraub, Discover Magazine, 28 June 2023
  • The large image shows storm surge across the region, mapped onto longitude and latitude.
    — Mark Fischetti, Scientific American, 29 Oct. 2013
  • So that one bit isn’t going to tell you how to put the qubit, so to speak, on the globe at some definite latitude and longitude.
    — Quanta Magazine, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Meridional flow follows a pattern from north to south, or from south to north, along the Earth’s longitude line.
    — Greg Garrison | , al, 17 July 2023
  • Consult the manual for your software to find out how to set the longitude of the Red Spot.
    — Geoff Gaherty, Scientific American, 30 Nov. 2012
  • There is no place on our coast, the longitude of which from Greenwich is so well ascertained as Boston.
    — Scientific American, 6 Feb. 2020
  • One of her eight monitors displayed the latitude and longitude of the call’s origin.
    — Mary Grace Keller, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 23 Oct. 2020
  • The files contain precise latitude and longitude coordinates of the phone and the time at which the phone was there.
    — Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 14 Jan. 2025
  • That's the approximate time on your clock, regardless of your longitude.
    — Todd Nelson, Star Tribune, 15 Feb. 2021
  • The most dutiful news gatherers know the longitude and latitude of their homes.
    — Joel Achenbach, Washington Post, 2 Sep. 2019
  • The island province is on the same longitude as Vietnam and Thailand.
    — John Schmid, jsonline.com, 2 Nov. 2022
  • When a drone locates a fawn, the animal's longitude and latitude are recorded.
    — Star Tribune, 4 Mar. 2021
  • Diane has the exact longitude and latitude of where her husband’s coffin entered the ocean.
    — Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2022
  • The print can mark the exact longitude and latitude of a special and sentimental place, making your room more homey.
    — Lauren Adhav, Cosmopolitan, 2 Feb. 2018
  • New moons happen when the sun and the moon share the same celestial longitude, a position also called conjunction.
    — Jesse Emspak, Space.com, 27 Dec. 2024
  • Thermal calculations constrain the latitude of the ice cap, but what about the longitude?
    — Jeffrey Marlow, Discover Magazine, 12 Dec. 2016
  • In short order, things escalate, with 35 million kids in the next 7 degrees of longitude.
    — Philip Bump, Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2019
  • Lastly you'll be asked more specific questions like time, date, and even the latitude and longitude of the location.
    — Taylor Mead, House Beautiful, 28 Nov. 2018
  • Had Duncan been born 20 years later, the latitude and longitude of his hometown might not have mattered.
    — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 14 May 2021
  • For example, the meta-data includes the precise latitude and longitude of where the snapshot was taken.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 22 Nov. 2024
  • Along with the photo, be sure to include your coordinates — the longitude and latitude of your location.
    — Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2022
  • The team was given specific timing along with latitude and longitude points off the icy Scottish waters.
    — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 16 July 2023
  • Developed by Google, the tool takes the latitude and longitude of a location and then creates a unique code that functions as a street address.
    — Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Sep. 2022
  • The captain’s diary contains pre-lined boxes for recording the latitude and longitude, as well as wind speeds and temperature.
    — Literary Hub, 10 Oct. 2025
  • This means that when viewed from Earth the two bodies share the same right ascension, which is the astronomical equivalent of longitude in the sky.
    — Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 17 Jan. 2025
  • The site calculates the antipode for any city or zip code entered by converting the latitude and longitude to the opposite hemisphere.
    — Don Sweeney, sacbee, 7 Aug. 2017

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