How to Use parallelogram in a Sentence

parallelogram

noun
  • Rectangles, squares, and rhombuses are all parallelograms.
  • My door is a parallelogram, because of the slope, and so far it's worked fine.
    — Ryan D'agostino, Popular Mechanics, 6 Mar. 2021
  • Here, now, the fertile parallelograms are found not framed by state roads but rather indoors.
    — John Walters, Newsweek, 20 Feb. 2014
  • Vega and a small parallelogram of fainter stars to the lower right is all there is to Lyra.
    — Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 21 July 2019
  • Look for a small parallelogram of stars near Vega.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2025
  • Bring the square behind the parallelogram, and the triangle at top in front of the square that is now below it.
    — Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 5 Jan. 2024
  • In this way, the four red corners of the parallelogram become a single point on the doughnut.
    — Kelsey Houston-Edwards, Scientific American, 21 Sep. 2022
  • All there is to Lyra is Vega and a small parallelogram of fainter stars to the lower right.
    — Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 7 June 2026
  • The bedroom’s shape could be described as a parallelogram attached to a trapezoid.
    — Joan Walden, courant.com, 13 Apr. 2018
  • Some have a little piano keyboard while others have a grid of black and white buttons set roughly in the shape of a parallelogram.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 23 Dec. 2022
  • Just keep scanning between the two stars that make up the end of the parallelogram opposite the bright star Vega.
    — Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Vega and a small faint parallelogram below it are supposed to outline a celestial harp.
    — Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 4 Aug. 2019
  • Studies further indicate that parting one’s hair is a lost art; far too many men comb their hair in a style that resembles a parallelogram.
    — Joe Queenan, WSJ, 12 July 2018
  • Laid out in somewhat of a parallelogram, this district has houses that date back to before the Civil War.
    — Trudy Haywood Saunders, Travel + Leisure, 4 Mar. 2024
  • The terminal is shaped like an extruded parallelogram that seemingly floats above the service road.
    — Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 17 Jan. 2022
  • Floating at the top of the list was an unusual logo, a hovering 3-D orb casting a shadow over a parallelogram.
    — Dan Kois, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2023
  • Lyra Vega is the brightest star in the tiny and parallelogram-shaped constellation of Lyra, the Harp.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2021
  • Until 2018 there was never a doubt that the boundaries, a jagged parallelogram over North Texas’ two largest counties, would hold steady.
    — Nic Garcia, Dallas News, 1 Mar. 2020
  • Viewed on a map of the development, the five-story structure looks something like a tilted parallelogram, a design that creates triangular units on the corners.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 22 Oct. 2021
  • Instead of the standard 90-degree angles found in many houses, the building uses the parallelogram shape and features a single right angle in its design.
    — Megan Barber, Curbed, 3 Dec. 2018
  • In a periodic tiling, the arrangement of tiles repeats in a regular pattern determined by an infinite grid of parallelograms.
    — Craig S. Kaplan, Scientific American, 14 Dec. 2023
  • The pattern of creases forms a tessellation of parallelograms, and the whole structure collapses and unfolds in a single motion — providing an elegant way to fold a map.
    — Quanta Magazine, 31 Oct. 2017
  • The tower would gradually widen at the northeast and southwest corners, transitioning from an efficient rectangle at the base to an expansive parallelogram at the top.
    — Ryan Ori, chicagotribune.com, 16 Oct. 2019
  • The original home was 1,800 square feet and designed as a parallelogram, incorporating angles throughout the home.
    — Abigail Rosenthal, Chron, 29 July 2021
  • This dissection shows that the area of the parallelogram is equal to the area of a rectangle with the same base and height, which, as anyone who didn’t attend Imaginary University knows, is the product of those two numbers.
    — Patrick Honner, Quanta Magazine, 21 Nov. 2022
  • About all there is to the constellation Lyra is the bright star Vega, which shines very high in the southeastern sky, with four dimmer stars forming a lopsided rectangle, or parallelogram, just to the lower left of Vega.
    — Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 18 Aug. 2019
  • At a new art exhibit at the Portland Children's Museum featuring monsters designed by children, one monster looks like a walking parallelogram with multiple eyes.
    — Amy Wang, OregonLive.com, 26 June 2017
  • The Ring Nebula lies in the constellation Lyra the Lyre (or Harp), between two of the four stars that make a little parallelogram allegedly outlining the little celestial harp.
    — Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 14 Sep. 2025
  • The Miura-ori fold, named after its inventor, Japanese astrophysicist Kōryō Miura, is a method of folding a flat surface such as a sheet of paper into a smaller area with a repeating pattern of parallelograms.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 1 Dec. 2025
  • While traditional courts are rectangular, the CAMH gallery is a parallelogram, making the court a weird, surrealist, immersive experience.
    — Brittanie Shey, Chron, 20 Mar. 2023

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