How to Use pentagon in a Sentence

pentagon

noun
  • At the south pole, five storms formed a pentagon around a central tempest.
    — Amina Khan, latimes.com, 2018-03-07
  • But the pentagon shape of the burner looks sharp in overhead photos.
    — Bee Wilson, WSJ, 2018-03-16
  • Instead of your standard rectangle, the newest styles come in ovals, squares, and even a pentagon.
    — Lindsay Peoples Wagner, The Cut, 2018-03-07
  • His 6-foot-5 frame towers over the 17-inch rubber pentagon at his white-cleated feet.
    — Shayna Rubin, The Mercury News, 2019-09-19
  • Each of the shafts opened to a trident shape at the top, according to a June 26 Pentagon briefing.
    — Samuel Granados, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2025
  • To understand the problem with pentagons, let’s start with one of the simplest and most elegant of geometric structures: the regular tilings of the plane.
    — Quanta Magazine, 2017-12-11
  • By early August, though, the lopsided pentagon will be available for very early morning viewing in the pre-twilight northeast sky.
    — Mike Lynch / Sky Watch, Twin Cities, 2017-06-03
  • The sets on sale comes with colorful squares, triangles, and pentagons that can be pieced together to build 2-D or 3-D patterns.
    — Lindsey Murray, Good Housekeeping, 2018-08-09
  • The images that the lines create in a mandala become symbols that can include the pentagon, meaning perfection and dots that represent everything is one.
    — Lyndi McNulty, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 2019-11-20
  • Kind of a pentagon or home plate, with straight sides, a meandering river boundary below, and a partly straight top with a friendly bite mark out of it on the northeast side from Lake Erie.
    — Andrew J. Tobias, cleveland.com, 2018-02-27
  • Moresnet was an irregular pentagon tapering to a point at a hill called Vaalserberg at what is today the southeastern tip of the Netherlands, and still the country's highest point.
    — Ken Jennings, Condé Nast Traveler, 2017-03-20
  • Pentagon officials have been meeting with their European counterparts this week to work out security guarantees for Ukraine.
    — Brittney Melton, NPR, 21 Aug. 2025
  • In the years running up to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Pentagon procurement of bombs and ammunition had dropped substantially.
    — William Hartung, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • An early Pentagon intelligence assessment reportedly found that Tehran’s nuclear program was set back by only months.
    — Filip Timotija, The Hill, 2 July 2025
  • The party will introduce a five-member executive that will accommodate all five of the alliance’s leaders, known as the pentagon, including Mudavadi as prime minister with two deputies.
    — Felix Njini, Bloomberg.com, 2017-04-27
  • Pentagon press secretary Kingsley Wilson said the guard troops will not be armed but declined to elaborate on their assignments to safety patrols and beautification efforts.
    — Terry Tang, Denver Post, 17 Aug. 2025
  • Conservative conspiracy theories swirled last year that Swift was part of a Pentagon plot fueled by Democrats to sway the 2024 election.
    — Francesca Chambers, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2025
  • In addition, the intersection was improved with a roundabout, including a pentagon dedicated to the five armed branches of the U.S. military.
    — Allison Sampite-Montecalvo, sandiegouniontribune.com, 2017-05-03
  • Pentagon leadership has expressed concerns about losing access to military bandwidth, while telecom industry analysts have grown concerned that companies are overextending themselves in the gold rush.
    — Rohan Goswami, semafor.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Pentagon laboratories are not spurring the AI boom, which purportedly holds the keys to America’s military and economic future.
    — Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 25 Aug. 2025
  • The deployment of 1,700 National Guardsmen was first announced on July 25 in a Pentagon press release.
    — Michael Dorgan , Jacqui Heinrich , Liz Friden, FOXNews.com, 23 Aug. 2025
  • In the 1970s, Marjorie Rice, a homemaker with no mathematical background, ran across a Scientific American column about pentagons that tile the plane.
    — Evelyn Lamb, WIRED, 2018-04-30
  • Trump, then nearing the end of his first term, sought to employ active-duty combat troops while Defense Secretary Mark Esper and other Pentagon officials urged him to rely instead on the Guard, which is trained to address civil disturbances.
    — Alex Horton and David Ovalle The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 13 Aug. 2025
  • The acquisition announcement comes just days after Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth announced his intention to restore a Confederate monument to Arlington National Cemetery, a statue removed in 2023 under the Biden Administration.
    — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 13 Aug. 2025
  • What To Know Troops are set to be deployed in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Ohio, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Wyoming, Fox News reported, citing documents and unnamed Pentagon officials.
    — Khaleda Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Aug. 2025

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