How to Use perfect square in a Sentence

perfect square

noun
  • The pro kept Lively’s nails short but filed into a perfect square shape.
    — Michelle Lee, Peoplemag, 11 June 2024
  • Find a perfect square, all of whose digits are in the set {2, 3, 7, 8}.
    — Quanta Magazine, 18 Nov. 2020
  • Greengrass captures the two of them outside the house, viewed through a window that frames them in a near-perfect square.
    — Chris Hewitt, Star Tribune, 11 Jan. 2021
  • Each piece of fruit and cake is divided into perfect squares, like a delicious chess board.
    — Sarah Slutsky, Glamour, 15 May 2018
  • Both the principal bedroom and the living room form almost perfect squares.
    — Katharina Schwarze, Architectural Digest, 12 Oct. 2024
  • Use the plastic and metal presses to form indents for fillings and create the perfect square shape.
    — Popular Science, 6 Aug. 2020
  • The painting is enormous (about 53 square feet) and a quarter-of-an-inch shy of being a perfect square.
    — Washington Post, 23 Nov. 2022
  • Pressing the mixture into a 9-inch square baking pan turns out perfect squares, but the size and shape of your vessel is up to you.
    — Eric Kim, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 May 2024
  • Chin frames up another perfect square in a seasonal ice cave that forms on the Athabasca Glacier.
    — Grayson Schaffer, Outside Online, 14 May 2015
  • Since no perfect square can end in 2, 3, 7 or 8, no perfect square exists with only those digits.
    — Quanta Magazine, 18 Nov. 2020
  • Once taken, it must be printed on photo-quality paper that is two inches long and two inches wide, a perfect square.
    — Charlie Hobbs, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Sep. 2024
  • Silicon ice cube trays come in an array of sizes and shapes, for these shot bites a perfect square mold was used but the possibilities are endless.
    — Charlotte Palermino, Marie Claire, 2 July 2014
  • Because modular number systems are finite, perfect squares are more common.
    — Quanta Magazine, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Wisconsin’s capital is surrounded by perfect squares of farmland dotted with red barns and grain silos.
    — Dionne Searcey, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2020
  • Cardi's nails were several inches long and shaped into a perfect square, painted the subtlest baby pink for a sweet flower petal aesthetic.
    — Kara Nesvig, Allure, 2 July 2024
  • Pale orange, velvety smooth, and tangy as Pinkberry, a perfect square of American cheese or Velveeta melts all in one piece.
    — Veronique Greenwood, Discover Magazine, 18 Sep. 2011
  • Melted over the mixture are two perfect squares of American cheese, a shower of sesame seeds, and the aforementioned reddish-pink burger sauce.
    — Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 25 Oct. 2025
  • The perfect square of frozen American cheese, bright, plasticky yellow circles of egg-cornstarch-milk patties—is this Lego food?
    — Alex Beggs, Bon Appétit, 7 Oct. 2021
  • Calculating square roots of perfect squares, meaning the integers that have integer square roots, is logically complicated, but can still be done with mechanical circuitry and logic gates.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 2 Jan. 2020
  • The boundaries are not a perfect square but run from 43rd Avenue on the east to 63rd Avenue on the west, and from Camelback Road on the north to McDowell Road on the south.
    — Erick Trevino, AZCentral.com, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Another perfect square like 2025 (452 = 2,025) won’t occur again until 2116 (462 = 2,116).
    — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 10 Jan. 2026

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