How to Use right angle in a Sentence

right angle

noun
  • Hold the nail at a right angle to the board.
  • A square has four right angles.
  • The two boards are joined at right angles to each other.
  • Each board has two legs that fold out, so the boards sit at just the right angle.
    — Carly Totten, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Feb. 2022
  • The back doors open to almost a right angle for easy step-in.
    — Mark Maynard, sandiegouniontribune.com, 11 May 2018
  • But at the right angle, these flares can surge in brightness.
    — Andrew Fazekas, National Geographic, 25 Jan. 2017
  • Step forward with one foot, then bend your knees to form right angles.
    — Kristine Thomason, Men's Health, 20 June 2023
  • The boards weren’t measured and cut to fit at nice, neat right angles.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Then press it against the edge of the back wall, keeping the pieces at a right angle.
    — Bradley Ford, Popular Mechanics, 30 Nov. 2022
  • The young safety must take the right angle on a post pattern.
    — Jon Wilner, The Denver Post, 27 Aug. 2019
  • At each mark, drill into the back edge at a perfect right angle.
    — Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 27 June 2022
  • This was just a rehearsal to make sure the cameras had the right angle.
    — Doug Ferguson, The Seattle Times, 16 July 2018
  • Heidi Klum knows all her right angles.
    — Tracy Wright, FOXNews.com, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Bends’ in Pier The wings are not at right angles to the main pier.
    — sandiegouniontribune.com, 2 July 2018
  • To strengthen this, lace limber boughs through the poles at right angles.
    — Keith McCafferty, Field & Stream, 29 June 2023
  • This stand is adjustable to get the right angles and fits both cellphones and tablets.
    — Bestreviews, The Mercury News, 3 Feb. 2025
  • Scrape back and forth over the crack with a sharp razor blade held at a right angle to the surface.
    — Washington Post, 31 May 2021
  • Take a big step out to the left and bend your left knee at a right angle while sending your hips behind you.
    — Alyssa Ages, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2025
  • So just knowing my spots on defense, getting to the right angles and things like that.
    — Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 15 Oct. 2019
  • To avoid harsh glare, turn screens at a right angle to windows or use an anti-glare filter.
    — Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 25 Sep. 2025
  • With our without cuffs, Kirsch asks his clients to keep their elbows bent at a right angle.
    — SELF, 26 Oct. 2018
  • Damned state was laid out with a T-square, with turns that vary from a right angle to an even righter angle.
    — Steven Cole Smith, Car and Driver, 21 May 2021
  • The legs form right angles with your butt on the chair and your knees coming out directly straight from your hips.
    — Stephanie Mansour, CNN, 22 Apr. 2020
  • The light splits in two, and the resulting beams travel at right angles to each other.
    — Adam Hadhazy, Discover Magazine, 10 Oct. 2019
  • Well, bear in mind the term curve in math is more abstract, and can include straight line segments and right angles.
    — Dave Linkletter, Popular Mechanics, 20 Nov. 2019
  • At the oak thou must turn right by a right angle and take exactly three times as many steps as thou just took to reach the tree.
    — Quanta Magazine, 22 Mar. 2019
  • At the pine thou must turn left by a right angle and again take exactly three times as many steps as thou took to reach the tree.
    — Quanta Magazine, 22 Mar. 2019
  • Active hands and the right angles resulted in three run-out layups by Davis.
    — Steve Reaven, Chicago Tribune, 15 Mar. 2025
  • Keep in mind that this hitch is effective when the load is pulled at a right angle to the attachment point.
    — Craig Caudill, Field & Stream, 12 July 2023
  • The photos, less so — some weren’t the right angle, others didn’t have the best lighting or showed his eyes closed.
    — Rashi Shrivastava, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025

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