How to Use spheroid in a Sentence

spheroid

noun
  • Across each lumpy dark-gray spheroid cuts an uneven line.
    — Harmon Siegel, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The spheroids will need to be drained, cleaned and inspected.
    — David Sheppard, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2019
  • The Earth is not a perfect sphere, but an oblate spheroid flattened at the poles.
    — Randy Alfred, WIRED, 19 June 2008
  • The authors argue that such large numbers of spheroids could only have come from human hands.
    — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Planet Earth is shaped more like an oblate spheroid which looks like a flatter circle.
    — Emy Rodriguez Flores, Popular Mechanics, 10 Jan. 2023
  • The new device is small and round—an oblate spheroid, technically.
    — ArsTechnica, 17 June 2026
  • Tuck its hem into the top of your yoga pants so that the dress bulges, creating the illusion of an oblate spheroid.
    — Julie Sharbutt, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Insights from a trophoblast spheroid model.
    — Daniella Gray, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2025
  • Because the Earth rotates, that shape gets compressed at the poles and bulges in the middle, forming a shape known as an oblate spheroid.
    — Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2021
  • The team created a model of the ventral region by adding an extra protein to cortical spheroids at just the right time.
    — Simon Makin, Scientific American, 24 Jan. 2020
  • That has a physical difference when gripping an object shaped like a prolate spheroid.
    — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 27 Jan. 2022
  • The nucleus is a prolate spheroid, like a rugby ball, and should lead to discovery of more wobbly isotopes.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 12 Feb. 2020
  • But tiny glass spheroids riddle the lunar regolith—the rock chips and other loose material covering the lunar surface.
    — Rahul Rao, Popular Science, 9 Nov. 2023
  • The first human brain balls—aka cortical spheroids, aka neural organoids—agglomerated into existence just a few short years ago.
    — Megan Molteni, WIRED, 3 Apr. 2018
  • The live feed appears on a spheroid TV that looks like an astronaut’s helmet and directly faces the Buddha.
    — Washington Post, 31 July 2021
  • In general the studies kept the airway spheroids embedded and immobilized in a protein-rich gel called Matrigel.
    — Philip Ball, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2023
  • When the team inhibited AhR signaling, embryo-like spheroids attached more strongly to uterine cells.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 17 Dec. 2025
  • The ball has its shape — a prolate spheroid — because that was the natural shape of the inflated pig bladder used to make the first football in the 19th century.
    — Adam Jude, The Seattle Times, 30 Oct. 2018
  • Yet the integrity of the game continues to be threatened by a spheroid that costs about $9 and could be affected by even the simple act of a mosquito buzzing around the horsehide of a cow.
    — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 11 Dec. 2019
  • In some cases, material from this disk forms a blob-like spheroid, but the YORP effect continues to shape it.
    — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 3 June 2020
  • But because the earth is an oblate spheroid, the sea level at the Equator is some 14 miles farther from the center of the earth than the sea level at the North Pole.
    — Mark Fischetti, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2023
  • On the contrary, there is an irresistible impulse among the boys of suburban Minneapolis to put our gym shoes of varying stripe and quality through a prolate spheroid.
    — Steve Rushin, SI.com, 21 June 2017
  • But Earth is an oblate spheroid, meaning a 3D shape created by an ellipsis that’s rotating around its shorter axis—like a more rounded jelly donut.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 12 Feb. 2020
  • Unlike previous bioprinting options that lack the necessary, spheroids better approximate cell densities seen in the human body.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 4 Dec. 2024
  • Unlike baseball or basketball, the American football relies on a spiral rotation because of its prolate spheroid shape.
    — Jocelyn Solis-Moreira, Popular Science, 6 Feb. 2023
  • In situ spheroid formation in distant submillimetre-bright galaxies NASA.
    — Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 5 Dec. 2024
  • Ghawar, Khurais, Shaybah—comes to Abqaiq to be processed, coursing through its sprawling network of pipes, spheroids and stabilisation towers before being sent to customers around the world.
    — The Economist, 19 Sep. 2019
  • To take the curvature of the Earth into account, surveyors used spheroid models—rough, rounder precursors to the more mathematically complex ellipsoid models.
    — Freddie Wilkinson, National Geographic, 28 Sep. 2020
  • After a week of exposure, the scientists separated the spheroids into individual cells to analyze gene expression and to measure fat accumulation.
    — Sharon Udasin, The Hill, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The disk’s material will most likely fall onto the embryonic moon from the radial (in-out) direction, sculpting the satellite into an egg or football shape—what’s called a prolate spheroid—with the long axis pointing toward the parent body.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 20 Sep. 2024

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