How to Use trapezoid in a Sentence

trapezoid

noun
  • Cut the white space out of the middle of the trapezoid.
    — Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2026
  • When folded up, the prop arms form a trapezoid around the drone’s central core.
    — Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 20 May 2015
  • There is a craze for the long-but-short denim piece that covers the leg like a trapezoid!
    — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 22 July 2022
  • The teacher was a young, floppy-haired man shaped like an upside-down trapezoid.
    — E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2023
  • The trapezoid’s area then equals the distance Jupiter has traveled.
    — Jonathon Keats, Discover Magazine, 19 Dec. 2016
  • Why a trapezoid, which is a four-sided figure with one pair of parallel sides?
    — Mike Cason | [email protected], al, 18 Dec. 2021
  • Scotty Bag puts a unique spin on the colorful baguette bags of late with a chic trapezoid shape.
    — Sarah Boyd, Forbes, 15 Apr. 2021
  • Just to the upper left of the lopsided trapezoid is the very bright planet Jupiter.
    — Mike Lynch / Sky Watch, Twin Cities, 15 Apr. 2017
  • New Jersey Devils No thanks for the trapezoid.
    — Sean McIndoe, New York Times, 3 Dec. 2025
  • The shape of the building is an exaggerated trapezoid and the roof surfs up from the harbor like the top of a wave.
    — Derek Blasberg, Vanities, 7 Dec. 2017
  • The bottle is a tall trapezoid, featuring crisp lines and a golden semicircle at the top.
    — Dallas News, 30 Nov. 2022
  • That means that the dovetails on either side of a corner form a sort of trapezoid and are connected by a slanted track.
    — Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics, 25 Apr. 2017
  • At the top corner of the trapezoid, sew a corresponding color ribbon for ties.
    — Terri Robertson, Country Living, 18 Aug. 2022
  • On the right side of the room, a steel cut image is projected from the wall with fiberglass rods arranged in an off center trapezoid.
    — Mario Rodriguez, Miami Herald, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Laferriere got his eighth of the season on a one-timer in the slot set up by Adrian Kempe from the trapezoid.
    — CBS News, 27 Dec. 2025
  • The trapezoid is the predominant structure shape, not the rectangle or square.
    — Lauren Beale, Forbes, 20 May 2021
  • From an angle, a square looks like a trapezoid, so Vector can just translate that skewed shape into a position.
    — Dieter Bohn, The Verge, 8 Aug. 2018
  • The bedroom’s shape could be described as a parallelogram attached to a trapezoid.
    — Joan Walden, courant.com, 13 Apr. 2018
  • The aluminum green trapezoid represents greenspace that could occupy the void where the Trade Center plaza once stood.
    — William Neuman, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2018
  • That trapezoid is pretty much the center of the Hercules constellation.
    — Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Floors require specialized cuts with trapezoids and tiny triangles at the edges, and cabinet makers have a tough time working with curved walls.
    — Janet Eastman, OregonLive.com, 13 July 2017
  • Almost all use arithmetic, but several make baffling references to trapezoids.
    — Jonathon Keats, Discover Magazine, 19 Dec. 2016
  • The lighting is discreet and natural wood abounds — walls, wine racks, benches and even the ceiling are mosaics of timber triangles and trapezoids.
    — Providence Cicero, The Seattle Times, 20 July 2017
  • Almost every model carried what Lopez called the Ana bag—a leather trapezoid that dangles from a circular handle.
    — Ana Karina Zatarain, New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2025
  • The tablets explicitly link this formula to calculating the area of a trapezoid, with sides representing the speeds and elapsed time.
    — National Geographic, 28 Jan. 2016
  • The screen and speaker wrapped in a chunky trapezoid of plastic have more in common with the cathode-ray TVs your parents grew up with than any gadget from this decade.
    — David Pierce, WIRED, 26 June 2017
  • Samsonov, who made 40 saves in his playoff debut and first action since May 1, stopped the puck in the trapezoid for his defense and was slow getting back to his crease.
    — Mike Brehm, USA TODAY, 20 May 2021
  • So, what's that plastic trapezoid perched atop the steering column of the 2021 Ford Mustang Mach-E?
    — Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 17 Mar. 2021
  • The shape of the State House-- not a rectangle but a trapezoid -- was one of the findings Derry explained during her presentation.
    — Mike Cason | [email protected], al, 18 Dec. 2021
  • In the Olympics, goalies continued to be free to play the puck anywhere behind the goal line until the IIHF adopted the trapezoid in 2021.
    — Jesse Granger, New York Times, 10 Feb. 2026

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