How to Use trefoil in a Sentence

trefoil

noun
  • How long does a rope have to be in order to form a trefoil knot?
    — Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 5 Jan. 2024
  • The trefoil also appeared on big travel bags, and as a print on trousers.
    — Colleen Barry, USA TODAY, 26 Feb. 2022
  • In the trefoil knot field, each line wraps twice around the perimeter of the torus and three times through the center.
    — Quanta Magazine, 9 Dec. 2013
  • The three-crossing knot known as the trefoil is tricolorable.
    — Quanta Magazine, 2 June 2020
  • But the cyanide-making genes of the trefoil and the moth take these disparities to a whole new level.
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 12 Apr. 2011
  • On the formal side, leather bowling bags and suede loafers come down to earth with Adidas's three-stripe motif or its trefoil stamp.
    — Halie Lesavage, Harper's BAZAAR, 7 June 2022
  • This flotation device served as the machine’s hull in the water, and was shaped like a trefoil to leave room for the airflow of the rotors.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 10 July 2023
  • For example, combining a simple knot known as the trefoil with its mirror image produces a square knot.
    — Quanta Magazine, 31 Oct. 2022
  • This kids’ take on the iconic Adidas trefoil logo cap is cool and practical, thanks to a brim that shields little eyes from the sun.
    — Krystin Arneson, CNN Underscored, 8 July 2020
  • The brand’s trefoil logo is embroidered in gold at the forefoot, but the mule is otherwise blank in terms of outward branding.
    — Riley Jones, Footwear News, 18 Feb. 2026
  • The Adidas 3-stripe logo is featured along the sleeves and paired with a trefoil design for an extra burst of color.
    — Ellen McAlpine, CNN Underscored, 6 Oct. 2020
  • The simplest torus knot — indeed, the simplest nontrivial knot, period — is called a trefoil.
    — Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 5 Jan. 2024
  • The shoe mixes a retro feel (with the old school Adidas trefoil logo and three stripes) with the high-end design of Gucci.
    — Jane Hanson, Forbes, 28 June 2022
  • The latest inexplicable fad has young teens building collections of the palm-sized trefoils.
    — Susan Steade, The Mercury News, 11 May 2017
  • The British royal wore a petite diamond ribbon brooch, which features a ribbon design in a trefoil shape.
    — Julia Teti, WWD, 16 July 2024
  • The Tonale proudly wears Alfa Romeo's signature trefoil grille.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 8 Feb. 2022
  • Both are squared off towers that rise in four sections, and both are decorated with similar elements, such as trefoil arches.
    — Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2021
  • One element would be the simplest knot, called a trefoil, another a figure-eight knot, and so on—and none could transform into another.
    — Natalie Wolchover, Scientific American, 11 Dec. 2013
  • One element would be the simplest knot, called a trefoil, another a figure-eight knot, and so on — and none could transform into another.
    — Quanta Magazine, 9 Dec. 2013
  • On luggage, the Trefoil was joined by the Gucci logo spelled backwards, while the horsebit crossbody and tote were decked out in an allover trefoil print.
    — Tiziana Cardini, Vogue, 10 May 2022
  • The steel-and-cement trefoil exploding from the earth resembles the Capitol from the Hunger Games films.
    — Amy Tara Koch, chicagotribune.com, 6 Dec. 2019
  • The trefoil uses three genes to convert these harmless starter chemicals into their deadlier descendants.
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 12 Apr. 2011
  • Stylebeat discusses quatrefoil and trefoil motifs and shares some favorite finds from the High Point market.
    — House Beautiful, 8 Apr. 2012
  • More complicated knots include the trefoil and the figure eight, in which the string crosses over and under itself some number of times before its ends join together.
    — Quanta Magazine, 16 June 2022
  • The mathematics of knot theory says that a simple loop and a trefoil are fundamentally different knots.
    — George Hart, Scientific American, 22 Jan. 2013
  • The collaboration included men’s suits in track-worthy shades of royal blue and purple with the adidas stripes down the sleeves and trousers and Gucci written under sports brand’s trefoil.
    — Colleen Barry, ajc, 26 Feb. 2022
  • The classic white sneak features a Gucci trefoil print, Adidas’ classic three stripes and the GG monogram for a hybrid, timeless design.
    — Anna Tingley, Variety, 6 Sep. 2022
  • The trefoil symbol appears again on the cork insole, an element of the shoe which has unsurprisingly resulted in Birkenstock comparisons.
    — Riley Jones, Footwear News, 18 Feb. 2026
  • The collaboration included men's suits in track-worthy shades of royal blue and purple with the Adidas stripes down the sleeves and trousers and Gucci written under sports brand's trefoil.
    — Colleen Barry, USA TODAY, 26 Feb. 2022
  • Wax current shrubs, prickly poppies, globe mallow, rare Graham’s tick-trefoil and the ubiquitous sunflowers sprout from seemingly inhospitable volcanic scree.
    — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 7 Aug. 2020

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