How to Use unidirectional in a Sentence

unidirectional

adjective
  • Birds evolved unidirectional airflow and air sacs for high-energy flight.
    — Samantha Agate, Miami Herald, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Keegan made sure the nanoplastic’s gold unidirectional filament was aligned with the crease, and then gently pulled on the next fold of the sheet.
    — August Cole, Wired, 5 June 2020
  • From a distance, concerts are unidirectional, from the stage outward.
    — New York Times, 16 July 2021
  • This pro diver stainless steel watch is two-tone, automated and has a unidirectional bezel.
    — NBC News, 22 June 2020
  • Arrows on the gallery floors will encourage unidirectional flow.
    — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 3 Sep. 2020
  • This alone is a huge improvement over the choppy, unidirectional quality of a standard video call.
    — Lila MacLellan, Quartz, 30 Aug. 2021
  • His account suggests a unidirectional process of unsettling that emanates from the artist into the world.
    — Lucie Elven, The New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2023
  • The stainless steel case features unidirectional bezel, a blue dial, date window at four o’clock and gleaming hands and markers.
    — Popular Science, 31 July 2020
  • Pathways are unidirectional, and purple and gold dots – the school’s colors – are on the ground marking off six-foot increments.
    — Kelly Field, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Sep. 2020
  • One-way paths will be enforced during the election, just as unidirectional movement from class to class has been adopted on many campuses.
    — Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Oct. 2020
  • Second, the moral arc of history is not always unidirectional.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 29 Jan. 2012
  • In both cases, movement is unidirectional, as in, everyone is trying to move in the same direction.
    — Adam Rogers, WIRED, 24 Sep. 2015
  • ATEi’s top serrations are a unidirectional set of curving edges machined into the top of the slide.
    — Chris Mudgett, Outdoor Life, 8 Oct. 2020
  • While today’s crocodilians have unidirectional breathing through their lungs, their air handling does not extend to their bones, which do not have any air-sac cavities.
    — Jeanne Timmons, Ars Technica, 26 July 2023
  • Events in the world undeniably form a unidirectional sequence.
    — Paul Davies, Scientific American, 24 Oct. 2014
  • One common mistake many mentors make is thinking the exercise is unidirectional.
    — Lauren Wickstead, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Female lust, comprising all these repulsions, isn’t some blunt, unidirectional force.
    — Lily Janiak, San Francisco Chronicle, 31 May 2018
  • This unidirectional model placed proteins as the sole functional end-products of gene expression.
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
  • The Hope’s ceramic unidirectional rotating bezel is in a differing shade of rose.
    — Nancy Olson, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2021
  • Cross seas Our understanding of how waves break has primarily been models of unidirectional waves.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 19 Sep. 2024
  • Propaganda is never simple, unidirectional, or predictable—and most people are not dupes.
    — Siva Vaidhyanathan, The New Republic, 5 Jan. 2021
  • But the fact that there are differences between the two energy sources, and that the rotor is ever consistent and unidirectional, is important.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 25 June 2020
  • Large amounts of the data have been recorded on unidirectional, multi-lane highways, where the most important tasks are staying in the car’s own lane and not getting too close to the vehicle ahead.
    — Peter Hancock, Scientific American, 16 Aug. 2021
  • The motor moves from thermal or electrical energy and is often predictably unidirectional.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 25 June 2020
  • In a country where growing divisions have become the main uniting principle, that kind of unidirectional movement is noteworthy.
    — NBC News, 16 June 2019
  • With modeling and experiment, the team is working to get the best spherical compression from its unidirectional driver.
    — Bydaniel Clery, science.org, 15 Feb. 2023
  • Most hagfish predators employ suction feeding, which creates a unidirectional shear-thickening flow, the better to clog the gills and suffocate said predators.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 20 June 2024
  • The unidirectional ceramic bezel, offered in either black or green, is fade and scratch-resistant, complementing the high durability of the case.
    — Matthew Catellier, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025
  • An episodic career is characterized by a sequence of diverse and distinct work phases, rather than following a single, unidirectional career path.
    — Benjamin Laker, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Most annual reviews are unidirectional from boss to subordinate.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 6 Feb. 2023

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