Sentences with elliptical
- ...the moon's elliptical orbit.
- ...Kirsty Gunn's austere, elliptical account of a childhood tragedy.
- What they found was a Jupiter-like gas planet with a Jupiter-like elliptical orbit, with no bigger planets closer to its star.
- The inevitable merger into one huge, elliptical galaxy need not mean the end for stars in either galaxy.
- If he is sometimes elliptical and obscure, it is because he has so much to tell us. -- Edmund Wilson
- Like the prow of a ship in dry dock, the tall, thin, elliptical hotel tower which will cater to the super rich or super lucky.
- So he tries to be as elliptical as possible and his publisher, Michael Heyward at Text, can get a bit exasperated.
- In two elliptical works, the artists' faces are constructed from rectangular bars that shoot out from some perspectival vanishing point.
- In any version, the play is going to be elliptical, suggestive.
- Arup developed the spine and elliptical shaped structure so that it represents the artist's intentions, but was also buildable and affordable.
- The use of elliptical to mean circumlocutory should be avoided as it may be interpreted wrongly as meaning condensed or concise