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"Elliptical" in a Sentence (14 examples)
The orbit around Sirius is elliptical.
Sirius has an elliptical orbit.
Our solar system is elliptical in shape. That means it is shaped like an egg.
Our solar system has an elliptical shape and is part of a galaxy known as the Milky Way.
The orbit of Mars around the Sun is extremely elliptical.
Elliptical galaxies contain older stars and very little gas and dust. They vary in their shape from round to flattened, elongated spheres.
Chandra has an elliptical orbit which takes it more than 138,000 kilometers from Earth and then back to within 9600 kilometers of Earth. Chandra travels more than one-third of the way to the Moon with each orbit!
Since the orbits are elliptical, the planets do not always have the same distance from the Sun.
The planets follow elliptical orbits.
Elliptical bicycles are a good option for exercising indoors.
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Having admitted that the projectile was describing an orbit around the moon, this orbit must necessarily be elliptical; science proves that it must be so.
If he is sometimes elliptical and obscure, it is because he has so much to tell us.
Browning's dark and elliptical mode of speech, like his love of the grotesque, was simply a characteristic of his, a trick of his temperament, and had little or nothing to do with whether what he was expressing was profound or superficial.
He was called a tramp; but that was only an elliptical way of saying that he was a philosopher, an artist, a traveller, a naturalist and a discoverer.
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