GEOMETRICAL in a Sentence

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However, if the geometrical line is in place anywhere, it is certainly in the drainage trench of a great city.

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 Meanings and Examples of GEOMETRICAL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
geometric
 a.  characterized by simple geometric forms in design and decoration
 a.  of or relating to or determined by geometry
Classic Sentence:
1  Hougomont viewed on the map, as a geometrical plan, comprising buildings and enclosures, presents a sort of irregular rectangle, one angle of which is nicked out.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—HOUGOMONT
2  There is no more absolute logical sequence in the human heart than there is a perfect geometrical figure in the celestial mechanism.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER II—THE BEWILDERMENT OF PERFECT HAPPINESS
3  However, if the geometrical line is in place anywhere, it is certainly in the drainage trench of a great city.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER V—PRESENT PROGRESS
4  Wildeve forgot the loss of the money at the sight of his lost love, whose preciousness in his eyes was increasing in geometrical progression with each new incident that reminded him of their hopeless division.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 8 A New Force Disturbs the Current
5  The stained-glass windows, which displayed only a geometrical pattern, were broken in many places, and the curtains that hung across the lower end were thick with dust.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In IV
6  He was drawing in this circle geometrical lines, and seemed as much absorbed in his problem as Archimedes was when the soldier of Marcellus slew him.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14. The Two Prisoners.
7  If the Sperm Whale be physiognomically a Sphinx, to the phrenologist his brain seems that geometrical circle which it is impossible to square.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 80. The Nut.
8  Viewed sideways, the closing-line of her lips formed, with almost geometric precision, the curve so well known in the arts of design as the cima-recta, or ogee.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 7 Queen of Night
Example Sentence:
1  Dr. Montessori giving a lesson in touching geometrical insets.
2  The jumper has a geometrical pattern on it.
3  The jumper has a geometric pattern on it.
4  Population is increasing in that country in a geometric progression.