HYPOTENUSE in a Sentence

Learn HYPOTENUSE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

Example sentences for HYPOTENUSE, such as:

You would not write your name in pencil across the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle.

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hypotenuse
 n.  the side of a right triangle opposite the right angle
Classic Sentence:
1  You would not write your name in pencil across the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle.
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