SYMMETRY in a Sentence

Learn SYMMETRY 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.

16 example sentences for SYMMETRY, such as:

1. Nothing oppresses the heart like symmetry.
2. Starfish exhibit a superficially radial symmetry.
3. I loved the house because it had perfect symmetry.
4. The human body has a symmetry that is basic to our sense of beauty.
5. It is because symmetry is ennui, and ennui is at the very foundation of grief.

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 Meanings and Examples of SYMMETRY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
symmetry
 n.  arrangement of parts so that balance is obtained; congruity
Classic Sentence:
1  Nothing oppresses the heart like symmetry.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—MASTER GORBEAU
2  It is because symmetry is ennui, and ennui is at the very foundation of grief.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—MASTER GORBEAU
3  This cemetery, with its peculiarities outside the regulations, embarrassed the symmetry of the administration.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BE DRUNK IN ORDER TO BE ...
4  This inclined plane was suppressed later on, for the sake of symmetry; horses may die of thirst, but the eye is gratified.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—THE "SPUN" MAN
5  There was a fecklessness, a lack of symmetry and order in the clouds, as they thinned and thickened.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 1
6  But an inner strenuousness was preying upon an outer symmetry, and they rated his look as singular.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 6 The Two Stand Face to Face
7  She was a striking-looking woman, a little short and thick for symmetry, but with a beautiful olive complexion, large, dark, Italian eyes, and a wealth of deep black hair.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XI. The Adventure of The Naval Treaty
8  There was a glamor to it, a perfection and a completeness and a symmetry to it like Grecian art.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
9  Both are massive enough in all conscience; but there is a certain mathematical symmetry in the Sperm Whale's which the Right Whale's sadly lacks.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 74. The Sperm Whale's Head—Contrasted View.
10  Pierre disturbed the symmetry by moving a chair for himself, and Berg and Vera immediately began their evening party, interrupting each other in their efforts to entertain their guest.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XX
Example Sentence:
1  A certain symmetry is emerging in Indo-American relations.
2  A center of actual rotation as well as rotational symmetry may be called gyration center.
3  Starfish exhibit a superficially radial symmetry.
4  The human body has a symmetry that is basic to our sense of beauty.
5  The design of the house had a pleasing symmetry, its oblong shape being picked up in its elongated windows.
6  I loved the house because it had perfect symmetry.