ANGULAR in a Sentence

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Example sentences for ANGULAR, such as:

1. Gloom but no veiling of angularity.
2. That angular shadow up yonder was the bait, and we were the hunters.
3. Mr. Spock's features, though angular, were curiously attractive, in a Vulcan way.
4. The wooden reel and angular log attached hung, long untouched, just beneath the railing of the after bulwarks.
5. Thenardier was a small, thin, pale, angular, bony, feeble man, who had a sickly air and who was wonderfully healthy.

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 Meanings and Examples of ANGULAR
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angular
 a.  sharp-cornered; consisting of an angle or angles; stiff in manner
Classic Sentence:
1  Against the dark background of the kitchen she stood up tall and angular, one hand drawing a quilted counterpane to her flat breast, while the other held a lamp.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
2  This fin is some three or four feet long, growing vertically from the hinder part of the back, of an angular shape, and with a very sharp pointed end.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32. Cetology.
3  The wooden reel and angular log attached hung, long untouched, just beneath the railing of the after bulwarks.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 125. The Log and Line.
4  Miss Ophelia, as you now behold her, stands before you, in a very shining brown linen travelling-dress, tall, square-formed, and angular.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
5  Thenardier was a small, thin, pale, angular, bony, feeble man, who had a sickly air and who was wonderfully healthy.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—TWO COMPLETE PORTRAITS
6  There was something about her, as she thus ran about among paths, where her outline appeared perfectly black, waving her angular arms, and with her fichu all in rags, that resembled a bat.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—APPARITION TO FATHER MABEUF
7  That angular shadow up yonder was the bait, and we were the hunters.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE
8  Gloom but no veiling of angularity.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
Example Sentence:
1  Mr. Spock's features, though angular, were curiously attractive, in a Vulcan way.