SYMMETRICAL in a Sentence

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13 example sentences for SYMMETRICAL, such as:

1. It was adjusted, jointed, imbricated, rectilinear, symmetrical and funereal.
2. His hands were symmetrically placed on the green silk quilt, the palms downward.

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 Meanings and Examples of SYMMETRICAL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
symmetrical
 a.  proportionally balanced; even; having a likeness in the form and size
Classic Sentence:
1  How at such an apparently unassailable surface, they contrive to gouge out such symmetrical mouthfuls, remains a part of the universal problem of all things.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 64. Stubb's Supper.
2  The lines of her body were long, clean and symmetrical; it was a body which occasionally fell into splendid poses; there was no suggestion of the trim, stereotyped fashion-plate about it.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In VII
3  When I had no more ticks to make, I folded all my bills up uniformly, docketed each on the back, and tied the whole into a symmetrical bundle.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXXIV
4  Her form was exquisitely symmetrical, and was shown to advantage by a sort of Eastern dress, which she wore according to the fashion of the females of her nation.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
5  Gradually, as his soul was enriched with spiritual knowledge, he saw the whole world forming one vast symmetrical expression of God's power and love.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
6  Again Pierre fell into the naively symmetrical pose of an Egyptian statue, evidently distressed that his stout and clumsy body took up so much room and doing his utmost to look as small as possible.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXIII
7  It was adjusted, jointed, imbricated, rectilinear, symmetrical and funereal.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—THE CHARYBDIS OF THE FAUBOURG SAINT ANTOINE AND...
8  They had dumplings too; small, but substantial, symmetrically globular, and indestructible dumplings.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 101. The Decanter.
9  Stubb longed for vermillion stars to be painted upon the blade of his every oar; screwing each oar in his big vice of wood, the carpenter symmetrically supplies the constellation.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 107. The Carpenter.
10  His hands were symmetrically placed on the green silk quilt, the palms downward.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXIII
11  Kutuzov, with his uniform unbuttoned so that his fat neck bulged over his collar as if escaping, was sitting almost asleep in a low chair, with his podgy old hands resting symmetrically on its arms.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XII
12  Pointing with his pen at the office floor, to express that Australia was understood, for the purposes of the figure, to be symmetrically on the opposite spot of the globe.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXIV
Example Sentence:
1  A few of them had already come ashore and were beginning to spread out their nets in symmetrical patterns on the hot flags of the quay.