How to Use angularity in a Sentence

angularity

noun
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  • His body has a rubbery angularity, like a chicken bone soaked in Coca-Cola.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 31 Aug. 2019
  • His body has a rubbery angularity, like a poultry bone soaked in Coca-Cola.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 2 Oct. 2019
  • Highlighter must be applied to maximize the feline angularity of her face.
    — Allison P. Davis, The Cut, 12 Feb. 2018
  • Its music shows both songwriters’ clear fingerprints: the pithy, hard-nosed clarity of Mr. Pop’s lyrics and the unflinching tone of his voice; and the crispness, angularity and deft convolutions of Mr. Homme’s chords and melodies.
    — Jon Pareles, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2016
  • Honja's living room wall looks dapper with an impromptu black-and-gray scallop pattern that offsets the angularity of her sofa.
    — Kathy Barnes, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Feb. 2021
  • In this sleek option, geometric shapes bring an angularity, while snowy white pillows offer up a feminine touch.
    — Leah Melby Clinton, Harper's BAZAAR, 1 Dec. 2022
  • As delightful as is this jubilee of angularity, Mr. Elliott is more successful when folding light than folding space.
    — Michael J. Lewis, WSJ, 26 Jan. 2022
  • The sand particles have been lab-tested for hardness, angularity and porosity.
    — Bradley S. Klein, WSJ, 17 June 2022
  • Clay was far too amorphous a material for the domineering angularity of this proto-SUV.
    — Brett Berk, Car and Driver, 27 July 2017
  • Note his lines — their fluidity, their angularity, their grace, their humor.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 7 Oct. 2020
  • A single sheet from 1995 shows four irregular canvases; two feature assertive stick figures whose rigidity and angularity are a far cry from the usual stretchy, pliant limbs.
    — Roberta Smith, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2017
  • Moft's signature angularity and soft foldable peripherals are on full display here.
    — Julian Chokkattu, Wired, 13 July 2022
  • In fervently discerning closeups, Lubitsch catches Oberon’s flickering glances, Douglas’s curdling smiles of bonhomie, Meredith’s febrile angularity.
    — Richard Brod, The New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2021
  • Norton plays the vast and intricate composition with glittering angularity and tactile intensity, intellectual grandeur and joyful energy that make it, from the start, no less bracing and imaginative than Glenn Gould’s celebrated 1955 recording.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2020
  • Its proportions, angularity and legibility work for me.
    — Carol Besler, Robb Report, 10 Aug. 2022
  • But today, its distinctive angularity looks almost intentional, intensifying the story’s stark loneliness.
    — Adi Robertson, The Verge, 29 Apr. 2018

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