How to Use conical in a Sentence

conical

adjective
Definition of conicalnext
  • The tree has a conical shape.
  • Tiny projections stick out from the stalk, and the crooked tip has structures called a conical protuberance, a globular head and a rugged flap.
    — Katie Cottingham, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Sep. 2024
  • In addition, the coffee and espresso maker has a conical burr grinder with 13 settings, but it can be bypassed to use ground coffee instead to make a pot or cup of coffee.
    — Terri Williams, Architectural Digest, 13 Sep. 2024
  • Most of the time, a conical grinder will be your best bet.
    — Haley Sprankle, Wired, 13 July 2022
  • The hands cup the slime into a conical mound, then flatten the pile with the bulb end of a ladle.
    — Jamie Lauren Keiles, The New Yorker, 17 May 2017
  • Fall food stores will look like a pile of brush in the water anchored next to the conical beaver lodge.
    — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Sep. 2022
  • Shad darts have a conical body and a sharp sloping face.
    — Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 4 Jan. 2024
  • So Spinosaurus has conical teeth, which are great to grab and catch slippery prey, like fish.
    — National Geographic, 24 Nov. 2020
  • The creature had a long, dolphin-like snout and conical teeth.
    — Rasha Aridi, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Jan. 2022
  • The cropped jacket showed off her midriff, and featured a conical bust.
    — Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 23 Jan. 2022
  • In a conical grinder, coffee beans are crushed and ground between two rings of burrs.
    — Jaina Grey Scott Gilbertson, WIRED, 24 Aug. 2022
  • To help the wheels stay on the track their shape is usually slightly conical.
    — Svenja Lohner, Scientific American, 12 Sep. 2019
  • The meat must be of high quality and layered on the spit, not minced and pressed into a conical slab.
    — 1843, 10 July 2019
  • The angled conical tapered legs and soft edge corners grant room for those who sit at the end.
    — Shannon Quimby, Better Homes & Gardens, 31 Oct. 2023
  • Suspended from the ceiling over the stage was a white conical curtain, narrow at the top and wide at the base.
    — Mick Stevens, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2021
  • Hike the three-quarter-mile trail to the top of the conical land formation and breathe in history.
    — Laura Kiniry, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 June 2023
  • Their steep, conical slopes are built by the eruption of viscous lava flows and rock, ash and gas.
    — Audrey McAvoy, ajc, 3 Nov. 2022
  • For the occasion Moore chose a black gown with yellow dots on the skirt and a conical leather bustier.
    — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 30 Aug. 2022
  • The Ahyi Seamount is a large, conical volcano that rises to within 259 feet of the sea surface.
    — Julia Musto, Fox News, 15 Nov. 2022
  • It is shaped like the love child of a conical junonia sea shell and the spindle-like fusilli pasta.
    — Nik Sharma, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Dec. 2017
  • Keep in mind the daring conical shade directs all light toward the floor.
    — Maria Conti, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Sep. 2023
  • The lid’s conical shape allows moisture to condense and return to the pot, keeping the dish moist.
    — Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2022
  • Some villages now have windsocks, the conical tubes flown at airports, to show the direction and strength of the wind.
    — The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Aug. 2021
  • The bat's stomach is shaped like a conical tube that fills up like a water balloon.
    — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Mar. 2022
  • Hario sells paper filters to fit the V60’s unique conical shape.
    — Joe Ray, WIRED, 8 Feb. 2023
  • These capsules had a roughly conical shape and fell with the base toward the water.
    — Discover Magazine, 1 July 2024
  • The fruit itself is the size of a small orange and somewhat pear-shaped with a barely conical top and rounded base.
    — Ozoz Sokoh, Bon Appétit, 16 Feb. 2022
  • Their flattened skulls held slender conical teeth used to catch fish and squid.
    — Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 19 June 2024
  • Most of the girls had beautiful flowered circlets in their hair or conical princess hats with scarves on the top, but not my girl.
    — Ellie Delano, Woman's Day, 18 Oct. 2013
  • Suspended from the conical peak of each yurt is a fixture shaped like a flying saucer that gives off both heat and light.
    — New York Times, 12 Jan. 2021

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