How to Use elliptical in a Sentence

elliptical

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  • The moon follows an elliptical path around the Earth.
  • To be that elliptical, to trust your voice that much, in pop music.
    — Ricky Ian Gordon, SPIN, 27 Apr. 2022
  • Comets tend to have long, elliptical orbits around the sun.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 11 Aug. 2023
  • The living room features a Greek pattern etched into the cornice that runs to the elliptical bay in the center of the room.
    — Eric Piasecki, Town & Country, 3 Feb. 2022
  • Want to have a little cry while going hard on the elliptical?
    — Hannah Dylan Pasternak, SELF, 20 June 2023
  • Juno is in a highly elliptical orbit of Jupiter, so spends most of its time far from the gas giant.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 25 May 2022
  • Because of Earth’s tilt and elliptical orbit, the movement of the sun through the sky produces days of varying lengths.
    — Tom Vanderbilt, Harper’s Magazine , 13 Mar. 2023
  • For the next week, the craft will travel along an elliptical orbit that takes it almost half a million miles past the moon.
    — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Within the elliptical sphere created by the road in and out of the shrine, a kind of democracy did seem to prevail.
    — Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023
  • That happens because the moon moves around the Earth in an elliptical orbit.
    — Robert Higgs, cleveland, 30 Aug. 2023
  • The cause is Mercury’s orbit of the sun, which is slightly elliptical.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2023
  • Would the regulars watch me on the elliptical machine, judging the ways a fat body jiggles and sways?
    — Marie Southard Ospina, SELF, 11 Jan. 2022
  • This month’s Thunder Moon is also the first supermoon of 2023, where the full moon is closest to the Earth in its elliptical orbit.
    — Michael D'estries, Treehugger, 30 June 2023
  • That represents the perigee—or low point—in the moon's elliptical orbit around our planet.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 2 Aug. 2023
  • All seemed well as the spacecraft entered a highly elliptical orbit that will bring it toward the Moon in the coming weeks.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 8 Jan. 2024
  • To loosen her legs, Henson will start with the elliptical machine or treadmill.
    — Colleen Murphy, Health.com, 30 June 2021
  • The moon is also known as a micromoon, because the moon, which circles the Earth in an elliptical orbit, is farther from the Earth, said Space.com.
    — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Mercury, like Earth, has an elliptical orbit around the sun.
    — Analisa Novak, CBS News, 28 Dec. 2022
  • Her writing is elliptical and episodic, as if tracing the movement of her mind.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2021
  • As such, the most fuel-efficient route to Mars follows an elliptical orbit around the sun, Peck says.
    — Eva Botkin-Kowacki, Popular Science, 21 Feb. 2023
  • This clever piece of equipment can act as an elliptical, stepper, and treadmill.
    — Kelsey Mulvey, Men's Health, 1 Sep. 2022
  • The Moon’s orbit path around Earth is slightly elliptical, so there's always a point every month—called perigee—when it’s at its closest to us.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 14 July 2022
  • Because the moon takes an elliptical orbit around the Earth, at different times the moon is closer or farther away.
    — Angela Eichhorst, CNN, 18 Dec. 2021
  • On the surface of things, there’s little to distinguish it; for most of its life a peanut plant is a bundle of elliptical leaves on a squat, featureless bush.
    — Ruby Tandoh, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2022
  • King tides happen when the full moon or new moon tides, which are stronger than other tides, coincide with the moon swinging close to the Earth on its elliptical orbit.
    — Wells Dusenbury, Sun Sentinel, 10 Oct. 2022
  • The satellite confirmed that the Earth's equator is elliptical.
    — James Conca, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2021
  • The misalignment happens because of Earth’s tilt and our elliptical orbit around the sun.
    — Justin Grieser, Washington Post, 19 June 2022
  • The moon's orbit of Earth follows what scientists call an elliptical path, shaped more like an oval than a circle.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 13 Jan. 2022
  • The resulting data will help measure the sun’s oblateness, or how much it has been flattened into a more elliptical shape by its rotation and internal dynamics, from solar tides to flows of gas.
    — Catherine Duncan, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Imagine, for instance, that a spacecraft is following an elliptical orbit around Jupiter, influenced by gravity from Europa.
    — Quanta Magazine, 15 Apr. 2024
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elliptical

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  • But there’s a lot more to this elliptical than just easy storage.
    — Dave Johnson, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2021
  • And those who have housemates or live in apartments may need to find an elliptical that's on the quieter side.
    — Sara Coughlin, SELF, 14 Oct. 2022
  • This has a compact design but still offers 18″ of stride just like a large elliptical.
    — Tim Kohut, BGR, 17 May 2021
  • The watch will be able to share information such as heart rate with treadmills, ellipticals, and more.
    — Valentina Palladino, Ars Technica, 8 Sep. 2017
  • Right after the New Year, people are seen waiting in line for the treadmills, ellipticals and weight machines.
    — Debbie Bosak, Post-Tribune, 28 June 2017
  • But what little there has been — my wife, Ruth, behind a closed door on a Zoom call; me in the basement on the elliptical — has caused whimpering and whining.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2020
  • From there, the former White House official set up a home gym in his basement with dumbbells and an elliptical.
    — Janine Henni, PEOPLE.com, 7 Jan. 2022
  • And while the Fold did weigh heavily in my gym shorts pocket, the larger display was just perfect for reading on the elliptical.
    — Mike Feibus, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2020
  • Just like with other new forms of exercise, start out slowly on the elliptical.
    — Korin Miller, Good Housekeeping, 12 Oct. 2021
  • Your elliptical should, of course, be comfortable to use.
    — Mike Richard, Men's Health, 30 Nov. 2022
  • The 16th-floor gym offered three treadmills, two ellipticals, one bike, a solid weight set, good sunrise views and homey touches like a bowl of apples.
    — New York Times, 2 June 2018
  • Adults, freed from offices and their old, rigid hours, are jogging at noon, instead of going nowhere on an elliptical or Peloton in the tiny office gym.
    — Amanda Long, Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2021
  • This under desk elliptical is the perfect way to get some exercise in while working.
    — Kara Cuzzone, Forbes, 23 June 2021
  • So where to start without shelling out thousands on an exercise bike or elliptical?
    — Tanya Edwards, CNN Underscored, 29 July 2020
  • But instead of a spiral galaxy, the final object will be an elliptical.
    — Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 19 May 2021
  • The elliptical is a great low-impact cardio machine option available at most gyms.
    — Tatiana Lampa, Good Housekeeping, 28 July 2022
  • Colleagues chimed in to say the images looked like ellipticals and spirals—familiar species of galaxies.
    — Science News Staff, Science | AAAS, 5 July 2017
  • If your desk is in need of a more serious makeover, consider adding a standing desk converter or even an under-desk elliptical.
    — Olivia Lipski, Good Housekeeping, 8 Aug. 2022
  • Lubitsch’s reliance on the oblique, the elliptical, and the unsaid leads the audience to suspect innuendo where none may have been intended.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2022
  • Simply put, the moon glides across an elliptical that is constantly rotating around the zodiac.
    — Aliza Kelly Faragher, Allure, 23 Dec. 2020
  • In his first year of retirement, Mike lost 40 pounds by hitting the elliptical and rowing machines at the gym, then gradually lost another 15.
    — Michelle Matthews | [email protected], al, 25 Aug. 2020
  • The film does tell its story in an elliptical, at times confounding way, but that stylistic choice shouldn’t be mistaken for moral indecision.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 19 Nov. 2022
  • From laptop risers and an under-desk elliptical to posture-correcting seat cushions and more, see our top picks below.
    — Nicole Charky-Chami, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 May 2022
  • This was well-equipped, with a row of treadmills overlooking the water, bikes, a rowing machine, ellipticals, weight machines, free weights, stability balls and mats, plus a group fitness room.
    — Elizabeth Chang, Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2019
  • Over the past century, most home-workout equipment — the treadmill, the exercise bike, the elliptical, the Mirror, the Tonal — is centered around creating identical lean and lithe bodies.
    — Diana Budds, Curbed, 4 Nov. 2021
  • Speaking in a higher-than-usual voice that rumbles with torment, rage and pop gravitas, Leung sets the vengeful tone for a drama that’s Oedipal in its overtones and elliptical in its structure.
    — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 31 Aug. 2021
  • However, an elliptical has many features that may be beneficial for you.
    — Bre Richey, chicagotribune.com, 28 Mar. 2021
  • Best deals on workout equipment Walmart: Black Friday is the best time to splurge on big-ticket exercise equipment with major markdowns on treadmills, exercise bikes, and ellipticals at Walmart.
    — Braelyn Wood, Health.com, 29 Nov. 2019
  • Technogym will also be building GymKit into all of its treadmills, ellipticals, stationary bikes, and stairsteppers in the future.
    — Valentina Palladino, Ars Technica, 13 Dec. 2017
  • If losing some weight joins cutting your cable bill on your list of resolutions, check our reviews of diet plans and exercise equipment such as ellipticals, rowing machines, spin bikes, and treadmills.
    — Fox News, 1 Jan. 2014

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