How to Use hemispheric in a Sentence

hemispheric

adjective
Definition of hemisphericnext
  • Not since 1994 has the United States convened the hemispheric gathering on its soil.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 10 June 2022
  • The collapse or recovery of the Great Salt Lake will have regional and even hemispheric impacts.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Jan. 2023
  • In fact, the African slave trade was not only a translantic phenomenon but also a hemispheric one.
    — Samuel Goldman, The Week, 22 Sep. 2021
  • The lake is also a site of hemispheric importance for migrating birds.
    — Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 May 2021
  • Its primary vision of the world comes from a 360-degree fish-eye hemispheric lens on the top deck, then there are six more directional cameras.
    — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 23 May 2023
  • When the hemispheric tournament was scrubbed in the spring the entries were determined instead by global rankings.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 22 July 2021
  • Each section of fence is supported by a vertical pipelike pole with a hemispheric metal cap.
    — Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2022
  • In one, Biden and his officials were pushing proposals that seemed geared more toward a U.S. audience than a hemispheric one.
    — William Neuman, The Atlantic, 13 June 2022
  • The New Shepard capsule is equipped with some of the largest windows in a currently-flying spacecraft, giving Shatner and his crewmates hemispheric views of Earth far below.
    — William Harwood, CBS News, 13 Oct. 2021
  • The Tatra engine was advanced for the time, with overhead valves in hemispherical combustion chambers and dry-sump lubrication for the oil system.
    — Robert Ross, Robb Report, 23 Jan. 2023
  • The hemispheric differences are down to the visibility of the constellation Aquarius, which is much higher in the southern hemisphere.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 5 May 2023
  • The world was brought to the brink of nuclear war when the Soviet Union was found placing missiles in Cuba, in violation of America's hemispheric interests and safety.
    — Kerry J. Byrne, Fox News, 2 Dec. 2022
  • The economic plan amounted to a recitation of progressive talking points that seemed aimed more at segments of the Democratic base than at hemispheric leaders or their populations.
    — William Neuman, The Atlantic, 13 June 2022
  • Whereas the United States had been wary of embroiling itself in extra-hemispheric affairs prior to the twentieth century, Old Glory could now increasingly be seen flying across the globe.
    — Daniel Bessner, Harper’s Magazine , 22 June 2022
  • The absence of these left-leaning autocrats led to a de facto boycott of the proceedings by a number of other prominent hemispheric politicians, including the Mexican president.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 15 June 2022
  • Not all the regional disconnect can be laid at the feet of Washington, some analysts say, noting that few of the sub-hemispheric free trade and cooperation initiatives in Latin America, among them Mercosur, have flourished.
    — Howard Lafranchi, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 June 2022
  • Apparently hemispheric brain asymmetry—and thus perhaps language—is an ancient human trait.
    — David W. Frayer, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2022
  • So far, there has been little hemispheric coordination to address the problem, said Chinchilla, who has remained a prominent voice on security issues since leaving the presidency in 2014.
    — Mary Beth Sheridan, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2023
  • All three countries have authoritarian governments that Washington considers to be in violation of the democratic spirit that the hemispheric conference is supposed to promote.
    — Courtney Subramanianstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 27 May 2022
  • All have authoritarian governments that Washington considers to be in violation of the democratic spirit that the hemispheric conference is supposed to promote.
    — Tracy Wilkinsonstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2022
  • This network covered various frontal, higher-order parietal and subcortical regions, mainly precuneus, angular gyrus, cingulate gyrus and frontal pole with right hemispheric lateralization bias.
    — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 13 Feb. 2018
  • In sum, the Biden administration is caught between migration patterns that are increasingly hemispheric and organized, and domestic political head winds focused on border security.
    — Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Dec. 2022
  • As irregular migration becomes more hemispheric, experts say, government management of migration needs to become more hemispheric.
    — Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Dec. 2022

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