How to Use radius in a Sentence
radius
noun
- Measure the radius of the circle.
- There are three restaurants within a one-block radius of our apartment.
- The new museum is expected to draw people from a wide radius.
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But the blast radius wouldn’t reach the end of the runway.
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Washington Post,
15 Mar. 2022
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Most all-mountain skis have a turn radius in the 15 to 20 m range.
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Aaron H. Bible,
Popular Mechanics,
8 Feb. 2023
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Here x could be any number from 0 to 1, and 1 is the radius of the circle.
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Steven Strogatz,
Quanta Magazine,
31 Aug. 2022
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With a radius of almost 2,200 miles, Earth’s core is about the size of Mars.
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Lianne Kolirin,
CNN,
25 Jan. 2023
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If a glacier was at the equator, this r value would be the radius of the Earth plus the height of the mountain.
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WIRED,
4 Sep. 2022
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Ten types of Asian cuisine in a 100-yard radius of the city center.
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New York Times,
10 Apr. 2022
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No matter how tall the N is, the radius of the sector will always be 1: That’s the length of the needle.
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Patrick Honner,
Quanta Magazine,
29 Sep. 2023
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Its mass is almost 30 times that of Earth, and its radius is about half of Jupiter’s.
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Will Sullivan,
Smithsonian Magazine,
13 July 2023
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Limbs from the bottom one-third of trees and within a 10-feet radius of the chimney.
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Carlos Rico,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
23 Oct. 2023
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That's around 60 times the radius of Earth, or enough distance for 30 Earths in between.
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David Grossman,
Popular Mechanics,
13 Jan. 2022
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In this formula, M is the mass of the planet or moon and R is its radius.
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Wired,
31 July 2022
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As of Wednesday evening, spaces in garages in a one-mile radius ranged from $8 to $58.
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Ed Masley,
The Arizona Republic,
1 Mar. 2022
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To see how to create a 17-gon, start with a unit circle (where the radius equals one) and a point A on the circle.
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Jack Murtagh,
Scientific American,
12 Sep. 2024
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And the 21-meter turn radius is stretched out for off-trail skiing.
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Marc Peruzzi,
Outside Online,
9 Jan. 2022
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The radius of the turns are so different, the speeds are so different.
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Nathan Brown,
The Indianapolis Star,
6 Apr. 2022
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The blast would flatten buildings across a five-mile radius.
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Washington Post,
17 Apr. 2022
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The fire department shut down streets and buildings in a two-block radius.
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Amy McDaniel,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
23 Jan. 2024
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The blast can impact those quite far out of the radius of the explosion because of fallout.
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Devika Rao,
The Week,
25 May 2023
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That lethal radius jumps to nearly 600 feet for a one-ton version that explodes just above the ground.
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John Ismay,
New York Times,
11 May 2024
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Here, we’re told the larger circle’s radius is three times that of the smaller circle.
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Jack Murtagh,
Scientific American,
20 June 2023
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Notice that each edge of the triangle is also a radius of one of the circles.
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Jack Murtagh,
Scientific American,
12 Sep. 2024
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The fee will be reduced to zero at the end of the purchasing process for rides within that 5-mile radius.
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David Lyons,
Sun Sentinel,
13 Jan. 2023
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But most people there had not left that town their entire life, 60-mile radius was the extent of it.
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Fortune Editors,
Fortune,
8 May 2024
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The mixes were sold on the Borsari website, as well as in stores within a 100-mile radius of Jamestown, New York.
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Christine Rousselle,
Fox News,
17 Dec. 2024
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The nature of the transit method means that only the radius of worlds can be directly gleaned, not their mass.
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Jonathan O'Callaghan,
Scientific American,
13 Jan. 2022
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After all, Dothan is the Peanut Capital of the World, with over half of the nation’s peanuts grown within a 100-mile radius.
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Su-Jit Lin,
Southern Living,
31 Dec. 2024
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Several other ski resorts are within a half hour radius, too.
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Todd Plummer,
Condé Nast Traveler,
17 Dec. 2024
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