shape - use in sentences

Object

  • future: Your views could shape the future, for good or ill.

Converse of object

  • assume: While the half of him above the water assumed the shape of a goat, the lower half became a fish.
  • take: The picture on the right shows the shape taken by a growing ice crystal.
  • determine: It will determine the shape of the extra capacity which the health service needs to provide.
  • curve: Use the Imation red logo in the curved shape.

Adjective modifier

  • geometric: Coventry's post-war rebuilding had led to a ' concrete jungle ' of geometric shapes, which found their way into his work.
  • rectangular: The yellow area was covered simply by using a rectangular shape rather than with a fiddly polygon.
  • oval: The main feature of the visionary design is the oval shape of the covered Forum.
  • irregular: The end wall of the house follows an old property boundary which means that the parlor is an irregular shape.
  • triangular: It shows the typical triangular shape flaring out from the lateral tip of the lateral ventricle.
  • distinctive: Phil was attracted to this subject by the distinctive shape of the castle.

Modifies a noun

  • tweening: To be able to create shape tweening, you have to place the shapes on the same layer.

Noun used with modifier

  • leaf: The tropical look can be easily obtained when you choose plants with bold leaf shapes.
  • hull: Use your body and the hull shape to steer the boat.
  • diamond: Pressing a mouse button in the desired square will cause a diamond shape to be displayed.
  • pear: The DM playing all nice with his ' its all gone pear shape ' banner again.
  • V: Usually they fly in short " V " shaped formations with other V shapes tucked into the slipstream.

Preposition: of

  • curve: Describe how the shapes of these curves are altered by changing the values of the parameters.

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