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The lines intersect at right angles.right angles = an angle measuring 90 degrees (like the angle between a classroom floor and wall)
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His left arm was somewhat shorter than his right; when he stood or walked, the back of his hand was at right angles to his body, his thumb parallel to his thigh. (source)
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I was drawn to the Pythagorean theorem and its promise of a universal—the ability to predict the nature of any three points containing a right angle, anywhere, always.† (source)
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Before anyone could react, she wrapped one of her slender arms around Pan's neck, placed her other hand on top of his head, and, by applying her unexpected strength at just the right angle, she twisted Pan's head 180 degrees with practiced ease.† (source)
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"You have to play in a boxed area and you have to stand at a right angle to the wind," he said proudly.† (source)
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She didn't have much hair yet, and what she did have seemed to always be sticking out at right angles, like a sandy-colored bird's nest.† (source)right angles = angles measuring 90 degrees (like the angle between a classroom floor and wall)
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The streets were to be laid out in a grid pattern, crossing at right angles, and the would be squares at regular Intervals.† (source)right angles = angles measuring 90 degrees (like the angle between a classroom floor and wall)
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I can give you the windows for each one when they'll be at the right angle for Ares 3 shots—† (source)right angle = an angle measuring 90 degrees (like the angle between a classroom floor and wall)
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Right-angle turn at the end of the hall.† (source)
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The lofty tower of its City Hall overlooked the whole panorama of the streets and avenues, which cut each other at right-angles, and in the midst of which appeared pleasant, verdant squares, while beyond appeared the Chinese quarter, seemingly imported from the Celestial Empire in a toy-box.† (source)right-angles = angles measuring 90 degrees (like the angle between a classroom floor and wall)
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They left Pondicherry in 1954, leaving behind nice white buildings, broad streets at right angles to each other, street names such as rue de la Marine and rue Saint-Louis, and kepis, caps, for the policemen.† (source)
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Beside me, Will was asleep under the covers, his mouth slightly open, his elbow bent at a right angle in front of him.† (source)right angle = an angle measuring 90 degrees (like the angle between a classroom floor and wall)
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Mars causes accidents and burns and things like that, and when it makes an angle to Saturn, like now —' she drew a right-angle in the air above her '— that means people need to be extra careful when handling hot things —' That,' said Firenze calmly, 'is human nonsense.† (source)
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But far more terrible is it to behold, when fathoms down in the sea, you see some sulky whale, floating there suspended, with his prodigious jaw, some fifteen feet long, hanging straight down at right-angles with his body, for all the world like a ship's jib-boom.† (source)right-angles = angles measuring 90 degrees (like the angle between a classroom floor and wall)
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And Siobhan says people go on holidays to see new things and relax, but it wouldn't make me relaxed and you can see new things by looking at earth under a microscope or drawing the shape of the solid made when 3 circular rods of equal thickness intersect at right angles.† (source)
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"You'll be the public face of the strike," Rahel had said, placing the hat at precisely the right angle, to ride the swell of Yetta's thick hair.† (source)right angle = an angle measuring 90 degrees (like the angle between a classroom floor and wall)
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