Example sentences for: quadrangle

How can you use “quadrangle” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Drawn to a scale of 1:24,000, each 7.5-minute map sheet or quadrangle covers an area of 8.6 miles north-to-south by about 7 miles east-to-west (the east-to-west distance varies depending on location, since meridians of longitude radiate out from the poles and are farther apart nearer the equator).

  • Since quadrangle maps are named for the most prominent feature on the map, he had difficulty trying to explain his choice of name.

  • It is not possible to name the Sherman quadrangle the Faywood quadrangle because there already is a Faywood Station quadrangle adjacent to the Sherman quadrange.

  • The chief center of population of the Sherman quadrangle is called Dwyer, but the post office at Dwyer is called Faywood Post Office.

  • “Then there was the problem a Geological Survey fieldman had in proposing the name of a quadrangle map in New Mexico.


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