How to Use hemisphere in a Sentence

hemisphere

noun
  • There has to be a way for people to live in the hemisphere.
    — Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2019
  • The homicide rate — among the highest in the hemisphere — plunged.
    — Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2019
  • The brain is known to process music in both hemispheres.
    — Staff, cleveland.com, 1 Apr. 2018
  • Between now and the end of the month, Griffin will switch hemispheres.
    — Beth Bragg, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Apr. 2018
  • Each hemisphere cools down during the part of the year it's tilted away from the sun.
    — Matt Cardy, National Geographic, 21 Dec. 2017
  • On the ground, Abaco was at the time one of the most unlucky, unsafe places in the hemisphere.
    — Reis Thebault, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Sep. 2019
  • As for me, that hemisphere of my brain seems to be missing.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 2 Dec. 2019
  • This region is a strip across the top of the brain that spans the left and right hemisphere—like a headband over the brain.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 27 June 2017
  • Both hemispheres share the sun’s rays equally at the equinox, and night and day are roughly the same length.
    — Jill Gleeson, Country Living, 19 Mar. 2019
  • One the day of the equinox passes, both of Earth’s hemispheres get an equal amount of sunlight.
    — Alix Langone, Time, 18 Mar. 2018
  • The zone moves to whichever hemisphere, north or south, is warmest at the time.
    — Robin George Andrews, National Geographic, 11 Nov. 2019
  • That was to become the rule throughout the hemisphere over the next three centuries.
    — Mark Stevenson, ajc, 20 May 2021
  • That was to become the rule throughout the hemisphere over the next three centuries.
    — Mark Stevenson, Star Tribune, 19 May 2021
  • That was to become the rule throughout the hemisphere over the next three centuries.
    — Mark Stevenson, ajc, 20 May 2021
  • However, it wasn't built in the state ― or even in this hemisphere.
    — Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 9 Aug. 2024
  • While the oven is heating, score the apples by making a ½-inch deep slit along the hemisphere.
    — Christian Reynoso, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Nov. 2020
  • But the fall affected the lives of many people over a hemisphere.
    — Matthew Sherrill, Harper's Magazine, 26 Oct. 2021
  • When the Earth tilts toward the sun, the hemisphere closest to the sun gets more light hours during the day and vice versa.
    — Amanda Cappelli, CBS News, 20 Mar. 2025
  • What is the probability that all three of the points will be in the same hemisphere?
    — Richard Malena, Popular Mechanics, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Over several months, the organoids grew to occupy about one-third of the hemisphere of the rat brains.
    — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 12 Oct. 2022
  • Poor Adele is not having much luck with the insects of the Southern Hemisphere.
    — Diana Bruk, Country Living, 24 Mar. 2017
  • The summer of 2023 was marked by heat waves throughout the Northern hemisphere.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 May 2024
  • Relatives drove over from the mainland or flew in from around the country and across the hemisphere.
    — Washington Post, 26 June 2021
  • The year’s end can be a gratifying time to listen to the world, at least in this hemisphere.
    — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2022
  • The roughly golf ball-sized tumor grew in the womb, engulfing much of the right hemisphere of his brain.
    — Angie Leventis Lourgos, chicagotribune.com, 19 Feb. 2022
  • The corpus callosum is the brain structure that connects the two hemispheres of the brain.
    — Carrie Madormo, Rn, Health, 28 Oct. 2024
  • Large plateaus of lava spread across the planet's hemispheres.
    — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 5 Jan. 2020
  • There’s no simple answer for what went wrong across the hemisphere.
    — Washington Post, 25 May 2021
  • It’s been happening all over the hemisphere for the last 24 hours, from Panama to Canada.
    — The Editors, National Review, 4 Feb. 2025
  • The loss of soft power was quickly visible around the hemisphere.
    — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2025

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