How to Use disk in a Sentence

disk

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  • For one thing, the moon will be full, a silvery disk in the dark sky.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 30 Nov. 2022
  • The smallest wrong move can send a disk out of whack, Frese added.
    — Amanda Gardner, Health, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Press the rest of the dough into a round disk on a sheet of parchment paper.
    — Genevieve Ko, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Nov. 2023
  • Roll out the second disk of dough the same way and leave it on your work surface.
    — Robin Miller, USA TODAY, 19 Nov. 2022
  • So the length of your laser sets the density of data on your disk.
    — Stephen Cass, IEEE Spectrum, 6 Mar. 2024
  • If the mice had not yet moved, the disk’s motion caused the rodents to scurry to the tunnel.
    — Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2023
  • So a very low mass star should have a disk that is also low mass.
    — Fox News, 1 Dec. 2023
  • At the center of the disk, gravity drew in most of the gas and dust from the nebula.
    — Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 18 Apr. 2023
  • The sensor looks like a palm-size white disk that sits under the front rim of the toilet bowl.
    — Dallas News, 5 Jan. 2023
  • This creates a crescent shape of sunlight as the moon moves across the sun's disk.
    — The Arizona Republic, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Wrap each disk in plastic wrap; chill at least 2 hours or up to overnight.
    — Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Step 3Transfer dough to piece of plastic wrap and shape into 1-inch-thick disk.
    — Kate Merker, Good Housekeeping, 14 Dec. 2022
  • Step 2Transfer dough to piece of plastic wrap and shape into 1/2-inch-thick disk.
    — Joy Cho, Good Housekeeping, 22 Dec. 2022
  • Wrap each piece in plastic wrap and shape into a 4-inch disk.
    — Robin Miller, The Arizona Republic, 15 Nov. 2022
  • The sun appears as a lumbering disk, not a discrete point in the sky.
    — Justin Grieser, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2022
  • The moon will not completely vanish from the sky the way the disk of the sun does during a solar eclipse.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 7 Nov. 2022
  • The team detected at least 1,200 times the amount of water in Earth’s oceans in the planet-forming disk.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Unwrap one dough disk, and place on a piece of floured parchment paper.
    — People Staff, Peoplemag, 12 Dec. 2022
  • Scrape the dough onto a sheet of plastic wrap, and form it into a disk; wrap tightly.
    — Morgan Hines, USA TODAY, 13 Dec. 2022
  • Divide dough in half; shape each half into a 6-inch disk, and wrap in plastic wrap.
    — People Staff, Peoplemag, 12 Dec. 2022
  • Above, a dark disk hangs where the Sun once was, a brilliant circle at its edges betraying hints of the Sun’s light.
    — Science Near Me, Discover Magazine, 29 June 2023
  • But the majority of people with bulging disks have no pain at all.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 1 July 2023
  • Divide the chunks of dough in half and very gently pat each group into a flattened, round 1-inch-thick disk.
    — The View, ABC News, 22 Nov. 2023
  • The resulting charge in turn causes an opposite charge on a plate on the first disk.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 14 May 2023
  • Shred the sprouts by hand with a sharp knife (and good knife skills), but the best and fastest method is in a food processor with the slicing, rather than the shredding, disk.
    — Karoline Boehm Goodnick, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Jan. 2023
  • Shape dough into 2 disks and roll each between 2 sheets of waxed paper to ⅛ inch thick.
    — Anna Helm Baxter, Woman's Day, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Working quickly, place one disk of frozen filling in the center of each dough disk.
    — America's Test Kitchen, Chicago Tribune, 19 July 2023
  • The disk is about the size of our solar system—but the similarities don’t stop there.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Nov. 2022
  • Season after season, the weight can break down the disks in your neck, leaving a constant stiffness.
    — Qadri Inzamam Saumya Khandelwal, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2024
  • With each image, collaborators can understand how dust is distributed in each galaxy and what the galaxy’s disk looks like.
    — Discover Magazine, 6 Feb. 2024

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