15 examples of scalene in sentences

When you began the study of geometry you faced a multitude of new terms; we call them technical terms, such as projection, scalene, theory of limits.

Having continued this examination for about half an hour, we proceeded to enter into particulars respecting triangles; and having discoursed on the difference between isosceles triangles and scalene triangles, I observed that an acute isosceles triangle had all its angles acute, and proceeded to observe that a right-angled scalene triangle had all its angles acute.

Having continued this examination for about half an hour, we proceeded to enter into particulars respecting triangles; and having discoursed on the difference between isosceles triangles and scalene triangles, I observed that an acute isosceles triangle had all its angles acute, and proceeded to observe that a right-angled scalene triangle had all its angles acute.

Scalene Triangle.

An acute-angled scalene triangle.

Why is it called an acute-angled scalene triangle?

Why is it called scalene?

Q. Are there any other kind of scalene triangles?

Yes, there is a right-angled scalene triangle, which has one right angle.

An obtuse-angled scalene triangle, which has one obtuse angle.

Yes, it may be equilateral, isoceles, or scalene.

A. No; it must be either an isoceles or a scalene triangle.

Scattered helter-skelter over an immense surface, cut up into scalene triangles, the oddity of its plan makes Washington a succession of surprises which never fail to vex and astonish the stranger, be he ever so highly endowed as to the phrenological bump of locality.

And, as a further consequence of the scalene arrangement of things, it happens that the stranger in Washington, however civic his birth and education may have been, is always unconsciously performing those military evolutions styled marching to the right or left oblique,acquiring thereby, it is said, that obliquity of the moral visionwhich sooner or later afflicts every human being who inhabits this strange, lop-sided city-village.

By division we may separate them into scalene, isosceles, and equilateral, or if we divide them according to a different principle into right and oblique triangles.

15 examples of  scalene  in sentences