How to Use roundel in a Sentence

roundel

noun
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  • The right side of the helmets and the shoulders of the jerseys display the roundel.
    — Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al, 11 Dec. 2021
  • But when and why the roundel was added remain points of contention.
    — Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Sep. 2020
  • One of the most important details of the painting is the roundel that the young man holds.
    — Town & Country, 21 Jan. 2021
  • The fighters, bare metal with a red and black roundel painted on the tail, were the pride of the Albanian Air Force.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 1 Apr. 2019
  • The popular roundel crest has been eschewed in favor of a pennant-style shield, which is actually a nod to the shape of the Ohio state flag.
    — Demetrius Bell, Forbes, 10 May 2021
  • This newest roundel was discovered in Vinoř, a district in Prague.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 28 Sep. 2022
  • The new emblem—inspired by the classic BMW Motorsport logo—will replace the standard blue and white roundel on the vehicle's front and rear and on the wheel hubs.
    — Sebastian Blanco, Car and Driver, 27 Nov. 2021
  • There’s nothing wrong with the roundel on Dylan’s forehead, of course, or with the other circles that the designer Martin Sharp used to depict the musician’s hair.
    — New York Times, 3 Aug. 2022
  • It’s still very good, with a full lineup of rewarding powertrains, an eminently useful cargo hold, and, as always, that iconic blue-and-white roundel on the hood.
    — Car and Driver, 1 Nov. 2017
  • Bennett knew how to illuminate all of the combustible ambition and terror of the audition process, allowing us to watch the dancers compete in an exhausting roundel of tryout leaps and toe-drops.
    — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2019
  • The mosque years also show themselves in the bold flowing lines of Arabic calligraphy on hanging roundels near the second level and in the beautiful marble mihrab, indicating the direction of Mecca.
    — National Geographic, 22 Mar. 2019
  • Though Tomasi’s painted scene covers the entire surface of the plate, on other pieces attributed to him the scenes are confined to a small central roundel surrounded by elaborate painted borders of interwoven figural and plant motifs.
    — Barrymore Laurence Scherer, WSJ, 1 Jan. 2019
  • Botticelli painted the noble sitter but the roundel — a circular disc used as a symbol — depicts a saint and is an original 14th-century work attributed to the Sienese painter Bartolommeo Bulgarini.
    — Mark Kennedy, USA TODAY, 24 Sep. 2020

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