Structures like one on the Potomac

Usage examples of pentagons.

Six giant pentagons were etched on the curving ceiling, emitting a dull crimson glow.

It was, Mavis had explained to him in advance, the weekly Agape Ludens, or Love Feast Game, of the Discordians, and the dining hall was newly bedecked with pornographic and psychedelic posters, Christian and Buddhist and Amerindian mystic designs, balloons and lollypops dangling from the ceiling on Day-Glo-dabbed strings, numinous paintings of Discordian saints (including Norton I, Sigismundo Malatesta, Guillaume of Aquitaine, Chuang Chou, Judge Roy Bean, various historical figures even more obscure, and numerous gorillas and dolphins), bouquets of roses and forsythia and gladiolas and orchids, clusters of acorns and gourds, and the inevitable proliferation of golden apples, pentagons and octopi.

He half-saw a latticework of red pentagons, but that was the drug—and it helped identify which drug, for geometric patterns were characteristic of the mescaline experience.

From the pentagon depend five more pentagons, like the petals of a flower.

Then a whole parade of pentagons and other mathematical shapes that seemed to be talking to each other hi some language of the past or the future or wherever they called home.

He half-saw a latticework of red pentagons, but that was the drug— and it helped identify which drug, for geometric patterns were characteristic of the mescaline experience.

Before a week was over, every Square and Triangle in the district had copied the example of Chromatistes, and only a few of the more conservative Pentagons still held out.

When I descended here, I saw your four Sons, the Pentagons, each in his apartment, and your two Grandsons the Hexagons.

Pictures of violent depravity alternated with runes and pentagons along the walls.

These garments had none of the embellishments or pentagons usually favoured by senior sect members.

He'd seen a regular pattern, a mosaic of pentagons, across the green floor of one valley.

The oval area rug was patterned in small pentagons of gray, pink, and white thread.

Fullerenes in general are variations on the carbon geodesic theme, always with twelve pentagons but with more or fewer hexagons in the mix.