How to Use extrapolate in a Sentence

extrapolate

verb

• We can extrapolate the number of new students entering next year by looking at how many entered in previous years.
• With such a small study it is impossible to extrapolate accurately.
• But the coach is careful not to extrapolate too much from one play like that.
  — Katherine Fitzgerald, azcentral, 4 Nov. 2019
• One option is to record whale calls and try to extrapolate from that.
  — Cathleen O'Grady, Ars Technica, 26 Feb. 2020
• The odds are that less of the language is needed to extrapolate what the language consists of.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
• Don't extrapolate and think that all pit bulls do this.
  — Tom Junod, Esquire, 14 July 2014
• Don’t be put off by the paces these athletes run—extrapolate the lesson to your pace.
  — Carl Leivers, Outside Online, 20 June 2019
• The company then extrapolates those numbers to come up with the data.
  — Marco Santana, OrlandoSentinel.com, 7 June 2018
• That should help scientists extrapolate from the little crime-scene shards left in sharks to the full swordfish that did the deed.
  — Joshua Sokol, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2020
• Researchers have to extrapolate from the number of nests observed.
  — The Economist, 22 Feb. 2018
• And before that seed has time to blossom, there are people who glom on and extrapolate way too far.
  — Angela Chen, The Verge, 7 Aug. 2018
• If fish have gills to extrapolate oxygen from the water even at depth, how do mudskippers breathe in the open air?
  — Sofia Quaglia, Discover Magazine, 9 May 2023
• Now, extrapolate that process over the thousands of parts that go into a computer or a car.
  — Benny Buller, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
• Not much can be extrapolated from that game, plain and simple.
  — Daniel Rapaport, SI.com, 14 Jan. 2018
• In the most studies focus on or the , and the data cannot be extrapolated to the novel coronavirus.
  — Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2020
• All of that is true, and extrapolating outward from this race to future races is therefore fraught.
  — Philip Bump, Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2017
• From that base of survey data, the researchers extrapolated to the whole island and came up with a range of excess deaths.
  — Washington Post, 4 June 2018
• One tried and true method is to extrapolate the age of the oldest craters from the characteristics of the planet’s newest ones.
  — Daniel Oberhaus, Wired, 19 Jan. 2021
• That makes the findings difficult to extrapolate to the population as a whole.
  — Gina Errico, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2023
• The action feels too new and too superheated to extrapolate.
  — Samanth Subramanian, Quartz, 25 Feb. 2021
• That’s a cautionary tale that people can extrapolate from this film.
  — Corey S Powell, Discover Magazine, 8 July 2019
• Some argue the results of the study, which was mostly confined to one slope, are too limited to extrapolate.
  — Ula Chrobak, Outside Online, 19 Mar. 2018
• The Rig can extrapolate into the future using data from the subject’s past.
  — Tade Thompson, Wired, 18 Dec. 2020
• The furniture is covered in felt and supports clay sculptures that extrapolate on the mundane accoutrements of such a space.
  — Leah Ollman, latimes.com, 8 June 2019
• This helped the researchers extrapolate what the quantum computer would have calculated in the absence of noise.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 22 June 2023
• But Mason said the new report can’t be used to extrapolate the total spilled from the Taylor site.
  — Washington Post, 24 June 2019
• That data will then be extrapolated to calculate how much rainfall can be pumped out and how quickly.
  — Kevin Litten, NOLA.com, 24 Aug. 2017
• It was done largely by looking at the historical record and extrapolating from that.
  — Kathryn Doyle, Popular Mechanics, 16 Oct. 2012
• The researchers used an algorithm to extrapolate estimates for all species in their sample.
  — Jen Christiansen, Scientific American, 19 July 2021
• Can’t help but maybe extrapolate that perhaps the Jazz just aren’t really good enough.
  — Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune, 15 Mar. 2022

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024