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
• Don’t be put off by the paces these athletes run—extrapolate the lesson to your pace.
  — Carl Leivers, Outside Online, 20 June 2019
• Investors then try to look out and extrapolate what the next few months might look like based on that cadence.
  — Zev Fima, CNBC, 16 Sep. 2025
• Not much can be extrapolated from that game, plain and simple.
  — Daniel Rapaport, SI.com, 14 Jan. 2018
• The markets are often myopic and tend to extrapolate short-term trends for the long run.
  — Trefis Team, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
• Calhoun wasn’t shy about extrapolating to our own species’ fate.
  — Ben Goldfarb, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2024
• The odds are that less of the language is needed to extrapolate what the language consists of.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
• Now, extrapolate that process over the thousands of parts that go into a computer or a car.
  — Benny Buller, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
• But consumers are not just data points that can be extrapolated.
  — Greg Petro, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
• 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
• All of that is true, and extrapolating outward from this race to future races is therefore fraught.
  — Philip Bump, Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2017
• But Delsol and his co-authors are careful not to extrapolate much more.
  — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 16 Aug. 2022
• 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
• Researchers were able to extrapolate sales data from those models.
  — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 28 Oct. 2025
• 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
• The company then extrapolates those numbers to come up with the data.
  — Marco Santana, OrlandoSentinel.com, 7 June 2018
• To get a sense of how disruptive this was, extrapolate this kind of behavior across the nation.
  — Nate Anderson, Ars Technica, 12 Feb. 2025
• The rankings are based on a single question from which a huge amount — an insane amount — is extrapolated.
  — Julia Whelan Emma Kehlbeck Jeremy McLennan, New York Times, 2 May 2025
• Kabisch cautions against extrapolating too much from the findings.
  — Frederik Jötten, Scientific American, 12 Sep. 2025
• 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
• And most of the treatments for male breast cancer are extrapolated from what the standard treatments are for women.
  — Gillian Telling, Peoplemag, 26 Jan. 2024
• 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
• But the work involved more than just extrapolating that data back over the three billion years it’s taken Mars to dry out.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 6 Sep. 2024
• In the most studies focus on or the , and the data cannot be extrapolated to the novel coronavirus.
  — Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2020
• But Mason said the new report can’t be used to extrapolate the total spilled from the Taylor site.
  — Washington Post, 24 June 2019
• Nimmo is happy with how his swing feels right now, but he’s done this long enough to know not to extrapolate much from the third week of February.
  — Tim Britton, The Athletic, 20 Feb. 2025