How to Use figured in a Sentence

figured

adjective

• Tommy still hasn't quite figured out how to function without her.
  — Samantha Highfill, EW.com, 11 June 2022
• With no senior starters and just two on the roster, many figured Lemont was a year away.
  — Steve Millar, chicagotribune.com, 5 Mar. 2022
• In a back-and-forth series with New York, nothing figured to be easy.
  — Jen McCaffrey, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
• Six months later, Jim Irsay still hasn't quite figured out how to let go.
  — Jim Ayello, Indianapolis Star, 23 Feb. 2020
• This time around, with his sons all grown up, Petrie’s got the work-life balance a little more figured out.
  — Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 6 Oct. 2025
• First, it’s decidedly shaped like its name, a shell — full-figured, yet hollow.
  — Christian Reynoso, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Feb. 2023
• The sisters haven’t quite figured out how to frame the detours their lives took because of events that preceded them.
  — Raheem Hosseini, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Sep. 2021
• Sculptures of full-figured, bare-breasted nymphs look out at the river from their perches at the bridge’s center.
  — Elaine Sciolino, New York Times, 4 Nov. 2019
• Some styles feature videos of models, including some full-figured ones, walking and posing in the suit.
  — Anne D'innocenzio, USA TODAY, 17 June 2017
• And to be fair, many government authorities haven’t quite figured out how to handle it either.
  — Shawn Farshchi, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2022
• Hilaria Baldwin hasn't quite figured out how to explain to others why her youngest babies are so close in age.
  — Georgia Slater, PEOPLE.com, 9 Aug. 2021
• The singer, who is known for openly embracing her curves, debunked the myth that full-figured women don’t exercise.
  — Jasmine Grant, Essence, 10 June 2020
• By midnight, her breathing seemed slightly shallow but figured that was just the congestion building.
  — Georgia Slater, PEOPLE.com, 13 July 2021
• Shrill follows the story of a full-figured woman, Annie, who seeks out ways to change her life without changing her body.
  — Toby Grey, BGR, 16 Sep. 2022
• News outlets haven’t quite figured out how to adequately convey this—or, perhaps, admit this.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 25 May 2022
• If electric vehicles are doing the traveling, governments still haven’t quite figured out how to charge them for it.
  — Aarian Marshall, Wired, 27 May 2021
• And my daughter was thrilled beyond measure by the full-figured Black dancers, strutting their stuff in glittery skin-tight costumes.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2022
• For reasons scientists haven’t quite figured out, kids at greatest risk include those with histories of asthma.
  — Aria Bendix, NBC News, 13 Sep. 2022
• There are also players who have plenty of raw talent, but haven't quite figured out how to channel it in the proper direction – at least, not yet.
  — Jesse Yomtov, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2021
• The front seats are especially comfortable and are supportive without being too snug on the tush for full-figured motorists.
  — Jim Gorzelany, Forbes, 13 Apr. 2022
• Also figured is how much trade spend is needed to support advertising and promotions, and what gross margins the brand needs to operate.
  — Errol Schweizer, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022
• Perhaps Ohio State would gave figured things out defensively without such a dramatic change.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 10 Oct. 2021
• Being able to focus on the swing that created me, that was something that power, slugging or whatever, extra bases, will come into play once that thing is kind of figured out.
  — Tom Haudricourt, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 May 2021
• Muhammad, a slight-figured man with a piercing gaze and a prayer bruise on his bald forehead, is 38, a former trader whose gifts as a speaker and promoter are indisputable.
  — Robert F. Worth, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2017
• Just ask Liris Crosse, who has been championing the beauty of full-figured women throughout her flourishing 20-year career.
  — NBC News, 19 Sep. 2017
• Museo Botero pays homage to Colombia's most famous artist, Fernando Botero, with his signature plump women and full-figured fruits.
  — Lucy Sherriff, CNN, 23 Aug. 2021
• Even in the world of the undead, however, Reginald is an outsider, being the only full-figured blood sucker in a world of beautiful, fit and incredibly vain vamps.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Apr. 2022
• Markets that try to predict where rates are headed figured there was an 18% chance Fed policymakers would hoist rates by a full percentage point Wednesday.
  — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 21 Sep. 2022
• Hestia is a molten lava woman, Aphrodite is a full-figured Black goddess of love, and Athena is a mysterious warrior hidden behind haunting masks.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 9 Dec. 2021
• Even in the early 2000s, roles for women who weren't white or a size two and smaller were limited — talk less for women who happened to identify as both full-figured and Black.
  — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 21 Oct. 2021