How to Use graph in a Sentence

graph

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  • See the pink line in the graph.
    Helen Branswell, STAT, 6 Jan. 2026
  • But graphs are what tell stories.
    Joan Meiners, AZCentral.com, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Check out the graph at the top of this section.
    Phil Hay, New York Times, 21 May 2026
  • Knowledge graphs are key for this.
    Steve Banker, Forbes.com, 17 May 2026
  • The idea is that a graph is worth 1000 words.
    Cheryl Robinson, Forbes.com, 16 Jan. 2026
  • For example, take a look at the graph above.
    Big Think, 22 Oct. 2025
  • And so there are all these wonderful lessons in those graphs.
    Shivaram Rajgopal, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
  • So, these are codes that are based on bipartite graphs.
    Quanta Magazine, 7 Aug. 2025
  • The payoff, to me, is the graph below.
    Alex Hutchinson, Outside, 17 Nov. 2025
  • But after that first year, the two lines on the graph narrow.
    Jeff Brady, NPR, 1 June 2026
  • The graph showed a flat line with a single sharp spike in the middle.
    Dhruv Khullar, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026
  • The largest unit on the graph’s timescale is equally mind-bending.
    Big Think, 20 Aug. 2025
  • This graph will map the end-to-end data flows and define their rules.
    Steve Banker, Forbes.com, 20 June 2026
  • The reverse is not true — progress on group doesn’t imply progress on graph.
    Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 23 June 2023
  • To a bystander, a graph may be a line that shows the progress of a sales metric over time.
    Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 2 May 2023
  • The size of the tree is given in terms of the number of points, or nodes, in the graph.
    Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2026
  • No useless buzzwords or graphs.
    Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 12 May 2026
  • See more about the lengthening of the daylight hours in this graph.
    oregonlive, 10 Feb. 2023
  • What propagates through an agent graph is not just errors.
    Pranay Ahlawat, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
  • Lai and his colleagues found a way around it by turning it all into graphs.
    Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 25 Sep. 2025
  • The new graph averages out to around zero.
    Shalma Wegsman, Quanta Magazine, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Pick the genre on the left, make some tweaks on the right, and watch the pretty graphs in the center.
    Nate Anderson, Ars Technica, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Most companies do not see this graph clearly.
    Brent Gleeson, Forbes.com, 31 May 2026
  • And a look at their graph of rents over the last few years shows a similar trend as housing prices.
    Roger Valdez, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2022
  • To generate the other pieces of the graph, start at one of those other points.
    Joseph Howlett, Quanta Magazine, 21 Nov. 2025
  • That’s the idea that the design of the graph can help you with the error correction.
    Quanta Magazine, 7 Aug. 2025
  • By the third ’graph, the vehicle has plunged into an icy river.
    Tom Nolan, WSJ, 16 July 2021
  • The stock-tracking graph for the year would come to resemble a fun roller coaster ride.
    Jeremy Lott, The Washington Examiner, 14 Nov. 2025
  • That could solve the search issue that sank many corporate knowledge graphs.
    Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Surprisingly, the peak of that graph is in the blue-green part of the spectrum!
    Phil Plait, Scientific American, 15 Jan. 2026

graph

2 of 2 verb
  • Students were asked to graph each equation.
  • Tap that card to see your sleep debt graphed over the course of the week.
    PCMAG, 24 Jan. 2025
  • My teacher taught me how to graph out the image and copy it, square by square.
    Aaina Bhargava, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Because then all their data gets added to the knowledge graph too.
    Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Next compute percentage changes from month to month, graph the data, and look at the peaks.
    Bill Conerly, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2025
  • Repeat the experiment many more times and graph up all the results.
    Joseph Howlett, Quanta Magazine, 16 Mar. 2026
  • An elliptic curve has only two variables—x and y—so it can be graphed on a flat sheet of paper.
    Joseph Howlett, Wired News, 27 July 2025
  • An elliptic curve has only two variables — x and y — so it can be graphed on a flat sheet of paper.
    Joseph Howlett, Quanta Magazine, 2 June 2025
  • Imagine graphing our constraints for a, b and c in three dimensions.
    Quanta Magazine, 13 Oct. 2025
  • The gold annual cycle is graphed below.
    Bill Sarubbi, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
  • The system sends the data wirelessly to a phone app that graphs changes in the volume of alcohol over time.
    Emily Waltz, IEEE Spectrum, 19 May 2016
  • Tapping any of the measurements takes you to a chart graphing your data over time, with views for the last week, month, quarter, or year.
    PCMAG, 24 July 2024
  • For Aero and traditional strength moves, the machine tracks your power output for each rep and graphs it on the screen in real time.
    PC Magazine, 23 Sep. 2025
  • The easy-to-handle tiles help toddlers recognize colors, number graphing, build patterns, and shape puzzles.
    Cheryl Fenton, Parents, 10 July 2025
  • The best units use the most advanced graphing sonar and GPS navigation available.
    Travis Smola, Field & Stream, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Think a graphing calculator (yep, the kids are still using those TIs), three-ring binders, and textbook covers.
    Brigitt Earley, Glamour, 8 Aug. 2023
  • When graphed, this data showed an apparent trade-off between inflation and unemployment.
    Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 13 Apr. 2025
  • Digital graphing fish finders offer a variety of sonar options.
    Travis Smola, Field & Stream, 20 Mar. 2023
  • To graph the share of Americans living in poverty over the past half-century amounts to drawing a line that resembles gently rolling hills.
    Matthew Desmond, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Their numbers are confirmed by subaquatic listening devices that graph the squeaks and squeals the animals make, even as visual sighting become rare.
    Mark Stevenson, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 July 2021
  • The movie’s silences about money are matched by wider-ranging silences, which concern the other axis—communication—on which the story is graphed.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2024
  • Tapping the card shows more details with your movement score (called Movement Index) graphed over time and total tallies of active minutes and hours.
    PCMAG, 24 Jan. 2025
  • The system combines reinforcement learning and graph neural networks.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Choices range from basic sounders to advanced flashers and digital graphing fish finders with GPS.
    Travis Smola, Field & Stream, 20 Mar. 2023
  • If both series were graphed using a single vertical axis, the (blue) intraday series would hug the horizontal axis.
    Hersh Shefrin, Forbes.com, 5 Apr. 2025
  • Or that graphing calculators bought for $5, routinely resell for $30 during back-to-school season?
    Bryan Robinson, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025
  • High-end laptops, tablets and graphing calculators, which schools now regularly require, can become a financial burden.
    Food Drink Life, Hartford Courant, 12 Aug. 2024
  • Our solution was to develop a machine-learning network that graphs the relative depth and spatial locations of all the objects in the scene, then bases the language processing on this scene graph.
    IEEE Spectrum, 23 Feb. 2022
  • Though marigolds and sweet alyssum don’t directly affect each other, sweet alyssum will work to bring in hoverflies and ladybugs, and marigolds can work as a trap plant that graphs pests and holds them for the predatory insects to feed upon.
    Haniya Rae, Martha Stewart, 12 Mar. 2026
  • In recent years, Register has made a practice of meeting one-on-one quarterly with each of the third-, fourth- and fifth-graders to graph the children's results on district and state tests and to set goals for the next test.
    Cynthia Howell, Arkansas Online, 1 June 2021

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