How to Use triangulate in a Sentence

triangulate

verb

• Planting crews used a rope to plot the circle and triangulate the location for the eyes and mouth.
  — oregonlive, 1 Dec. 2020
• Part of this could be down to the launch software taking an age to triangulate your position.
  — Andrew Williams, Forbes, 15 Apr. 2021
• Workers said they were forced to triangulate their risk based on snatches of rumor and snippets of fact.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 24 Sep. 2020
• But her attempts to triangulate policies between left and center flopped.
  — Doyle McManus Los Angeles Times (tns), Star Tribune, 19 Aug. 2020
• The city has almost half the people, and more than half the money, but the state is vast and diverse, and a governor has to triangulate.
  — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2020
• There were worries that the data was detailed enough that it could be used to triangulate how a specific voter had voted.
  — Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Aug. 2022
• If your boat sends out its own noise, an enemy submarine can triangulate that position.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 25 Jan. 2023
• There is the potential to have a feature that can triangulate gun shot sounds to determine location.
  — Elizabeth Marie Himchak, Pomerado News, 11 Sep. 2019
• While out of battery life, the satellites could still pick up signals to triangulate his location and guide a group of 70 searchers.
  — Matthias Gafni, SFChronicle.com, 7 July 2020
• Three cameras triangulated the event for future campaign use.
  — Phillyclout Team, Philly.com, 8 Sep. 2017
• The natural response is to be skeptical, do your own research, triangulate sources, etc.
  — Gautam Mukunda, Twin Cities, 26 Feb. 2026
• Kim Jong Un seems to be triangulating and splitting the pressure campaign.
  — CBS News, 31 May 2018
• Working together, the three satellites can triangulate and pinpoint the source of signals.
  — David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 4 Feb. 2019
• Police triangulated a cell phone signal to find the vehicle, Williams said.
  — Rob Picheta, CNN, 15 July 2019
• And so, to triangulate this theme, ask for a Wayne Thiebaud painting of a bookstore, and the system can do smashingly well.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2023
• When smoke appears on multiple cameras the system can triangulate the exact location of the fire.
  — David Schechter, Haley Rush, CBS News, 17 July 2023
• Tzintzún Ramirez isn’t trying to triangulate the Texas electorate.
  — Gilbert Garcia, ExpressNews.com, 6 Jan. 2020
• Several plates were used to triangulate the void discovered in the Great Pyramid.
  — Brian Rohan, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Nov. 2017
• Having three detectors means scientists can triangulate and better pinpoint where in the night sky any telltale chirps are coming from.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 3 Mar. 2022
• By triangulating these distance returns, the system can determine where the user is.
  — Lily Hay Newman, WIRED, 17 Aug. 2019
• Even if Gauss or another astronomer used a large telescope, triangulating the distances between stars wouldn’t work.
  — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 23 May 2026
• The models triangulate spelling variations, dates, and witness statements to restore names to victims once recorded as blank lines.
  — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 15 Aug. 2025
• One approach compares images from two cameras spaced sufficiently far apart to triangulate the distance to objects.
  — Edd Gent, IEEE Spectrum, 16 July 2021
• Steve Arnold of Eureka Springs is looking for video to help triangulate the location.
  — Bill Bowden, Arkansas Online, 25 Feb. 2021
• Some more sophisticated users could even triangulate data about the whereabouts of Russian soldiers via these apps.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 3 May 2023
• In theory, school officials could consult footage from hallway cameras to triangulate which students were in the bathroom when the detectors went off.
  — Wired, 14 Nov. 2019
• And just this month, Netflix announced changes to further boost specificity by triangulating your preferences with those of viewers around the world.
  — April Joyner, Marie Claire, 29 Feb. 2016
• Labour has stopped triangulating on the economy, instead leaping leftward with promises of a much bigger state (see Briefing).
  — The Economist, 31 Oct. 2019
• Six cameras create stereoscopic vision—depth perception built from slightly different angles, the way two eyes triangulate a curb.
  — Eric Sullivan, Scientific American, 9 Jan. 2026
• The receiver in the bee sensor uses the strength of the signal, and the angle difference between the bee and the base station, to triangulate the insect’s position.
  — Katherine Long, The Seattle Times, 13 Dec. 2018