How to Use hypothesis in a Sentence

hypothesis

noun

• The results of the experiment did not support his hypothesis.
• Their hypothesis is that watching excessive amounts of television reduces a person's ability to concentrate.
• Other chemists rejected his hypothesis.
• Isaac Newton initially argued against a parabolic orbit for the … comet of 1680, preferring the hypothesis of two independent comets, one for the inbound and one for the outbound leg. However, Newton later showed that the orbit of the comet could indeed be fit by a parabola.
  — Daniel C. Boice and Walter Huebner, "Physics and Chemistry of Comets",
• The coming days and weeks will put that hypothesis to the test.
  — Jonathan Wosen, STAT, 14 Nov. 2022
• And my hypothesis is that this has changed the way the midterm electorate thinks.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 13 Sep. 2021
• The hypothesis is that our brain uses two modules to try to make sense of the world.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 8 Aug. 2018
• The hypothesis is that the first shot is your body getting the building block of a protein.
  — Julie Mazziotta, PEOPLE.com, 19 Feb. 2021
• But like the others, prove it against a big boy to confirm the hypothesis.
  — Michael Casagrande | [e-mail], al, 3 Sep. 2023
• While there are many hypotheses, no one had been able to figure it out.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 25 June 2018
• If the hypothesis was true, how would the virus jump from feral dogs to people?
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 14 Apr. 2020
• That was my hypothesis, that Shane or his mother got her the purse.
  — Steff Yotka, Vogue, 16 Aug. 2021
• The problem with the good faith version of a lab-leak hypothesis is that there isn’t a single one.
  — Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 17 Mar. 2023
• But to her, the hypothesis about the coats being a signal to mothers is a little shaky.
  — Max G. Levy, Wired, 7 Feb. 2022
• One hypothesis is that the virus simply does not leave.
  — Mariana Lenharo, Scientific American, 16 Mar. 2022
• But the big questions about other worlds had to be answered with a shrug and a hypothesis.
  — Andrew Moseman, Popular Mechanics, 8 Feb. 2019
• The working hypothesis is that this is what happened in the most recent case.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 15 Mar. 2021
• On Friday, there were clues to support both of those hypotheses.
  — Julian E. Barnes, WSJ, 27 Apr. 2018
• The aim may be to work out a structure, answer a question, or test a hypothesis.
  — John Drake, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2021
• Past pandemics have paved the way for the zoonotic hypothesis.
  — Katherine Ellen Foley, Quartz, 25 Mar. 2021
• But researchers did not have the data to back up this hypothesis.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 5 Apr. 2018
• His hypothesis is that the woman was accused by a neighbor with a grudge.
  — Nelson Rauda Zablah, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Oct. 2023
• To test this hypothesis, Grover and his colleagues carried out a two-part study.
  — Diana Kwon, Scientific American, 19 Jan. 2021
• Self appears ready to test that hypothesis with KU’s best glue guy.
  — Jesse Newell, kansascity, 15 Feb. 2018
• What is your hypothesis about how to solve this problem?
  — Aaron Vick, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2021
• His first hypothesis was that the thieves were working for a mastermind with a knowledge of art.
  — Jesse Hyde, Town & Country, 16 Aug. 2023
• If the acid-rock hypothesis proved true, the fish downstream of certain mountains could be in lethal danger.
  — Alec Luhn, Scientific American, 19 Dec. 2023
• But the researchers behind the 2022 research are not convinced by the new hypothesis.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Jan. 2024
• This star gained fame when a far-fetched hypothesis that this dimming could be the first signs of an alien megastructure took root.
  — Briley Lewis, Scientific American, 14 Apr. 2022
• Well, that my hypothesis was true, but by the tiniest margins.
  — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 Nov. 2021

Last Updated: 9 May 2024