How to Use graph in a Sentence

graph

noun
  • The graph was shared more than 500 times in three weeks.
    Isabella Fertel, USA TODAY, 27 Jan. 2023
  • As the graph shows, last year was not at all like that.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 9 Jan. 2024
  • At the top of the graph is the green zone: feeling good or euphoric.
    Carol Sutton Lewis, Scientific American, 20 Apr. 2023
  • 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
  • Sometime in the last year or so, the graph was removed.
    New York Times, 13 July 2022
  • Here is the graph above, overlaid with the real GDP growth rate.
    John S. Tobey, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2022
  • 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
  • See more about the lengthening of the daylight hours in this graph.
    oregonlive, 10 Feb. 2023
  • The Twitter user who posted the graph could not be reached.
    Kate S. Petersen, USA TODAY, 25 Jan. 2023
  • The reverse is not true — progress on group doesn’t imply progress on graph.
    Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 23 June 2023
  • As the graph below shows, the U.S. is a rather extreme outlier.
    Joshua Cohen, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2023
  • The graph above shows how Earth’s land has been heating twice as fast as the oceans, a trend that continued in 2022.
    WIRED, 12 Jan. 2023
  • 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
  • The label appeared in the top left corner of the graph rather than along the upward trending solid line on the chart.
    wsj.com, 25 Apr. 2023
  • Shapiro smoothed out his graph, regarded it for a moment, and ran the tip of his pencil back and forth across the curve.
    Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2023
  • By the third ’graph, the vehicle has plunged into an icy river.
    Tom Nolan, WSJ, 16 July 2021
  • The terms in the sequence correspond to structures found in certain graphs.
    Alex Stone, Quanta Magazine, 16 Nov. 2023
  • That kind of network is called a directed acyclic graph, or DAG.
    Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 18 Jan. 2023
  • This graph shows 2023 in the solid black line, and previous years as the other squiggles.
    Matt Simon, WIRED, 28 Aug. 2023
  • This graph from the CDC shows that the number of excess deaths per week, starting in January 2018.
    Karen Kaplanscience and Medicine Editor, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2022
  • Like any good economist, Nicholas Bloom envisions the world in charts and graphs.
    Geoff Colvin, Fortune, 6 Nov. 2023
  • The remainder of the 1930s tracked a rising graph of prosperity that, during the war years, shot off the charts.
    Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Mar. 2023
  • The link goes into details, but this is a graph of submission bans since 2019.
    Jake Traylor, NBC News, 3 Mar. 2023
  • Be warned: There are a lot of religious groups dissected in the graph below.
    Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 Sep. 2023
  • Note the big reversal to the upside in relative strength in the monthly graph below.
    Bill Sarubbi, Forbes, 17 July 2023
  • This graph purports to show the success of what the lawsuit claims were unlawful actions.
    Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 10 Nov. 2022
  • That could solve the search issue that sank many corporate knowledge graphs.
    Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 14 Apr. 2023
  • The graph of gold’s price that flashed on the screen was upward and basically vertical.
    Elliot Ackerman, WIRED, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Movement features seven unique pegs that can move, bounce, push, and even create a graph.
    Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 17 Apr. 2022
  • But the graphs on cyberattacks—both the frequency and the damage—have only continued to go up and to the right.
    Sage Lazzaro, Fortune, 8 Feb. 2024

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