How to Use algebra in a Sentence

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• Most kids that age are in the eighth grade, getting ready to learn algebra.
  — Heather Kelly, Washington Post, 1 June 2022
• All-wheel drive would solve that traction algebra, but what's the fun in that?
  — Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 29 June 2021
• But with so much up in the air, the equation starts to look less like algebra and more like alchemy.
  — Lionel Laurent, Bloomberg.com, 19 Apr. 2018
• In other words, all those things that stick in our brains while the algebra and physics fall by the wayside.
  — Matthew J. Palm, Orlando Sentinel, 10 Apr. 2023
• But just like in your high school algebra class, some couldn't manage to earn a B.
  — Ryan Serpico, San Antonio Express-News, 19 Jan. 2022
• Eighth-grade algebra?—could offer clues about what, if anything, went wrong here.
  — Dan Kopf, Quartz, 15 Nov. 2019
• But after three hours of algebra, someone had to take the fall.
  — Kevin Fisher-Paulson, SFChronicle.com, 17 Nov. 2020
• His clues include being 'top of the class', algebra, ringing a tiny bell, and a brief flash of a shark.
  — Alicia Vrajlal, refinery29.com, 24 Oct. 2023
• If all goes as planned, by the time the students reach fifth grade, many will be taking pre-algebra.
  — Craig Harris, azcentral, 11 May 2018
• Yet in the three years since, the number of eighth-graders taking algebra has doubled.
  — Katherine Long, The Seattle Times, 1 June 2017
• Caleb, aka Moze, is an algebra teacher who’s ready to see if Moze + Jenn = true love.
  — Dana Rose Falcone, Peoplemag, 3 June 2024
• The overall algebra passing rates in Broward fell from 91% to 70%.
  — Scott Travis, sun-sentinel.com, 7 Sep. 2021
• The algebra of need and exploitation will not change from one society to the next.
  — Dan Chiasson, The New York Review of Books, 15 May 2020
• But algebra performs its gymnastics over the fixed bars of the equal sign.
  — Quanta Magazine, 10 Oct. 2019
• Something about that math isn’t adding up; and fans were all too eager to demonstrate the algebra.
  — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 6 Feb. 2023
• On his desk lies a book he's been reading, just for fun, on matrix algebra.
  — Everton Bailey Jr., OregonLive.com, 9 Dec. 2017
• The goal was to get them on a track that leads to calculus, starting with algebra 1 in seventh grade.
  — Leslie Postal, OrlandoSentinel.com, 23 Nov. 2019
• Who wants to get a surprise test on algebra terms or math equations?
  — Alison Caporimo, Seventeen, 13 Aug. 2019
• Can a four-year-old master fractions, or even learn algebra, in pre-school?
  — Jon R. Gundry, The Mercury News, 20 Mar. 2017
• Amari Aaron, an eighth grader at the school, had Mr. Braddy for homeroom and algebra.
  — Ashley Southall and Nate Schweber, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2018
• Research about whether eighth graders should take algebra is mixed.
  — Nirvi Shah, USA TODAY, 21 June 2023
• His book contains plenty of word problems and their ilk, of the sort taught in the average algebra class.
  — Siobhan Roberts, WSJ, 19 Aug. 2022
• At age 65, Bill Gates continues to walk through life with all of the brashness of an algebra teacher.
  — Reid Singer, Outside Online, 24 Feb. 2021
• The initiative aims to restore eighth-grade algebra in the city’s public schools.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 12 Nov. 2023
• Fifty three percent of the 10th graders passed the FSA language arts exam, and 60 percent of those in algebra classes passed that test.
  — Leslie Postal, orlandosentinel.com, 28 June 2019
• Enrolling in algebra, as Babineau’s daughter hoped to do, required scoring a 500 or above on the math SOL.
  — Washington Post, 2 Sep. 2021
• The program didn’t just rehash the same old algebra topics.
  — Cheryl Cowan, The Mercury News, 12 June 2017
• The algebra class would have to be retaken online over six weeks.
  — Mike Mikula, Washington Post, 8 Aug. 2019
• The name references, well, Mark Cuban, but also simple algebra: the base price of the drug, plus a 15 percent markup, plus a $5 pharmacy service fee, plus $5 in shipping.
  — Lauren Goode, WIRED, 12 Sep. 2024
• By that time, Gray had had left his second-period algebra class, going to the bathroom instead of the front office, investigators said.
  — CBS News, 12 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024