How to Use bell curve in a Sentence

bell curve

noun

• It's been around and the bell curve has always been around.
  — James Brown, USA TODAY, 18 Sep. 2022
• The graph of this looks a bit like an off-kilter bell curve.
  — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 26 Nov. 2010
• Instead, the right way to focus may be on the middle of the bell curve.
  — David Rock, Forbes, 6 May 2021
• The shape of this graph is more like a bell curve somewhat flattened out at the top.
  — Eugenia Cheng, WSJ, 19 June 2019
• It’s on all the other trails—the ones that fall in the fat part of the bell curve, the blues and tame blacks—where this bike really shines.
  — Outside Online, 1 July 2020
• The current number nuclear weapons was at the bottom of the bell curve on the slide.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 11 Oct. 2017
• So our waves of UFO sightings tend to take one of two distinct shapes: a sharp peak or a bell curve.
  — Sarah Scoles, Wired, 3 Mar. 2020
• Most people — around 50 percent — fall right in the middle of the chronotype bell curve.
  — Brian Resnick, Vox, 27 Apr. 2018
• On any kind of change issue, the majority of leaders land in the middle of a bell curve.
  — David Rock, Forbes, 6 May 2021
• Think back to the bell curve in math class - most of the data is clumped around the middle, with more extreme events on the edges as frequency trails off.
  — Matthew Cappucci, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Aug. 2022
• In real life, the distribution of how much people drive looks more or less like a bell curve.
  — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2023
• This despite the fact that the profession of science is skewed toward the right end of the intelligence bell curve.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 14 May 2011
• With the usual bell curve in full effect, herewith are our midterm grades for Wimbledon 2018.
  — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 7 July 2018
• This curve is similar to the Gaussian bell curve, or the downward parabola.
  — Quanta Magazine, 13 Oct. 2016
• Will the dominance of the subscription model end up protecting niche tastes or result in a great rush to the middle of the bell curve?
  — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 17 July 2019
• The amount of the credit is calculated based on both earned and unearned income and is distributed in a bell curve.
  — Amber Gray-Fenner, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2021
• If the course of an infection resembles a bell curve on a chart, a PCR test is good at detecting the infection all the way through.
  — NBC News, 30 Dec. 2021
• There’s a giant missing piece in the middle of the bell curve, where all the studies with non-significant results should be.
  — Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 22 July 2022
• This bell curve, called a wave packet, is centered at position A.
  — Quanta Magazine, 20 Oct. 2020
• Even if a margin of 9.5 points is close to correct in the middle of the bell curve of possible outcomes, the margins have to heavily favor Auburn.
  — Christopher Smith, al, 17 Nov. 2020
• My hypothesis and recommendation to founders is to be on the outskirts of this bell curve.
  — Vibhu Singh, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2022
• The number also appears in bell curves, which are found in statistics about random variables that add up.
  — Kat Friedrich, Popular Mechanics, 16 Mar. 2023
• The center of the bell curve has shifted slightly, with the world just over a degree Celsius (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than in the preindustrial era.
  — Sarah Kaplan and Andrew Ba Tran, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Jan. 2022
• To understand how the climate crisis is changing the playing field, Mann suggests thinking of weather events on a bell curve.
  — Rachel Ramirez, CNN, 28 June 2021
• That is, pitch ability follows a bell curve: Most people are average singers.
  — Bryan Nichols, The Conversation, 16 Aug. 2022
• Picture a bell curve—the graph that illustrates a normal distribution, with most of the data congregating at the center, with long tails at the high and low ends.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 14 June 2021
• Other data sets of people’s driving distances show a bell curve, with some people driving a lot, a few very little, and most somewhere in the middle.
  — Cathleen O’Grady, Science | AAAS, 24 Aug. 2021
• Over the past two years, spending for the four cryptocurrency advertisers has followed a classic bell curve.
  — Brad Adgate, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
• But the examples in this book are at the very far end of the delusion bell curve, representing landmark cases in the history of psychology.
  — Lucinda Robb, Washington Post, 5 Aug. 2022
• Infections should peak and then wane at relatively equal rates, producing a bell curve.
  — Gregory Barber, Wired, 13 Sep. 2021

Last Updated: 4 Nov 2024