How to Use extrapolate in a Sentence

extrapolate

verb

• We can extrapolate the number of new students entering next year by looking at how many entered in previous years.
• With such a small study it is impossible to extrapolate accurately.
• But the coach is careful not to extrapolate too much from one play like that.
  — Katherine Fitzgerald, azcentral, 4 Nov. 2019
• One option is to record whale calls and try to extrapolate from that.
  — Cathleen O'Grady, Ars Technica, 26 Feb. 2020
• The odds are that less of the language is needed to extrapolate what the language consists of.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
• That said, the automaker did tell us to look at the difference in price between the CX-50 and the CX-5 and extrapolate from there.
  — Andrew Krok, Car and Driver, 31 Jan. 2023
• Don't extrapolate and think that all pit bulls do this.
  — Tom Junod, Esquire, 14 July 2014
• Don’t be put off by the paces these athletes run—extrapolate the lesson to your pace.
  — Carl Leivers, Outside Online, 20 June 2019
• This would be good for one of the best offenses in the N.B.A., extrapolated over a full season.
  — New York Times, 24 Jan. 2020
• That should help scientists extrapolate from the little crime-scene shards left in sharks to the full swordfish that did the deed.
  — Joshua Sokol, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2020
• And before that seed has time to blossom, there are people who glom on and extrapolate way too far.
  — Angela Chen, The Verge, 7 Aug. 2018
• If fish have gills to extrapolate oxygen from the water even at depth, how do mudskippers breathe in the open air?
  — Sofia Quaglia, Discover Magazine, 9 May 2023
• But Mason said the new report can’t be used to extrapolate the total spilled from the Taylor site.
  — Washington Post, 24 June 2019
• Now, extrapolate that process over the thousands of parts that go into a computer or a car.
  — Benny Buller, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
• The authors then extrapolated their findings across the top 30-refugee hosting countries, which host 90% of the world's refugees.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 25 July 2019
• But can Gose take those initial successes and extrapolate them out over the course of an entire season for the Guardians in 2022?
  — Joe Noga, cleveland, 1 Dec. 2021
• This panel extrapolates one the future of clubbing culture and imagines what the dance floor could look like in 2030.
  — Kat Bein, Billboard, 14 Oct. 2019
• In the most studies focus on or the , and the data cannot be extrapolated to the novel coronavirus.
  — Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2020
• The company then extrapolates those numbers to come up with the data.
  — Marco Santana, OrlandoSentinel.com, 7 June 2018
• From that base of survey data, the researchers extrapolated to the whole island and came up with a range of excess deaths.
  — Washington Post, 4 June 2018
• One tried and true method is to extrapolate the age of the oldest craters from the characteristics of the planet’s newest ones.
  — Daniel Oberhaus, Wired, 19 Jan. 2021
• Researchers have to extrapolate from the number of nests observed.
  — The Economist, 22 Feb. 2018
• All of that is true, and extrapolating outward from this race to future races is therefore fraught.
  — Philip Bump, Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2017
• Not much can be extrapolated from that game, plain and simple.
  — Daniel Rapaport, SI.com, 14 Jan. 2018
• The new minute-long teaser for The First Omen doesn’t extrapolate much on this plot synopsis, but it is stuffed with sinister vibes.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 3 Jan. 2024
• Can’t help but maybe extrapolate that perhaps the Jazz just aren’t really good enough.
  — Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune, 15 Mar. 2022
• Not to mention how to extrapolate the effects of the drug on people over 70, the maximum age at which the study enrolled patients.
  — Michael Nedelman, CNN, 31 July 2019
• But the work involved more than just extrapolating that data back over the three billion years it’s taken Mars to dry out.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 6 Sep. 2024
• Some argue the results of the study, which was mostly confined to one slope, are too limited to extrapolate.
  — Ula Chrobak, Outside Online, 19 Mar. 2018
• Calhoun wasn’t shy about extrapolating to our own species’ fate.
  — Ben Goldfarb, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024