How to Use figured in a Sentence

figured

adjective

• With no senior starters and just two on the roster, many figured Lemont was a year away.
  — Steve Millar, chicagotribune.com, 5 Mar. 2022
• But no one had quite figured out how the jellies’ goo worked until now.
  — Cheryl Ames, National Geographic, 13 Feb. 2020
• Six months later, Jim Irsay still hasn't quite figured out how to let go.
  — Jim Ayello, Indianapolis Star, 23 Feb. 2020
• And Barbie, with her new, more full-figured physique, can log on to Mattel.com and purchase a sleeveless mesh slip dress that fits her like a glove.
  — Hannah Morrill, Cosmopolitan, 29 Aug. 2016
• The sisters haven’t quite figured out how to frame the detours their lives took because of events that preceded them.
  — Raheem Hosseini, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Sep. 2021
• Sculptures of full-figured, bare-breasted nymphs look out at the river from their perches at the bridge’s center.
  — Elaine Sciolino, New York Times, 4 Nov. 2019
• Tommy still hasn't quite figured out how to function without her.
  — Samantha Highfill, EW.com, 11 June 2022
• The trinity: Smoke Shack’s sausage ($2.25 a link) did a Jekyll and Hyde thing, going pale, flabby and smokeless one time, then full-figured, tawny and campfire-smoky the next.
  — Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 4 May 2018
• That’s made clear in a new report on global billionaires from Wealth-X, which surveys the landscape of the ten-figured titans.
  — Theodore Schleifer, Recode, 19 May 2018
• The garment: a shiny, onyx bodysuit, ballooning a dark-skinned, full-figured black woman.
  — Alisha Acquaye, Teen Vogue, 10 July 2017
• Shrill follows the story of a full-figured woman, Annie, who seeks out ways to change her life without changing her body.
  — Toby Grey, BGR, 16 Sep. 2022
• Some styles feature videos of models, including some full-figured ones, walking and posing in the suit.
  — Anne D'innocenzio, USA TODAY, 17 June 2017
• And my daughter was thrilled beyond measure by the full-figured Black dancers, strutting their stuff in glittery skin-tight costumes.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2022
• Hilaria Baldwin hasn't quite figured out how to explain to others why her youngest babies are so close in age.
  — Georgia Slater, PEOPLE.com, 9 Aug. 2021
• The singer, who is known for openly embracing her curves, debunked the myth that full-figured women don’t exercise.
  — Jasmine Grant, Essence, 10 June 2020
• Myth: Patterns will make a little space feel busy and coffin-like. Truth: A figured wallpaper creates depth.
  — Lauren Joseph, WSJ, 12 Feb. 2022
• Check out the list below for all of the dope queens securing the production bag with full-figured multi-million dollar deals, first-look agreements, and more.
  — Essence, 19 May 2021
• There are also players who have plenty of raw talent, but haven't quite figured out how to channel it in the proper direction – at least, not yet.
  — Jesse Yomtov, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2021
• And to be fair, many government authorities haven’t quite figured out how to handle it either.
  — Shawn Farshchi, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2022
• Even in the early 2000s, roles for women who weren't white or a size two and smaller were limited — talk less for women who happened to identify as both full-figured and Black.
  — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 21 Oct. 2021
• If electric vehicles are doing the traveling, governments still haven’t quite figured out how to charge them for it.
  — Aarian Marshall, Wired, 27 May 2021
• Museo Botero pays homage to Colombia's most famous artist, Fernando Botero, with his signature plump women and full-figured fruits.
  — Lucy Sherriff, CNN, 23 Aug. 2021
• Slightly surprising - figured league would want a new partner, and YouTube is very interested in live sports.
  — Peter Kafka, Recode, 26 Apr. 2018
• Yura picked up his bag, walked out into the vestibule, the lippy man now gone, and took his place next to three women of various ages: an old woman, a full-figured middle-aged woman, and a young girl.
  — Vladimir Sorokin, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2021
• Libraries and physical bookstores closed, launch events were canceled, and publishers hadn’t quite figured out Zoom yet.
  — Chelsea Leu, The Atlantic, 15 June 2022
• Muhammad, a slight-figured man with a piercing gaze and a prayer bruise on his bald forehead, is 38, a former trader whose gifts as a speaker and promoter are indisputable.
  — Robert F. Worth, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2017
• Just ask Liris Crosse, who has been championing the beauty of full-figured women throughout her flourishing 20-year career.
  — NBC News, 19 Sep. 2017
• By midnight, her breathing seemed slightly shallow but figured that was just the congestion building.
  — Georgia Slater, PEOPLE.com, 13 July 2021
• Here’s the roster: Snuffaluffagus, a 3-year-old American Staffordshire terrier mix, is a full-figured gal who is up for anything.
  — Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 1 Feb. 2017
• The front seats are especially comfortable and are supportive without being too snug on the tush for full-figured motorists.
  — Jim Gorzelany, Forbes, 13 Apr. 2022

Last Updated: 10 Aug 2024