How to Use frame of reference in a Sentence

frame of reference

noun phrase

• Bronny is a good player, perhaps even a great one, depending on your frame of reference.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 23 June 2024
• There’s a frame of reference, though, which could help.
  — Joseph Hoyt, Dallas News, 10 May 2023
• So long as your frame of reference doesn’t go as far back as Edward Scissorhands.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Feb. 2024
• That’s at least partly because of my frame of reference.
  — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2023
• What was your frame of reference for him during casting?
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Dec. 2023
• The researchers also devised a way of using a frame of reference for the controller that varies with the user's direction.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 28 Apr. 2010
• Or at least an inability to escape their frame of reference.
  — Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 20 July 2023
• Cooper might be someone with a similar frame of reference, and he’s spent enough time with Shayk to understand the demands of modeling too.
  — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 11 Oct. 2023
• By way of explaining the strategic and tactical rationale of what was about to happen, the source resorted to a common frame of reference: the story of King Saul’s robe.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 19 Apr. 2024
• But what about the poster on how consciousness can be explained by relativity, which provides a way to unite first-person and third-person frames of reference?
  — John Horgan, Scientific American, 26 June 2023
• However, this frame of reference, called heliocentrism, still is not the best frame for everything.
  — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 14 Sep. 2010
• Mom was very private, and most people had no frame of reference of really what her true personality was.
  — Bianca Betancourt, Harper's BAZAAR, 6 June 2023
• Subtly changing light loosens the spatial geometry, altering the frame of reference around the eternity of landscape and sky seen out the windows.
  — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2023
• His knowledge of the store is assembled from family lore, a few artifacts and cultural frames of reference.
  — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2023
• People can also encounter moments where their spatial sense of self separates from their usual frame of reference.
  — Conor Feehly, Discover Magazine, 12 Oct. 2023
• Now, the frame of reference is changing, with proponents of surveillance presenting a false dichotomy: give away your location or people will die.
  — Katie Joseff, Foreign Affairs, 22 May 2020
• Confuse consumers by defining a new category without a frame of reference.
  — Steve Blank, Fortune, 9 Feb. 2024
• And there is another multifaceted way in which birds exceed our standard human frames of reference and appear like strange and extraordinary creatures: in the sharpness of their senses, whether of hearing, sight or even smell.
  — Jack Gedney, The Mercury News, 11 Mar. 2024
• Einstein showed that events are not simultaneous in different physical frames of reference if one frame is traveling relative to the other.
  — Kat Friedrich, Popular Mechanics, 25 July 2023
• That frame of reference often makes cooperative gaming, a genre that’s having a moment with 2023 quite possibly the best year for new cooperative titles in the hobby’s history, seem rather strange to new players.
  — Keith Law, Vulture, 22 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 7 Sep 2024