How to Use nonlinear in a Sentence

nonlinear

adjective

• Each of Ray’s four new shows is spare, nonlinear, and choreographed down to the square inch.
  — New York Times, 26 Jan. 2022
• Even if the story is linear, the writing of it can be nonlinear.
  — Brendan O'Meara, Longreads, 19 Dec. 2022
• The further the light travels through the glass, the stronger the resulting nonlinear effects, and the larger the problem.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 7 June 2022
• All three main actors ace their arcs and changing looks over time – that’s key in a nonlinear film like this that’s all over the place.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 24 Apr. 2024
• Not all nonlinear effects arise from new physics, of course.
  — Daniel Garisto, Scientific American, 30 Sep. 2020
• There are twists aplenty, but the viewer never loses the thread of the nonlinear plot, and the look and feel of the film harkens back to Gilliam's 1985 masterpiece Brazil.
  — Jennifer Ouellette and Sean M. Carroll, Ars Technica, 24 Nov. 2023
• With its sprawling sound and nonlinear editing, the album is sure to make a statement.
  — Luke Whelan, Outside Online, 15 June 2017
• The rest are scattered in a nonlinear format in a grove of trees in front of the building entrance, close to bordering S Street NW.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 14 July 2023
• But her conduct and motives soon become as nonlinear as so much else in the story.
  — Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2024
• This is in part because the stories follow nonlinear plot lines.
  — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 2 July 2022
• And again, remember that careers and day-to-day life in music are nonlinear.
  — Tara Klein, SPIN, 29 June 2023
• The journey of grief is nonlinear, strange, glorious, and awful at times.
  — Alex Wagner, SPIN, 4 May 2022
• Costa is a director who builds images more than scenes, which suits the nonlinear nature of this show.
  — Joshua Barone, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2024
• In medicine, the outputs are nonlinear and unpredictable.
  — WSJ, 22 Sep. 2021
• This is despite the lens having a nonlinear manual focus response, a method that is meant to support minute changes to the plane of focus with slow turns of the ring.
  — PCMAG, 15 July 2024
• If the reality were nonlinear, the odds of getting low delta-F scores would be even more unlikely.
  — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 6 May 2014
• In the new role, Mendoza will be in charge of linear and nonlinear platforms, with strategy and planning teams will now be aligned into one.
  — Caroline Brew, Variety, 28 Feb. 2024
• The result is a weird, moving and resonant work about grief and trauma and the nonlinear path of navigating both.
  — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 6 Mar. 2021
• For the past few years, the game designer Sam Barlow has been perfecting a fresh, nonlinear form of storytelling, which bridges the gap between film and games.
  — Simon Parkin, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2022
• From superb acting to nonlinear puzzles to trap doors, this will feel like much more than a typical escape room.
  — Vicki Salemi, Chron, 15 Apr. 2023
• While 2019′s version included a nonlinear narrative that went alongside the walk, Lorraine said this year’s goal was to find a way to invite the audience to be the guide.
  — Jerald Pierce, chicagotribune.com, 1 Sep. 2021
• The 16 tracks also take listeners on a nonlinear journey of falling in and out of love, as Eilish croons about heartbreak and the painful, uncertain process of healing.
  — Editors, USA TODAY, 30 July 2021
• Because the nonlinear, non-cerebral forms that are art speak on a different frequency.
  — Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN, 28 Feb. 2021
• Because the nonlinear, non-cerebral forms that are art, speak on a different frequency.
  — Sophie Lewis, CBS News, 1 Mar. 2021
• Your discomfort on transit is nonlinear, too: Until all the seats are gone, more passengers don’t affect you much.
  — New York Times, 11 June 2021
• Subsequently her business and brand were born through the nonlinear path Calley followed.
  — Brittany Chambers, Forbes, 8 Nov. 2021
• The writers play with episode structure, using nonlinear narratives to reveal new layers of a story or just to underscore a joke.
  — Emily Palmer Heller, Vulture, 20 Apr. 2021
• But the climate is a nonlinear system, where changes in one variable can touch off another, leading to unstable feedback loops.
  — Quanta Magazine, 5 Oct. 2021
• As a result, Gia’s own storyline is nonlinear, and therefore somewhat jumbled.
  — Alison Herman, Variety, 13 Sep. 2024
• Suspending individual works on glass panels embedded in and held upright by blocks of concrete, Bo Bardi’s system invites viewers to wander among the paintings as if in a forest, making nonlinear connections between them.
  — Manuel Borja-Villel, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 31 Oct 2024