How to Use sine wave in a Sentence

sine wave

noun

• In reality, all of the lines are sine waves all the way across.
  — Sophie Weiner, Popular Mechanics, 10 Dec. 2017
• The pure sine wave inverter can also provide up to 3,600 watts for peak bursts.
  — Jim Rossman, Dallas News, 1 Apr. 2021
• The growsers have a very slight sine wave shape, four to five millimeters, but that adds an insane amount of rigidity.
  — Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 30 July 2020
• That’s the heart of the metacrisis, a pulsing, elastic, exponential sine wave from Big Bang peak to Big Crunch trough.
  — Adam Rogers, Wired, 11 Feb. 2021
• While turning the saw on and off, the sine wave of the current had consistent symmetrical waves.
  — Bradley Ford, Popular Mechanics, 17 Mar. 2023
• The wiry undulations of the Slinky toy, for example, turn out to be good way of modeling sine waves.
  — Paul Grimstad, The New Republic, 21 June 2018
• Enough ports for almost every need: Pure sine wave AC output and nine other ports seem enough to take care of your basic needs.
  — Dallas News, 14 June 2022
• The inverter that powers the AC outlets on the Jackery produces pure sine wave power.
  — Dallas News, 9 Apr. 2020
• Soon, workers will tackle the main span, which is over 1,200 feet long and looks like a double sine wave assembled with an old Erector set.
  — Joseph Berger, New York Times, 25 Dec. 2017
• Each cycle, each little sine wave, is one-sixtieth of a second.
  — David Roberts, Vox, 5 June 2018
• As Sugarawa varied the laser's intensity over time in the shape of a sine wave, fluctuating at about 1,000 times a second, Fu picked up a distinct high-pitched tone.
  — Wired, 4 Nov. 2019
• For the athletes whose recovery looked less like continuous, linear growth and more like a sine wave, Wenger didn’t hold them to a structured protocol.
  — Olivia Reiner, USA TODAY, 20 July 2021
• If not, go with a pure sine wave inverter, which produces current similar to that available from a household outlet.
  — The Editors, Field & Stream, 12 Sep. 2019
• The literary life is less like Freytag’s Pyramid and more like a sine wave — peaks and valleys, small victories alternating with strings of failures.
  — Mark Athitakis, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2023
• The inverter produces pure sine wave energy, which is clean power with less electrical noise.
  — Jim Rossman, Dallas News, 17 Feb. 2021
• Where a human driver would try to pick a line and stay on it throughout a corner, the self-steering Audi twitches its wheel with high-frequency corrections, scribbling a sine wave of small inputs.
  — Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics, 17 Nov. 2015
• One model put forth in 1990 assumed riders rock backward and forward at a constant frequency in simple sinusoidal motion—meaning the movement makes the shape of a sine wave in time.
  — Bykatie McCormick, science.org, 7 Apr. 2023
• Students learn that a wave can oscillate only as fast as its highest-frequency sine wave component.
  — Katie McCormick, Quanta Magazine, 16 May 2022
• For those with more discerning power supply tastes, this UPS delivers square waveform power, not the more succulent pure sine waves that connoisseurs look for.
  — Ian Paul, PCWorld, 9 Oct. 2018
• The result: on a flat map, the spacecraft would appear to be inscribing a sort of sine wave pattern, moving above and below the equator, never passing over precisely the same point on the ground on two consecutive orbits.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 28 May 2020
• His life, with its abrupt end, doesn’t fit into the modified sine wave the formula demands — humble beginnings, slow rise, peak success, fall, then redemption or a reaffirming of legacy.
  — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 16 July 2021
• Typical generators have varying degrees of distortion in the sine wave of the alternating current.
  — Bradley Ford, Popular Mechanics, 9 Dec. 2020
• Fourier analysis tells us that complicated sound waves are built from sine waves of many different frequencies, like primary colors.
  — Eugenia Cheng, WSJ, 11 Apr. 2018
• Periodic functions are repeating patterns like the undulations of a sine wave in trigonometry.
  — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2018
• In the simplest form of ordinary radio, a switch connects and disconnects a strong electrical signal source – perhaps an oscillator that produces a sine wave fluctuating 2 billion times per second – to the transmit antenna.
  — Joshua R. Smith, The Conversation, 24 Jan. 2023
• More than two centuries ago, mathematicians developed a method called Fourier analysis for describing, for example, the vibrations of a guitar string as the combination of multiple sine waves.
  — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2018
• The sine wave is a smooth, periodic undulation, a mathematical idealization of waves found in nature: energetic seismic waves produced by earthquakes; sonic booms propagating through air; tsunamis spreading across water.
  — New York Times, 14 Sep. 2021

Last Updated: 15 Aug 2024