How to Use triangulate in a Sentence

triangulate

verb

• Planting crews used a rope to plot the circle and triangulate the location for the eyes and mouth.
  — oregonlive, 1 Dec. 2020
• That allowed them to triangulate the position of the whale making the song.
  — Washington Post, 19 June 2019
• The city has almost half the people, and more than half the money, but the state is vast and diverse, and a governor has to triangulate.
  — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2020
• And so, to triangulate this theme, ask for a Wayne Thiebaud painting of a bookstore, and the system can do smashingly well.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2023
• Part of this could be down to the launch software taking an age to triangulate your position.
  — Andrew Williams, Forbes, 15 Apr. 2021
• While out of battery life, the satellites could still pick up signals to triangulate his location and guide a group of 70 searchers.
  — Matthias Gafni, SFChronicle.com, 7 July 2020
• Workers said they were forced to triangulate their risk based on snatches of rumor and snippets of fact.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 24 Sep. 2020
• Your foot hovers somewhere between the gas and the brake, waiting for your brain to triangulate their intent: Is that one trying to cross the street, or just waiting for the bus?
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 10 July 2018
• The Post used these two videos to triangulate the origin of the projectile to a point about 2½ miles inside Israel and confirmed the location with the video obtained from Keshet 12 News.
  — Imogen Piper, Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2023
• Several plates were used to triangulate the void discovered in the Great Pyramid.
  — Brian Rohan, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Nov. 2017
• The receiver in the bee sensor uses the strength of the signal, and the angle difference between the bee and the base station, to triangulate the insect’s position.
  — Katherine Long, The Seattle Times, 13 Dec. 2018
• Kim Jong Un seems to be triangulating and splitting the pressure campaign.
  — CBS News, 31 May 2018
• Then, the artist judged the A.I.’s pictures like a crit session with a student, attempting to triangulate their best qualities.
  — Zachary Small, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2023
• Steve Arnold of Eureka Springs is looking for video to help triangulate the location.
  — Bill Bowden, Arkansas Online, 25 Feb. 2021
• There were worries that the data was detailed enough that it could be used to triangulate how a specific voter had voted.
  — Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Aug. 2022
• Tzintzún Ramirez isn’t trying to triangulate the Texas electorate.
  — Gilbert Garcia, ExpressNews.com, 6 Jan. 2020
• Working together, the three satellites can triangulate and pinpoint the source of signals.
  — David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 4 Feb. 2019
• There is the potential to have a feature that can triangulate gun shot sounds to determine location.
  — Elizabeth Marie Himchak, Pomerado News, 11 Sep. 2019
• Their faces were covered in dots, which the cameras tracked along with the markers on their suits to triangulate and map their movements to a virtual skeleton using Masquerade 2.0.
  — Alyse Stanley, Washington Post, 28 June 2022
• Police triangulated a cell phone signal to find the vehicle, Williams said.
  — Rob Picheta, CNN, 15 July 2019
• When smoke appears on multiple cameras the system can triangulate the exact location of the fire.
  — David Schechter, Haley Rush, CBS News, 17 July 2023
• This new Senate bill may risk some opposition from the far right for not shedding enough rules, but so far the GOP looks to have effectively triangulated the issue.
  — Talmon Joseph Smith, The New Republic, 1 Mar. 2018
• But her attempts to triangulate policies between left and center flopped.
  — Doyle McManus Los Angeles Times (tns), Star Tribune, 19 Aug. 2020
• But attempts to pinpoint the true source, including those of a local physics professor who sought to triangulate the noisemaker using a Google Map full of complaint calls, all failed.
  — Erin Blakemore, Popular Science, 27 Jan. 2020
• Who can triangulate between the countercultures of Left and Right and the real silent majority of Americans, who would like nothing more than the extremes to go away?
  — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 23 Oct. 2021
• And just this month, Netflix announced changes to further boost specificity by triangulating your preferences with those of viewers around the world.
  — April Joyner, Marie Claire, 29 Feb. 2016
• And despite the triangulating swirl of coming from City Hall, the governor’s office and the White House, the next steps taken here will be determined, by and large, by public health officials and those who oversee them.
  — Richard Morgan, Washington Post, 29 Apr. 2020
• The tracking device functions differently from the GPS collars fitted on adult pumas with and requires triangulating a signal in the field to locate her.
  — Ryan Fonseca, The Mercury News, 6 Apr. 2017
• Having three detectors means scientists can triangulate and better pinpoint where in the night sky any telltale chirps are coming from.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 3 Mar. 2022
• This requirement to triangulate personal preferences with the opinions of one’s intimates as well as the latest fashion news from London produced much second-guessing and many last-minute panics.
  — Kathryn Hughes, The New York Review of Books, 9 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024