How to Use diagram in a Sentence

diagram

1 of 2 noun
  • This diagram shows how the clock operates.
  • In this diagram, there are five points and ten pairs of points.
    — ArsTechnica, 1 June 2026
  • The diagram in the post describes a laser test over less than a half-mile.
    — Isabella Fertel, USA TODAY, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Life is like the cheap chocolates that don’t come with the diagram telling you what’s what.
    — Bran Strickland | , al, 15 Aug. 2023
  • These are diagrams of lines that tell you where to fold paper to make, say, a crane or frog.
    — Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 6 Oct. 2025
  • The colors will match at each seam as the diagram below shows.
    — Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2026
  • In the diagram, the buttons are shown with their labels in white.
    — Pradeep Mutalik, Quanta Magazine, 30 Sep. 2022
  • There are lots of diagrams that can represent the same knot.
    — Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 22 Sep. 2025
  • The coach knew the exact games just by studying the diagrams.
    — Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Those films were far better (because their scripts felt like more than diagrams).
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 12 May 2023
  • Wosepka was the first of the three to get hit, according to a diagram of the crash.
    — Jay R. Jordan, Chron, 17 Dec. 2021
  • This diagram of the subglacial probe shows its melting head as well as its suite of sensors.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 4 Mar. 2024
  • The client then came to the whiteboard, taking a pen to highlight parts of the diagram.
    — Bryan Stallings, Quartz, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Other screens show muscle and fat broken down by body part in both a chart and a full-body diagram.
    — Andrew Gebhart, PC Magazine, 5 Apr. 2026
  • Now, yes, staring at the ceiling long enough to draw you a diagram of the paint peeling.
    — Danielle Parker, CBS News, 30 June 2026
  • Hadn’t there been a step-by-step tampon insertion diagram here, on this page?
    — Literary Hub, 10 Nov. 2025
  • But each of those can be equated to a related diagram with one loop fewer.
    — Byadrian Cho, science.org, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Close points to a diagram to show how his work is affected by gun violence.
    — Melissa Chan, NBC News, 14 June 2022
  • Each place where one strand passes over another in a knot diagram is called a crossing.
    — Emma R. Hasson, Scientific American, 3 Oct. 2025
  • On the wall is a diagram of the island’s power grid, color-coded in blue and pink.
    — Noah Robertson, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Oct. 2022
  • Dustin further diagrams all of this for the entire team in Episode 7.
    — Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 25 Dec. 2025
  • This diagram helps visually display how a store can be structured and where to place goods on shelves.
    — Elie Y. Katz, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2023
  • But artists have their own ways, and this elegant, odd summary diagram was all there was.
    — Vulture, 7 June 2022
  • An artist drew a tangled ribbon on his right arm, the diagram of a protein called Piezo.
    — The New York Times News Service Syndicate, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Dec. 2025
  • Yeats’s spirals, once dismissed as the wild diagrams of a mystic, now settle over this place like soot.
    — Alaa Alqaisi august 13, Literary Hub, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Greenwald has been known to draw diagrams for patients, showing them how to find their G-spot.
    — Melanie Thernstrom, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
  • Rasheeda showed me stacks of her marble notebooks, filled front to back with recipes, schedules, and diagrams.
    — Abe Beame, Essence, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Feel free to add your own physical sensations to the diagram.
    — Neha Sangwan, Popular Science, 7 Sep. 2023
  • The result is a beautiful, elaborate diagram that looks more like a wheel than a tree.
    — Richard Grant, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Wilson is a student of the game and should do well when teams ask him to talk football and diagram plays in interviews.
    — Doug Lesmerises, cleveland, 2 Mar. 2022

diagram

2 of 2 verb
  • The coach diagrammed the new play on the blackboard.
  • The students were required to diagram a sentence.
  • The serve zones have been diagrammed.
    — Jenny Catlin, New York Times, 21 Dec. 2025
  • Here's a free program that will diagram the signals in your home or office.
    — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2017
  • Hurley could’ve called a timeout, diagrammed a play.
    — Tim Rohan, NBC news, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Goodell had to diagram their injuries and root through their pockets.
    — Frank Matt, Longreads, 19 May 2017
  • The English part of me wants to start diagramming all of those sentences.
    — Fox News, 9 Aug. 2018
  • Lowell whipped out a pen and paper and attempted to diagram how to fold the topsail.
    — Michael Waters, New Yorker, 3 Jan. 2026
  • And don’t worry, the set comes complete with a handy how-to diagram for any facial tool newcomers.
    — Tanisha Pina, NBC News, 7 Dec. 2019
  • Challenge a good ol’ boy on a tractor to diagram a sentence and the reaction would likely amount to a short grunt.
    — Tom Roland, Billboard, 10 July 2025
  • And who has not read the text of one law or another and not wished that its author had learned to diagram sentences if not the law’s consequences?
    — Edward Rothstein, WSJ, 26 Sep. 2017
  • Psychologists may claim to know, but there are no human feelings that can be easily diagrammed.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 26 Jan. 2024
  • For one night, the coach known for her edge and emotion wasn’t diagramming plays for the longtime NBA coach.
    — Nathan Canilao, Mercury News, 3 Mar. 2026
  • In most classical schools, phonics reign, and students learn grammar by diagramming sentences.
    — Emma Green, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
  • Check out the gallery for more images of this unique bike, and some diagrams Kent's put together showing some of the physics concepts behind the design.
    — Loz Blain august 04, New Atlas, 4 Aug. 2025
  • The next morning Payton and the rest of the Broncos’ party asked Nix to diagram those reads and concepts on a board.
    — Dianna Russini, The Athletic, 22 Aug. 2024
  • This is where Roberson started diagramming those rotations on the table.
    — SI.com, 7 Feb. 2018
  • The bookshelves are stuffed mostly with biographies, plus a coffee table tome diagramming Tour de France routes.
    — Alex Prewitt, SI.com, 3 Apr. 2018
  • Some of them had stood in the driving rain on Monday, and when the jumper bridge looked too precarious for their liking, diagrammed in the mud their ideas for shoring up its support.
    — Gary Greenberg, Harper's Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024
  • As the production team showed the replay of Solomon’s grab, Madden drew over a freeze-frame of the play, diagramming how Solomon sprung open.
    — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Humans seem to be hardwired for justice, but we’re also saddled with a curious compulsion to diagram our own emotional wiring.
    — Lindsay Gray, Scientific American, 18 Nov. 2020
  • Better than that, the coaches have the ability to place an inset on the screen diagramming plays Deer Park will want to employ next season.
    — Robert Avery, Houston Chronicle, 16 Apr. 2020
  • On the following pages, Crestodina diagrams the three primary parts of the boat, and through art and words, explains how salmon are caught by those crewing the craft.
    — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Apr. 2023
  • Johnson also spent plenty of time in the classroom, learning to better identify and diagram defenses on command.
    — Tom Green, AL.com, 25 Apr. 2018
  • While historical, the real driver of the book is her style guides, which highlight the vocabulary of diamonds, diagramming the parts of rings.
    — Thomas Waller, WWD, 16 Dec. 2024
  • Position groups did their own things, with safeties coach Joe Harasymiak asking players to diagram Xs and Os on the white big board.
    — Andy Greder, Twin Cities, 29 Nov. 2019
  • Nevada called timeout and diagrammed a play for 6-foot-6 guard Kenan Blackshear to back down his defender in the lane and shoot a fade-away jumper.
    — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Some attempts were racially explicit, diagraming a hierarchy of races to ennoble slavery with signs.
    — Sarah Lewis, New York Times, 25 June 2017
  • Warriors coach Freddie Cintron diagrammed a down-screen to free Serene Exalant, who broke open for a long pass and a layup that clinched the game with time expiring.
    — Buddy Collings, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 Mar. 2025
  • Coryell started scheming furiously, diagramming formations with four and five receivers.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Aug. 2019

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