How to Use graph paper in a Sentence

graph paper

noun
  • The machine printed out a set of wavy black lines on pink graph paper.
    — Literary Hub, 6 Feb. 2026
  • This trio of memo books have 48 pages of graph paper and can fit in a pocket.
    — Jonathan Bender, NBC News, 10 Dec. 2020
  • That’s because a straight line on a sphere is not the same shape as a straight line on a piece of graph paper.
    — Quanta Magazine, 5 Aug. 2016
  • The plot feels like the kind that was elegantly sketched out on graph paper.
    — Vulture, 24 May 2022
  • The steel looked like a piece of giant graph paper before it was entombed in the wet concrete.
    — Tim Carter, Chicago Tribune, 21 July 2023
  • But the butterfly that began to emerge on his graph paper intrigued him.
    — Lyndie Chiou, Quanta Magazine, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Apps can be a fun option for older, tech-savvy kids — but a good old-fashioned piece of graph paper will work just fine.
    — Jamie Siebrase, Denver Post, 20 May 2026
  • Imagine an infinite sheet of graph paper.
    — Quanta Magazine, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Kestenbaum gave up on the planning tool and used good old fashioned graph paper to design her system.
    — NBC News, 4 Aug. 2019
  • Try using graph paper, and see how different amounts of shaking measure up on your scale.
    — Ben Finio, Scientific American, 22 Aug. 2019
  • In fact, pen and graph paper sketches are entirely sufficient at this step.
    — Mohan Giridharadas & Sanjeev Agrawal, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2021
  • The tablet of graph paper, green colored with quarter-inch squares used for drafting, sat on the low table before me.
    — Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Apr. 2021
  • At this point the reader will notice that the book’s pale brown pages are themselves crosshatched, like graph paper that has been dipped in tea.
    — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 12 Mar. 2021
  • Start, for example, with a piece of graph paper with its grid of perpendicular lines.
    — Quanta Magazine, 7 June 2021
  • To see how a fluid might travel through this lattice, imagine that each tiny edge on the graph paper is a pipe that is either open or closed.
    — Kelsey Houston-Edwards, Scientific American, 16 Mar. 2021
  • His students tap maple trees, build boats and once spray-painted a full-sized whale on the lawn outside the school to scale up a design from graph paper.
    — Jennifer Brooks, Star Tribune, 29 Aug. 2020
  • Before grabbing rolls of yarn and needles from a large box at the front of the classroom, students sketched out the problem on graph paper.
    — Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Jan. 2020
  • Close up, arrays of microshutters resemble graph paper, with each cell functioning as a lens cover that can be opened or closed.
    — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2021
  • Break out a timer and graph paper; observe one nucleation point on a glass and measure the transition time from two to three bubble patterns.
    — Elsbeth Sites, Discover Magazine, 7 Jan. 2014
  • Lacking access to a computer, the students made calculations on graph paper by hand.
    — The New Yorker, 10 Dec. 2021
  • As a kid Andy sat glued to the Weather Channel, plotting the progress of hurricanes on graph paper.
    — Jocelyn Rice, Discover Magazine, 12 Sep. 2011
  • The woman who spent years doing meticulous research turned her talents to graph paper and temperature charts, color wheels and kilns.
    — Denise Coffey, Courant Community, 9 Jan. 2018
  • Most pieces start out as rough sketches on paper, which are then transfered onto graph paper or computer models to plan out the basic shape and size of the animal.
    — Jennifer Nalewicki, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Aug. 2020
  • People had graph paper, literally graph paper and their dictionary to work with, and maybe some crossword reference books that would be helpful.
    — James Brown, USA TODAY, 19 Feb. 2023
  • Each label is attached to graph paper and placed into one of nine large three-ring binder notebooks, alphabetically ordered by the first letter of the brand name.
    — Fernando Alfonso Iii, CNN, 22 Feb. 2020
  • The forms in Neil Williams’s drawings on graph paper are geometric but filled in with colored pencil that yields heathered rather than saturated hues.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Gallegos creates blank books made with either lined paper, dotted paper, graph paper or blank paper, all waiting to be filled according to the user.
    — Kolbie Peterson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 Nov. 2022
  • As much as a planner is about structure, there’s also plenty of flexible space, including 10 blank graph paper pages and eight blank fine bullet paper pages.
    — Quincy Bulin, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Inside, Thomas Pynchon—early thirties, awkward, with a Zappa ’stache—scribbles on reams of graph paper.
    — John Semley, WIRED, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Stock image of a seismograph machine needle drawing a red line on graph paper depicting seismic and earthquake activity.
    — Anna Skinner, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Aug. 2025

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