How to Use sine wave in a Sentence

sine wave

noun
  • Each of those sine waves, in turn, has a frequency.
    — Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 1 Aug. 2025
  • In reality, all of the lines are sine waves all the way across.
    — Sophie Weiner, Popular Mechanics, 10 Dec. 2017
  • The gusts had ripped apart some trees and toppled part of his fence, forcing it into the shape of a sine wave.
    — Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 Mar. 2025
  • Each cycle, each little sine wave, is one-sixtieth of a second.
    — David Roberts, Vox, 5 June 2018
  • The signature of a happy heart is a smooth sine wave of heart rate variability.
    — Ginny Whitelaw, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • The outputs of a periodic function, like a sine wave, repeat over and over again.
    — Lyndie Chiou, Quanta Magazine, 25 Aug. 2025
  • The pure sine wave inverter can also provide up to 3,600 watts for peak bursts.
    — Jim Rossman, Dallas News, 1 Apr. 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
  • Instead, life is far more likely to follow a sine wave pattern, up and down, while hopefully trending higher.
    — Harry Kraemer, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • The inverter produces pure sine wave energy, which is clean power with less electrical noise.
    — Jim Rossman, Dallas News, 17 Feb. 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
  • Students learn that a wave can oscillate only as fast as its highest-frequency sine wave component.
    — Katie McCormick, Quanta Magazine, 16 May 2022
  • These include both simple sine waves (which in acoustics are pure tones) and more complicated waves that are combinations of sine waves.
    — Erica Klarreich, Quanta Magazine, 19 July 2024
  • The dots represent measurements of the amount of IR light coming from the planet, and there is a nice sine wave drawn through them.
    — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 21 Oct. 2010
  • That would create deviations from clear sine waves in voltage and current, and thus unusable energy that would be lost to heat.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 29 June 2017
  • This would cause its rotation to make the tidal forces experienced by anything nearby equally irregular—more like a sine wave than an even pull.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 8 Feb. 2023
  • Researchers around the world spotted an unusual oscillating sine wave sketched across seismographs.
    — Darren Orf, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Mar. 2025
  • The inverter that powers the AC outlets on the Jackery produces pure sine wave power.
    — Dallas News, 9 Apr. 2020
  • Its pure sine wave inverter ensures clean energy for sensitive devices like speakers and music setups.
    — New Atlas, 15 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The transmitter is a simple circuit that usually creates a sine wave oscillating, Podhrasky said.
    — Kat Friedrich, Popular Mechanics, 6 June 2023
  • Mathematicians often want to understand the nature of functions that can only be built out of sine waves with certain frequencies.
    — Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 1 Aug. 2025
  • Periodic functions are repeating patterns like the undulations of a sine wave in trigonometry.
    — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2018
  • 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
  • Typical generators have varying degrees of distortion in the sine wave of the alternating current.
    — Bradley Ford, Popular Mechanics, 17 Mar. 2023
  • 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

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