How to Use trigonometry in a Sentence

trigonometry

noun
  • The same model can be used to come up with a recipe or tutor a trigonometry student.
    — Celia Ford, Vox, 26 July 2024
  • The drudgery of reviewing a year’s worth of earth sciences and trigonometry notes.
    — Liz Robbins, New York Times, 18 June 2016
  • With two years left on his contract, Hornacek ought to look ahead and leave trigonometry in the past.
    — Scott Cacciola, New York Times, 29 June 2017
  • Choosing the right school, however, can be as tricky as trigonometry.
    — Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 May 2017
  • Twenty years ago someone who aspired to be a contractor did not need to learn trigonometry.
    — Allison Schrager, Quartz, 6 June 2019
  • Ex-student Charles is a trigonometry wiz, but all the logic in the world can’t prevent his longing for death.
    — Armond White, National Review, 25 Sep. 2024
  • The ancient Greeks invented trigonometry to study the motion of the stars.
    — Kevin Hartnett, Wired, 20 June 2021
  • The first is to measure Everest the old-fashioned way using trigonometry.
    — Joanna Slater, The Denver Post, 21 Oct. 2019
  • Functions and trigonometry came easily, but the basics gave him trouble.
    — Collin Binkley, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Students can use it for trigonometry and calculus too, though there are better options on this list for more advanced courses.
    — Rachel Klein, Popular Mechanics, 26 July 2022
  • Several were tougher than trigonometry.
    — Jon Wilner, Mercury News, 11 Aug. 2025
  • What’s true of calculus is also true of trigonometry and, to a lesser extent, algebra.
    — Ryan Craig, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • The horizontal line of sight distance, from your cheekbone to the base of the tree, by trigonometry, is about equal to the vertical height of the tree.
    — Ron Seifer, sun-sentinel.com, 24 June 2021
  • Plotted over a year (in this case, from March to March), the length of daylight looks like one of our old friends from trigonometry class - the sine curve.
    — OrlandoSentinel.com, 21 Sep. 2017
  • Spools of fishing wire are pulling and tugging at the board itself from the engines, which make their moves based on trigonometry gained from data from the infrared cameras.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 23 Mar. 2017
  • His sine law allows anyone with a decent grounding in trigonometry to use a pendulum to determine their latitude.
    — Alicia Ault, Smithsonian, 3 Feb. 2018
  • There are a lot more ways multiples of 60 can be divided into fractions, which makes trigonometry much easier.
    — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 25 Aug. 2017
  • The Greek astronomer Hipparchus has widely been considered the father of trigonometry.
    — Sarah Gibbens, National Geographic, 25 Aug. 2017
  • The Cardinal defensive line is probably better at trigonometry than football at this point.
    — Kevin Acee, sandiegouniontribune.com, 14 Sep. 2017
  • The speed relationship between the three motors follows basic trigonometry.
    — Omar Kardoudi march 01, New Atlas, 1 Mar. 2026
  • This allows the software to do some basic trigonometry to calculate the range and orientation of objects in the environment.
    — Sam Abuelsamid, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2021
  • Therefore, the Babylonians, not the Greeks, were the pioneers of trigonometry.
    — Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 24 Aug. 2017
  • In writing courses, for example, students learn how to spot fallacies, and elementary proofs are covered in trigonometry.
    — Vinay K. Chaudhri, Scientific American, 5 Sep. 2024
  • Periodic functions are repeating patterns like the undulations of a sine wave in trigonometry.
    — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2018
  • The school has no math classes beyond algebra and geometry, so the hero’s father persuades him to learn trigonometry and calculus on his own to pursue his dream of going to space.
    — Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2020
  • Right now, for example, Theo was playing Liberate Hong Kong on his computer while in trigonometry class at the same time.
    — Gish Jen, The New Yorker, 15 Nov. 2021
  • However, West said, this is an illusion of the two-dimensional video, one that can be demystified by the readout on the screen and a little trigonometry.
    — Andrew Dyer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 May 2021
  • Today, Renee is an A+ student and is doing trigonometry and precalculus.
    — Kristen Taketa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Sep. 2019
  • Transitional math is targeted to seniors who've already taken algebra 2 and who might enroll in trigonometry and statistics or avoid math in their final year of high school.
    — Suzanne Baker, Will County, 19 Sep. 2017
  • But today, out of nowhere, the instructor drops an absurdly thick trigonometry tome on your classroom chair-and-desk combo, causing everything — including you — to rattle for a few seconds.
    — Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 21 Jan. 2018

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