How to Use diagram in a Sentence

diagram

1 of 2 noun
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  • This diagram shows how the clock operates.
  • The diagram in the post describes a laser test over less than a half-mile.
    — Isabella Fertel, USA TODAY, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Wosepka was the first of the three to get hit, according to a diagram of the crash.
    — Jay R. Jordan, Chron, 17 Dec. 2021
  • Life is like the cheap chocolates that don’t come with the diagram telling you what’s what.
    — Bran Strickland | , al, 15 Aug. 2023
  • The client then came to the whiteboard, taking a pen to highlight parts of the diagram.
    — Bryan Stallings, Quartz, 14 Mar. 2023
  • The coach knew the exact games just by studying the diagrams.
    — Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 9 Mar. 2023
  • In the diagram, the buttons are shown with their labels in white.
    — Pradeep Mutalik, Quanta Magazine, 30 Sep. 2022
  • The game also marked the debut of the Telestrator, which helped Madden diagram replays on the TV screen.
    — Chris Pugh, The Enquirer, 4 Feb. 2022
  • 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
  • Aim your scope very high in the northwest sky between the constellations Cassiopeia the Queen and Perseus the Hero, as shown in the diagram.
    — Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 21 Jan. 2024
  • Again, not by Twitter, but by someone or thing who can attest to the fact, as shown in the diagram below.
    — David G.w. Birch, Forbes, 26 Apr. 2022
  • Furthermore, scientists say the test outlined in the post’s diagram is not at a large enough scale to show the Earth’s curve.
    — Isabella Fertel, USA TODAY, 7 Dec. 2022
  • The report includes a diagram showing the chain of command.
    — Susannah Bryan, sun-sentinel.com, 7 Dec. 2021
  • This diagram of the subglacial probe shows its melting head as well as its suite of sensors.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 4 Mar. 2024
  • Yet another diagram suggests Mars is closer to the Sun than the Earth is.
    — Mark Stevenson and Leon RamÍrez, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Aug. 2023
  • The diagram shows a smartphone charging on a Dell laptop.
    — Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 1 Aug. 2022
  • This diagram shows a trail of footprints at Holden Park.
    — Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 22 Apr. 2023
  • The diagram, which was displayed on a piece of foam poster board, was placed on an easel-like stand in the middle of Judge Lewis Kaplan’s courtroom.
    — Victoria Bekiempis, Vulture, 17 Oct. 2022
  • 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
  • The autopsy diagram indicates that Adams suffered a bullet wound in the back and wounds to the arm, thigh and ankle.
    — Los Angeles Times, 22 Aug. 2022
  • The sounds on the early material is a venn diagram that meets in the middle with what would become PUP.
    — Niko Stratis, SPIN, 28 Mar. 2022
  • 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
  • Those films were far better (because their scripts felt like more than diagrams).
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 12 May 2023
  • Two factors complicate the game and require us to tinker with the Rousseauian diagram.
    — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 26 May 2023
  • The bottom picture is a diagram of that same formation with the pistol added.
    — Lance Reisland, cleveland, 21 July 2022
  • Using a ¼-inch seam allowance on your sewing machine, sew the pieces together at each corner as shown with the red lines in the diagram.
    — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Rasheeda showed me stacks of her marble notebooks, filled front to back with recipes, schedules, and diagrams.
    — Abe Beame, Essence, 20 Dec. 2023
  • But each of those can be equated to a related diagram with one loop fewer.
    — Byadrian Cho, science.org, 30 Nov. 2022
  • The result is a beautiful, elaborate diagram that looks more like a wheel than a tree.
    — Richard Grant, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Love is the root, this lady had explained, labelling the diagram in her neat handwriting.
    — Tessa Hadley, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2022
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diagram

2 of 2 verb
  • The coach diagrammed the new play on the blackboard.
  • The students were required to diagram a sentence.
  • The English part of me wants to start diagramming all of those sentences.
    — Fox News, 9 Aug. 2018
  • Here's a free program that will diagram the signals in your home or office.
    — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • Goodell had to diagram their injuries and root through their pockets.
    — Frank Matt, Longreads, 19 May 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • Even after squandering a 15-point lead and allowing the Pistons to surge in front Tuesday night, the brief review allowed the Cavs to diagram a play.
    — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 8 Jan. 2020
  • Maltese, who is broad-shouldered and gregarious, had diagrammed some of the essential facts of DACA on the board.
    — Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 22 May 2017
  • 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
  • The bookshelves are stuffed mostly with biographies, plus a coffee table tome diagramming Tour de France routes.
    — Alex Prewitt, SI.com, 3 Apr. 2018
  • Instead, Banks and Donnelly pour over the strange circular glyphs that form the alien's written language and practically diagram sentences on screen.
    — Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics, 11 Nov. 2016
  • This is where Roberson started diagramming those rotations on the table.
    — SI.com, 7 Feb. 2018
  • 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
  • Another reason: Down five with 45.2 seconds left, after a timeout to diagram an inbounds play, the Aztecs couldn’t find anyone open and were assessed a five-second violation.
    — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Dec. 2022
  • 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
  • Starting in November 2016, the yacht went on a whirlwind voyage, all of it on paper, in a feat of asset protection and financial engineering so elaborate that the judge diagramed it in an April ruling.
    — David Segal, New York Times, 6 June 2018
  • His stiff-necked sense of authenticity and his self-confidence in his salesman’s ability to close the deal make his every burst of oratory a daunting challenge to those who diagram sentences.
    — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 6 Jan. 2020
  • Arians has a blowup of the famous Time magazine cover of Bryant diagramming a play hanging in his office at the Cardinals' football facility.
    — Mark Inabinett, AL.com, 1 Jan. 2018
  • The counselor then had Atkinson diagram her family tree, to pinpoint other relatives who might also carry the dangerous variant.
    — Bijal P. Trivedi, Science | AAAS, 26 Oct. 2017
  • This meant that production sound mixer David Wyman had to diagram a number of different communication techniques to record the dialogue and allow the actors to hear any off-camera lines no matter where they were performed on set.
    — Daron James, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2021
  • Over long, quiet days interspersed with cigarette breaks and black coffee, Galli diagramed connections on a digital whiteboard until his entire perception of the case changed.
    — Liam Vaughan, Bloomberg.com, 18 Dec. 2017
  • Nothing brings me more existential pain than hearing from former students of tyrannical English teachers, the ones who seem to think that knowing how to diagram a sentence is more important than learning how to communicate.
    — Monica Hesse, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2019
  • Some attempts were racially explicit, diagraming a hierarchy of races to ennoble slavery with signs.
    — Sarah Lewis, New York Times, 25 June 2017
  • Instead there’s a cacophonous din of competing ideas, as students convene in animated groups around communal tables, shouting out solutions while feverishly diagramming them on the whiteboards that panel the walls.
    — Aryn Baker/mauritius, Time, 11 June 2019
  • Alberto Cairo, chair of visual journalism at the University of Miami, reveals pitfalls in an example diagrammed here.
    — Alberto Cairo, Scientific American, 21 Aug. 2019
  • Scientists had diagrammed the somewhat smooth distributions of other tetrapods—vertebrates descended from the earliest four-limbed creatures.
    — Mark Fischetti, Scientific American, 1 Apr. 2018
  • Each layer of the neural network makes multiple, parallel connections between certain words while ignoring others — akin to a student diagramming a sentence in elementary school.
    — Quanta Magazine, 17 Oct. 2019

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