Example Sentences

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Our instructor’s plaid shirt looked like graphing paper upon which someone had graphed a forlorn man.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 23, 2018

Volunteers asked to plot two points that were far apart on graph paper later reported weaker emotional attachment to family members, compared with subjects who had graphed points close together.

From New York Times • Aug. 27, 2015