Example Sentences

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Subtract 7y to each side to get the y’s to one side.

From Textbooks • May 6, 2020

I should have typed ‘Hey’ with two y’s, not just one!’

From The Guardian • Jan. 10, 2016

I could add and subtract and multiply and divide, but I entered the wilderness when words became equations and x’s and y’s.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 26, 2015

Her chromosomal structure, as a from-the-crypt voice tells us, isn’t so much a matter of the usual x’s and y’s as it is of z’s.

From New York Times • Sep. 19, 2011

She didn’t know that much about algebra yet, but it seemed that sometimes there were x's and y’s both in a problem, and you only needed to find the value for one of them.

From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix