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How to use curve in a sentence

40 example sentences · adjective, noun, verb

Curve means bent without angles; crooked; curved. Example: “You should slow down when approaching a curve.”

Examples of curve by meaning

adjectiveBent without angles; crooked; curved.

  • a curve line
  • a curve surface

nounA bend, such as in a road.

  • You should slow down when approaching a curve.
  • Its horns are smooth, rounded and form a curve backwards over the neck.1993, Sharad Singh Negi, Kumaun: The Land and the People, page 106

nounA simple figure containing no straight portions and no angles; a curved line.

  • She scribbled a curve on the paper.

nounA grading system based on the scale of performance of a group used to normalize a right-skewed grade distribution (with...

  • The teacher was nice and graded the test on a curve.

verbTo bend; to crook.

  • to curve a line
  • to curve a pipe

verbTo cause to swerve from a straight course.

  • to curve a ball in pitching it

verbTo bend or turn gradually from a given direction.

  • the road curves to the right
  • The double-track branch curves away southwards at the south end of the station and runs on a banked down gradient gradually losing sight of the main line.1958 July, P. J. Norris, “The Bexhill West Branch”, in Railway Magazine, page 496
  • For this purpose, we inserted a heart-shaped cartilage implant, curved toward the caruncula.1982, Sherrell J. Aston, Albert Hornblass, Murray A. Meltzer, et al., editors, Third International Symposium of Plastic and Reconstructive...

verbTo grade on a curve (bell curve of a normal distribution).

  • The teacher will curve the test.

More sentences with curve

  • Caustic curves and surfaces are called catacaustic when formed by reflection, and diacaustic when formed by refraction.From the entry caustic curve
  • The car careered down the road, missed the curve, and went through a hedge.From the entry career
  • Although the car was quite rickety, he could negotiate the curves very well.From the entry negotiate
  • He really threw me a curve when he asked me a personal question at work.From the entry throw someone a curve
  • He arched his back into a half-moon curve trying to get the stiffness out.From the entry arched
  • Reyes teed off on a hanging curve to give the Cardinals a 3-1 lead.From the entry tee off
  • Bézier curves are applied, for example in computer graphics and animation, to produce smooth, infinitely scalable curves.From the entry Bézier curve
  • A circle may be osculatory with a curve, at a given point.From the entry osculatory
  • He asked the teacher to grade (the test) on a curve.From the entry grade on a curve
  • A mixtilinear angle is an angle contained by a straight line and a curve.From the entry mixtilinear
  • Right trapezoids are used in the trapezoidal rule for estimating areas under a curve.From the entry right trapezoid
  • Blood estradiol levels after administration of a dose of estradiol can be visualized as a concentration–time curve.From the entry concentration-time curve
  • The arrow descended in a curved line.From the entry line
  • The integral of a univariate real-valued function is the area under its curve; but be warned! Not all functions are integrable!From the entry integral
  • The concept of homotopy represents a formalisation of the intuitive idea of a smooth deformation of one curve into another.From the entry homotopy
  • The Formula One driver spun out on a tight curve.From the entry spin out
  • Basis splines can be used for curve-fitting and numerical differentiation of experimental data, and for shaping curves in computer-aided design.From the entry basis spline
  • The harmonic polar line of an inflection point of a cubic curve is the component of the polar conic other than the tangent line.From the entry harmonic
  • A semicubical parabola is a curve in which the ordinates are proportional to the square roots of the cubes of the abscissas.From the entry semicubical
  • Derivatives can refer to anything that is derived from something else, but here they refer specifically to functions that give the slope of the tangent line to a curve.From the entry here
  • Differential forms provide a unified approach to defining integrands over curves, surfaces and higher-dimensional manifolds, as well as providing an approach to multivariable calculus that is independent of coordinates.From the entry differential form
  • All this is the result of only a few years of trying to control the yield curve.2025 October 13, Allison Schrager, “A Zombie Economy Could Be America's Future”, in Bloomberg Opinion, archived from the original on 13…. From the entry QE
  • Arriving at York under the station's magnificent curved roof is always a delight.2024 October 30, Paul Bigland, “The heat is on... and will the railway fray?”, in RAIL, number 1021, page 49. From the entry detrain
  • Remember, we are only at the beginning of the hockey stick curve.2022 March 4, Eddie Lloyd, “The PM calls this a natural disaster – it’s not natural, it’s climate change smashing down our doors”, in The…. From the entry climate catastrophe
  • Mostly they revolved around all-day drinking and weight gain – fattening the curve.2022 March 24, Alison Colwell, No Excuses: Turning Around One of Britain's Toughest Schools, Biteback Publishing, page 207. From the entry fatten the curve
  • She was on her side and the pale light lay draped across the curve of her body.2021, Michael Farris Smith, chapter 40, in Nick, New York; Boston; London: Little, Brown and Company, page 207. From the entry on one's side
  • Enormous yardangs — curving sandstone and mudstone strata carved by winds — towered over us.2020 May 11, Anna Sherman, “A Poetic Journey Through Western China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11…. From the entry yardang

Meaning of curve

  1. adjective Bent without angles; crooked; curved.
  2. noun A bend, such as in a road.
  3. noun A simple figure containing no straight portions and no angles; a curved line.

Full definition of curve

Questions about curve in a sentence

How do you use curve in a sentence?
Curve is used as an adjective, noun and verb. For example: “You should slow down when approaching a curve.”
What is a short sentence with curve?
“a curve line”
What does curve mean?
Curve means bent without angles; crooked; curved.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: curve (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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