How to Use figure out in a Sentence

figure out

verb
  • Her brothers figure out where she’s been and force the two to wed.
    Kari Sonde, TIME, 21 May 2024
  • Please give us time to work with KSP to figure out our next steps.
    Louis Casiano, Fox News, 19 Sep. 2024
  • There was a lot of trying to figure out, back and forth, which way to go.
    Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 12 Apr. 2024
  • And so that’s going to take time to figure out who’s the new you in that system.
    Andrew Greif, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Now the Rangers must figure out how to try to fill the void created by the loss of Scherzer.
    Evan Grant, Dallas News, 13 Sep. 2023
  • None of us could figure out what was going on in his mind.
    Dana Snitzky, Longreads, 10 June 2020
  • The first plan of attack was to figure out how to stop the pup from escaping.
    Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 14 Feb. 2025
  • Taylor Swift has a lot of tricks up her sleeve, but fans just figured out one of them.
    Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 4 Apr. 2023
  • There are no retcons, no plans to figure out what to do 20 issues down the line.
    Richard Newby, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Oct. 2023
  • So how did Paris Hilton and Carter Reum figure out their baby’s name?
    Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 6 Sep. 2024
  • As on much of the album, Grande is self-aware enough to figure out her own role in the drama and adds a valuable touch to the song.
    Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2024
  • The truck is stable and easy to explore, with a cool launching chamber that shoots the figures out.
    Theresa Holland, People.com, 26 Nov. 2024
  • Cameron figured out how to turn the light on in the bus, Byers-Smith said, so his family could find him.
    Rory Linnane, Journal Sentinel, 9 Jan. 2024
  • While figuring out how to live a life appears at her door.
    Theara Coleman, theweek, 6 Nov. 2024
  • More questions were asked, and Perez agreed to go to the police station to try to help figure out where his dad might be.
    Rachel Clarke, CNN, 6 Sep. 2024
  • In the meantime, the pressure will be on Tweed and her staff to figure out exactly what has gone wrong.
    Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2024
  • Now Hassan was stuck in Las Palmas like the rest of us, trying to figure out his next move.
    Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Even when plays didn’t turn out as planned, Franklin figured out a way to make something happen.
    Ryan McFadden, The Denver Post, 19 May 2024
  • Miller Lite has figured out a work-around to Dry January.
    Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Beeper’s team had to figure out where to send the messages, what the messages needed to look like, and how to pull them back down from the cloud.
    Chris Welch, The Verge, 8 Dec. 2023
  • Shackled to the bedposts with no chance of rescue, Jessie has to figure out how to survive.
    Danny Horn, James Mercadante, Ilana Gordon, EW.com, 31 July 2024
  • Try to figure out how to celebrate each other and go to the next level.
    Brande Victorian, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Nov. 2024
  • And our job is to figure out what to harness for this audience.
    Nekesa Mumbi Moody, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Dec. 2023
  • Still trying to figure out, between the two of us, how to be in partnership.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 11 Oct. 2023
  • The 29-year-old is figuring out when and how to join the rush, with six goals and nine assists, and was leading the NHL with a plus-22 at the time of his injury.
    Michael Russo, The Athletic, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Ideally, Slowik can figure out why the best teams have shut down the Dolphins’ offense for the last two years.
    Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 14 Feb. 2025
  • The first round begins April 27 in Kansas City, but until then, the Ravens have plenty to figure out.
    C.j. Doon, Baltimore Sun, 19 Apr. 2023
  • How can nonexperts figure out what to eat when the experts can’t agree?
    Tamar Haspel, Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2023
  • And now — on top of all of that — money that helps doctors and scientists across the country figure out a path forward for Cailen appears to be at risk.
    Rachel Clarke, CNN, 25 Feb. 2025
  • Musk wants the world to believe that the nimble tech sector has already figured out the keys to knowledge-worker productivity.
    Cal Newport, The New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2025

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