algebra

Example Sentences

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So Idle workshopped it — did the algebra, as he described it — and wound up with a new, zingier joke he preferred.

From Los Angeles Times

Traveler and I had been texting through morning classes, and with only a few minutes until algebra began, I had my phone under my desk, rereading our messages.

From Literature

“I wasn’t that crazy about algebra, and I did not fully master it, but geometry was something that just came naturally to me,” she wrote in a 2020 memoir, “It Began With a Dream.”

From The Wall Street Journal

“I wish they’d taught me something useful at school, like Sphinx, instead of all that algebra.”

From Literature

“What are you going to do, attack Hitler with algebra?”

From Literature