How to Use exponential in a Sentence

exponential

adjective

• Prices have increased at an exponential rate.
• The business has experienced several years of exponential growth.
• That has led to the exponential growth of home prices nearby.
  — Candace Taylor, WSJ, 3 Nov. 2022
• Yarbro was one of them, and his growth was, once again, exponential.
  — Lindy Segal, Harper's BAZAAR, 27 July 2022
• Dell reminded me that, in each of the four decades he’s lived in Austin, the city has seen exponential growth.
  — Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2023
• But there are faster forms of growth than exponential growth.
  — Quanta Magazine, 1 Dec. 2022
• The global growth of Netflix has been exponential over the last few years.
  — CBS News, 6 Sep. 2020
• And if non-stop exponential growth is one of them, then the next step is obvious.
  — Alla Adam, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2023
• The exponential growth of each fund since then speaks for itself; a16z is now on its fourth — a $1.6 billion fund.
  — Lucy Brewster, Fortune, 23 Sep. 2022
• The pace of advancement is in an exponential phase right now.
  — Catherine Garcia, The Week, 29 June 2023
• That’s the dilemma in a nutshell: The available room in the sky is limited, but the plans for growth are exponential.
  — Clive Thompson, The New Republic, 3 Dec. 2020
• That’s the heart of the metacrisis, a pulsing, elastic, exponential sine wave from Big Bang peak to Big Crunch trough.
  — Adam Rogers, Wired, 11 Feb. 2021
• Its growth has been exponential and parkrun events now take place in more than 20 countries.
  — Pan Pylas, Star Tribune, 24 July 2021
• Peso recently spoke to Rolling Stone about the impact of Cano and other artists helped lead to the exponential growth of the genre.
  — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 13 Nov. 2023
• In the first outbreak, the virus followed a pattern of exponential growth.
  — Carolyn Kormann, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2020
• The exponential spike in the making of TV content has put an enormous strain on below-the-line crews.
  — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 27 Oct. 2021
• Podcasts have seen exponential growth over the past year.
  — Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 24 Aug. 2022
• Deaths due to the virus have seen an alarming rise in recent weeks, a product of the state's exponential growth in cases.
  — Sophie Carson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Oct. 2020
• Of course, that kind of exponential improvement is helped by hitting on a top-five pick, as the Hawks did with Trae Young in 2018.
  — Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press, 7 Mar. 2022
• The virus has been speeding along at an exponential speed, but so has science.
  — Steven Levy, Wired, 9 July 2020
• The growth in crypto fraud has turned exponential in recent years.
  — Matt Pearcestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2022
• But even with at least four years of exponential growth under its belt, the brand can't take its success for granted.
  — Leah Dolan, CNN, 17 Aug. 2022
• An exponential rise in EV cars and trucks and buses could bring on such a steep transition.
  — Ian Palmer, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
• Meanwhile, the exponential rise in billionaires’ wealth this year means 10 of the richest men in the world have doubled their net worths.
  — Amiah Taylor, Fortune, 19 Jan. 2022
• And now mink on fur farms—Covid is exponential to what’s happening there.
  — Chris Kornelis, WSJ, 16 Dec. 2020
• The time is now to act on this exponential growth period, but there is a lot of money being left on the table.
  — Lexie Brown, Sportico.com, 6 Oct. 2024
• Maybe the exponential powers of social media could be put to good use.
  — John Branch, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2021
• Numbers greater than one show a state of exponential growth while those less than one show a shrinking public health threat.
  — Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 May 2022
• The company started with hefty overhead costs that would have required rapid and exponential sales growth to recoup, Bolotsky says.
  — Kamaron McNair, CNBC, 14 Jan. 2025
• Some of these speedups are exponential in scale, as demonstrated by the examples above; others are less dramatic but still amount to a significant gain over classical computers.
  — Charina Chou, Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 7 Mar 2025