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
• 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 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
• The campaign that figures out that winning recipe to move these voters to their corner over the next eight weeks will win.
  — David Paleologos, USA TODAY, 5 Sep. 2024
• In August, Noel, 57, was approached in public by a fan and his kids — who tried to figure out the brothers’ beef.
  — Ilana Kaplan, People.com, 10 Oct. 2024
• Trying to figure out how to answer him, the past 18 years of extolling Swift in print flash before my eyes.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 31 July 2024
• The big surprise Luks wanted to pull off was figuring out when and where to update the classics.
  — Kelly Dawson, Architectural Digest, 28 Nov. 2024
• Your task is to arrange them into four groups of four by figuring out the links between them.
  — Kris Holt, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 25 Dec 2024