How to Use hypothesis in a Sentence

hypothesis

noun

• The results of the experiment did not support his hypothesis.
• Their hypothesis is that watching excessive amounts of television reduces a person's ability to concentrate.
• Other chemists rejected his hypothesis.
• Isaac Newton initially argued against a parabolic orbit for the … comet of 1680, preferring the hypothesis of two independent comets, one for the inbound and one for the outbound leg. However, Newton later showed that the orbit of the comet could indeed be fit by a parabola.
  — Daniel C. Boice and Walter Huebner, "Physics and Chemistry of Comets",
• The coming days and weeks will put that hypothesis to the test.
  — Jonathan Wosen, STAT, 14 Nov. 2022
• And my hypothesis is that this has changed the way the midterm electorate thinks.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 13 Sep. 2021
• The hypothesis is that our brain uses two modules to try to make sense of the world.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 8 Aug. 2018
• The hypothesis is that the first shot is your body getting the building block of a protein.
  — Julie Mazziotta, PEOPLE.com, 19 Feb. 2021
• But like the others, prove it against a big boy to confirm the hypothesis.
  — Michael Casagrande | [e-mail], al, 3 Sep. 2023
• While there are many hypotheses, no one had been able to figure it out.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 25 June 2018
• If the hypothesis was true, how would the virus jump from feral dogs to people?
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 14 Apr. 2020
• The Harvard study put this hypothesis to the test and found the opposite.
  — Allysia Finley, WSJ, 18 July 2022
• That was my hypothesis, that Shane or his mother got her the purse.
  — Steff Yotka, Vogue, 16 Aug. 2021
• The problem with the good faith version of a lab-leak hypothesis is that there isn’t a single one.
  — Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 17 Mar. 2023
• Of course, that hypothesis needs to be tested on the proving ground of the campaign trail.
  — Geoffrey Skelley, ABC News, 22 July 2024
• But to her, the hypothesis about the coats being a signal to mothers is a little shaky.
  — Max G. Levy, Wired, 7 Feb. 2022
• One hypothesis is that the virus simply does not leave.
  — Mariana Lenharo, Scientific American, 16 Mar. 2022
• But the big questions about other worlds had to be answered with a shrug and a hypothesis.
  — Andrew Moseman, Popular Mechanics, 8 Feb. 2019
• The working hypothesis is that this is what happened in the most recent case.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 15 Mar. 2021
• On Friday, there were clues to support both of those hypotheses.
  — Julian E. Barnes, WSJ, 27 Apr. 2018
• The aim may be to work out a structure, answer a question, or test a hypothesis.
  — John Drake, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2021
• Past pandemics have paved the way for the zoonotic hypothesis.
  — Katherine Ellen Foley, Quartz, 25 Mar. 2021
• If anything, Fitzgerald is running out of things to say, of hypotheses to present.
  — Justice Delos Santos, The Mercury News, 26 July 2024
• But researchers did not have the data to back up this hypothesis.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 5 Apr. 2018
• And because tiger moths are toxic to bats, that left Gough with a hypothesis.
  — Ari Daniel, NPR, 22 May 2024
• His hypothesis is that the woman was accused by a neighbor with a grudge.
  — Nelson Rauda Zablah, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Oct. 2023
• To test this hypothesis, Grover and his colleagues carried out a two-part study.
  — Diana Kwon, Scientific American, 19 Jan. 2021
• At the core of the question is the amyloid hypothesis, which has been a central concept of Alzheimer’s research for decades.
  — Andrew Williams, The Conversation, 14 Apr. 2022
• But scientists have added a new hypothesis to the mix: disease.
  — R. Alexander Bentley, Discover Magazine, 17 Oct. 2024
• A lot of science starts out with some hypotheses that are often based on intuitions or on prior beliefs.
  — Gary Stix, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024