FREQUENCY in a Sentence

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26 example sentences for FREQUENCY, such as:

1. He wrote to both with tolerable frequency.
2. He tuned his radio to the police frequency.
3. The frequency of Kara's phone calls increased rapidly.
4. Radio Beijing broadcasts on a dozen different frequencies.
5. This radio station broadcasts on three different frequencies.

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 Meanings and Examples of FREQUENCY
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frequency
 n.  the number of occurrences within a given time period
 n.  the number of observations in a given statistical category
Classic Sentence:
1  Smoked foundations and the lonesone blackened chimneys, now known as "Sherman's Sentinels," appeared with disheartening frequency.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
2  She tried to reduce the frequency of begging by opening accounts and having the bills sent to him.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
3  The frequency of these lynchings calls attention to the frequency of the crimes which causes lynching.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In V
4  He took a book from his pocket and began energetically to read it, judging by the precision and frequency with which he turned the leaves.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In VIII
5  Their intimacy, begun at Grand Isle, had not declined, and they had seen each other with some frequency since their return to the city.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XVIII
6  By the frequency with which the few speakers pointed in the direction of the encampment of Webb, it was apparent they dreaded the approach of danger from that quarter.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 10
7  The frequency of this has had the effect to establish among the slaves the maxim, that a still tongue makes a wise head.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
8  Utterson became so used to the unvarying character of these reports, that he fell off little by little in the frequency of his visits.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER REMARKABLE INCIDENT OF DR. LANYON
9  At Mansfield Park Mr. Crawford would always be welcome; he had only to consult his own judgment and feelings as to the frequency of his visits, at present or in future.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
10  The very frequency and violence of temptations showed him at last the truth of what he had heard about the trials of the saints.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
11  He wrote to both with tolerable frequency.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI—A RESTRICTION
Example Sentence:
1  Attacks of asthma decrease in frequency through early adult life.
2  The drop hollows the stone, not by force, but by the frequency of its fall.
3  The relative frequency of this illness in the area is of concern to all doctors.
4  The frequency of Kara's phone calls increased rapidly.
5  He tuned his radio to the police frequency.
6  Fatal road accidents have decreased in frequency over recent years.
7  Various measures of heart rate variability have been proposed, which can roughly be subdivided into time domain, frequency domain and non-linear measures.
8  The light frequency, f, that we want to determine is too high to be measured directly.
9  Jamster offer several different frequency of ultrasonic ringtone for download.
10  But analysts say national governments may prove highly reluctant to surrender control of their radio frequencies to Brussels.
11  Such frequencies can be extremely valuable to companies which provide wireless services such as mobile phone networks or satellite navigation systems.
12  The mobile operators are expected to take precedence in an auction of transmission frequencies freed up by digital switchover.
13  The modern broad-band seismograph can record a very broad range of frequencies.
14  This radio station broadcasts on three different frequencies.
15  Radio Beijing broadcasts on a dozen different frequencies.