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
  • EVs are about to ride up the S-curve into exponential growth.
    — David Roberts, Vox, 26 June 2018
  • 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
  • Brazil has as many deaths a day as the U.S. and Egypt is seeing exponential growth in patients.
    — Rachel Aretakis, USA TODAY, 4 June 2020
  • The state wasn’t prepared for the exponential increase in claims, Husted said.
    — cleveland, 15 Apr. 2020
  • 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
  • Houlahan said, noting the exponential growth of the city’s deficit.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 June 2019
  • 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
  • Yet there has been no exponential rise in cases to date.
    — Li Yang Hsu, STAT, 23 Mar. 2020
  • 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
  • And researchers now have an exponential curve of their own.
    — Michael J. Coren, Quartz, 8 Apr. 2020
  • The virus has been speeding along at an exponential speed, but so has science.
    — Steven Levy, Wired, 9 July 2020
  • To our tribe for expanding with grace and exponential amounts of love.
    — Andrea Park, Teen Vogue, 8 Oct. 2018
  • The growth in crypto fraud has turned exponential in recent years.
    — Matt Pearcestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2022
  • The exponential growth in the art world is also tied to Dubai’s changing demographics and economic dynamism, said Ghione.
    — Ritu Upadhyay, Footwear News, 2 May 2025
  • The only thing curbing Liverpool’s exponential financial growth this season?
    — Philip Buckingham, New York Times, 1 May 2025

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