Sentence examples for models of things from inspiring English sources

He built models of things as a kid: "ships, cars, planes — I loved to do that," he told me.

The store sells imported cardboard models of things the deceased would want in the afterlife; the objects are burned as part of the traditional Chinese funeral, the cashier explained.

He explained that companies manufacture our "wants" through advertising, design new models of things each year that we need in order to "keep up with the Joneses," and, even if we don't get seduced by this year's new model, make us keep buying new products because they are designed to fall apart.

It's like scientific method, really; you're always wrong, and if you become insistent on your model of things, this is idolatrous thinking.

In reality, most computational models of most things have, historically speaking, been wrong — or at least incomplete, effective in some circumstances, not all.

Whatever our models of how things are - John gives us something different.

That is, we too can build models of how things work and use them for our purposes.

They're being looked at with more and more interest by a younger generation, as models of how things should be done.

I think it's important to teach the IS-LM model as a starting point, because done right, it makes it clear that what we're basically doing is the minimal model that has goods, bonds, and money — that there is nothing arbitrary about the whole thing, that this is basically what you have to do if you want a minimal model of the things that matter for short-run macro.

She has no mental model of how things should be.

People like to have a mental model of how things work.