Use "monotonic" in a sentence

1. The relation is not quite monotonic but the highest yielding portfolio earned the highest average return and the lowest yielding portfolio earned the lowest return

2. Medians exhibited a monotonic pattern just as the means did, although the medians were smaller for all groups, showing that in each implied volatility group there were some outliers

3. 2, the hit ratios did not bear a monotonic relation with the level of historical absolute EARET

4. However, the relation between historical and future absolute EARET is not monotonic

5. The general observation of a single dominant cycle tends to support the notion that the natural response to a disturbance is monotonic harmonic motion