How to Use google in a Sentence

google

verb
Definition of googlenext
  • By googling how to rob a bank and watching heist movies, of course.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, azcentral, 7 June 2018
  • See our list of the South's National Parks here and start googling trail mix recipes.
    — Southern Living, 9 Jan. 2018
  • Janani Krishnan was googling the Riverdale star at an ice cream shop, and Cole was quick to notice.
    — Victoria Rodriguez, Seventeen, 5 Jan. 2018
  • Find out more about fish owls on the Blakiston's Fish Owl Project website, fishowls.com, or google the bird's name.
    — Val Cunningham Special To The Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 9 Feb. 2021
  • If a Google user has a question about Google, well, Google wants them to google it.
    — Joanne McNeil, Harper's magazine, 20 Jan. 2020
  • But finding the right job can be a lot trickier than Googling the next movie times.
    — Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 17 May 2017
  • The man googled the guitar and found a video of a musician playing the same guitar in a nightclub in Japan.
    — Peter Larsen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Just google the brand and let your fingers do the clicking, tapping, or swiping.
    — William Arruda, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2021
  • That moved one of his companions, Joe Nero, to suggest Googling it.
    — Laura Reiley, Washington Post, 22 Jan. 2024
  • This is easy enough to google, or punch in your salary x .01 and divide by the number of pay periods in a year.
    — NBC News, 19 Sep. 2017
  • People tend to google them, which means traffic, so we are told to cover them.
    — Alex Van Buren, Health.com, 11 May 2018
  • The best work around would be to google the person’s name and city which should provide the address, then use MySmartRenter.com to run the report for safety.
    — Christopher Elliott, Forbes, 9 Apr. 2022
  • People are going to google you and their going to find a strong brand, a weak one or nothing.
    — Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2023
  • Look at your Facebook page and your LinkedIn profile and google yourself.
    — Adam Stott, Forbes, 25 Apr. 2022
  • Reviews are still coming in, and some of them are not glowing (google it for yourself).
    — Tracy Ross, Outside Online, 8 Sep. 2020
  • Users can tap the magnifying glass to quickly google the content of the message.
    — Nicolás Rivero, Quartz, 6 Mar. 2021
  • Modify quizzes and tests so students can’ just google the answers.
    — Mj Slaby, Indianapolis Star, 20 Mar. 2020
  • And also googling meanings of things, Ada means happy…I thought well that’s fitting.
    — Rebecca Angel Baer, Southern Living, 13 Apr. 2018
  • Or at least run a ticker at the bottom of the screen with some underpaid intern just Googling the number Trump was pulling out of his ass.
    — Senator Al Franken, The Hive, 30 May 2017
  • Slay Richardson started spending her nights Googling lawyers, feeling alone and out of her depth.
    — Hannah Rappleye, NBC News, 8 Dec. 2023
  • What are the people up all night Googling narcissism going through?
    — Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 1 July 2024
  • This rule also applies to our trigger finger when wanting to check in with Dr. Google (aka googling it).
    — Tiffany Leigh, Parents, 4 Feb. 2024
  • Those are a few of the lessons that can be inferred from an analysis of what cars are most frequently Googled in every state.
    — Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 13 July 2017
  • Tap your friends for advice Googling the best restaurants in Mexico City could lead you down a three-hour rabbit hole of research.
    — Jamie Friedlander Serrano, TIME, 12 June 2024
  • The judge posed a question: What happens to a 12-year-old who Googles his dead father’s name, and sees his assassination on YouTube?
    — Ryan Oehrli, Charlotte Observer, 20 June 2024
  • My in-laws clearly Googled my parents, which is a little odd but ultimately not a huge deal.
    — Carolyn Hax, The Seattle Times, 22 Aug. 2017
  • The newspaper said the girl's father googled the name and found a story about a former British journalist who had spent two years in jail in China — at the same Qingpu prison.
    — NBC News, 22 Dec. 2019
  • One need only google the magnetic 42-year-old for plentiful reminders that both gigs were firsts for a Black woman.
    — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Mar. 2022
  • The troubled engineering student had googled Trump, President Joe Biden and the dates of future campaign events before the shooting.
    — Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News, 20 July 2024
  • There’s a certain joy derived from picking out a truly next-level kid-friendly wallpaper print, bassinet, or mobile—which any parent feverishly googling nursery ideas (and the decor that goes with) can attest to.
    — Mackenzie Schmidt, Architectural Digest, 23 July 2024

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