How to Use word in a Sentence

word

1 of 2 noun
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  • She gave the word to begin.
  • How do you spell that word?
  • What is the French word for car?
  • The lawyer used Joe's words against him.
  • We will wait for your word before we serve dinner.
  • Describe the experience in your own words.
  • Our teacher often used words I didn't know.
  • The stress is on the first part of the word, not the second.
    — Alina Dizik, WSJ, 20 Mar. 2022
  • The word from the woods is that the caribou are near the road on the Steese.
    — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Nov. 2020
  • In the three months since, the Dodgers have lived up to their word.
    — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2023
  • In fact, the word is that a French version of the series is in the works.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Aug. 2022
  • The most common use of the word is to describe the part of a bee that sucks.
    — Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 17 Feb. 2022
  • As the word about the judge's order got around, a few welcomed the news.
    — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 9 Nov. 2021
  • Bill Ott from the church sent word that the event was a big success.
    — Carol Kovach, cleveland, 5 Jan. 2021
  • The lack of a word-count facility, of the feint of a change of font.
    — Vona Groarke, The New York Review of Books, 22 Sep. 2020
  • Nor do those who put on shows in which the point is to listen to the words.
    — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2023
  • The use of a word doesn’t show someone is a racist so get over it.
    — Nancy Clanton, ajc, 3 Feb. 2021
  • Raclette's name comes from racler, the French word meaning to scrape.
    — Carol Deptolla, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 May 2022
  • Miller summed up the sound of the band in one word — authentic.
    — Myrna Petlicki, Chicago Tribune, 14 June 2022
  • Then a boy in front of her turned around and called her father the N-word.
    — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2022
  • Now, here are the word clouds from the various protest signs.
    — NBC News, 21 Aug. 2022
  • But there's no word yet on where the finale takes place.
    — Madison Johnson, Women's Health, 23 Jan. 2023
  • The crowd of students cheered and joined in, echoing her rhythm and words.
    — Emma Green, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2023
  • This beauty from Gimenez Mendez should help spread the word.
    — Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2021
  • Jade takes the stand to tell the jury what happened in her own words.
    — Tracy Smith, CBS News, 15 Oct. 2023
  • This is a car show where classic meets modern in the rawest sense of the word.
    — Peter Lyon, Forbes, 30 Apr. 2022
  • Delpit is out for the year; no word when Williams will be back.
    — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 28 Nov. 2020
  • Our dread of the word, and our inevitable arrival at its door.
    — Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, Forbes, 8 Sep. 2021
  • Housed in a 41-story landmark, The Pierre Hotel is, in a word, glamorous.
    — Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure, 5 Apr. 2024
  • For the first time through his own words, witness the journey of a shy but prodigious musical talent who would soon become one of the defining artists of his generation.
    — Jack Dunn, Variety, 17 Apr. 2024
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word

2 of 2 verb
  • Could we word the headline differently?
  • There is still wording in the rules for not using the goal post as a prop.
    — Kevin Casas, star-telegram, 26 Dec. 2017
  • It should even be worded that way—and in large type on a terms of service agreement.
    — Alex Salkever, Fortune, 10 Apr. 2018
  • The answers about the sun getting hotter may reflect, in part, the way the question was worded.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 9 Dec. 2019
  • Among Arab Gulf states, Qatar's statement was the most fiercely worded.
    — Aya Batrawy and Jon Gambrell, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 May 2018
  • For jurors Brandon Medellin and Rudy Ruiz, the problem was wording.
    — Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 9 Dec. 2023
  • Despite the changes, top Democrat in the Arkansas House said the bill was worded too vaguely.
    — Fox News, 25 Feb. 2023
  • The decree was vaguely worded in terms of its timeframe and its targets.
    — Onur Ant, Bloomberg.com, 25 Dec. 2017
  • And heck, even those can be worded with plenty of vitriol.
    — Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 19 Feb. 2024
  • The exact way to word the conversation depends on you — and your friendship.
    — Paco De Leon, refinery29.com, 29 July 2021
  • However, wording on the measure was broad and failed clearly cite just how much would go to each program area.
    — oregonlive, 17 Dec. 2019
  • The players all share a loose but focused way about them, words infielder David Fletcher used to describe the clubhouse.
    — Sarah Valenzuela, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Plus, the tweet that went out was perfectly, like, precisely worded that the president put out as well.
    — Fox News, 3 May 2018
  • Knife laws are also tricky in how they are worded, especially for bowie knives.
    — Jace Bauserman, Field & Stream, 19 July 2023
  • Gerritson said the new standards simply re-word the old standards.
    — Trisha Powell Crain | [email protected], al, 29 Mar. 2022
  • And the system will then word that into a SQL query, go to the data warehouse, and that could be terabytes and terabytes of data, and get the answer in a matter of seconds.
    — Karen Walker, Forbes, 28 Sep. 2021
  • In the filing, the company worded things a bit differently.
    — Adam Lashinsky, Fortune, 10 Apr. 2020
  • As worded, the exempt list contemplates two scenarios where a player could be placed on it.
    — Michael McCann, SI.com, 12 Sep. 2019
  • London's police said that two of the people were arrested for wording on a banner displayed during the protest.
    — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 5 Nov. 2023
  • The injunction, which has been granted for 14 days pending a hearing, is vaguely worded.
    — Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 26 Oct. 2019
  • At each stage, MyPerfectResume offers suggestions on what content to include and how to word it for the best results.
    — Dallas News, 4 Oct. 2022
  • Palmer's correspondence with Metzger, which dates to the time the men did not yet live together, was often subtly worded, Malueg says.
    — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 19 Sep. 2017
  • The post was poorly worded – something his office acknowledged, and in our view confusing to anyone who read it.
    — Sophia Voight, Journal Sentinel, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Ordinances enacted by two of the three counties, St. Johns and Volusia counties, were left standing by wording in the new law.
    — Craig Pittman, miamiherald, 6 Apr. 2018
  • Attorney Carl Johnson, whose firm represents many school boards across the state, said the bill is too vaguely worded and could invite lawsuits.
    — al, 27 Feb. 2020
  • Sellei and others say the new agreement — which drops the name change and some other demands, such as naming parts of the school after Schwarzman’s brothers — is too vaguely worded.
    — Kathy Boccella, Philly.com, 20 Apr. 2018
  • Nobody should be surprised that the business community has objections to the RFP as worded.
    — Gilbert Garcia, San Antonio Express-News, 1 Feb. 2018
  • However, Hoffman would not say how the plan came together or whether the electors received advice on how to word the document.
    — Richard Ruelas, USA TODAY, 14 Jan. 2022
  • Although the statement does not state a reason for ceasing operations, it is worded in such a way as to imply that the causes were financial.
    — Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 13 Aug. 2023
  • There are disagreements about the exact roles of state and federal government as well as about how different laws should be worded.
    — Brittany Bernstein, National Review, 13 Dec. 2023

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