How to Use prime in a Sentence

prime

1 of 3 noun

• The interest rate is two percent plus prime.
• If the aroma isn't bold and pungent, the spice is past its prime.
  — Sheri Castle, Southern Living, 16 Oct. 2023
• To enhance the look of your lips, Guth says to start with a clear lip balm to prime and prep the area.
  — Michelle Rostamian, Allure, 23 Aug. 2023
• First, why was Lemon Googling when a woman is in her prime?
  — Monica Hesse, Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2023
• In the fall, when the caribou’s antlers and meat were in their prime, hunters moved to the ridge to prepare for winter.
  — Sean Kingsley, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Mar. 2023
• In his prime, Walton was the N.B.A.’s best-passing big man.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
• Black’s prime for fall and winter, though the gray, blue, and pink versions are cool, too.
  — Alyssa Grabinski, Peoplemag, 14 Oct. 2023
• There’s a hint of cool in the air and a vague threat of evenings expiring before their prime.
  — Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2023
• An athlete’s prime will occur between the ages of 20 and 32.
  — Corbin Smith, Rolling Stone, 15 Apr. 2023
• This would have been a tall order in Netanyahu’s prime.
  — Elliott Gotkine, CNN, 10 Oct. 2023
• When a woman is considered to be in her prime is in her 20s ...
  — Christine Rosen, National Review, 2 Mar. 2023
• Will a pitching-hungry team ignore the red flags and pay him like a starter in his prime?
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 11 Nov. 2022
• Teams must agree to a long deal in order to get a premiere player in his prime.
  — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Dec. 2022
• But back in their late ’80s prime, the band didn’t lack for attention and acclaim.
  — Simon Reynolds, Pitchfork, 27 Sep. 2023
• In its best moments, the film is a fever dream of some three dozen geniuses in their prime.
  — Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2024
• Brown is a cryptid, the rarest of creatures, the unwanted All-NBA wing in his prime.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 20 July 2023
• Greene and other rising prospects will be in their late 20s then, the prime of their careers.
  — Jason Williams, The Enquirer, 20 Apr. 2023
• The paved parking lot wasn’t the dusty strip that had been there in Norman’s prime, in the right-handed kingdom of years past.
  — Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2023
• At the age of 28, the left-handed hitting, right-handed throwing Ohtani is still in his prime.
  — Bernie Pleskoff, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2022
• The best time to be among them may be in the late fall and early spring, as this is when the desert region’s weather is at its prime.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 22 Nov. 2023
• What to know about the former S.C. governor running in 2024 Who's in their prime now?
  — Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 1 June 2023
• But Reid not continuing on with the best QB in football in his prime seems a long shot.
  — Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 1 Feb. 2024
• Some are already looking ahead four years, to when the U.S. co-hosts the tournament and the core group figures to be in its prime.
  — Tim Bielik, cleveland, 21 Nov. 2022
• In his prime, the ursine Mr. Melancon would lug two 120-pound sacks of oysters onto a truck.
  — Clay Risen, New York Times, 17 Sep. 2023
• The gallery of faces stares back in silence, scores of young men and exactly one young woman cut down in their prime.
  — Jeffrey Gettleman Ivor Prickett, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2023
• At 29, the Chelsea forward is in the prime of what has already been an outstanding career.
  — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2023
• Still, this is when the water is warmest and boating season is at its prime; the intense heat doesn’t seem to scare away the crowds.
  — Skye Sherman, Travel + Leisure, 15 May 2023
• Twitter’s true successor will be a refuge for an idea past its prime.
  — Katherine Alejandra Cross, WIRED, 13 July 2023
• There is no way a former most valuable player and rookie of the year should have to be dumped by a team in the prime of his career.
  — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2023
• Howard was in his prime and the second-best player on the team, though his All-Star case was likely helped by Dallas’ 67-15 record.
  — Dallas News, 16 Feb. 2023

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prime

2 of 3 adjective

• The police have not yet named the prime suspect in the murder investigation.
• The house is expensive because it's in a prime location.
• The wine industry is of prime importance to the California economy.
• Fee is the cost of a greens fee and cart for a prime Saturday tee time.
  — Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 5 May 2023
• New to the scene this year is the hoity toity Baccarat Garden, with its own area on the rail for prime viewing of the races.
  — Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 26 Jan. 2024
• This summer, the hottest ticket is snagging a prime spot on a beach in Italy.
  — Michael Cappetta, Travel + Leisure, 2 June 2023
• The restaurant chain has prime rib on the menu starting Valentine's Day through Feb. 18.
  — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2024
• Then again, in a town of this size and tenor, everyone is a prime suspect.
  — Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 8 Oct. 2023
• The creek is also a prime place to watch spawning salmon in July and August.
  — Laura Kiniry, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 June 2023
• That's because the prime thing to do while visiting Cabo is to sit on the beach and enjoy the gorgeous ocean views.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 25 Jan. 2024
• The Bonfire Restaurant has a to-die-for prime rib and seafood buffet that's perfect for large groups.
  — Karen Cicero, Parents, 1 Aug. 2023
• And as of May, adult women in their prime working age were employed at rates not seen in two decades.
  — Lauren Kaori Gurley, Washington Post, 2 June 2023
• In O’Meara’s prime, more tall, thick trees defended No. 13.
  — Alan Blinder Doug Mills Chris O’Riley, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2023
• Ben’s colleague Loretta (Meryl Streep) is the prime suspect.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 18 Sep. 2023
• Red Meat Red meat is a prime example of a food that contains high levels of purine.
  — Anne Harding, Health, 25 Aug. 2023
• Each of them had gradually come to prominence in the mid-to-late ’80s, but the ’90s were their prime, and no one could resist their charms.
  — José Criales-Unzueta, Vogue, 14 Aug. 2023
• It was built up around the seafood industry, thanks to its prime location on the Gulf of Mexico.
  — Kelsey Ogletree, Southern Living, 16 Jan. 2024
• Built in the late 1920s, Biltmore Golf occupies a prime piece of real estate.
  — Todd Kelly, The Arizona Republic, 15 Jan. 2024
• When the business moved to a new location in 2019, Luong was offered the lease to the building — a prime piece of real estate.
  — Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 Mar. 2024
• The salon also offers prime vistas of the foredeck and beyond.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 6 July 2023
• Ezequiel Duran and Leody Taveras are two prime examples of what’s gone right.
  — Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 12 May 2023
• But Xavier has a prime opportunity to gain some ground in the Big East with a 2-0 homestand.
  — Shelby Dermer, The Enquirer, 17 Jan. 2024
• The return of the fanny pack or bum bag in skiing and mountain biking is a prime example.
  — Nicole Gull McElroy, WIRED, 22 Nov. 2023
• While tickets will be required for prime viewing spots, watching from the esplanade along the river will be free to all.
  — Lindsey Tramuta, Travel + Leisure, 12 Nov. 2023
• Specials on Thursday and Friday are for prime rib sandwiches and fish and chips, MaryJo said.
  — Marina Johnson, Detroit Free Press, 5 July 2023
• The drawing room, which was added to the house in 1774, offers prime views of the picturesque garden below that can be admired come cocktail hour.
  — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 21 July 2023
• At Gusty’s on the water, an outdoor deck makes a prime perch to watch some of the island’s famous pastel sunsets, and the indoor floor is made of sand.
  — Regan Stephens, Travel + Leisure, 28 Mar. 2024
• During the rut, grabbing a bite to eat was an afterthought for bucks, but right now and in the weeks to come, choosing a prime food source is key to their survival.
  — Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 4 Jan. 2024
• Logo fashion is still in its prime era—thank you, Gucci!—and as such, designer belts are proving to be a strong trend.
  — Paula Lee, Glamour, 9 Nov. 2023
• But just a few miles from town and only 25 minutes from Salt Lake, White calls it a prime central location.
  — Nina Kokotas Hahn, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Mar. 2024

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prime

3 of 3 verb

• Both teams are primed for battle and ready to play.
• We sanded and primed the woodwork before painting.
• She was obviously primed for the questions at the press conference.
• The first step is to prime the canvas, to put on the ground color.
  — Coco Romack, New York Times, 29 Feb. 2024
• So the audience is sort of primed for that kind of thing.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 1 Nov. 2023
• The party pantry has arrived, and it's primed to be the most enviable space in the house.
  — Patricia Shannon, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 May 2023
• The Irish opened with an opponent primed to be picked apart.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 28 Aug. 2023
• The tips: First, moisturize and prime the lips to create a smooth base.
  — Jackie Fields, Peoplemag, 3 Dec. 2023
• Kerley, as shown in the spring game, is primed to take over as SMU’s go-to target.
  — Joseph Hoyt, Dallas News, 20 Apr. 2023
• Jonathon Brooks is primed for a 2023 breakout Brooks just keeps finding the end zone.
  — Corey Smith, Dallas News, 2 Sep. 2023
• The audience is primed to be in on the joke, but the precise nature of the joke will take some time to sort out.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2024
• But that’s not all that has primed the Sonoran Desert to burn this summer.
  — Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 29 June 2023
• The boys began searching for the telltale sprays that primed us for the whales’ inevitable arched backs.
  — Heather Greenwood Davis, Travel + Leisure, 26 Aug. 2023
• That team is too good and too healthy, primed for a playoff run, to give them anything easy.
  — Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press, 11 Apr. 2023
• Such an opening seems to prime us for a piece of high-end genre work, but this is just the first of Barry’s feints.
  — Giles Harvey, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2023
• Snapped out of modern-day fight-or-flight mode, I was primed for smoother sleep despite the jet lag.
  — Juliet Kinsman, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Mar. 2024
• Theodore’s job is precisely the kind primed to be outsourced to AI.
  — Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 18 Dec. 2023
• This isn’t new, and the process won’t happen overnight, but the goal should be to have the passing attack primed for the postseason.
  — Mike Preston, Baltimore Sun, 18 July 2023
• Kapoor has one tip for priming a business for sale: Don’t.
  — Byorianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 10 July 2023
• You are primed to be taken in by the tricks and techniques being employed.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
• Both programs are primed to give anyone in the county a run for their money this year.
  — Timothy Dashiell, Baltimore Sun, 1 Sep. 2023
• And 2022 third-round pick Channing Tindall could be primed for a bigger role.
  — Daniel Oyefusi, Miami Herald, 5 Mar. 2024
• In an era of rising seas, we are primed to think of coastal protections as prudent.
  — Daniel A. Gross, The New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2023
• The contractor used a paint spray gun to prime the walls with white paint, leaving us to paint them with our own color choice.
  — Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2024
• These Timberwolves look primed to skip a few rungs on the ladder and reach the tippy top via one giant leap.
  — Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 19 Jan. 2024
• He was primed to play a major role for the Gamecocks but tore his left ACL on the second day of preseason camp.
  — Thuc Nhi Nguyen, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2023
• Hunter, who came into the 2023 season primed to be the bell cow in Auburn’s backfield, missed the season-opener against UMass last week.
  — Ainslie Lee | [e-mail], al, 10 Sep. 2023
• Fans on both sides were clearly primed for a battle: Stones had been stockpiled in the stadium, ready to be thrown.
  — Robert F. Worth, New York Times, 3 May 2023
• This primed him to run a travel firm focused squarely on the continent.
  — The Editors, Robb Report, 13 Mar. 2024
• For rusty metal items, Conley and Glass both advise priming with Rust-Oleum brand primer so the old rust doesn’t peek through.
  — Hannah Holland, Washington Post, 25 July 2023

Last Updated: 7 May 2024