How to Use effect in a Sentence

effect

noun

• The effects of the drug soon wore off.
• He now needs more of the drug to achieve the same effect.
• The total effect of the painting was one of gloom.
• The color gives the effect of being warm.
• He was able to stop taking the drug without ill effect.
• The experience has had a bad effect on him.
• He achieves amazing effects with wood.
• The change in policy had little effect on most people.
• Computers have had a profound effect on our lives.
• This treatment causes fewer ill effects.
• That is what negates the effect of the lack of gravity.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 23 June 2019
• The headline read something to the effect: Here comes one of the best months of the year.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 1 Dec. 2021
• As the play went on, the effect of that quick exchange lingered.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2020
• And the study found that there was no similar effect on men.
  — Emily Cassidy /, NBC News, 13 July 2018
• The singer goes on to talk about the effect that these sorts of stories have on young women and girls.
  — Abby Gardner, Glamour, 17 Nov. 2018
• How much of an effect are the new online brands having?
  — Joseph Pisani, USA TODAY, 1 Apr. 2018
• There are a lot of moving parts, and a lot of effects going on.
  — Lauren Warnecke, chicagotribune.com, 3 Dec. 2019
• Larraín leans in hard on the fable part, to great effect.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 4 Dec. 2021
• The contract spells out what can and cannot be built on the property and is still in effect.
  — Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Oct. 2020
• But the practice seems to have been in effect earlier than that.
  — National Geographic, 31 Mar. 2020
• This is the mark of a builder who wanted to create an instant effect.
  — Carol Stocker, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Apr. 2022
• One of the plant's common names, dumb cane, refers to the effect of the sap if eaten.
  — Savanna Bous, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Jan. 2023
• The action was to take effect in March but was delayed.
  — William Booth, Washington Post, 2 July 2022
• Its effect on the planet will linger, too, in the world’s landfills and oceans.
  — The Economist, 22 June 2020
• The layoff didn’t seem to have much of an effect on the Chiefs’ first-stringers.
  — David Murphy, Philly.com, 24 Dec. 2017
• There are already threats to that effect if Iowa takes this route.
  — Rekha Basu, Star Tribune, 17 Feb. 2021
• Her wet-look hair and sheer gloves only heightened the effect.
  — Hanna Lustig, Glamour, 26 Jan. 2024
• Most of these hacks take a while to take effect, however.
  — Carolyn Twersky, Seventeen, 7 Mar. 2019
• The video board prompts for the fans to yell louder didn’t really have much of an effect.
  — Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer, 27 May 2021
• More than half of the effect came from fewer calls in black neighborhoods.
  — German Lopez, Vox, 3 Apr. 2018

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024