How to Use journal in a Sentence

journal

noun
  • She records her dreams in a journal.
  • I've been keeping a journal for several years.
  • In short, make sure that your journal (and your brain) is a safe space.
    Calin Van Paris, Vogue, 24 Dec. 2023
  • To add this to your journal, drag Get items from RSS feed over to your shortcut.
    Justin Pot, WIRED, 14 Apr. 2024
  • The research is published in the journal Tectonophysics.
    Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 1 Sep. 2023
  • The researchers published their work last month in the journal Nature.
    IEEE Spectrum, 23 Dec. 2023
  • Lightweight and modish, the bag can hold a slew of items as big as a travel journal or 12.9-inch tablet.
    Kristine Solomon, Travel + Leisure, 6 Sep. 2023
  • For the host, this would mean keeping something as private as a journal out of the living room.
    Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 4 Apr. 2024
  • She was not involved in the research, which was published in the journal Nature Medicine.
    Carla K. Johnson, Fortune Well, 15 Sep. 2023
  • The findings, published in the journal Science, pushed back the history of the practice by about 1,000 years.
    Mindy Weisberger, CNN, 13 Feb. 2024
  • For the list maker A journal is a classic boss gift for a reason, what with their full slate of meetings and lengthy to-do lists.
    Sarah Grossbart, wsj.com, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Her work has been published in the industry’s top journals.
    IEEE Spectrum, 12 Dec. 2023
  • The study was published in the journal Current Biology on March 22.
    Issy Ronald, CNN, 1 Apr. 2024
  • The hardcover journal has wide lines for plenty of writing space.
    Enjanae' Taylor, Southern Living, 7 Nov. 2023
  • This notebook is perfect to use as a personal journal or for school.
    Nor'adila Hepburn, Southern Living, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Brian shared the experience of their last 24 hours through their journal.
    Dina Kaur, The Arizona Republic, 28 July 2023
  • But the judge, over defense objections, allowed the jury to see excerpts from his journal.
    Ed White, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Apr. 2024
  • The team plans to publish the work in a scientific journal, but the research hasn’t yet undergone peer review.
    Katie Hunt, CNN, 9 Mar. 2024
  • But even before the name, there were those journals — concrete proof of the impact he’s made in nearly three decades working and roaming Idaho’s trails.
    Chadd Cripe, Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Her journals are filled with comments about the inadequacies of her wardrobe.
    Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Still, more than half of the Y chromosome's sequence was a mystery until now, researchers wrote in a new study published last week in the journal Nature.
    Catherine Garcia, The Week, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Reports medical journal — explained that if the mouth and nose are closed during a sneeze, the pressure in the upper airways can increase by up to 20 times.
    Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 14 Dec. 2023
  • His lyrics are candid and personal, written as if they’ve been taken straight out of his diary or journal.
    Billboard Japan, Billboard, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Now, in places where the habitat hosts fewer crabs—thanks to the otters—erosion has declined, researchers report Wednesday in the journal Nature.
    Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Pages from magazines can be used for creating vision boards and collaging on large pieces of poster board or in a journal.
    Hope Corrigan, Washington Post, 15 June 2023
  • That is the key finding of my team’s new meta-analysis, just published in the journal Annals of Pharmacotherapy.
    C. Michael White, The Conversation, 8 Nov. 2023
  • Excavating the worst memories of her childhood by writing them down in journals helped her process what happened to her.
    Laura Barcella, Peoplemag, 1 June 2023
  • Flannery left behind more than just her fiction, and Ethan Hawke and co-scenarist Shelby Gaines draw freely from her letters and journals as well.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 1 Sep. 2023
  • There are no other clean skincare products on the market that have done the clinical testing and published them in peer review journals.
    Ingrid Schmidt, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Apr. 2024
  • A lot of internal dialogue from Coley is from my journal.
    Cat Cardenas, Vulture, 21 June 2023

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