How to Use relate in a Sentence

relate

verb

• We listened eagerly as she related the whole exciting story.
• You must be feeling awful. I went through something similar myself last year, so I can relate.
• Many of Preserve and Protect Moose Pass’s complaints relate to the change in the scope of the project.
  — Riley Board, Anchorage Daily News, 18 July 2022
• The cause of death was heat related, the state department of health said.
  — Max Golembo, ABC News, 21 June 2023
• Just know that not everyone in your life may be able to relate to the depth of your grief.
  — Lianna Bass, SELF, 7 July 2022
• In fact, my guess is that many of the millions of people who have watched the series can relate.
  — Sophia A. Nelson, CNN, 17 Dec. 2022
• Stoudamire can relate to the Celtics players about falling short.
  — Gary Washburn, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Sep. 2022
• Anyone who has had to send a kid down the aisle can probably relate.
  — Tori Polizzotto, ELLE, 28 Feb. 2023
• How does that relate to the purpose of fiction more broadly?
  — Katherine Hu, The Atlantic, 28 Sep. 2022
• What the demon’s question points out is that life’s goods and its bads relate not as either/or but as both/and.
  — Andrew Stark, WSJ, 30 Aug. 2022
• That was something that people could kind of relate to and resonate with.
  — ELLE, 11 Aug. 2022
• The planet is on the line, issues that relate to prescription drugs.
  — CBS News, 23 Oct. 2022
• They’re related, in the fact that there are modest savings from closing a school.
  — Morgan Krakow, Anchorage Daily News, 28 May 2023
• That social anxiety is part of her that a lot of people can relate to.
  — Adam Rathe, Town & Country, 8 Dec. 2022
• But that's the beauty of Teen TV: Whatever the genre trappings, most of us can, for better or worse, still relate.
  — Alexis Gunderson, Chron, 1 Mar. 2023
• Old Howard—not blood related, but the man who owned and leased to us the deer pasture, stepping out quietly, in his late 80s.
  — Rick Bass, Field & Stream, 22 Nov. 2023
• Not fitting in is something that the Trans Santa outside the Chicago church can relate to.
  — John Blake, CNN, 18 Dec. 2022
• To that end, the film relates some of the technological hiccups that occurred at a handful of shows.
  — Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2023
• Very few laws in the US even relate to data brokers, let alone constrain their actions.
  — WIRED, 2 Sep. 2022
• The response back from FOIA was that there are not documents in their possession that relate to the request.
  — Kk Ottesen, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2022
• Researchers don’t know how the three were connected, or whether they were related.
  — Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 June 2023
• King’s situation is one that many singles across the U.S. can relate to.
  — Time, 16 Nov. 2022
• In real- life, disdain for dog discharge was not an Otto-ism that Hanks can relate to.
  — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2023
• Tykes can relate to the cases involved, whether a young dog walker who lost all 10 dogs in his care; a girl whose birthday invites were sent for the wrong day.
  — John Hopewell, Variety, 11 Oct. 2022
• Kids, with their natural unruliness, will be able to relate to Simón, a dog who tries to be good but can't in the face of so many temptations.
  — Christina Montoya Fiedler, Good Housekeeping, 22 Aug. 2022
• Steven has that ability to relate to and direct young people.
  — Josh Rottenberg, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2022
• That’s why, in the early stages of disease, stages 1 and 2, the symptoms usually relate to behavioral changes or mood swings.
  — Lorenzo Reyes, USA TODAY, 28 June 2022
• Iann Dior, who was impressed the students got out of class to attend the event, was the most in his element, and related easily with the students.
  — Crystal B. Shepeard, Billboard, 4 Jan. 2024
• So my hope is that people will relate to it, and know that this disease attacks everybody.
  — Philip Ellis, Men's Health, 19 Oct. 2022
• The challenges relate to market forces but also to choices about local land use.
  — Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Oct. 2022

Last Updated: 6 May 2024