in order

phrase

: appropriate, desirable

an apology is in order

Examples of in order in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

North Carolina’s Senate seat is a crucial race that Democrats must flip in order to retake the Senate for the first time since 2022. — Mabinty Quarshie, The Washington Examiner, 18 Sep. 2026

Investigators said that deputies attempted to close and secure the gate in order to contain the dogs, and that's when one of them tried to attack a deputy. — Steven Yablonski, CBS News, 18 Sep. 2026

But in order to survive the woods, Murphy will have to dig deep into his wartime past and rely on his own skills and smarts to make out it out intact. — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2026

Everything from Wikipedia articles to YouTube videos has become training data for LLMs, and in order for the models themselves to get better, AI companies need more fresh data, which is in increasingly short supply. — Adam Clark Estes, Vox, 18 Sep. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for in order

• camcorder
• disorder
• recorder
• reorder
• suborder
• transborder
• boarder
• border
• corder
• warder