How to Use alignment in a Sentence

alignment

noun
  • The school has to bring its programs into alignment with state requirements.
  • New alignments have been created within the political party.
  • Is that irony or just alignment?
    Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 25 Feb. 2026
  • That alignment is your green light.
    Lien De Pau, Forbes.com, 27 June 2026
  • So how does one put these two crises in alignment?
    Elizabeth Fazzare, Architectural Digest, 16 June 2026
  • That alignment has since frayed.
    Abbas Al Lawati, CNN Money, 5 Jan. 2026
  • The trust and alignment isn’t there.
    Darius Jones, New York Daily News, 15 Feb. 2026
  • The best results come from that kind of alignment.
    Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Each model is white with a black shaft and a black alignment aid.
    Langston Wertz Jr, Charlotte Observer, 9 June 2026
  • Mack can truly rush from any alignment.
    Daniel Popper, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Most likely, all eyes will be on the alignment of the moon and sun.
    Denise Chow, NBC News, 4 Apr. 2024
  • The route’s alignment has been contentious for years.
    Daniel Orton, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2025
  • When that alignment is in place, donors don't just give to a campaign.
    Sherry Quam Taylor, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
  • The passion is there, but alignment isn't.
    Rasheem Rooke, CNBC, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Wright excels from an off alignment.
    Zack Rosenblatt, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Silence starts to feel like alignment.
    Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
  • It’s supposed to feel like alignment.
    Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Shim the board to the proper alignment, then hot glue those shims—and the board—in place.
    Jean Levasseur, Popular Science, 21 Mar. 2023
  • The stars must have been in some kind of weird alignment on Tuesday.
    Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 11 Jan. 2023
  • This is where alignment matters.
    Heidi Williams, Denver Post, 19 Apr. 2026
  • The alignment of the Supreme Court is locked in for decades to come.
    Daniel Borenstein, Mercury News, 26 Oct. 2025
  • So to me, what does that mean, in terms of alignment to a listener?
    Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Dec. 2024
  • The sun’s alignment with Mercury brings you down to earth!
    Usa Today, USA Today, 13 Sep. 2025
  • But their actions sometimes feel out of alignment with the goal.
    Cassie Werber, Quartz, 7 June 2022
  • Even after all that time, the door was still in perfect alignment.
    Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2021
  • It might be described as a model of alignment.
    Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2026
  • And alignment requires letting go of what no longer fits.
    Stephanie Dillon, Rolling Stone, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Supply and demand were more or less in alignment, for a while.
    Ellen Cushing, The Atlantic, 15 May 2026
  • When no one raises a hand at the town hall, the quiet sounds like alignment.
    David Grossman, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
  • In the case of a rupture, this alignment would likely hold.
    Rebecca Hanson, The Conversation, 6 Jan. 2026

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