How to Use cycle in a Sentence
- We have to wait for the dishwasher's wash and dry cycles to end.
- He rode his cycle into town.
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The whole thing is just a cycle.
—Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
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Use air fluff or a low heat cycle.
—Emily Benda Gaylord, The Spruce, 15 Mar. 2026
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Start with a strong spin cycle.
—Sarah Lyon, The Spruce, 1 Feb. 2026
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And there's some cycle in there.
—Bill Chappell, NPR, 7 Feb. 2026
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That’s the cycle for Woods and his fans now.
—Cnn.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 30 Mar. 2026
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Open races Four seats opened up this cycle.
—A.d. Quig, Chicago Tribune, 14 Mar. 2026
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Dao is all about movement and the cycle of life.
—Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 13 Feb. 2026
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Run the load on either a warm or hot cycle.
—Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 25 Jan. 2026
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This is the trend cycle moving on to the next thing.
—Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
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Run the cycle, then hang the liner up to dry.
—Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 27 Apr. 2026
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The health fund was the top item on the agenda this cycle.
—Gene Maddaus, Variety, 4 Apr. 2026
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Lashes grow in cycles that last about one to three months.
—Alanna Martine Kilkeary, Glamour, 17 June 2026
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Run the load on a warm-to-hot water cycle.
—Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 25 Jan. 2026
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Brain wrung like a sponge every rinse cycle.
—Rowan Jacobsen, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
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So this is an out-of-cycle dismissal.
—David Frum, The Atlantic, 27 May 2026
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Drew Gilbert logged four hits and fell a triple shy of the cycle.
—Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 5 July 2026
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But that cycle often leads to burnout.
—Jane Marie Chen, Time, 10 Oct. 2025
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Why are armed agents on the job at a lovely life-cycle event?
—Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 27 Mar. 2026
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Let’s see what happens when this pit cycle works through.
—Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 15 Feb. 2026
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If desired, run a quick cycle first.
—Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 26 June 2026
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At the end of the day, the news cycle will spin around to something else.
—Jodi Guglielmi, Rolling Stone, 21 Dec. 2023
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These cycles take years to reverse.
—Alexis Coe, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
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The cycle doesn’t always stop there.
—Adrienne Farr, Parents, 5 Sep. 2025
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That book was our Vulgate cycle, our ur text.
—Literary Hub, 3 June 2026
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This is the beginning of a new nine-year cycle for you.
—Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 15 Mar. 2026
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Maybe equities were in a sense too cheap in past cycles.
—Michael Santoli, CNBC, 10 Jan. 2026
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Want to go deeper on how light affects your sleep cycle?
—Allison Palmer, Kansas City Star, 12 May 2026
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Trends move in cycles Value is rarely fixed.
—Ryan Brennan, Kansas City Star, 24 June 2026
- The water cycles back into the system.
- The water is cycled back into the system after it has been used.
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And the city had cycled through five mayors in as many years.
—Charlotte Observer, 14 Aug. 2025
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The moon is cycling through the news ahead of a new chapter in space.
—Sarah Matusek, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Jan. 2024
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As a young adult, Brooks cycled through a dozen odd jobs to make ends meet.
—Julia Terruso, Time, 23 Feb. 2026
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Each four-member cast will cycle through the 12-week run.
—Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 22 Jan. 2026
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Use some bike pant pegs to ensure the fabric doesn’t snag when cycling!
—Alexandra Pereira, Travel + Leisure, 10 July 2026
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That same lithium then cycles back and forth, but without the graphite.
—Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 20 Jan. 2026
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New units should cycle in every 10 years.
—Tara Lynch, CBS News, 22 June 2026
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Although the rain will cycle into the area from the south, the air will still be cool.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Dec. 2022
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Just like the way our wardrobes cycle through trends with the months that pass, so too do allergies.
—Kelsey Castañon, refinery29.com, 14 Sep. 2023
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Many of the people cycling through the courts are also Black.
—Katie Mettler, Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2023
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Swipe to the left to cycle through all the different options.
—WIRED, 27 Oct. 2023
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There was no way to cycle through the remote, roadless crossing.
—Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 27 May 2026
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With the mister installed, the dial doesn't cycle the fan off.
—Andrew Gebhart, PC Magazine, 18 Apr. 2026
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Since then, she’s cycled through all sorts of eating and exercise plans.
—Fortesa Latifi, Rolling Stone, 9 Aug. 2025
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The next day, Cantrell felt a strange sensation in his chest while cycling with friends.
—Kerry Breen, CBS News, 4 Apr. 2026
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Power cycling the router doesn’t resolve.
—James Bickerton, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
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But top-tier talent cycled in and out during the New York run.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2023
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The newest Wildcats can run and cycle both on and off campus.
—Ryan Finley, The Arizona Republic, 29 Oct. 2022
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There were no fiery explosions or massive set pieces that cycled in for fistfuls of songs.
—Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 15 May 2026
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Creatine is safe for long-term use, so there’s no need to cycle off creatine.
—Jillian Kubala, Health, 26 Aug. 2025
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That’s a lot of information to cycle through in a split second.
—Zack Meisel, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2026
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Amenities will include private shuttles to and from the slopes and use of bikes to cycle around town.
—Catherine Garcia, TheWeek, 7 Jan. 2026
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Father-and-son duo George and Josh Kohler are cycling around the world.
—Maureen O'Hare, CNN Money, 4 Oct. 2025
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All of the women split up into groups to cycle their way three miles down an old railroad track, with drinks in hand of course.
—Tom Smyth, Vulture, 20 Apr. 2026
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Charlotte had cycled through five mayors in three years before her election.
—Nora O'Neill, Charlotte Observer, 7 May 2026
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Murky trap drums and slurred flows add to the muddy kaleidoscope of emotions that both artists cycle through in the song.
—Kyle Denis, Billboard, 16 Oct. 2023
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Children on our tour excitedly cycled through the new sodas on tap at the bar.
—Jordyn Noennig, Journal Sentinel, 11 Aug. 2023
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Reentry programs keep people from cycling back through the system.
—Andrea Hagan, Washington Post, 23 Apr. 2026
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