How to Use daisy-chain in a Sentence

daisy-chain

1 of 2 verb
  • Flanagan’s daisy-chain of a work suggests that our lives spin out from a physical place, yes, but also from stories, some of them far removed from our own.
    — Literary Hub, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Its practically automatic daisy-chaining to a second display is a bonus.
    — George Yang, PC Magazine, 23 May 2026
  • This lets users daisy-chain additional monitors (up to four, if two of the others are similarly equipped), increasing screen area.
    — Tony Hoffman, PC Magazine, 11 Apr. 2026
  • The album daisy-chains different ideas together across seven tracks with the kind of freedom that Zaks can only achieve with sufficient haze to guard his process.
    — H.d. Angel, Pitchfork, 27 July 2026
  • One such strategy is the daisy-chain gene drive, in which the gene drive is divided into several genetic components that must be joined together to be functional.
    — Srishti Gupta, Interesting Engineering, 27 Feb. 2026
  • The Thunderbolt ports support daisy-chaining multiple monitors.
    — Tony Hoffman, PC Magazine, 11 Apr. 2026
  • The chip maker says the last feature will give you up to 80Gbps of bidirectional bandwidth for transferring larger files or daisy-chaining multiple accessories with your computer.
    — James Peckham, PC Magazine, 17 Mar. 2026
  • Instead of Thunderbolt 5, the MA270S is limited to Thunderbolt 4 speeds and capabilities including daisy-chaining multiple screens.
    — Andrew Liszewski, The Verge, 4 Mar. 2026

daisy chain

2 of 2 noun
  • She wore a daisy chain around her neck.
  • The children linked arms forming a daisy chain.
  • Soon the song evolved into a daisy chain of solos.
    — Literary Hub, 13 Feb. 2026
  • This in turn helps new stars to be born, creating a space daisy chain.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 13 Jan. 2020
  • In my mind a voyage to the moon and back is a long and a very fragile daisy chain.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 11 July 2019
  • And does anyone, let alone a commuter, use a daisy chain anymore?
    — Adrienne So, WIRED, 1 Nov. 2017
  • Enjoy aguas frescas, body and face painting or make your own daisy chain bracelets.
    — Kate Bradshaw, Mercury News, 30 May 2026
  • In the first photo, Phillippe unveils short bangs under a daisy chain crown.
    — Tracey Harrington McCoy, Peoplemag, 7 Apr. 2023
  • Every person comes in kind of bumps somebody else, and there’s a daisy chain effect.
    — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 8 June 2023
  • Seen are daisy chains, forget-me-nots, celandine and scarlet pimpernel.
    — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 6 May 2023
  • Dual daisy chain front webbing gives you a go-to place to hook on any travel accessories.
    — Katherine Alex Beaven, Travel + Leisure, 25 Apr. 2023
  • Every song is a daisy chain of vignettes that bleed into each other while keeping the same rhyme scheme.
    — Dylan Green, Pitchfork, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Pick your mother's favorite flower to string together, à la a daisy chain.
    — Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 23 Mar. 2021
  • Deputies, armed with tree branches, created a daisy chain and pulled the juvenile out of the pond.
    — Alejandro Serrano, SFChronicle.com, 17 Feb. 2020
  • There is an outer pocket and an inner pocket as well as a daisy chain to hook carabiners.
    — Amber Joglar, Popular Mechanics, 10 May 2023
  • My daughter will be sitting criss-cross-applesauce, building daisy chains.
    — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 29 Oct. 2025
  • The model unveiled her spring chop while wearing a daisy chain crown on Instagram.
    — Audrey Schmidt, Peoplemag, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Until then, the industry had largely relied on an old-school daisy chain of phone calls, meetups and bags of cash.
    — Amy Feldman, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2022
  • With a daisy chain, though, adjusting to baby’s fast-growing legs was as easy as clipping the next loop higher.
    — Emily Stifler Wolfe, Outside Online, 26 Apr. 2021
  • To rig it, tie a figure eight on a bight in the bouncer’s factory webbing, then clip the bight to a daisy chain with a carabiner.
    — Emily Stifler Wolfe, Outside Online, 26 Apr. 2021
  • Girls dance in a daisy chain of solemn delight, and citizens, under the gaze of Mao's image, wander and smile.
    — Owen Gleiberman, chicagotribune.com, 1 Mar. 2018
  • The best theory is that the wild swings were set off by some daisy chain of feedbacks involving the ice, the air, and—most important—the oceans.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024
  • Another responder suggested creating a daisy chain of sorts where friends hand them out to friends, who then hand them out to their friends.
    — Peter Krouse, cleveland, 4 Apr. 2020
  • Nothing could be shared or dissected among a community without janky daisy chains of hyperlinks.
    — Literary Hub, 28 Jan. 2026
  • There are also daisy chain loops on the front to hook on extra accessories, a zippered front pocket, and back accessory pocket.
    — Rena Behar, Travel + Leisure, 17 Feb. 2023
  • When Fiona’s done with them, the Marchettis disinfect the books and pass them onto the next house, in a kind of neighborhood daisy chain.
    — Mandy Behbehani, SFChronicle.com, 5 May 2020
  • This means that players can daisy chain a series of commands with fluidity and ease, as well as swap on-the-fly between characters for support.
    — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2022
  • In the daisy chain from Russian oligarch to singer to PR go-between to lawyer to Trump scion, which is more plausible?
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 12 July 2017
  • The solar energy snagged by diatoms provides the calories that become the flesh of ever larger creatures in a daisy chain of embodied light.
    — Tim Folger, National Geographic, 17 Nov. 2020
  • The Woojer is very much built to daisy chain BT audio from the source, then to your headphones via BT or hardwired.
    — Joe Salas may 31, New Atlas, 31 May 2026

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