How to Use emphasis in a Sentence

emphasis

noun

• Our candidate's plan has a different emphasis.
• Each project will be centered around an original story with an emphasis on diverse characters.
  — Breanna Bell, Variety, 15 Dec. 2022
• Hampton, according to his players, has put a major emphasis on tackling.
  — Joseph Hoyt, Dallas News, 31 Dec. 2022
• In other words, the Biden administration put more emphasis on the action.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2024
• Turner Classic Movies will take on a year-long emphasis of Warner Bros. titles.
  — J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 14 Dec. 2022
• Despite rapid growth, Unleashed Brands is still a family business — with an emphasis on family.
  — Dallas News, 27 Dec. 2022
• That meant more emphasis on accurately predicting how likely each applicant was to enroll if admitted.
  — Evan Mandery, CNN, 15 Dec. 2022
• Pentagon watchers are getting more detail about the high-stakes, hush-hush Replicator project and its growing emphasis on assembly line prowess — not just fancy blueprints.
  — Colin Demarest, Axios, 20 Nov. 2024
• The brand was the star, and the emphasis was on live classes, not tapes.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 13 June 2019
• But at the turn of the century, the emphasis turned to home runs.
  — Jason Parker, NBC News, 21 Oct. 2023
• That’s a good start — to make the emphasis on life rather than death.
  — Sophia Nguyen, Washington Post, 16 June 2023
• That re-emphasis has gone a long way in a short amount of time.
  — Ashley Bastock, cleveland, 7 Nov. 2021
• This time around, though, the emphasis is on the breathing.
  — Washington Post, 7 Dec. 2021
• Trump places a lot of emphasis on the market, of course.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2020
• The emphasis was always on the thought rather than the expense.
  — Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2020
• Turnovers were a point of emphasis this week for the defense.
  — Cameron Teague Robinson, The Courier-Journal, 23 Oct. 2020
• The game with Lowndes is a unique game with a lot of emphasis put on it.
  — Ben Thomas | [e-mail], al, 20 Apr. 2020
• And with cotton, the whole emphasis is on high thread count...the closer the weave the better.
  — Carmen Rosy Hall, Vogue, 21 Dec. 2018
• The mids are decently tuned, with an emphasis on the warm, low mids, and a dip in the high mids.
  — Christian De Looper, BGR, 30 July 2021
• Budenholzer has always put an emphasis on not running his players into the ground, and in fairness to him, Antetokounmpo is more or less doing that on his own accord.
  — Morten Stig Jensen, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2022
• That’s been a point of emphasis for Bowness coming out of the break.
  — Matthew Defranks, Dallas News, 5 Sep. 2020
• Be all the things that Hollywood used to put a lot of emphasis on.
  — Marta Balaga, Variety, 25 Jan. 2022
• That's why there's such an emphasis on foods like cheeses and olive oils.
  — NBC News, 12 July 2019
• A year ago, the team placed an emphasis on the offensive line.
  — Scott Horner, Indianapolis Star, 7 Aug. 2019
• That puts more emphasis on getting a good shot off the tee even more.
  — Shawn McFarland, courant.com, 21 June 2018
• Big dumb fun, sure, but with too much emphasis on the big and dumb parts of that equation.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, azcentral, 12 July 2018
• Maybe this emphasis now is getting back to his roots, what he was raised on.
  — Orion Sang, Detroit Free Press, 12 July 2018
• Rodriguez wrote in the clip's caption—and no, emphasis is not added.
  — Kayleigh Roberts, Marie Claire, 3 Feb. 2020
• Trojans want to put more emphasis on their tight ends in the passing game.
  — oregonlive, 16 Oct. 2020
• Those group sessions — with their emphasis on healthy ways to express emotions and relationship building — are key, especially for students who are in a new environment, speaking a new language.
  — Amy Schwabe, Journal Sentinel, 20 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 7 Dec 2024