How to Use essay in a Sentence

essay

1 of 2 noun

• The book is a collection of his previously unpublished essays on a variety of topics.
• Your assignment is to write a 500-word essay on one of Shakespeare's sonnets.
• Well, what about, was there a response to the essay at the time?
  — Quanta Magazine, 1 Feb. 2024
• But the essay in the context of the book is more accurate.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 22 Nov. 2023
• Check out all the essays, and read our full list of the best TV shows ever made.
  — Cord Jefferson, Variety, 22 Dec. 2023
• Smith’s birthday is June 16, so the essays will appear on the 16th day of each month.
  — Anne Bradley, National Review, 16 Oct. 2023
• The couple’s dogs are bird dogs, and bird hunting is by far the context for most of these essays.
  — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Sep. 2023
• Two smart essays published over the last 10 days explore those ideas.
  — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2023
• The essay film starts with Phillips talking about her kidney stone and from there looking at stones of all kinds.
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 19 Mar. 2024
• Her essay can be read online at https://honoringamericasveterans.org.
  — Marcus Reichley, The Arizona Republic, 1 Mar. 2024
• Sagan, his future wife, Ann Druyan, and four colleagues created the sound essay over the course of six months.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 20 July 2023
• On YouTube, the video essay sometimes extends past a medium and into a genre.
  — Vulture, 8 Aug. 2023
• Most of Mounk’s thinkers penned their famous essays and monographs decades ago.
  — Samuel Clowes Huneke, The New Republic, 26 Oct. 2023
• Gurba, 46, has published five books and too many short stories and essays to count.
  — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2023
• Submit a Letter to the Editor here, or find the submission form at the end of any First Opinion essay.
  — Torie Bosch, STAT, 23 Dec. 2023
• This piece was adapted from a longer essay in Capital & Main.
  — Rick Wartzman, Fortune, 14 Dec. 2023
• Teacher Mary Wood had planned to teach her class the book as part of the class’s preparation for the argumentative essay portion of the A.P. test.
  — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 13 June 2023
• There are plenty of biographies, essays, and novels to look forward to these next few months.
  — Okla Jones, Essence, 12 Sep. 2023
• At the end of the course, participants are asked to submit an essay, poster, or project on the impact women have had on the computing field.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 12 Aug. 2023
• That edition also includes a 32-page book with a Josh Modell essay based on new interviews with the band.
  — Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 19 Sep. 2023
• The album comes with a 48-page book of collages by Stevens (who also designed the record’s cover art) and related essays.
  — Allison Hussey, Pitchfork, 3 Oct. 2023
• And many have never had to write the type of personal essay that's part of college applications.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 16 Dec. 2023
• This #BoyDad essay is one of six, from a collection of fathers who are raising sons in modern times.
  — Scott Galloway, Men's Health, 31 May 2023
• Some readers went as far as wishing the author dead on social media, which Roth wrote about in a 2021 Salon essay.
  — Benjamin Vanhoose, Peoplemag, 20 Oct. 2023
• But soldier and diplomat James Wilkinson, the subject of an essay by Samuel Watson, seemed to pop up everywhere in his day.
  — Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Mar. 2024
• Shah gave them a five-paragraph essay the software wrote, asking his students to edit and improve it.
  — Donna St. George and Susan Svrluga, Anchorage Daily News, 15 July 2023
• Your next book, Altitude Sickness, is a series of essays.
  — Hazlitt, 28 June 2023
• Love followed a few weeks later with a first-person essay about his anxiety.
  — Tim Reynolds, Twin Cities, 4 Mar. 2024
• Three undergraduates were enlisted to write two essays each with the help of ChatGPT, which were then compared with essays on the same topic written by 164 high school students.
  — Nick Morrison, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
• In my composition class at Sichuan University, in the southwestern Chinese city of Chengdu, the first assignment was a personal essay.
  — Peter Hessler, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024

essay

2 of 2 verb

• There is no hint as to which of the approaches essayed in this book will prove most useful.
• Arthur Nikisch essayed one with the Leipzig Gewandhaus in 1919.
  — David Allen, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2017
• Sarbh plays a lawyer while Gupta essays the role of an Indian politician in the film.
  — Sweta Kaushal, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023
• Blanchett narrates that essay here, along with four others.
  — Marshall Heyman, Vulture, 21 Apr. 2021
• Karthi essayed the role of chieftain Vallavaraiyan Vandiyadevan.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 17 Sep. 2023
• Reading one essay a night, before sleep, brings delight to the reader.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Jan. 2021
• Noah’s essay on why his dog is tops bested entries from over 100 other fourth-graders.
  — Sam Boyer, cleveland, 4 Dec. 2020
• These are the full contest rules for Outside’s survival stories essay contest.
  — The Editors, Outside Online, 22 Sep. 2021
• Both Lively and Bilson opted for youthful, dressy shorts, while Chung essayed the season's maxi hemline.
  — Veronique Hyland, Harper's BAZAAR, 9 May 2011
• Meghan recalled in her Elle essay how her seventh grade English teacher told her to check the box for Caucasian on a mandatory census.
  — Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 6 Mar. 2019
• At the end of the summer, pairs may choose to create a video interview or essay about the wisdom, values or life experience that has influenced the teen.
  — Sergio Carmona, sun-sentinel.com, 14 Aug. 2020
• Few records fully and frankly essay the realistic ups-and-downs of a young man’s fancy as has Khalid Robinson’s American Teen.
  — Philly.com, 24 May 2018
• There is a moment in Fahrenheit 451 when Clarisse, the affable teenager who lives next door to the firefighter Montag, pauses to essay about how fast society moves and what has been lost in the process.
  — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 12 June 2017
• There is no novelist’s voice essaying on why Shy is so unhappy.
  — Hazlitt, 11 Oct. 2023
• Not Just You essay delivered to your inbox every Sunday.
  — Susanna Schrobsdorff, Time, 28 Feb. 2021
• Hanson’s essay on parenting and caring for a disabled child, and being seen, is at once tender and powerful.
  — Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 10 Jan. 2023
• Why not essay contests in high schools and community colleges on the benefits of voting, with scholarships for the winners?
  — Steve Lopezcolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2022
• Macmillan doesn’t make W the easiest person to live with, and Brooke essays a lovably irritating presence.
  — Marcus Crowder, sacbee.com, 24 May 2017
• What is novel is, well, just how many good novels (and memoirs, essay collections and other worthy books) hit shelves and helped us through the boredom of social isolation.
  — USA Today, 11 Dec. 2020
• And any buzzy novel, or even essay collection, now seems to be sold as a television show almost immediately, as if the former were just a sketch for the inevitable latter.
  — Kyle Chayka, The New Republic, 4 Oct. 2021
• This is not Markle’s first essay about her humanitarian work.
  — Lauren Le Vine, Vanities, 8 Mar. 2017
• The first step was essentially answering a series of questions similar to essay prompts.
  — Ephrat Livni, Quartz at Work, 25 Nov. 2019
• Unlike many overblown jukebox show, this one dispenses with the ubiquitous record company suits and needs just two performers: one to play Patsy Cline and the other to essay the role of a fan who becomes her pal.
  — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 26 Nov. 2019
• Interview with, and essay by, palindrome king Barry Duncan.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 29 Oct. 2011
• But as his career progressed over the decades, Caan would repeatedly essay characters with a penchant for violence.
  — Carmel Dagan, Variety, 7 July 2022
• The uncertainty about the oldest living tree perhaps illustrates larger questions about nailing down tree ages—a point that the review essay tackles.
  — Robin Lloyd, Scientific American, 24 Dec. 2021
• But country twang is her guiding principle, and her songs vividly essay failed and burgeoning relationships.
  — Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader, 5 July 2018
• Daria channeled her struggle into a college admissions essay that talks about losing herself in literature to cope with moving from hotel room to hotel room after Sandy.
  — Megan Friedman, Seventeen, 20 Apr. 2015
• That combination is perfectly suited to his Christmas Tree-O project, which sanguinely essays holiday themes—both classic and schmaltzy—with gusto and ardor.
  — Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader, 8 Dec. 2017
• And the idea of this superhero factory peaking as a commercial juggernaut must be appealing to people who printed and framed that Martin Scorsese essay about the difference between Marvel movies and cinematic art.
  — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2022