How to Use format in a Sentence

format

1 of 2 noun

• The journals are available in electronic format.
• The file is saved in MP3 format.
• Dees knew how to push the format.
  — Richard Wagoner, Daily News, 23 Feb. 2026
• What drew us to the format was its sheer scale.
  — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 15 June 2026
• Isn’t that the way the three-tribe format works?
  — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Oct. 2025
• The bar is designed with an open-air format.
  — Mars Salazar, Austin American Statesman, 1 Mar. 2026
• What’s the format for your tour with Joe and this band?
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Apr. 2026
• Swift is still a gold artist in the format, after all.
  — Russ Penuell, Billboard, 14 Oct. 2025
• Passion now aims to spin off a longer format.
  — John Hopewell, Variety, 23 June 2026
• The event was revived with a new format.
  — Ashley MacKin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Apr. 2026
• Test new post formats this week and watch your numbers jump.
  — Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
• The group retreat is just one format.
  — Natalia V. Osipova, CNN Money, 28 Mar. 2026
• Even if the format is raw, your story should still be sharp.
  — Leeron Walter, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
• Don’t let great ideas live (and die) in a single format.
  — Noa Eshed, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
• The format is simple, which is part of why it’s spread so fast.
  — Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 10 Mar. 2026
• Even then, the format was nothing new.
  — Literary Hub, 28 Apr. 2026
• That’s not a byproduct of the format, that’s the whole point.
  — Max Cutler, HollywoodReporter, 10 Mar. 2026
• Details on the format were scarce.
  — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 17 Feb. 2026
• The format gives way to a faster pace of play with plenty of scoring.
  — Jason Clinkscales, Sportico.com, 4 Sep. 2025
• Buy them in bootie format or with a snakeskin finish.
  — Nuria Luis, Glamour, 18 Oct. 2025
• Many fans pleaded with the station to stop the format change.
  — Roger Simmons, The Orlando Sentinel, 4 May 2026
• The series is being shopped in two-part and four-part formats.
  — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 3 Mar. 2026
• The format looks the same as in previous years.
  — Kif Leswing, CNBC, 8 June 2026
• The format and language are key to its success.
  — Zareen Syed, Chicago Tribune, 29 Apr. 2026
• Large-format square stone tiles add a touch of classical grandeur to a room.
  — Abby Wolner, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Jan. 2026
• Jump on trending topics and test new formats.
  — Ivana Johnston, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
• Tuscookany runs both three-day and seven-night formats.
  — Lauren Schuster, Miami Herald, 10 June 2026
• These doors swing out to the left and right, not up and back like most large-format resin printer doors do.
  — Michael Lydick, PC Magazine, 2 May 2026
• There are a number of premier formats.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 9 Apr. 2026
• Start with a format that feels natural.
  — Cheryl Robinson, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025

format

2 of 2 verb

• The book is formatted in several different styles.
• The data was improperly formatted.
• The show is formatted in two parts.
  — Carlos Rico, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 June 2026
• The show is formatted in two parts.
  — Abby Hamblin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 June 2026
• Watch this video to see how to format text and more in iMessage.
  — Cody Godwin, USA Today, 30 Apr. 2026
• The file had been stored on the disk before formatting.
  — Chongwei Chen, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
• But people still struggle with how to best format their posts from solemn places or sad events.
  — Taylor Lorenz, The Atlantic, 12 June 2019
• Others needed editing to format them for the blog, and so on.
  — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 31 Dec. 2010
• According to the sellers, all of the drives had been formatted and erased of data.
  — Mark Hachman, PCWorld, 25 Apr. 2019
• Sheridan figured out how to format her book, made a cover for it and stuck it on Amazon.
  — Kaycee Sloan, Cincinnati Enquirer, 7 Nov. 2025
• The humans are adding formatting, not value.
  — Abhishek Gandotra, Forbes.com, 20 May 2026
• Fake sites often add extra words or change formatting to appear real.
  — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 1 Dec. 2025
• What shows up will be the URL of the image, plus some formatting junk on the end.
  — Kevin Dupzyk, Popular Mechanics, 20 Nov. 2018
• That’s explicit in the first episode, when Hari dies for a formatting error.
  — Alison Herman, Variety, 2 Mar. 2026
• Analysts want to spend less time formatting spreadsheets and more time spotting trends.
  — Arunabh Dastidar, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
• Prince George and Princess Charlotte's names are formatted the same way.
  — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 8 May 2019
• At the very least, format the drive(s) before recycling the old PC.
  — PCMAG, 21 Sep. 2022
• It can be formatted by topic, page number, short sentences, and bullets.
  — Katelyn Chef, Martha Stewart, 29 Dec. 2025
• Students will also view ways to format a spreadsheet, such as adjusting row and column sizes.
  — Chris Smith | Contributing Writer, NOLA.com, 21 Dec. 2020
• Since its resurgence in the 2010s, vinyl remains a go-to format for music fans.
  — Matthew Leimkuehler, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
• Malware that uses right-to-left formatting dates back to at least 2009.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 14 Feb. 2018
• Waiting for data to arrive, to be formatted, to be staged, to be served at the throughput the hardware demands.
  — Sven Oehme, Forbes.com, 10 Mar. 2026
• Maya Peterson wrote, designed, formatted and published the book on her own.
  — Mary Divine, The Seattle Times, 8 Dec. 2017
• And of course, all the episodes are formatted vertically to be easily watched on your smartphone.
  — Kathryn Lindsay, refinery29.com, 15 June 2019
• When formatting stops competing for attention, the substance has room to shine.
  — K. H. Koehler, USA Today, 23 Dec. 2025
• Make each under 12 words and format them as absolute statements, not questions.
  — Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
• Will the Prep Challenges format differ from a regular high school or college game?
  — Adam Zagoria, Forbes, 13 Oct. 2021
• Moore’s Law was a surprisingly small part of Nvidia’s magic and new number formats a very large part.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 7 Sep. 2023
• But Weyand studied pronghorn antelopes in the lab, specially formatting treadmills that could go fast enough.
  — Teal Burrell, Discover Magazine, 15 June 2018
• The site will even format your current resume to one of the many professional templates available for download.
  — Dallas News, 4 Oct. 2022