How to Use grid in a Sentence
grid
noun- The city streets form a grid.
- The students plotted points on a grid.
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The Big 3 are way off the trade grid and Beal has a no-trade clause.
—Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 13 Jan. 2024
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The stages are grids of squares, and your goal is to turn each one black.
—Andrew Webster, The Verge, 25 Jan. 2025
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The thing is, it's called off the grid, so there's no phones allowed.
—Rachel Desantis, Peoplemag, 21 Apr. 2023
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The game will present you with a six by eight grid of letters.
—Kris Holt, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2024
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The game will present you with a six by eight grid of letters.
—Erik Kain, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
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Test Kitchen Tip: Don't fill the grids completely; the batter will spread to the edges when the lid is shut.
—Bhg Test Kitchen, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 July 2023
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The two units at the plant provide 2,240 megawatts of electricity to the state’s grid.
—Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Dec. 2023
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They can be propped up unframed, and framed works can be hung from a grid with hooks.
—Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2023
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Josh Spodek went off the grid in May in his studio apartment in the West Village.
—Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2023
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But going off the grid on the Appalachian Trail sounds just right.
—Drew Goins, Washington Post, 2 July 2024
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Lots of stuff will need to be built and installed to run a decarbonized grid.
—Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 8 Dec. 2022
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Each Row contains two answers, side by side, which span the width of the grid and are clued in order.
—Patrick Berry, The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2023
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There has been a steady flow since, but with the abovementioned trio on the starting grid, things are about to rev up.
—Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 27 Oct. 2024
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Next, plot the grid arrangement and secure pot hangers to the fence.
—Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 Aug. 2022
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Inside the tree, each little square on each grid is adorned with a number.
—Jaron Lanier, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2024
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But his team repaired the main car, Palou stayed in the top nine and started from sixth, the second row on the starting grid.
—Los Angeles Times, 27 May 2022
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The state’s beleaguered grid is sure to be tested again.
—Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 14 July 2022
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His jacket and pants were a light shade with a grid pattern in darker blue.
—Victoria Hernandez, USA TODAY, 11 Oct. 2022
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Texas has also used the time since the 2021 storm to invest in hardening its grid.
—Tim McDonnell, Quartz, 22 Dec. 2022
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The United States will be asking a lot of its electric grid over the coming decades.
—Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 19 May 2022
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To lessen the risk, grid managers reduce the amount of energy flowing through the lines.
—Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 2 Aug. 2024
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Even turf can be put on drip with grid systems installed under the sod.
—Sacramento Bee, 30 Jan. 2024
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That was not the case this week, as the grid maintained sufficient reserves.
—Ken Miller and David Sharp, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Feb. 2023
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More clean energy projects are planned in the US than its grid can handle.
—Clarisa Diaz, Quartz, 1 May 2023
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The houses have been demolished and the yards have merged to become fields, but a grid of roads remains.
—Ian Parker, The New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2022
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In March, Silva shouted out her stepson Homer in a grid post.
—Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 15 May 2023
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But the backup only lasts only so long, and there’s a bigger problem at play: aging power grids.
—Diana Olick, CNBC, 29 Apr. 2025
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Try our daily grid game Cinematrix. save Save this article to read it later.
—Britina Cheng, Vulture, 28 Apr. 2025
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