How to Use into line in a Sentence
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Biden has tried to soothe his detractors and whip them into line.
—Max Thornberry, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 11 July 2024
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Easing off the throttle a tiny amount brings the car right back into line.
—Csaba Csere, Car and Driver, 7 Sep. 2023
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This brings the job market signal back into line with the broader growth data.
—George Monastiriakos, Newsweek, 31 Dec. 2024
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In time, rents will come into line as supply and demand come into balance.
—USA TODAY, 25 July 2023
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The marching orders go out, and the infantry falls quickly into line.
—Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 22 Jan. 2024
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The old way of doing things—whipping weaker peoples into line—was no longer going to work.
—Andrew J. Bacevich, Foreign Affairs, 28 Feb. 2023
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Her teacher promptly pulled her back into line with a yank whose mildness astonished me.
—Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 4 May 2023
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Speaking over each other, Lane sought to pull Giuliani into line.
—Zach Schonfeld, The Hill, 10 July 2024
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That gives Dillard’s a little extra space to get expenses into line with sales.
—Evan Clark, WWD, 15 Aug. 2024
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As with its ally Russia, the go-to tool to try to bring Belarus into line has been sanctions.
—Aliaksandr Kudrytski, Bloomberg.com, 3 Mar. 2022
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This change will bring expenses and revenue back into line while preserving our core assets and long term upside.
—Todd Spangler, Variety, 30 June 2023
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Cupich concurred there was more the Holy See could and should do to bring religious orders into line.
—Nicole Winfield, ajc, 25 May 2023
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Appointees routinely fall into line without a hint of dissent when picking a chairman.
—Kevin Spear, Orlando Sentinel, 27 Apr. 2022
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At one point, the scene descended into chaos as charity kitchen workers struggled to push people back into line.
—Wafaa Shurafa, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2025
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This was not a question of breaking into line, but of being momentarily absent from it.
—Judith Martin, Mercury News, 22 Dec. 2025
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Rather than question the federal executive who held the purse strings, the colleges fell meekly into line.
—The Editors, National Review, 16 Apr. 2025
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If the screen industries and publishing do feel far apart, we are being told about deliberate attempts to bring them back into line.
—Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 10 Mar. 2026
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Still, Hungary did fall into line with the EU and impose sanctions on Russia.
—Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Apr. 2022
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Powell said the Fed’s goal was to cool off consumer and business spending and bring it more into line with the restrained supply of goods and workers.
—Christopher Rugaber, USA TODAY, 17 May 2022
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As everyone always says, an overbought market can come back into line with a severe pullback or by simply chopping sideways for a bit.
—Michael Santoli, CNBC, 20 Oct. 2025
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The cosmos will do that for you from time to time as the ceaseless wanderings of our planet, the sun and moon bring them into line like billiard balls on a velvet space table.
—New York Times, 10 June 2021
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The campaign succeeded when Britain’s Parliament stepped in to bring the region into line with the rest of the country.
—NBC News, 6 Jan. 2022
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By 1972, however, these women had strong support for their work to bring the law into line with actual practice.
—Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 5 May 2022
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He's pushed to get his brother, Will, into line (although admittedly, Will might have just run out of employees to sleep with).
—Mason Leib, ABC News, 2 Feb. 2026
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About a decade ago, there was an effort to eliminate the ambiguities in Markdown and bring it into line with coding dogma.
—Scott Gilbertson, WIRED, 24 June 2024
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After that, there was an effort in Europe and North America to push the continent into line.
—Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 27 July 2023
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And rather than smoothing strands into line and straightening the lot into sleek and perfect order, roughing it up with a mussy, unruly cut can feel exquisitely defiant.
—Elle Turner, Glamour, 11 Nov. 2021
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Until the West can come up with a more persuasive argument of its own, African nations are unlikely to jump into line behind it.
—Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 27 July 2023
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The 365-day rule brought Metro into line with other T-Mobile prepaid phones that already came with the year-long lock.
—Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 19 July 2024
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The merger would have risked big losses for the private fund as its valuation came more into line with the public vehicle, which is 10 times larger.
—Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 20 Nov. 2025
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