How to Use joining in a Sentence

joining

noun
  • That this joining of two worlds can bring about a birth not of fear, but of love.
    Salman Rushdie, VanityFair.com, 21 Feb. 2017
  • The joining of the two will result in a wet ending to the week.
    oregonlive, 27 Oct. 2022
  • The sportsmanship didn’t stop after the pregame joining of the hands.
    Matt Massey, The Seattle Times, 31 Aug. 2017
  • There’s a lot to gain from the joining of two lives; double the friends and family, for one.
    Maggie Zhou, refinery29.com, 23 Jan. 2024
  • For now, make sure your Zoom is up to date and change your video settings to block auto-joining.
    Lily Hay Newman, WIRED, 9 July 2019
  • One way to do this with adolescents is to encourage the joining of a club or sports league.
    Emy Rodriguez Flores, Redbook, 6 Mar. 2020
  • What might have come off as coy is anything but in the joining of the work’s disparate elements.
    Steven Winn, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Apr. 2018
  • These couples understand that the prenup is a joining point, not a breaking point.
    Libby Leffler, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2025
  • But his joining of forces with Taylor might be even more superior, in stature and in song.
    Mesfin Fekadu, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Dec. 2024
  • But within days of joining, Whitehouse found an excess dose available for her son.
    Emily Brindley, courant.com, 7 Mar. 2021
  • The experience of kissing someone does not end with the joining of lips or the dancing of tongues.
    Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 25 May 2018
  • This could be the end of the uneasy joining of Nebraska to the Big Ten.
    oregonlive, 12 Aug. 2020
  • The Black Friday sales are ramping up, with Macy’s joining in on the sales.
    Christopher Murray, Fox News, 16 Nov. 2024
  • Kendall wrote in an April 11 filing objecting to the joining of the cases.
    Hannah Leone, Aurora Beacon-News, 19 Apr. 2018
  • This is a joining of forces at a state-of-the-art facility for two doctors who used to play hooky from anatomy lab to play basketball.
    Jonathan Jones, SI.com, 20 July 2017
  • Last month the company grounded eight planes over a problem with the joining of parts of the 787's fuselage.
    Chris Isidore, CNN, 8 Sep. 2020
  • Wright and Hill acknowledge the joining of finances isn’t without struggle.
    Erin Lowry, USA TODAY, 14 Jan. 2020
  • The possible joining of the two companies sent shockwaves through the industry this week.
    Susan Glaser, cleveland, 4 Oct. 2019
  • The legendary band played a short but boisterous set after with The Roots drummer joining.
    Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 3 June 2026
  • Matt will hold up the front end of the year given Charlie’s joining for the full launch of tennis coverage in May.
    Charlie Eccleshare, The Athletic, 26 Dec. 2024
  • And yet, weddings are the public celebration of the joining of two families.
    Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 24 Sep. 2023
  • The art world is less of a pusher towards having this joining of the two, but is very happy — in certain circumstances — to comply.
    Arthur Zaczkiewicz, WWD, 15 Dec. 2024
  • Partnerships fail when there is mistrust or the joining of two companies requires a change to the focus or intent of one of the parties.
    Colson Hillier, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2022
  • The hangar is composed of 10 sections laced together by a system of inner joining strips and eyelets.
    Jennifer Conn, Akron Reporter, cleveland.com, 13 Dec. 2017
  • The too-few endowment dollars led to a joining of forces in 1930, but squabbles soon led the churchmen to back out.
    Darryl Levings, kansascity, 15 June 2018
  • The pairing represented a rare joining of artists from the Stax and Motown labels.
    Roy Trakin, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • The text, by John Milton, celebrates the joining of verse and voice and imagines their heavenly union.
    Dallas News, 4 Mar. 2023
  • More and more, as sales become relegated to regional rep shows or even private dealer events, the value of big shows lies in this joining of the tribes.
    Doug Schnitzspahn, Outside Online, 13 May 2016
  • If confirmed, the discovery would mark the first time that astronomers have captured light produced by the joining of the darkest objects in the universe.
    Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 25 June 2020
  • In a rare joining of forces, supporters of the right and left poured into the streets of France in a massive show of solidarity against him.
    Thomas Adamson, Los Angeles Times, 7 Jan. 2025

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