How to Use pivot in a Sentence

pivot

1 of 3 noun

• Ideas come fast, and so do pivots.
  — Tarot.com, New York Daily News, 25 Apr. 2026
• Learn fast, let go of old plays and pivot.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 29 May 2026
• But there is a risk his pivot has come too late.
  — Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2026
• Both can play either the pivot or the wing.
  — Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 17 Sep. 2025
• Investors can use that same area as a pivot.
  — Josh Brown,sean Russo, CNBC, 23 Apr. 2026
• The tech was already there to help us pivot.
  — Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 2 Apr. 2026
• In some key states, the party is poised to make the pivot.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 21 Oct. 2025
• What was the hardest part of that pivot?
  — Dave Knox, Forbes.com, 14 May 2026
• But the post-war pivot was costly.
  — Big Think, 28 Oct. 2025
• This last-minute pivot to self-love was jarring, yes.
  — Julie Beck, The Atlantic, 30 Oct. 2025
• High costs have caused venues to pivot and make drastic changes.
  — Frankie McLister, CBS News, 1 Apr. 2026
• Our systems need a quick pivot.
  — Fortune, 6 Mar. 2026
• Lee Jun-ho has mastered the pivot.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 9 Feb. 2026
• Have a handful of pivots prepared, and go to them again and again.
  — Haben Kelati, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2024
• Dealers are to replace the pivot links and bolts, free of charge.
  — James Powel, USA Today, 3 Nov. 2025
• Many viewed the coaching change as a risky pivot that could backfire.
  — Alejandro Avila Outkick, FOXNews.com, 26 May 2026
• Bernarr hopes this pivot opens new doors for him in television and film.
  — Mya Abraham, VIBE.com, 22 May 2026
• Get all three to pivot at once, and the story transforms.
  — Jd Barker, Rolling Stone, 14 Jan. 2026
• Meyers thinks breweries will need to learn how to pivot.
  — Jenna Thompson, Kansas City Star, 8 Sep. 2025
• Williams can live on option routes, pivots and zone-beaters.
  — Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Apr. 2026
• Love her veil/mask, love the eye makeup, love the pivot from the pigtail braids.
  — Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 3 Sep. 2025
• Don’t rush the pivot… just notice where the fire’s leading you.
  — Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 2 Nov. 2025
• That meant a big pivot, as the films had been based heavily around those two younger stars.
  — Kirsten Chuba, HollywoodReporter, 26 Feb. 2026
• This deal is not a pivot away from the United States.
  — Phil De Luna, Forbes.com, 16 Jan. 2026
• The pivot does not replace the US.
  — Sam Mkokeli, semafor.com, 23 Feb. 2026
• Brandon knows how to pivot and knows his way around proteins, and those can get you far on this show.
  — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 14 Apr. 2026
• Now is not the ideal time for the Big East to pivot from its roots.
  — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 21 Apr. 2026
• The Virgin story has had its peaks and pivots.
  — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 2 Jan. 2026
• Perhaps pivot to adding a starter and trade for more offense in-season?
  — Jen McCaffrey, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2026
• The pivot to wealth management is more than a career change.
  — Corey McQuade, Forbes.com, 20 May 2026

pivot

2 of 3 adjective

• This wheel then forms a pivot point for the car to turn left or right.
  — Sebastian Blanco, Car and Driver, 12 July 2021
• Tapping on a non-pivot tile will show you what pivots affect it.
  — San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Mar. 2024
• There would have been another pivot point to drive him to excel.
  — Kumar Mehta, Forbes, 15 Sep. 2021
• The dot com boom or the advent of AI have served as pivot points for many entrepreneurs.
  — Kumar Mehta, Forbes, 15 Sep. 2021
• This is kind of a pivot moment for you when people will see your work and likely start calling you to shoot things.
  — Nicole Phelps, Vogue, 30 June 2022
• Instead, the player has to throw the disc without moving a pivot leg to advance it.
  — Cydney Henderson, USA TODAY, 15 June 2023
• The overtime sting has the potential to end up a pivot point for Oregon.
  — John Canzano, oregonlive, 3 Oct. 2021
• January 6th was a pivot point for this country and for this party.
  — Mike Brest, Washington Examiner, 15 Mar. 2021
• Leaders shouldn’t look at that result as a failure but instead as a pivot point to evolve and try something else.
  — Chris Port, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2023
• His pivot move to create just enough space to get the shot away over Paul George was basketball art.
  — Kent Somers, The Arizona Republic, 5 Aug. 2020
• Past the front pivot door, a stroll leads through the living room that flaunts a floor-to-ceiling electric fireplace and cushy seating.
  — Georgann Yara, azcentral, 31 Oct. 2019
• The pivot feature is also a great option for people of different heights.
  — Tabitha Britt, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Aug. 2023
• Other area school districts have also had their schools pivot to virtual learning.
  — Alec Johnson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2022
• Your plan has to involve a pivot technique and the ability to move accordingly as the world changes.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 27 May 2021
• The pivot point of the in-sequence serve-returns will be a focal point as Suffield continues to improve.
  — Steve Smith, Hartford Courant, 28 Sep. 2022
• But there hasn't been any pivot point where the Warriors declined to pursue in making the roster better.
  — Matt Eppers, USA TODAY, 24 Mar. 2021
• With the program off and running, the goals now pivot from creating a program, to competing as a program.
  — Timothy Dashiell, Baltimore Sun, 24 Aug. 2023
• The pivot point of his second term, still less than a year old and accompanied until now by sense of drift, appears imminent.
  — Roger Cohen, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2023
• The economy is approaching a pivot point, one that has many consumers wondering when rates will come back down, how quickly and how much.
  — Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 7 Aug. 2023
• Plus the available tools to help standalone businesses pivot to selling online were lacking or costly.
  — Rebecca Szkutak, Forbes, 5 May 2021
• Some point to Musk’s draconian cuts at Twitter as a pivot point for the industry.
  — Clare Duffy, CNN, 6 Apr. 2023
• Restaurants are eager to go back—to pre-pivot operations, to indoor dining, to normal.
  — Bon Appétit, 7 Apr. 2021
• The deal also seemed to be a pivot point in relations with China, which reacted angrily.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 16 Sep. 2021
• Green, however, clearly picked up his left pivot foot first, which was missed and likely should’ve been called a traveling violation.
  — J. Michael, Indianapolis Star, 23 Apr. 2018
• The primary bedroom is full of natural light thanks to a set of windows that bear a window-pane design similar to the pivot doors on the first floor.
  — Dallas News, 22 Jan. 2022
• When the jaws are fully open, the fulcrum-cam engages a pivot point on the lower handle, promoting tremendous cutting leverage.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 25 Apr. 2023
• But the Giants are at a pivot point — 2½ games out of the NL West lead, with a tenuous hold on a wild card spot.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 13 July 2023
• Olikara, who recently moved back home to Milwaukee, believes Wisconsin is a pivot point for the country.
  — Sarah Hauer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 Nov. 2020
• While a small company like MJTC can be nimble and pivot quickly, bigger houses need more lead time.
  — Rohan Preston, Star Tribune, 30 Apr. 2021
• The timing of it all couldn’t have been more dramatic – the trade deadline one day in front of the team and sort of a pivot point against the Milwaukee Bucks one night behind.
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2022

pivot

3 of 3 verb

• The door hinge pivots around the pin.
• The quarterback pivoted and threw the ball to the running back.
• The dancers pivoted on their toes and changed direction.
• Don’t be afraid to pivot as well.
  — Okla Jones, Essence, 26 Apr. 2026
• That is not to say that Trump will not pivot.
  — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Time, 15 Oct. 2025
• But don’t pivot your story to fit a trend.
  — Jd Barker, Rolling Stone, 2 Mar. 2026
• People will need to be able to pivot to new roles and new fields.
  — Edward Timmons, Oc Register, 26 Mar. 2026
• Press back up, then pivot your feet and rotate to the right.
  — Mallory Creveling, Health, 22 Oct. 2025
• And just like that, the night pivoted.
  — Nathan Canilao, Mercury News, 18 Apr. 2026
• So now, the league is pivoting.
  — Rowan Fisher-Shotton, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Mar. 2026
• Shrewder artists on the rise are pivoting to the center.
  — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 8 Apr. 2026
• By then, West had pivoted full-time.
  — Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 28 Aug. 2025
• The top lid even pivots up and down just like many outdoor barbecue grills.
  — Adam Campbell-Schmitt, Bon Appetit Magazine, 23 Oct. 2025
• What has your journey been like, pivoting away and back to music?
  — Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 15 June 2026
• Those plans fell through, and the project has now pivoted to North Texas.
  — Marley Malenfant, Austin American Statesman, 26 Feb. 2026
• Fast food joints have pivoted to drive-thru only, take-away only.
  — Literary Hub, 29 Jan. 2026
• All three said no and quickly pivoted to talking points.
  — Eliza Griswold, New Yorker, 22 June 2026
• Mazin’s script is shakiest when the action pivots to the village.
  — Guy Lodge, Variety, 27 Apr. 2026
• Some people pivot onto new paths later in life.
  — Essence, 11 May 2026
• The team pivoted quickly that day.
  — Veronica Ortega, CBS News, 4 Mar. 2026
• Carr pivoted on the snap, fired a slant to Fields, and Lee broke up the pass.
  — Luca Evans, Denver Post, 8 May 2026
• Lowe's life pivoted as a result of the scandal.
  — Angela Andaloro, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2025
• Wong is pivoting from a corporate job to a role in the dog training field.
  — Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 10 July 2023
• The handle that pivoted downward then swings up to clip in place to the plier.
  — New Atlas, 4 June 2026
• Some mower designs omit the plug and have a pivoting plate that closes off the deck.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 10 July 2023
• But Mary stayed in class as the teacher pivoted back to the lesson.
  — Jonathan Edwards, Anchorage Daily News, 16 May 2023
• Pitaro pivoted in the spring of 2021.
  — Andrew Marchand, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2026
• Crofts played baseball and took piano lessons at five years old before pivoting to drums.
  — Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 26 Mar. 2026
• The catamaran pivots hard on its foils, flying six feet above the water.
  — Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 16 July 2023
• Places to be Some hotel projects have had to pivot from their original plans.
  — Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 June 2026