How to Use point-to-point in a Sentence
point-to-point
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Portions of the Juan de Fuca can be done as point-to-point day trips with a car.
—Jayme Moye, Outside Online, 4 Oct. 2024
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They're mostly focused on not very long haul, but kind of point-to-point stuff.
—WIRED, 10 Aug. 2023
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The plan was brilliant: Flyer set up rental shops at train stations, while Hasler mapped out the most thrilling point-to-points.
—Tim Neville, Travel + Leisure, 1 Apr. 2024
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Rather than be deterred, travelers should think of rail travel as breaking the mold of point-to-point round trips, said Jones.
—Albert Stumm, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 May 2024
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This opens the door to very fast, point-to-point, global passenger travel; say, London to Shanghai in under an hour.
—Dave S. Brody, Space.com, 26 Mar. 2025
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Gig offered one-way point-to-point rentals, letting users pick up a car in one place and drop it off anywhere within Sacramento.
—Ari Plachta, Sacramento Bee, 7 Mar. 2024
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The 2023 event will include a point-to-point course on the lake, short one-design racing on the Detroit River, and a match-racing clinic for new and seasoned female sailors.
—Marina Johnson, Detroit Free Press, 16 Aug. 2023
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With the intel provided by Ghazi, Aaron can adjust his positioning in the net on odd-man rushes, plays along the half-wall, and point-to-point passes.
—Cam Kerry, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Feb. 2023
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Most of them use relatively simple point-to-point wiring, tubes, and transistors—all of which can be repaired if something goes wonky.
—Parker Hall, WIRED, 2 Feb. 2025
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Most of them use relatively simple point-to-point wiring, tubes, and transistors—all of which can be repaired if something goes wonky.
—Parker Hall, WIRED, 29 June 2023
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Unlike the dedicated lines in the point-to-point links used by phone modems, cable modems share a line to the headend in a point-to-multipoint configuration.
—IEEE Spectrum, 20 Apr. 2025
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That also created a challenge for airlines with hub-and-spoke networks to get the planes to the right places, as the smaller planes had more flexibility of being point-to-point, Birdsong adds.
—Rachel Chang, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 July 2023
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SpaceX has been talking about its big plans for Starship for years: long-duration flights in between planets, developing a Moon base, and even point-to-point transit here on Earth.
—Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2024
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This Virginia-West Virginia adventure totals roughly 150 miles point-to-point.
—Stephanie Vermillion, Outside Online, 10 Apr. 2025
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With most of its hubs focused on smaller to mid-sized cities, the airline operates on a point-to-point model that connects travelers to leisure destinations across the nation.
—Stella Shon, Travel + Leisure, 3 Jan. 2024
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At the end of the trip, spaceplanes enjoy a quiet glide back to Earth and a gentler landing on commonly available runways, which opens another intriguing option—point-to-point travel around the globe.
—J. George Gorant, Robb Report, 5 Mar. 2025
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Planes like those in the A320 family can land at and take off from smaller airports, an important capability for low-cost airlines with their point-to-point flying models.
—Antonio Dini, WIRED, 27 Aug. 2024
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Silicon photonics are good at linear, point-to-point data transport.
—Kazuhiro Gomi, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2024
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Jordan reaffirmed that the carrier stands behind its business model and point-to-point network, saying its disruption review has not revealed the need for any structural changes there.
—Alexandra Skores, Dallas News, 14 Mar. 2023
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Smaller airlines might operate a point-to-point model that connects smaller airports directly, but those flights are still subject to demand.
—Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 9 July 2023
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But to go beyond these kinds of point-to-point replacements, green hydrogen still struggles to compete with renewable electricity.
—IEEE Spectrum, 13 May 2025
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Arnot notes that budget carriers may have limited resources because of their business models as point-to-point carriers.
—Blane Bachelor, AFAR Media, 6 Feb. 2025
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This experiment shows how smarter, faster algorithms have not entirely solved the problem of point-to-point delivery, long a difficult business model with margins that hinge on small variances of dollars and cents.
—Joe Fox, Washington Post, 1 June 2023
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Closer to home, SpaceX has sold Starship as a vehicle that could eventually provide global point-to-point flights for people and cargo between destinations on opposite sides of the world.
—Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 24 July 2023
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While current features mostly focus on parking and highway navigation, the company said an upgrade with point-to-point driver assistance would likely be issued by the end of 2025.
—Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 18 Mar. 2025
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Unlike traditional point-to-point rally racing, rallycross puts those cars on a circuit, but with similar racing over dirt and gravel surfaces, as well as plenty of jumping and drifting through turns.
—Wes Davis, The Verge, 8 July 2024
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These days, terahertz is also being used to offer very-wide-bandwidth, high-data-rate point-to-point communications for computer backhaul systems and high-video-rate systems.
—IEEE Spectrum, 7 Mar. 2024
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There were various advantages in point-to-point communication—particularly as new forms of transportation arose—but radio also came to be seen as a way to transmit mass media.
—Vince Guerrieri, Popular Mechanics, 1 June 2023
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ComfortDelGro’s management thinks the deal is complementary tothe company’s Australian business and is in line with its strategy to scale its point-to-point mobility business in the country, the analyst says.
—WSJ, 3 Jan. 2024
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The foregoing alternative: point-to-point claim submission via carrier pigeon.
—Seth Joseph, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
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