How to Use sector in a Sentence

sector

1 of 2 noun

• He was assigned to the northern sector.
• Data is stored on the disk in 512-byte sectors.
• Those are at the top of the sector.
  — Jason Gewirtz, CNBC, 3 Sep. 2025
• What sectors stand ready to pick up the slack?
  — Conor Sen, Mercury News, 10 Mar. 2026
• Chip stocks led the tech sector’s gain.
  — Samantha Subin, CNBC, 21 Jan. 2026
• Many services firms in many sectors have billed by time.
  — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 21 Apr. 2026
• The past year has been a busy one for the global health sector.
  — Time Staff, Time, 11 Feb. 2026
• Take a look at the retail sector.
  — Dr. Bin Tang, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
• That’s nowhere near the case for the larger shoe firms in the sector.
  — Vicki M. Young, Footwear News, 14 July 2026
• By then, though, the sector was struggling.
  — Ian King, CNBC, 10 Sep. 2025
• But some sectors are still hiring.
  — Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 15 Oct. 2025
• Both men continue to get high marks in the oil and gas sector.
  — Llewellyn King, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
• But one stock making a new high doesn't clear the entire sector.
  — Michael Khouw, CNBC, 15 June 2026
• Syria's sector opened well before this war and stayed open through it.
  — Güney Yıldız, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
• On the other hand, the tech sector was the day’s laggard.
  — Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2025
• Elsewhere, the mining sector has been on a tear.
  — Jordan Butt, CNBC, 1 Oct. 2025
• Over the course of the last year, that sector has been the driving force behind job gains.
  — Steve Kopack, NBC news, 11 Feb. 2026
• The path to profit in the media sector has long been well defined.
  — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 12 July 2023
• That is far higher than the money made in most other health sectors.
  — Jordan Rau, New York Times, 19 Nov. 2023
• Most stocks in the sector are up at least 10% in 2026.
  — Jason Gewirtz, CNBC, 5 Feb. 2026
• Coreweave has served as something of a bellwether for the entire sector.
  — Iain Martin, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
• That growth has been evident in the high-paying tech sector.
  — Alex Driggars, Austin American Statesman, 16 Mar. 2026
• In that sector, the Saudis are playing catch-up.
  — Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 17 Feb. 2026
• The sector is up 18% so far this year and hit a new high during the session.
  — Jason Gewirtz, CNBC, 5 Feb. 2026
• But the tech sector has not inked a deal yet that supports the construction of a new big plant.
  — Spencer Kimball, CNBC, 23 June 2026
• All but 1,000 net jobs came from the services sector.
  — Jeff Cox, CNBC, 4 Feb. 2026
• But to say that the sector has lost interest, or worse, would be to miss the forest for the trees.
  — Justin Worland, Time, 23 Sep. 2025
• Consumer staples is the third-best sector so far this year, up more than 12%.
  — Jason Gewirtz, CNBC, 5 Feb. 2026
• The public sector is already part of the AI boom.
  — James Broughel, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
• That’s not the only sector feeling the talent squeeze.
  — Nino Paoli, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2025

sector

2 of 2 verb

• Investors need to give the over-the-counter drugs sector a thorough health check.
  — Stephen Wilmot, WSJ, 16 Oct. 2017
• The bank downgraded Nike to sector weight from overweight.
  — Liz Napolitano, CNBC, 26 June 2026
• Network planning is basically about which sectors an airline will fly in, and at what frequency.
  — Niharika Sharma, Quartz India, 6 Feb. 2020
• The last few days saw hotels, resorts, and cruise lines sector outperform information technology by enough to break a long-lasting trend.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 11 Sep. 2020
• Salesforce — The stock shed 4% following a downgrade at KeyBanc to sector weight from overweight.
  — Michelle Fox, CNBC, 9 July 2026
• Salesforce — The stock shed 2% following a downgrade at KeyBanc to sector weight from overweight.
  — Michelle Fox, CNBC, 9 July 2026
• Meta, Netflix, and Disney have not contributed that much to sector performance lately either.
  — Frank Cappelleri, CNBC, 17 Dec. 2025
• Keybanc downgrades Nike to sector weight from overweight KeyBanc said the turnaround is taking longer than expected.
  — Michael Bloom, CNBC, 26 June 2026
• The chances of this deal going through seem high, because as of right now, the allegations are sectored off onto a specific person, not Adidas as an entity.
  — Hunter Cooke, ajc, 28 Sep. 2017
• In my view, investors should be cautious of investing in individual stocks or even sector specific index funds and ETFs.
  — Peter Cohan, Forbes.com, 23 Jan. 2026
• Hundreds of thousands of students from overseas have made the Australian universities sector one of the nation's biggest earners of foreign currency.
  — Rod McGuirk, Star Tribune, 7 Oct. 2020
• The information and financial activities sectors both lost about 1,000 jobs.
  — Pioneer Press, Twin Cities, 14 Nov. 2019
• And, regardless of which sectors the new jobs are in, the structural shifts in the economy haven’t prevented over-all wages from rising lately, as employers have been forced to compete for workers—a very welcome development.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2017
• KeyBanc downgrades Salesforce to sector weight from overweight KeyBanc its survey checks appear negative for the company.
  — Michael Bloom, CNBC, 9 July 2026
• In September, quad witching coincided with major changes to several popular ETFs pegged to sector indexes.
  — Asjylyn Loder, WSJ, 21 June 2019
• Standout sectors Security selection matters, Alvarado said.
  — Michelle Fox, CNBC, 13 Apr. 2026