How to Use splice in a Sentence

splice

1 of 2 verb
  • The third appears to splice her into a frame from an adult video.
    Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 18 Jan. 2023
  • The numbers are weak no matter how they’re spliced.
    Bloomberg, Mercury News, 6 Nov. 2025
  • The shoes and bags are displayed in a meat case spliced with a vintage dresser.
    Steff Yotka, Vogue, 16 Oct. 2019
  • Cropped, spliced and given faux fur cuffs, new life was breathed into the fabric.
    Georgia Murray, refinery29.com, 21 Feb. 2020
  • Debris falls from homes spliced open by the floodwaters.
    Nicole Sganga, CBS News, 8 Apr. 2026
  • The coaching staff spliced a clip of the barrage and emailed it to Martinez.
    Don Norcross, sandiegouniontribune.com, 3 Oct. 2017
  • The custom home sits on more than four acres and sports a dramatic façade of glass walls spliced with steel beams.
    Jack Flemming, latimes.com, 9 Feb. 2018
  • Cutting and splicing the genome could be a great deal cheaper than using scalpels and lasers on the body.
    The Economist, 16 Sep. 2017
  • Wires, screens, and computer coders splice their words onto a network.
    Stephen Wade, ajc, 31 July 2021
  • These are not just little pretty things, but rather dresses for strong women spliced with a touch of lace.
    Steff Yotka, Vogue, 25 June 2018
  • Around the middle of the show, a pink ombré blouse came out with Manson’s face spliced across it.
    Steff Yotka, Vogue, 19 Jan. 2018
  • It’s spliced with footage of them in the forest, laying among the foliage, digging their hands in the dirt.
    Julissa James, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2023
  • But out here between the smog and the concrete, a seed spliced with Google genes has found fertile soil.
    Matt Sheehan, WIRED, 13 Aug. 2019
  • Men’s shirting was transformed into dresses that’s been spliced.
    Blue Carreon, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • His contortions sometimes get spliced into the game videos shown at practice.
    Kurt Streeter, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2018
  • Many of the works are spliced together from cut rolls of paper, with their jagged, curling edges exposed.
    Grace Edquist, Vogue, 13 Sep. 2023
  • If so, the men spliced their visions in using a lifetime's worth of flashbacks as Scotch tape.
    Lorraine Ali, chicagotribune.com, 15 July 2019
  • If so, the men spliced their visions in using a lifetime’s worth of flashbacks as Scotch tape.
    Lorraine Ali, latimes.com, 14 July 2019
  • Murch shared the evolution of the montage and splice through cinema.
    Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 3 Mar. 2024
  • Some studies have shown that the gene editing goes awry once in a while, splicing incorrect places in the genome.
    Time, 6 Aug. 2019
  • There were open-toed heels, too, which featured uber alluring wedges spliced with slivers of silver.
    Hanna McNeila, Footwear News, 23 Sep. 2025
  • The lovers in this song become spliced by their own juxtaposing desires, for better or for worse.
    Paris Close, Billboard, 24 Oct. 2017
  • Martine Rose spliced the center her jeans, adding a panel of leopard print for a rocker vibe.
    Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Trousers peeled away to reveal that top block of jeans; a pencil skirt was spliced to create a peplum silhouette.
    Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 10 Feb. 2026
  • The video ends with the show’s catchy theme song, including new shots of the cast spliced with archive footage from the original show.
    Kate Hogan, PEOPLE.com, 14 June 2018
  • It’s presented as an option, not spliced in there suddenly as the default.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
  • There were sports jerseys spliced together and sleeves twisted into mini skirts.
    Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Money, 17 Sep. 2025
  • The show opened with capri-style cargos, shredded denim, nylon bombers, and denim spliced and tied every which way.
    Roxanne Robinson, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Designers shrink, splice, and trim the denim jacket in exciting new ways.
    Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 13 July 2023
  • The video ended with the show's catchy theme song, including new shots of the cast spliced with archive footage from the original show.
    Kelly Martinez, Peoplemag, 6 July 2023

splice

2 of 2 noun
  • Yet each splice had only been fitted with four bolts.
    Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Some splice skirts and jeans into one garment.
    Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 30 Sep. 2025
  • If there is a problem with the splice, the transmission line could fall.
    Melody Petersen, Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2025
  • Over decades of testing, there are now hundreds of splices in those critical loops.
    Tara Copp, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Dec. 2023
  • The minute a splice in the film strip is made, reality is being edited.
    Peter Bogdanovich, IndieWire, 13 May 2026
  • One Day in Southport splices in the social media posts of these men at the time.
    Jake Kanter, Deadline, 24 July 2025
  • To solve the problem, an overlapping splice plate was fashioned to connect this one section on the bulkhead.
    Andrew Zaleski, Popular Mechanics, 22 June 2023
  • Another splices real combat videos between home runs and slam dunks from Wii Sports.
    Scott Simon, NPR, 28 Mar. 2026
  • Go for a strapless suit with a splice in the center or pick a one-piece with a larger cutout in the center for a flattering effect.
    Kristina Rutkowski, Vogue, 13 May 2025
  • In this scenario, a splice knot or swivel connecting a leader is just going to create a weak point that could fail under the strain.
    Kristine Fischer, Outdoor Life, 25 June 2025
  • Braid does not work well with a uni splice, as its skinny profile and slick coating tend to cause the knots to over-tighten and slip through instead of jamming.
    Popular Science, 3 Mar. 2021
  • The most effective way to splice speaker cables is by using a dedicated, in-line speaker wire splice.
    Bestreviews, Mercury News, 9 Jan. 2026
  • However, the ad selects and splices five sentences from the five-minute address rather than playing the remarks in order or the speech its entirety.
    Joey Garrison, USA Today, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Kudos are due to supervising editor Mark Becker and his team, who never put a splice wrong.
    Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Key to Kellermann's discovery of the bug was his use of the Linux function splice to move data from one file to another.
    Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 8 Mar. 2022
  • Prescott has previously said the president’s reputation was not damaged by the splice.
    Max Goldbart, Deadline, 19 Dec. 2025
  • Rather than being allowed to sit back and watch the movie of her life, Didion was alarmed to be pressed into serving as its editor, in charge of every cut and splice.
    Literary Hub, 9 Dec. 2025
  • The exploit uses splice() to plant a reference to a read-only page-cache page (for example, /etc/passwd or /usr/bin/su) into the frag slot of a sender-side skb.
    Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 11 May 2026
  • Another form of web weaving—fanvids, or video edits—splices together media clips to highlight thematic through lines.
    Vivian Lam, WIRED, 24 Feb. 2023
  • The video was not a deepfake but an old-fashioned splice of a real interview with new questions to make Ocasio-Cortez appear to flub her answers.
    Brooke Borel, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2018
  • The expert editing that splices between an activist's backstory and their actions in real time only ratchets up the tension for each character.
    Ars Staff, Ars Technica, 25 Dec. 2023
  • The splice in the tape, skipping from the last concert in March 2020 to the first in October, makes emotional sense on one level.
    al, 29 Oct. 2021
  • To keep our attention, Parreno and Gordon splice in snippets of overhead shots or official TV footage.
    Sebastian Smee, The Atlantic, 11 July 2026
  • In the accompanying music video for the song, DeMarco canoes near his mother’s home in Canada and splices in shots of geese.
    Maya Georgi, Rolling Stone, 24 June 2025
  • However, the ad selects and splices certain lines from the five-minute address rather than playing the remarks in the order they were delivered or reproducing the speech in its entirety.
    Michael Collins, USA Today, 25 Oct. 2025
  • The utility’s visual inspections of splices in its transmission lines sometimes failed to find dangerous conditions, officials found.
    Melody Petersen, Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2025
  • Before Gould, such splices, inserts, dubbings and other tools of the recording engineers were generally seen as remedies for brief mistakes, sometimes of a single note.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2024
  • Safety regulators asked Edison for information on its inspections of the transmission splices, including the age of each splice and the cause of the problem that was found.
    Melody Petersen, Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2025
  • When a splice of the viral video was played during the September 21 taping of the daytime TV show, Whoopi appeared speechless.
    Selena Barrientos, Good Housekeeping, 23 Sep. 2022
  • The first episode splices in short flashbacks to fill in Benny and Carmen’s backstories while swiftly moving through a first day on campus spent clinging on to anyone who might like them and listening to anyone who’s already found their people.
    Ben Travers, IndieWire, 15 May 2025

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'splice.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: