How to Use sync in a Sentence

sync

1 of 2 verb
  • It gets synced right back up to the cloud.
    Megan Poinski, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • The drone and light show will be synced to lights on the bridge.
    Maia Pandey, jsonline.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The last 10 days, it just hasn’t been synced up.
    Doug Padilla, Oc Register, 29 Apr. 2026
  • And then one person had to lip sync the sound to the footage.
    Kim Willis, USA Today, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Your words and your thoughts might not sync up as well as normal.
    Tarot Astrologers, chicagotribune.com, 14 Mar. 2022
  • What has the duo said about the lip-syncing scandal?
    Emily Weaver, PEOPLE, 31 Jan. 2026
  • This whole street boasts light displays that are synced to music.
    Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Dec. 2025
  • So many variables needed to sync up just right to make this one an all-timer.
    Andy Hoglund, EW.com, 10 Dec. 2022
  • Plug the sensor in to wake it up, then sync the device with your phone via the app.
    Andrew Gebhart, PC Magazine, 10 Mar. 2026
  • The light show will also sync to the music being played.
    Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The singer danced around a table and lip-synced, as her bouncy blonde curls caught the light.
    Christina Perrier, InStyle, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Scores are saved locally and can be synced via your phone later.
    New Atlas, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Their voices were stilted and failed to sync with the movement of their mouths.
    Paul Mozur, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2023
  • If a dish does not sync with a patient, an alarm or lockout is triggered.
    Martin E. Comas, The Orlando Sentinel, 7 Feb. 2026
  • Some alarm clocks use radio or alarm tones, while others can sync with music on your phone.
    Kathleen Willcox, Popular Mechanics, 18 Nov. 2022
  • The rest of the job is about getting that reality to sync up.
    Evan Clark, Footwear News, 12 Dec. 2025
  • As your emails sync to Thunderbird, there are a couple of checks to make.
    David Nield, WIRED, 1 Jan. 2024
  • This rise in haze will sync up with today’s steady rise in temperatures.
    Gerry Díaz, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Feb. 2023
  • An avatar plays the trombone while the player moves their mouse up and down to sync with pitches on the screen.
    Kalhan Rosenblatt, NBC News, 22 Sep. 2022
  • Your emotions may not have synced up with your recent identity shifts.
    Usa Today, USA Today, 23 May 2026
  • Live video feeds are delivered to those announcers and then synced with their play-by-play calls.
    Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Everything kind of synced up really well with him.
    Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Use the app to see trends over time and sync your scale data with other health and fitness apps to keep track of your goals.
    Caroline Thomason, Health, 6 Feb. 2023
  • While the right tune played at the right time can brighten a mood, syncing with a teammate can create a bond.
    Troy Renck, Denver Post, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Make sure to tune into the local radio station to sync to the soundtrack.
    Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Bon soir Stephen Curry could never sync up with the Olympics.
    The Athletic Nba Staff, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2025
  • On one laptop, synced with a large screen on the wall, a simulation game is being run.
    John Kang, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • This mug syncs with your smartphone and keeps your tea at your ideal temperature for hours.
    Billy Cadden, Popular Science, 23 Apr. 2023
  • Mac computers have had the ability to sync with iPhones for years.
    WIRED, 2 Oct. 2022
  • The two were synced and allowed for two-way communication of both footage and sound.
    Nick Newman, IndieWire, 7 Aug. 2025

sync

2 of 2 noun
  • Their minds and bodies are out of sync.
    Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 7 Jan. 2026
  • The flicker is the sign of two clocks out of sync.
    Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 24 Jan. 2026
  • Just watch her Lea Michele lip sync.
    Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 28 Mar. 2026
  • Like, all of those girls were going to beat me in a lip sync.
    Stephen Daw, Billboard, 28 Feb. 2023
  • This show will not lie to me and say Athena won this lip sync.
    Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 7 Feb. 2026
  • My lips were perfectly in sync with the words.
    CBS News, 27 Apr. 2026
  • This involves two flywheels that must work in sync.
    Ben Blanquera, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
  • All six men were in harmonious sync for what felt like an hour.
    Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 30 Jan. 2024
  • That wasn’t in sync in Game 3 or Game 2.
    Jared Weiss, New York Times, 23 May 2026
  • Spotlights in the room dim and brighten out of sync with the song.
    Martha Schwendener, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2024
  • Actors have to lip sync due to the pace and loudness of the mazes.
    Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2023
  • And group looks completely out of sync.
    Joe Nguyen, Denver Post, 21 Sep. 2025
  • Putting our body’s clocks out of sync can be deadly, Manoogian says.
    Claire Cameron, Scientific American, 8 Mar. 2026
  • Could out-of-sync seasons lead to the creation of new species?
    N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Feeling out of sync with others?
    Usa Today, USA Today, 23 June 2026
  • How much of a physical toll did this episode take on you by the last lip-sync?
    Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 20 Feb. 2023
  • And as time passes, you're left with spaces that feel out of sync with the times.
    Lauren Bengtson, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Oct. 2025
  • The bottom two must then compete to stay on the show with a lip-sync for their lives.
    al, 6 Jan. 2023
  • His eyes beady, his forehead shiny, and his speech slightly out of sync from his mouth.
    Andrew R. Chow, Time, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Patrick Mahomes and the offense has looked out of sync.
    Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Sep. 2025
  • The Bliss collection feels most in sync right now.
    Thomas Waller, Footwear News, 27 May 2026
  • The real danger is moving fast but out of sync.
    Jason Richmond, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026
  • The cilia on her sails begin beating out of sync.
    Literary Hub, 23 Feb. 2026
  • The two arms are seen performing tasks in perfect sync.
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 17 Sep. 2025
  • The two systems are also not in perfect sync.
    Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The removal of the music sync function might cause some waves, though.
    Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 9 Aug. 2022
  • There are moments when fans move in perfect sync with me, and those always stick with me.
    Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 10 Dec. 2025
  • This can reset the sync between your account.
    Robert Farrington, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • But there’s a lot of work to be done for Harry and Fields to get in sync.
    Colleen Kane, Chicago Tribune, 5 Oct. 2022
  • Use email, your intranet or a live sync for issues that can’t be solved in emoji form.
    Sarah Chambers, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025

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