How to Use syntax in a Sentence

syntax

noun

• Keene had watched the show and marveled at its unique syntax.
  — Thea Glassman, Rolling Stone, 27 June 2023
• In the fiction biz, of course, syntax is a matter of craft.
  — Lionel Shriver, Harper's magazine, 22 July 2019
• But their brains are not equipped to follow our syntax.
  — Brian Resnick, Vox, 6 Dec. 2018
• More than the arms and moles of ex-wives, syntax and grammar excite him.
  — Merve Emre, The New York Review of Books, 10 Mar. 2020
• The bug is triggered inside of log messages with use of the ${} syntax.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 9 Dec. 2021
• Play around with the examples underneath the input box to get an idea of the syntax.
  — David Nield, Popular Science, 30 June 2020
• His syntax has always been ragged; that hasn’t changed.
  — Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2021
• Artists make objects steeped in meaning and are well-equipped to parse the grammar and syntax of stuff.
  — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 1 June 2022
• Carl Phillips turns the syntax of a sentence into something like the chords of a bagpipe.
  — Carl Phillips, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2021
• My syntax has switched back and forth, without warning.
  — George McCalman, SFChronicle.com, 10 June 2020
• Her focus these days is making phone calls from her Berlin studio to record the syntax of war.
  — Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2022
• This is not meant to be a lesson in syntax, but a lesson in psychology.
  — Jerry Weissman, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2021
• There was no style but life, no syntax but life, its logic and illogic, its ebb and flow.
  — Han Ong, The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2023
• Then start the search again but from a different perspective, to see how slight shifts in syntax change your results.
  — Wired, 18 Aug. 2022
• What made his music special was in the cleverness of his syntax, the modulation of his voice, the depth of his grooves.
  — Paul Thompson, Vulture, 26 Apr. 2021
• There are no braided points of view here, no too-pretty words, no splintered syntax.
  — New York Times, 14 Feb. 2022
• Chatbots have learned style, syntax and tone, for example, all on their own.
  — Max G. Levy, Quanta Magazine, 12 May 2023
• My father insisted on the use of the right words, on calling things by their right names, and his syntax was powerful.
  — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 29 May 2019
• But not many people can put a word to it — especially in terms of grammar and syntax and what kind of slant rhyme is going on.
  — Jordan A. Rothacker, SPIN, 31 Dec. 2022
• Gertrude Stein’s roundelay-like syntax and logic feel very present here.
  — Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2021
• Clothes are simple and neat, floors are swept and tidy, no detritus is permitted in her syntax.
  — Hillary Kelly, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2021
• Waldrop writes passionately of the deadfalls that syntax can set.
  — Dan Chiasson, The New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2016
• Most of them contain one paragraph that is, save for some syntax, almost identical to the others.
  — Ben Collins, Esquire, 14 Apr. 2014
• Her empathy unfolds in short lines and clear syntax, a spaciousness of language and thought.
  — Diana Whitney, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Feb. 2018
• Many phishing emails no longer contain the egregious spelling or syntax errors that were once tell-tale signs of fraud.
  — Yec, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2022
• Throughout, the syntax is punchy and slangy, while the diction often grows brazenly recondite.
  — Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2022
• Language learning is about much more than just vocabulary words and syntax rules.
  — Kevin Carey, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2021
• One develops an ear for the edge cases in grammar and syntax that Grammarly tends to flag but which make sentences snap.
  — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 25 May 2018
• The diction is matter-of-fact, the syntax conventional; the imagery is simple and bare-boned.
  — Donika Kelly, New York Times, 27 Jan. 2022
• The syntax of Hangul leaves much unsaid: subjects are implied; pronouns are rare.
  — E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 14 July 2023

Last Updated: 20 Mar 2024