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
• This book snorts syntax and barfs up prophecy.
  — Literary Hub, 6 Aug. 2025
• Humans check for sense, not syntax.
  — Rajesh Rajagopalan, Forbes.com, 12 Feb. 2026
• 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 syntax of reason splinters by the hour.
  — Alaa Alqaisi august 13, Literary Hub, 13 Aug. 2025
• The bug is triggered inside of log messages with use of the ${} syntax.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 9 Dec. 2021
• Toni didn’t say anything more—the weirdness of her syntax felt like warning enough.
  — Sarah Braunstein, The New Yorker, 21 July 2024
• Chatbots have learned style, syntax and tone, for example, all on their own.
  — Max G. Levy, Quanta Magazine, 12 May 2023
• 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
• Gertrude Stein’s roundelay-like syntax and logic feel very present here.
  — Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 5 Apr. 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
• Global brand, village filth, one syntax.
  — Literary Hub, 24 Nov. 2025
• The difference between the two songs is more than a matter of syntax.
  — Jake Lundberg, The Atlantic, 8 June 2026
• This allows an agent to understand the meaning of a query, not just its syntax.
  — Gargi Ray, Forbes.com, 20 May 2026
• Building software used to mean learning syntax first.
  — Stackcommerce Team, PC Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026
• Her focus these days is making phone calls from her Berlin studio to record the syntax of war.
  — Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2022
• There’s something off about the syntax of those sentences, not to mention the logic.
  — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 22 Nov. 2024
• Her syntax and sentence construction is such a pleasure to read.
  — Jessica Wang, EW.com, 6 Sep. 2024
• This is not meant to be a lesson in syntax, but a lesson in psychology.
  — Jerry Weissman, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2021
• Play around with the examples underneath the input box to get an idea of the syntax.
  — David Nield, Popular Science, 30 June 2020
• Carl Phillips turns the syntax of a sentence into something like the chords of a bagpipe.
  — Carl Phillips, New York Times, 4 Mar. 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
• Then start the search again but from a different perspective, to see how slight shifts in syntax change your results.
  — Wired, 18 Aug. 2022
• If this weren’t bad enough, there are also some ambiguities in the syntax.
  — Scott Gilbertson, WIRED, 24 June 2024
• 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
• Most of them contain one paragraph that is, save for some syntax, almost identical to the others.
  — Ben Collins, Esquire, 14 Apr. 2014
• The torment arrives promptly, as the syntax and rhythm shift into a blunt statement of anguish.
  — A.o. Scott, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2025
• 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
• Her empathy unfolds in short lines and clear syntax, a spaciousness of language and thought.
  — Diana Whitney, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Feb. 2018
• 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