How to Use target in a Sentence

target

1 of 2 noun

• Tourists are often easy targets for thieves.
• Planes struck at key military targets.
• They set a target date of May 31.
• Our target amount for the fund-raiser is $2,500.
• The choice of target is a map of the gap.
  — Jon Markman, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
• Well, that's a big target on them.
  — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Feb. 2026
• Two lasers form a target where the drill can be placed.
  — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 12 June 2026
• Who might some of the Browns’ targets be?
  — Zac Jackson, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2026
• The new leader has a target on his back.
  — Leila Gharagozlou, CNN Money, 14 Mar. 2026
• Our target consumers are the salt of the earth.
  — Jean E. Palmieri, Footwear News, 16 Sep. 2025
• For one, the salary cap is a moving target.
  — Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 31 May 2026
• But the status quo makes an easy target.
  — Henry Grabar, The Atlantic, 27 June 2026
• Their home was a target of arson.
  — Cam'ron Hardy, Chicago Tribune, 3 Apr. 2026
• Your timing and your target line up.
  — Lien De Pau, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
• It is designed to strike targets both in the air and on the ground.
  — Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA Today, 4 Apr. 2026
• Some targets move, some are high, some appear far away.
  — Dewayne Bevil, The Orlando Sentinel, 3 Apr. 2026
• There simply is not a target team.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 30 May 2026
• Six months later, that target had been missed.
  — Saumya Roy, The Dial, 6 Jan. 2026
• So here’s some target practice for you.
  — Bryan Robinson, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
• From the very start, hope around the target was tainted by doubt.
  — Sophie Yeo, The Dial, 4 Nov. 2025
• That, in turn, brings it back to the Heat target of the hour.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 23 May 2026
• This fast-growing crime targets teen boys.
  — Molly Beck, jsonline.com, 14 Oct. 2025
• The plan falls in line with the city’s plan to achieve its housing targets.
  — Ryan MacAsero, Mercury News, 20 June 2026
• Here's what to know about UofL targets.
  — Ray Padilla, Louisville Courier Journal, 10 Apr. 2026
• Citi has a one-year target price of $169 on the stock.
  — Tobias Burns, CNBC, 25 Apr. 2026
• Trump hasn't announced his next target.
  — Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 7 Feb. 2026
• Melius rates Amkor a buy with a $60 price target.
  — Liz Napolitano, CNBC, 11 Apr. 2026
• The firm took its price target to $84 from $65.
  — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 2 Sep. 2025
• The sides combined for 31 shots and six on target.
  — ABC News, 4 Apr. 2026
• Young had fully covered targets and he was forced to throw the ball away.
  — Diamond Vences, Charlotte Observer, 10 Sep. 2025

target

2 of 2 verb

• There is a great deal to be said for targeting younger players.
  — Oliver Kay, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2026
• The new law is the latest in a series of state moves that target unions.
  — Scott Travis, Sun Sentinel, 24 May 2026
• Payton’s wired to target players in the draft and go get them.
  — Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 1 Sep. 2025
• Silence gives them room to move on and target the next victim.
  — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 6 Feb. 2026
• Women lose their jobs when they are targeted with this.
  — Hannah Shewan Stevens, Glamour, 23 Jan. 2026
• The telecast’s targeted — but rarely met — length is three to three and a half hours.
  — Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Nov. 2023
• He was targeted a league-high 116 times.
  — Kyle Newman, Denver Post, 23 Jan. 2026
• Spot treatments for pimples are one of the best ways to target breakouts.
  — Jessie Quinn, StyleCaster, 20 Feb. 2026
• The key reason to target Munoz is the fixtures.
  — Abdul Rehman, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2026
• This reduces the chances of scammers targeting you in the first place.
  — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 30 Sep. 2025
• Dozens of world leaders were later found to have been targeted.
  — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2023
• George-Bell had the Webb record targeted.
  — Steve Fryer, Oc Register, 19 Apr. 2026
• Those details can help scammers decide how to target you next.
  — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 6 June 2026
• If not a Brown trade, target Michael Pittman Jr.
  — Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 27 Feb. 2026
• To target the muscles that help twist your foot outward, move your foot outward against the band.
  — Jakob Roze, Health, 4 Nov. 2025
• Hell hath no fury like classic arts being targeted.
  — Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 6 Mar. 2026
• And out of those images, 90% of them target women….
  — Hannah Shewan Stevens, Glamour, 23 Jan. 2026
• Barriers can give police a little more time to show up and targets time to get away.
  — Frank Witsil, Freep.com, 1 Oct. 2025
• Those flights were targeting launch by 2029.
  — Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 30 May 2026
• Barriers could give police a little more time to show up and targets more time to get away.
  — Frank Witsil, Freep.com, 1 Oct. 2025
• Five units will be market-rate and nine will be targeted to veterans.
  — Everett Eaton, jsonline.com, 24 Sep. 2025
• The PhosAgro plant was targeted for the second time this month.
  — Bloomberg News, Bloomberg, 26 Apr. 2026
• Chewy did like them; but her clothes ended up being targeted by bullies at school.
  — Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 8 Oct. 2025
• This reduces the chances that scammers find your contact details and target you with fraud.
  — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 3 Apr. 2026
• This dataset gives a way to cross-check whether agents are targeting people with no criminal record.
  — Ignacio Calderon, USA Today, 3 Apr. 2026
• Who are the three women being targeted and named in lawsuits?
  — Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 19 Feb. 2024
• Moscow and Kyiv have blamed each other for targeting the plant.
  — Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2026
• Mosquitoes target spots where heat radiates most, like the head and neck.
  — Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 1 May 2026
• Mahomes targeted him early in the game against the Jaguars.
  — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 7 Oct. 2025
• He has been targeted just four times in two games, with two completions for 18 yards.
  — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 17 Sep. 2025