How to Use text in a Sentence

text

1 of 2 noun

• You can find the full text of his speech on his website.
• A good critic will refer back to the text often.
• The book is mostly photographs—it has very little text.
• At this point the website is only text. Graphics will be added later.
• Students will read and discuss various literary texts.
• The text seemed like holy writ.
  — Robert Eggers, HollywoodReporter, 17 Oct. 2025
• The text, too, warps the truth.
  — Jillian Steinhauer, New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2025
• Do not use the link in the text.
  — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 15 May 2026
• So maybe this could have been a group text?
  — Amber Harding Outkick, FOXNews.com, 1 May 2026
• Joe just dropped the script on text one day to me.
  — Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 11 Feb. 2026
• The texts rolled on the first report.
  — Dan Robson, New York Times, 29 May 2026
• There was no more text to follow.
  — Joanna Allhands, AZCentral.com, 5 Sep. 2025
• That's not in the text of the agreement.
  — Zachary Schermele, USA Today, 20 June 2026
• That's not in the text of the agreement.
  — Zachary Schermele, USA Today, 21 June 2026
• Frankenstein is a lofty and beloved text!
  — Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 23 Jan. 2026
• The scam does not stop with one generic text.
  — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 12 June 2026
• The full text has not yet been released.
  — Tal Shalev, CNN Money, 15 June 2026
• The full text has not yet been released.
  — Julia Vargas Jones, CNN Money, 14 June 2026
• Tap the + button next to the text box.
  — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 27 Sep. 2025
• Most of those numbers come from the era of text.
  — Marc Augustin, STAT, 16 Apr. 2026
• The text of the treaty has not been released.
  — Niniek Karmini, Arkansas Online, 8 Feb. 2026
• Show up early, know the text, have an idea.
  — Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2026
• In a film remake, even the text is up for grabs.
  — Television Critic, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2026
• So, although the books were lost, the texts were not.
  — Literary Hub, 10 Oct. 2025
• The next text in the thread was, like, nine months later.
  — Lucy Boyle, Curbed, 26 June 2026
• Mother and son were in touch via text over the next few days.
  — Veronica Fulton, NBC news, 27 Feb. 2026
• By the time someone joins a text list, the sender isn't a brand.
  — Vijesh Mehta, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026
• Thank you for giving us this rich text, Cole.
  — Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 6 Feb. 2026
• She had never been moved by a text before.
  — Jennifer Wilson, New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2026
• On the way, one of my friends texts in a group chat about a trip coming up.
  — R29 Team, Refinery29, 26 Sep. 2025

text

2 of 2 verb

• She just texted me back.
• I texted a message to her.
• I texted her a little while ago.
• Wait three days to text a crush?
  — Usa Today, USA Today, 4 Mar. 2026
• So go on and text the group chat.
  — Farideh Sadeghin, Bon Appetit Magazine, 18 June 2026
• Tell her to text Jake, at least!
  — Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 19 Dec. 2025
• Ben texts me the name of the diner.
  — Michael Nied, People.com, 26 Aug. 2025
• Humans are born to talk but forced to text.
  — PC Magazine, 14 Nov. 2025
• Anyone in here can call me or text me at any time.
  — Aaliyan Mohammed, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Sep. 2025
• Do not text back, click any links or call the number.
  — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 6 Apr. 2026
• Do not text or use a cellphone that is not hands-free.
  — Andrew Adeolu, CBS News, 14 Mar. 2026
• Some of them text back right away with laughing emojis.
  — Meghana Indurti, New Yorker, 1 Jan. 2026
• Every summer, the wife texts me for the code to my pool.
  — R. Eric Thomas, Mercury News, 6 Sep. 2025
• Anyone can call or text for any reason.
  — Amanda Castro gabe Whisnant anna Commander toby Meyjes shane Croucher john Feng joshua Rhett Miller, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025
• Anyone who drives knows the roads are filled with people who text when drive.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 16 Dec. 2022
• Musk said customers will be able to text and drive starting in one to two months.
  — Michelle Del Rey, USA Today, 7 Nov. 2025
• Put your best convo-starters to work and text your crush about their weekend plans.
  — Carolyn Twersky, Seventeen, 12 Dec. 2022
• That stood out to Bardwell when Self would text him.
  — Shreyas Laddha, Kansas City Star, 4 Oct. 2025
• Now, teenagers text with their friends and make TikTok videos.
  — Hannah Frystaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2023
• But people still text me daily and sometimes show up at my house.
  — Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2026
• But now cabdrivers text her to pick her up for a trip to the hospital.
  — Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 22 July 2022
• Teachers would text parents cute things their kids did during the day.
  — Andrea Stanley, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Apr. 2022
• My fingers hover over the screen, thinking about what to text back.
  — Michael Nied, People.com, 26 Aug. 2025
• Take a short clip of it and put your cell phone back up, and then text it to them or whatever.
  — Ben Flanagan | [email protected], al, 20 July 2023
• Many users set up systems to text their phone numbers with codes needed to log in.
  — Katie Deighton, WSJ, 9 Mar. 2022
• No one absorbs text the old-fashioned way anymore!
  — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 21 Jan. 2026
• Your child will never text you at work to tell you their sibling called them an idiot.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2023
• On your next date, don’t speak, just text each other across the dinner table.
  — Meredith Goldstein, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Jan. 2023
• Don't answer the phone, don't look at a work thing, don't text somebody, don't do any of it.
  — Georgia Slater, Peoplemag, 29 Nov. 2022
• Just text her mom for her shoe size, and know that the platform is probably the best pick.
  — Emily Shiffer, Women's Health, 25 Jan. 2023