How to Use word in a Sentence

word

1 of 2 noun
  • She gave the word to begin.
  • How do you spell that word?
  • What is the French word for car?
  • The lawyer used Joe's words against him.
  • We will wait for your word before we serve dinner.
  • Describe the experience in your own words.
  • Our teacher often used words I didn't know.
  • Shame isn’t a strong enough word.
    Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 15 Feb. 2026
  • No word yet on the film’s plot.
    Matt Grobar, Deadline, 4 June 2026
  • There’s that word, taste, again.
    John Werner, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
  • Dan’s words were law in his house.
    Andrew Callahan, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2026
  • What are some more of those words?
    John Werner, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Use more than five bold-type words.
    Arkansas Online, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Like, work to me isn’t this bad word.
    Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 13 Feb. 2026
  • For two days, there was no word about the search.
    Luis Martinez, ABC News, 5 Apr. 2026
  • Let’s close with words from a fan who has some.
    Joe Rexrode, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Jon Lester would like a word, too.
    Jayson Stark, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
  • At this time, there's no word yet on what caused the crash.
    Briauna Brown, CBS News, 29 Mar. 2026
  • In the brand's own words, their dip is both sweet and spicy.
    Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 6 Oct. 2025
  • The room hung on her every word.
    Madeline Mitchell, USA Today, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Then word began to spread from there.
    Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 5 Jan. 2026
  • There is no word on any arrests.
    Tom Ignudo, CBS News, 18 June 2026
  • There are no words to describe the grief.
    Angel Saunders, PEOPLE, 8 Nov. 2025
  • Translate seemed too tame a word.
    Literary Hub, 13 Feb. 2026
  • This is where the real ones get first word.
    Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Words must be of four or more letters.
    Kathleen Saxe, Mercury News, 15 Mar. 2026
  • Words must be of four or more letters.
    Kathleen Saxe, Mercury News, 5 Apr. 2026
  • Words must be of four or more letters.
    Kathleen Saxe, Mercury News, 29 Mar. 2026
  • Words must be of four or more letters.
    Kathleen Saxe, Mercury News, 21 Mar. 2026
  • Words must be of four or more letters.
    Kathleen Saxe, Mercury News, 8 Feb. 2026

word

2 of 2 verb
  • Could we word the headline differently?
  • Someone always asks her how to word the text.
    Angela Haupt, Time, 14 Jan. 2026
  • There is still wording in the rules for not using the goal post as a prop.
    Kevin Casas, star-telegram, 26 Dec. 2017
  • Tone matters more than wording.
    Alexandra Emanuelli, Southern Living, 6 Mar. 2026
  • It should even be worded that way—and in large type on a terms of service agreement.
    Alex Salkever, Fortune, 10 Apr. 2018
  • The decree was vaguely worded in terms of its timeframe and its targets.
    Onur Ant, Bloomberg.com, 25 Dec. 2017
  • Knife laws are also tricky in how they are worded, especially for bowie knives.
    Jace Bauserman, Field & Stream, 19 July 2023
  • Depending on how the question is worded, the answer is yes, no and maybe.
    Chuck Murr, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Gerritson said the new standards simply re-word the old standards.
    Trisha Powell Crain | [email protected], al, 29 Mar. 2022
  • The answers about the sun getting hotter may reflect, in part, the way the question was worded.
    Anchorage Daily News, 9 Dec. 2019
  • However, wording on the measure was broad and failed clearly cite just how much would go to each program area.
    oregonlive, 17 Dec. 2019
  • The exact way to word the conversation depends on you — and your friendship.
    Paco De Leon, refinery29.com, 29 July 2021
  • Among Arab Gulf states, Qatar's statement was the most fiercely worded.
    Aya Batrawy and Jon Gambrell, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 May 2018
  • As worded, the exempt list contemplates two scenarios where a player could be placed on it.
    Michael McCann, SI.com, 12 Sep. 2019
  • Plus, the tweet that went out was perfectly, like, precisely worded that the president put out as well.
    Fox News, 3 May 2018
  • In part, the contrasting results show the importance of how survey questions are worded.
    Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
  • London's police said that two of the people were arrested for wording on a banner displayed during the protest.
    Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 5 Nov. 2023
  • The post was poorly worded – something his office acknowledged, and in our view confusing to anyone who read it.
    Sophia Voight, Journal Sentinel, 30 Jan. 2024
  • For jurors Brandon Medellin and Rudy Ruiz, the problem was wording.
    Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 9 Dec. 2023
  • The injunction, which has been granted for 14 days pending a hearing, is vaguely worded.
    Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 26 Oct. 2019
  • There are disagreements about the exact roles of state and federal government as well as about how different laws should be worded.
    Brittany Bernstein, National Review, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Still, the way the ordinance is worded also prohibits teaching yoga for free, Pease pointed out.
    Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2026
  • The ratings are used by the computational pattern matching to fine-tune how later answers should be worded.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 16 Feb. 2024
  • The players all share a loose but focused way about them, words infielder David Fletcher used to describe the clubhouse.
    Sarah Valenzuela, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Despite the changes, top Democrat in the Arkansas House said the bill was worded too vaguely.
    Fox News, 25 Feb. 2023
  • State election code requires ballot measures be neutrally worded.
    Sierra Lopez, Mercury News, 3 Apr. 2026
  • But the way that it's worded in this framework agreement suggested that the United States would be investing in the fund.
    Dana Taylor, USA Today, 18 June 2026
  • And also, the historical newspapers are such an incredible luxury to have, to be able to word search.
    Tobias Carroll, Longreads, 30 July 2019
  • However, Hoffman would not say how the plan came together or whether the electors received advice on how to word the document.
    Richard Ruelas, USA TODAY, 14 Jan. 2022
  • Although the statement does not state a reason for ceasing operations, it is worded in such a way as to imply that the causes were financial.
    Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 13 Aug. 2023

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