How to Use element in a Sentence

element

noun
  • Water is composed of the elements hydrogen and oxygen.
  • But the scale of the room couldn’t take that many elements.
    Doretta Sperduto, House Beautiful, 24 Oct. 2017
  • All the key elements should be along the lines, not in the middle of a square.
    Fox News, 26 July 2023
  • The third element comes from the revenues side of the budget.
    Milton Ezrati, Forbes, 25 June 2021
  • And at the same time, there were some elements in the country.
    NBC News, 13 Sep. 2023
  • The seals were then trained to copy the key elements of human sounds.
    Fox News, 22 June 2019
  • Then, there were the new elements in the area: the condos, the cafes, the shops, and more.
    Diana Budds, Curbed, 29 Aug. 2018
  • Of course, every element varies from one amaro to the next.
    Laura Itzkowitz, Saveur, 13 Apr. 2018
  • The Guardians may have been out of their element, but the bullpen wasn’t.
    Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 5 June 2022
  • This is a very big movie that'll be folding in a lot of elements.
    Scott Huver, CNN, 21 July 2019
  • But since a big part of the rate structure was thrown out, that element may still be up in the air.
    Ed Christman, Billboard, 12 Aug. 2020
  • Of course, there is one key element of this look that has stood the test of time: the farmhouse sink.
    Mary Elizabeth Andriotis, House Beautiful, 27 Apr. 2022
  • What are your favorite stores or places to shop for any or all of these elements?
    Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 2 July 2019
  • Every element of her life seemed up for grabs for the era’s tabloids.
    Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2022
  • From the start, all her research led her to one element: soil health.
    Vogue, 7 Apr. 2022
  • There would have been a park element to that plan, but not enough of one to please neighbors.
    Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Nov. 2021
  • Something about them makes me all too aware of the human element.
    Bonnie Blodgett, Twin Cities, 15 Sep. 2019
  • Part of the show's appeal is due to its design elements.
    Mike Scott, NOLA.com, 3 Jan. 2018
  • His music has both a wry element of wit and world melancholy to it.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Aug. 2022
  • Yeah there is, just because of the human element of play clock down to snap.
    Dave Clark, The Enquirer, 27 Sep. 2021
  • Most of the drinks have a purple element, like that pea flower ice globe.
    Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 May 2022
  • With the element of sabotage, this game can and will get messy.
    Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 1 Sep. 2022
  • There is this weird element of it now where his shows are selling out.
    Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 17 May 2023
  • Trump has heard this argument from elements of the right as well.
    Eli Lake, Twin Cities, 12 Sep. 2019
  • Which is all to say, there was still an element of surprise to being a kid.
    Peter Hartlaub, SFChronicle.com, 7 June 2020
  • Just one more element of conflict in a movie that is infused with them.
    Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 6 Aug. 2021
  • Niou was in her element, among the people she’d been elected to serve.
    Leah Carroll, refinery29.com, 4 May 2020
  • Jarvis said drug testing is just one element of the work his office does.
    Ashley Remkus | Aremkus@al.com, al, 8 Dec. 2020
  • The secret is a cutting-edge laser and, well, an element of luck.
    Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 24 Feb. 2020
  • Yeah, and there’s a little bit of that Celtic element as well.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 26 Aug. 2022

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