How to Use entail in a Sentence

entail

verb
  • He accepted the responsibility, with all that it entails.
  • What does that mean to you, and what does that process entail?
    Patrick Sisson, Curbed, 30 Mar. 2018
  • For those who haven’t seen the show, what does your role entail?
    Raquelle Harris, Billboard, 22 Dec. 2022
  • The state has not yet defined what that proof might entail.
    Outside Online, 21 Nov. 2022
  • No one was injured in the test, which entailed bending the wings of the plane while it was parked on the ground.
    Chris Isidore, CNN, 10 Sep. 2019
  • Details of what the threats entailed have not been made available.
    Brianna Bradley, azcentral, 26 Apr. 2017
  • That would entail going over the video with those players.
    Sam Blum, Dallas News, 23 Dec. 2020
  • And yet no one has come up with a cost for what even one slice of that massive job will entail.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 June 2019
  • Too bad the president doesn’t seem to know what that would entail.
    Bloomberg.com, 12 Jan. 2018
  • These people show no awareness of what such a treaty would have to entail.
    Isaac Chotiner, Slate Magazine, 22 Feb. 2017
  • Details about what the visit might entail are slim at this point.
    Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 8 Apr. 2019
  • How much re-watching of yourself did the process entail?
    Lacey Rose, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Jan. 2022
  • The Beast – is a world unto itself, with all the good and evil that entails.
    Paola Díaz, The Conversation, 18 Mar. 2020
  • And opportunities to work with the best shouldn’t entail putting up with the worst.
    Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2021
  • Larsen and Kidder describe what the process entailed here.
    Jim Talent, National Review, 24 Jan. 2020
  • Wouldn’t two winners on the same draw entail super duper low odds?
    Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 17 Nov. 2023
  • What that would entail -- or if Democrats take that path -- is not yet clear.
    Phil Mattingly, CNN, 23 Sep. 2021
  • The companies have left hints as to what the partnership could entail.
    Mike Isaac, New York Times, 14 May 2017
  • Not much else is known about what the new model will entail, or when it will be released.
    Sam Byford, The Verge, 26 July 2019
  • All of that said, fans couldn't help but begin guessing what the first episode will entail.
    Selena Barrientos, Good Housekeeping, 25 Sep. 2021
  • But, again, there aren’t any details about what that would entail.
    Chaim Gartenberg, The Verge, 12 Nov. 2018
  • But Ubisoft is also mighty clever about what these tasks entail.
    Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 10 Nov. 2020
  • Part of that entailed gathering and chopping her own wood because the end times are nigh.
    Nick Romano, EW.com, 3 Apr. 2020
  • Now Trump must face the reality of his pick, and all that entails.
    Robert Bateman, Esquire, 6 Jan. 2017
  • This year’s rain delay game entailed coming up with the best mixed doubles teams.
    Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 9 June 2019
  • Ducey did not elaborate on what such a public process should entail.
    Chelsea Curtis, azcentral, 22 June 2020
  • Not everyone is up for the task, or even understands just what that task entails.
    Britt Julious, chicagotribune.com, 18 June 2018
  • Meanwhile, little is known about what the plans to end violence at protests will entail.
    oregonlive, 1 Sep. 2020
  • There are also requirements that change based on what each project entails.
    Detroit Free Press, 27 May 2023
  • That entailed agreeing to deals with role players that were still left in a thinning free-agent market.
    Mark Medina, The Mercury News, 6 July 2019

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