Used in a Sentence

liner

How to use liner in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for liner.

Editorial note

" and then Steve whips off a one liner to accounting that says "Get off this guy's back we need this.

Examples17
Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

(baseball) a hit that flies straight out from the batter; "the batter hit a liner to the shortstop"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of liner gathered in one view.

noun

(baseball) a hit that flies straight out from the batter; "the batter hit a liner to the shortstop"

noun

a protective covering that protects an inside surface

noun

a piece of cloth that is used as the inside surface of a garment

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for liner.

noun

(baseball) a hit that flies straight out from the batter; "the batter hit a liner to the shortstop"

noun

a protective covering that protects an inside surface

noun

a piece of cloth that is used as the inside surface of a garment

noun

a large commercial ship (especially one that carries passengers on a regular schedule)

Example sentences

1

" and then Steve whips off a one liner to accounting that says "Get off this guy's back we need this.

2

I whipped up a quick 80-liner in go to serve a single CGI script, and then told nginx to reverse proxy.

3

He had a post, years ago, on why A/B testing needs to be a one-liner or you will never do it.

4

As a newbie, you're explaining basic shell constructs as if I don't know, then trying to sum up strings in a one liner.

5

Michael added my own one-liner change and listed me as the author for the git commit.

6

Which is a detail missed by the snarky one-liner, maybe because one-liners suck.

7

" I showed Jobs all my liner notes and lyrics and took him to record stores near San Jose State and Berkeley to buy Dylan bootlegs.

8

As a programmer, stop talking to me informally and redefining types as one liners.

9

What surprised and frustrated me sometime is my "shallow" one liner got a lot more upvotes than my longer, more thoughtful comments.

10

"Point being, if the function is already written, any operation is a one-liner.

11

They'll post one-liner attack comments and call that "enlightened discourse", then call someone else's similar comment a "troll".

12

I would try boiling it down to a few short bullets or an effective one-liner instead of leaning on people knowing what dropbox does and somehow apply it to your model.

13

The exercise was 'wouldn't it be neat if there was a lisp-based facility for doing things like this awk one-liner, since it might get people into using lisp' not 'translate this awk into CL'.

14

I would think CSS positioning would be a one-liner, but instead it's a collection of context-dependent, browser-dependent recipes.

15

Employee who's experienced firsthand what he thinks are a lot of the reasons behind the company's decline, and you step in with a snarky one-liner that basically says everything he's written is invalid.

16

A man in a canoe comes by and ask's him to jump on and he declines, saying that the lord God will save me, a man in a speedboat comes by and he declines again, saying that the lord God will save me, a cruise liner comes by and he declines again and straight after he drowns.

17

Many good programmers put in this situation significantly underperform their true abilities.- It's not a great idea to evaluate someone purely on the basis of puzzle-solving ability.- Many one-liner puzzles are bad indicators, because you either need to "know the trick" or have memorized the answer.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use liner in a sentence?

" and then Steve whips off a one liner to accounting that says "Get off this guy's back we need this.

What does liner mean?

(baseball) a hit that flies straight out from the batter; "the batter hit a liner to the shortstop"

What part of speech is liner?

liner is commonly used as noun.