Used in a Sentence

pairing

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

Editorial note

You just try to change the pairings a bit to make it easy to convince me.

Examples11
Definitions2
Parts of speech1

Quick take

the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes; "the casual couplings of adolescents"; "the mating of some species occurs only in the spring"

Meaning at a glance

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

noun

the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes; "the casual couplings of adolescents"; "the mating of some species occurs only in the spring"

noun

the act of grouping things or people in pairs

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for pairing.

noun

the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes; "the casual couplings of adolescents"; "the mating of some species occurs only in the spring"

noun

the act of grouping things or people in pairs

Example sentences

1

You just try to change the pairings a bit to make it easy to convince me.

2

I can't see this pairing as anything other than the beginning of the world of sci-fi robotics.

3

If they can't sniff someone's session because they already established a trusted pairing with their bank, so be it!

4

For instance, the marketing describes the Bluetooth pairing process as "as easy as falling in love.

5

With a fixed price project, you'll know exactly how much you'll pay and can reduce the cost of the project intelligently by pairing down the features.

6

So that pairing feels odd. I'm curious to know what is the goal behind that"Bringing agile methodologies to the enterprise" doesn't make much sense: would EMC be interested in making consulting money for agile training?

7

The other method of proving this though, the one where I asked you to explicitly engineer for me a B1-R1 pairing out of the larger pairing of all the six bags... that can still work.

8

Yes, there are significant differences, but the two are inter-transliterable to a much greater degree than any pairing of any of the previous sets of language families.

9

These requirements for pairing and that everyone working in sensitive intelligence work will now have to spy and tattle on their fellow workers is interesting in that it includes the Peace Corps in the directive.

10

You certainly haven't demonstrated that with a bunch of strawman arguments about committing buggy code or that direct collaboration on a feature should axiomatically happen via pairing vs any other method.

11

With infinite bags, it becomes much trickier to prove that you can do this every time, and you need some way to ensure that "carry on until you're done" actually carries you to the end of the task, instead of getting you stuck in some sub-infinity of pairings without finishing all of them.

Frequently asked questions

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

How do you use pairing in a sentence?

You just try to change the pairings a bit to make it easy to convince me.

What does pairing mean?

the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes; "the casual couplings of adolescents"; "the mating of some species occurs only in the spring"

What part of speech is pairing?

pairing is commonly used as noun.