Used in a Sentence

vault

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

Editorial note

If your Yubikey dies, your 1Password vault is toast.

Examples16
Definitions6
Parts of speech2

Quick take

a burial chamber (usually underground)

Meaning at a glance

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

noun

a burial chamber (usually underground)

noun

a strongroom or compartment (often made of steel) for safekeeping of valuables

noun

an arched brick or stone ceiling or roof

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for vault.

noun

a burial chamber (usually underground)

noun

a strongroom or compartment (often made of steel) for safekeeping of valuables

noun

an arched brick or stone ceiling or roof

noun

the act of jumping over an obstacle

verb

jump across or leap over (an obstacle)

verb

bound vigorously

Example sentences

1

If your Yubikey dies, your 1Password vault is toast.

2

As xkcd points out, this kinda makes a mockery of the pole vault.

3

I think the key is that Braintree will let you get the cards out of the vault if you want.

4

It would be like a vault with multiple keys possesed by different people.

5

I remember when a mutual friend called me up one day and said "So Roy just found 10 1933 $20 gold coins in his vault.

6

Retired notes in good condition are held in the bank's vault for future issues.

7

A team of HP managers walks into the Svalbard global seed vault a week after the bombs went off.

8

The bank demanded collateral, so he left his Rolls Royce in their warehouse vault.

9

It is almost like taking from the vault of a charity that you dislike and giving the proceeds to your charity of choice.

10

Until they are, using a block of metal in a vault that has lost about half a speck of dust worth of matter in two hundred years is more exact.

11

Woz is, for me, the ISO standard geek, the distillation of all that I aspire to. Somewhere in Paris is a vault, and in that vault is a platinum-iridium Steve Wozniak, against which all of us are judged and found wanting.

12

When you and I choose to write code that is locked away in somebody else's vault, we ought to charge extra to compensate for the fact that we might as well have been surfing Oahu.

13

Not only that, in Ocean's Eleven they don't just place bets, they break into a vault, so the only similarity with the film seems to be that a camera feed was involved.

14

" They're in a hugely crowded segment of the market, but a unique concept and catchy branding have helped them vault to the top of their part of the app store.- A friend developed a game for cats.

15

Installing/upgrading/running permanent seismograph stations is expensive — a basic solar-powered one with a shallow fiberglass vault, a three component short period sensor, and a three channel digitizer will run you ~$12,000 just in equipment and materials.

16

If my local bank gets busted for some shady-ass shit, and the Feds confiscate some family heirloom along with all the bricks of heroin from the bank vault, what should we demand from our government in that case?And if we're not likely to get what we feel entitled to demand, what are our realistic options for doing something about that?

Frequently asked questions

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

How do you use vault in a sentence?

If your Yubikey dies, your 1Password vault is toast.

What does vault mean?

a burial chamber (usually underground)

What part of speech is vault?

vault is commonly used as noun, verb.