Used in a Sentence

words

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

Editorial note

That's 59,568 words, plus a few thousand more for intro sections.

Examples11
Definitions5
Parts of speech1

Quick take

the words that are spoken; "I listened to his words very closely"

Meaning at a glance

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

noun

the words that are spoken; "I listened to his words very closely"

noun

the text of a popular song or musical-comedy number; "his compositions always started with the lyrics"; "he wrote both words and music"; "the song uses colloquial language"

noun

language that is spoken or written; "he has a gift for words"; "she put her thoughts into words"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for words.

noun

the words that are spoken; "I listened to his words very closely"

noun

the text of a popular song or musical-comedy number; "his compositions always started with the lyrics"; "he wrote both words and music"; "the song uses colloquial language"

noun

language that is spoken or written; "he has a gift for words"; "she put her thoughts into words"

noun

words making up the dialogue of a play; "the actor forgot his speech"

Example sentences

1

That's 59,568 words, plus a few thousand more for intro sections.

2

[2] Again, you might not mean to reference that when you use words like "brogrammer".

3

Four words, such a concise summary of my attitude!

4

Some teams were super-sharp, others were sloppy beyond words.

5

Every morning in the shower, I utter the words "I am so fucking tired.

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In other words, it should be a lot harder to "Accept" these profiles outside an enterprise setting, because it sounds exploitable.

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This article is only on the front page of HN because of its author and it bears remembering how Putin's actions have spoken far louder than his words.

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In other words, your lower overall rating was not necessarily due to your increased surveillance of plagiarism; it could have been due to other factors.

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How would you get to this page without knowing what ssh is, and how would you know what ssh is without needing to use it?Anyway, a lot of happy-sounding words for ... a program that decrypts text from the Internet and writes it to the screen.

10

How can I take the article seriously when it says that "GitHub has been embroiled in a series of diversity controversies, such as programmers adding racial and sexist slurs into their code", which links to an article where someone took GitHub search and found random people putting bad words into their public repos?This author can't seem to distinguish between the code employees at GitHub write, and code users put onto GitHub.

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Some of these words, like "measure" or "continuous" make some intuitive sense, but how can "measure" be "continuous" with respect to some other measure, and what the hell is Lebesgue measure anyway?Now, if you're a mathematician, you know that Lebesgue measure in simple cases is just a natural notion of area or volume, but you also know that it's very useful to be able to measure much more complicated sets than just rectangles, polyhedrals, balls, and other similar regular shapes.

Frequently asked questions

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

How do you use words in a sentence?

That's 59,568 words, plus a few thousand more for intro sections.

What does words mean?

the words that are spoken; "I listened to his words very closely"

What part of speech is words?

words is commonly used as noun.