How to Use alpha in a Sentence

alpha

1 of 2 noun

• Those will be in flux and might have changed from the alpha.
  — Kris Holt, Forbes, 25 Apr. 2022
• The alpha-gal gene is one of the genes that were knocked out in the transplant pig.
  — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022
• Wild Hunt, two games Google claimed work well with the alpha.
  — Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 22 Mar. 2022
• But in the rivers, lakes, and wetlands of Africa, hippos are still the alpha.
  — Paul Richards, Field & Stream, 15 Nov. 2023
• But these subs aren’t the undisputed alphas of the oceans.
  — Alex Hollings, Popular Mechanics, 5 Apr. 2023
• This felt a bit overpowered to me during the early stages of the alpha.
  — Kris Holt, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2022
• However, the alpha male of the group escaped a trap before the trapper could get to the coyote.
  — Evan Casey, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 17 Feb. 2022
• In those same time spans, the alpha acid content dropped between 0.5 and 1.9 percent.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Oct. 2023
• Corgis are very charming and spirited dogs, but the Queen was the alpha of her pack!
  — Erin Clack, Peoplemag, 4 Sep. 2023
• Will Ferrari’s gambit to hire two alpha drivers pay off or end in tears?
  — Sahil Kapur, NBC News, 25 Feb. 2024
• Gone are the days of identifying Covid by Greek letters, such as alpha and delta.
  — Erika Edwards, NBC News, 19 Oct. 2022
• The alpha male, the lead ranch hand Rip, establishes and maintains his stature by fighting.
  — Sridhar Pappu, The Atlantic, 10 Nov. 2022
• Once her rivals reach their reproductive age, the alpha meerkat either kills them, or they are run out of the group.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 12 June 2022
• Between these groups are alpha carbons, which are bonded to both the amino and carboxyl groups, as well as a carbon atom.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 16 Nov. 2022
• Droughts and extreme heat have already reduced yields, as well as the alpha acid content of hops grown in Europe.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 16 Oct. 2023
• But the series, with its head-thrashing soundtrack and video-game visuals, is all sound and alpha fury.
  — New York Times, 12 Apr. 2022
• The offensive plan was to get the ball to Mitchell, the team’s late-game alpha and one of the league’s most prolific fourth-quarter scorers, while forcing a switch.
  — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 25 Jan. 2023
• Researchers are also concerned about finding older strains of the virus, such as the alpha or delta variants, in deer.
  — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 8 Feb. 2022
• But the virus has evolved since then – through major variants called alpha, beta, delta and now versions of omicron.
  — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 28 June 2022
• Baker is the kind of guy who can scream at a room full of alphas, demanding and receiving their respect.
  — Greg Moore, The Arizona Republic, 15 Apr. 2023
• The study authors also predict that hop yields and alpha acid content will continue to drop in the region in the future.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Oct. 2023
• Tiafoe has always been the alpha of the group, always looking to rib his mates, especially Fritz.
  — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2022
• The alpha was a fantastic first showcase for Overwatch 2.
  — Kris Holt, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2022
• The cool thing is that studies have found that creativity is heightened during the alpha brain wave state.
  — Kristine Jepsen, Parents, 6 Nov. 2023
• The alpha wolf notion of challenging dad for dominance of the existing pack just isn’t in the wolf playbook.
  — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 28 Feb. 2023
• Kate might feel like the glue holding these two alpha male brothers together.
  — Dan Snierson, EW.com, 23 Mar. 2022
• However, if a member of their own species that is not part of their colony enters their home, the largest fish–or alpha fish–will chase and bite at the intruder.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 1 Feb. 2024
• Instead of taking a lesson—too expensive!—I asked an alpha male from New England to explain how skis worked the night before our big first day on the slopes.
  — The Editors, Outside Online, 30 May 2022
• The delta variant, which once usurped the alpha coronavirus strain as the most prevalent, now accounts for just under 5% of new cases in the United States.
  — Lawrence Richard, Fox News, 10 Jan. 2022
• She is separated from Brett (Ike Barinholtz, maybe the best of the bunch), an alpha-male jerk whose episode is made like an action movie.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 28 Jan. 2022

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alpha

2 of 2 adjective

• Hey, this is guy talk, these are two alpha males talkin’ to each other.
  — Chuck Barney, The Mercury News, 20 Sep. 2019
• Hey, this is guy talk, these are two alpha males talkin’ to each other.’ Was some bad s--- said?
  — Scooby Axson, SI.com, 25 Sep. 2019
• Hey, this is guy talk, these are two alpha males talkin’ to each other.’ Was some bad s— said?
  — Cindy Boren, The Denver Post, 25 Sep. 2019
• One of the next-closest stars to our sun is Alpha Centauri.
  — Mike Lynch / Sky Watch, Twin Cities, 18 Feb. 2017
• With all due respect to both, each would appear to be more of a beta than alpha star.
  — Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 10 Nov. 2019
• The Canyon Pack alpha female was one of just three known white wolves in Yellowstone.
  — Lyndsey Matthews, Country Living, 17 May 2017
• Graham, the Big 12 player of the year, has been the team’s alpha dog all season with his takeover abilities.
  — Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY, 29 Mar. 2018
• The scoop: Walnuts are one of the best sources of omega-3 fatty acids, specifically alpha-linolenic acid, an omega-3 found in plants.
  — SELF, 8 Aug. 2019
• The new game will likely arrive sometime next year, and is now in alpha testing.
  — Eric Adams, Wired, 15 Dec. 2019
• Bryant and O’Neal had an inevitable falling-out: not even L.A.’s sprawl could contain those two alpha egos.
  — Sean Gregory, Time, 30 Jan. 2020
• At a summit where both men sought to play the alpha role, the optics were inherently in Trump’s favor.
  — Laignee Barron, Time, 12 June 2018
• But females give non-alpha males a chance too, and some studies have found that these hookups happen more often when the alphas are out of sight.
  — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 4 Aug. 2015
• Overnight, the animals all turn into alpha predators overnight.
  — Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 16 Apr. 2018
• And alpha dogs don't stay on the porch licking themselves, or whatever dogs do, when their master has an assignment.
  — Armando Salguero, miamiherald, 16 Apr. 2018
• The attorney general of the United States serves as counsel to the most powerful alpha client on the planet, the president of United States.
  — Paul Callan, CNN, 7 June 2017
• So alpha Monocerotid takes its name from the alpha star and monoceros — or unicorn — constellation.
  — Morgan Greene, chicagotribune.com, 20 Nov. 2019
• Everything is still predicated on James Harden, but now the Nuggets will have two alpha dogs to stop along with Houston’s ever-present cast of 3-point gunners.
  — Mike Singer, The Denver Post, 12 Aug. 2019
• The first generation of these drugs were TNF-alpha agents that targeted the tumor necrosis factor to limit the immune response.
  — Sun Pharmaceuticals, WIRED, 30 Oct. 2019
• Definitely not the style of my alpha husband, who would enter purposefully with supplies or advice: That’s not the right tool.
  — Amy Doyle, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2020
• Her most memorable creation, perhaps, is the enigmatic Lakey, the ur-alpha girl, who disappears for most of the novel but looms large in the imaginations of the other women.
  — Megan Abbott, WSJ, 9 Aug. 2018
• The enormous clouds emit large amounts of ultraviolet light with a spectral line produced by hydrogen ions, known as a Lyman-alpha line.
  — Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 21 Sep. 2016
• He’s been surrounded all his life by alpha women — his late mother was a screaming, hard-drinking firecracker of a woman.
  — New York Times, 20 June 2018
• As the alpha brother, Romeo, wild, fun and charmingly manipulative, Pucci is transformed by a long, blond beard.
  — Katie Walsh, latimes.com, 12 July 2018
• Actress Sydelle Noel embodies a similar ethos by taking on brawny, brassy, alpha woman roles.
  — Abby Haglage, refinery29.com, 13 July 2018
• Most have stood apart from their football-playing peers for years, and their alpha personalities often make for an interesting mix in the locker room.
  — Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 18 Oct. 2019
• These changes give the Performante presentation a more shameless, alpha-male energy.
  — Dan Neil, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2023
• In 2015, Zasloff and his colleagues launched a company, Enterin, that is currently testing a compound that slows alpha-synuclein aggregation in the gut.
  — Diana Kwon, Scientific American, 8 May 2018
• For state officials, a particular source of concern was alpha contamination, which was also found in some of the dust collected in previous years for Kaltofen’s study.
  — Hal Bernton, The Seattle Times, 14 June 2018
• To combat those slips, the platform is adding visibility tools through a new feature, still in alpha testing, called Cloud Security Command Center.
  — Lily Hay Newman, WIRED, 21 Mar. 2018
• Neopets Metaverse, which is in alpha mode, will start with attracting players of the original Neopets and crypto enthusiasts before expanding its reach to traditional gamers, says Law.
  — Zinnia Lee, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024