How to Use cement in a Sentence

cement

1 of 2 noun

• There is a layer of cement under the bricks.
• When a cement truck blocked the lane, the swarm simply took to the sidewalk.
  — Tim Stevens, WIRED, 19 Aug. 2023
• The cement truck veered onto the school bus' lane, which killed a child.
  — Louis Casiano, Fox News, 22 Mar. 2024
• The bottom half of my lungs seemed to be filled with cement.
  — Moises Velasquez-Manoff, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2023
• The videos were shot in a long cement hallway lit by dim blue lights.
  — Tara Gonzalez, Harper's BAZAAR, 29 Apr. 2023
• The house was called Grey Gardens because of the color of the dunes, the cement garden walls, and the sea mist.
  — Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, 22 June 2023
• These are stones that have been prized up out of the ground from the 1800s by hand, and there's no cement or concrete.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Oct. 2023
• That heat could then be used to, say, heat a limestone kiln to make cement.
  — TIME, 24 Oct. 2023
• There was a nurse who was sewing up a woman’s head after she got hit with a piece of cement from the walls.
  — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2023
• Many small, middle-class houses in the city have them: cement holes in the ground flanked by even more cement.
  — Ruxandra Guidi, The Atlantic, 12 July 2023
• Most carts are piled high with sand, bags of cement or bales of plastic bottles.
  — Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2023
• Puffs of dry brush, like fuzzy clown wigs, grow miraculously out of cracks in the cement.
  — Ew Staff, EW.com, 2 Feb. 2023
• Would the two-fer in the Mountain West be enough to change the minds of bracket barons who likely have the Aztecs standing in wet, 6-seed cement?
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Mar. 2023
• The company produced a little cement and a lot of noise and dust.
  — Neal B. Freeman, National Review, 20 Feb. 2024
• Noura Atta, 47, and her five daughters sleep in the same cement room as Tarabin.
  — Hajar Harb, Washington Post, 15 Nov. 2023
• The cement will be very alkaline for a time, which can damage some plants.
  — Kenneth Setzer, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
• The buildings – most have no roofs – are nearly all made from cinderblocks and cement.
  — Paul P. Murphy, CNN, 12 Oct. 2023
• She had been beaten, strangled, wrapped in garbage bags, dumped in a well and then covered in cement.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 23 Jan. 2023
• Building with it displaces CO2-heavy cement, and locks a tree’s carbon in for as long as the building is there.
  — Stephen Armstrong, WIRED, 21 Feb. 2024
• Save the wood or cement for the entrance to the pool, and go for something like smooth river rock or sand for a more tropical touch.
  — Hiranmayi Srinivasan, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Apr. 2023
• At the end of the practice, players try bowling a basketball up the cement ramp leading to the locker rooms.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Jan. 2024
• The true nature of the moment is belied by the peaceful beauty of the pose, the daughter’s golden hair spread over a harsh cement floor.
  — Bo Emerson, ajc, 2 Mar. 2023
• The bag rolls well across cement, with a little more effort required for carpet and tight turns.
  — Jessica MacDonald, Travel + Leisure, 27 Nov. 2023
• As jobs at its steel and cement mill dried up in the second half of the 20th century, so did its economic prospects.
  — Debra Kamin, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2023
• The accelerant—the chemical—pumped in is what would harden the cement, and set it.
  — Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 27 Feb. 2024
• The cement industry, meanwhile, has flown under the radar.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 8 May 2023
• One of those hard-to-abate sectors is cement, which accounts for about 8% of global emissions.
  — Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 14 Jan. 2024
• Their posts must be installed into the ground or bolted into a cement base.
  — Samantha S. Thorpe, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Mar. 2024
• In Indiana, the three companies receiving grant money include a recycling project, a cement plant and a food and beverage brand.
  — Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 28 Mar. 2024
• Other startups are also tackling cement; Brimstone Energy makes portland cement from carbon-free calcium silicate.
  — Cameron Pugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Mar. 2024

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cement

2 of 2 verb

• A win would cement her reputation as a strong competitor.
• The Chiefs are cementing their legacy, and are no strangers to the Super Bowl.
  — Patricia Garcia, Sacramento Bee, 2 Feb. 2024
• But both looks cement the actress’s icon status on the red carpet.
  — Leah Campano, Seventeen, 14 July 2023
• Taylor Swift, of course, has helped cement the phrase in the culture with her ongoing tour.
  — Alli Harvey, Anchorage Daily News, 7 May 2023
• While the shoes caught much of the attention, Roberts was just further cementing her love of this bold suiting look.
  — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 5 Dec. 2023
• The pop phenom was cemented among the world’s richest people in Forbes’ latest list.
  — Amy Hubbard, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2024
• The movie truly cemented Newton-John's status as a household name and kicked off a decades-long friendship for the two leads.
  — Kate Hogan, Peoplemag, 8 Aug. 2023
• Cancun also has the slowest download and upload speeds, cementing its place at the bottom of the list.
  — Emily Dreibelbis, PCMAG, 26 May 2023
• That movie spurred three sequels that cemented Reeve as the standard for the Man of Steel – one that arguably has never been beaten.
  — Dan Heching, CNN, 17 June 2023
• The lavish casino was a frequent haunt of the legendary Rat Pack, while its past under the mob cemented its place in Vegas lore.
  — Rio Yamat, Fortune, 2 Apr. 2024
• The eight-day bus trip, which drew throngs of people, helped cement Mr. Clinton’s image as a down-home retail politician.
  — Trip Gabriel, New York Times, 13 Dec. 2023
• Adam Driver cemented his status as one of the all-time great Saturday Night Live hosts this week.
  — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 10 Dec. 2023
• As the Union cements its victory, the action then turns to Bass’s harrowing escape into the West.
  — Alison Herman, Variety, 3 Nov. 2023
• After the first album [438], mi feel like mi cement myself inna di dancehall space with a great body at work.
  — Kyle Denis, Billboard, 8 Dec. 2023
• This further cemented the impression among many F1 fans that this race wasn't for them.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 20 Nov. 2023
• But most memorable was Pence cementing his break from Trump.
  — Libby Cathey, ABC News, 28 Oct. 2023
• But until My Stupid Life, a debut country record that’s certain to cement Spencer’s place in the genre, all of that seeming stardom had gone untested.
  — Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 18 Jan. 2024
• The Wellesley School Committee and the teachers union appear to be on the brink of cementing a new contract deal that would stave off a potential strike.
  — James Vaznis, BostonGlobe.com, 12 May 2023
• In that short time, the K-pop boy group has already broken records, quickly cementing their position in the industry.
  — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 2 Sep. 2023
• The aesthetics and outfits, as well as the focus on social media, cement the show's take on modern teenagehood.
  — Catherine Santino, Peoplemag, 25 Mar. 2024
• Visit Bentonville said hosting the high-profile event is both an economic boom and a chance for the city to cement its cycling credentials.
  — Alyssa Wilmoth, arkansasonline.com, 6 Mar. 2024
• Or Kevin McCarthy, speaker of the House who cemented his position nine months later.
  — WSJ, 4 Oct. 2023
• But for Ma, the meeting will cement his legacy on cross-strait policy regardless of its outcome.
  — Nectar Gan, CNN, 10 Apr. 2024
• No matter what the right wing trolls say, this is our Ariel, and with this performance Bailey cemented herself as a certified Movie Star.
  — Kathleen Newman-Bremang, refinery29.com, 20 Dec. 2023
• But the latest jobs figures did not cement their decision one way or another.
  — Lauren Kaori Gurley, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2023
• Known as Ramses the Great, the pharaoh’s legacy was cemented by a slew of monuments and statues constructed in his name, both during and after his reign.
  — Catherine Duncan, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Mar. 2024
• Webb, on the other hand, wanted to stir and excite one’s emotions and passions, all to cement a fervent loyalty among brothers.
  — Colin Dickey, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 July 2023
• His professional career cemented him as one of the best point guards in NBA history.
  — USA TODAY, 21 July 2023
• Erdogan is seeking a third five-year term that would cement his dominance over the country of about 85 million people.
  — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2023
• The mass killing, and the lack of justice, marked a major turning point for Egypt — cementing the military’s hold on power and its willingness to use deadly force to maintain it.
  — Siobhán O'Grady, Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024