How to Use emphasis in a Sentence

emphasis

noun

• Our candidate's plan has a different emphasis.
• Thus, his emphasis has been on putting phones in the hands of people, not just in cars or facilities or homes.
  — Diane Bell, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Apr. 2023
• But the affiliate program gets a huge amount of emphasis, too.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 28 Mar. 2023
• In Looney’s case, given the context of his earlier health problems and the league-wide emphasis on rest, his durability resonates even more.
  — Ron Kroichick, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Apr. 2023
• An emphasis on preparing for worst-case scenarios prevails in both Beijing and Washington.
  — Jessica Chen Weiss, Foreign Affairs, 16 Sep. 2024
• Improving against the run is an emphasis for a Dallas defense that, with more early-down success, hopes to increase the number of opportunities for its pass rush.
  — Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 26 Mar. 2023
• Perel believes young Americans’ emphasis on being their most authentic selves comes at the expense of forming connections.
  — Aditi Shrikant, CNBC, 15 Sep. 2024
• Parallel to this single-minded focus on competitiveness was the clear emphasis the sessions gave to military matters.
  — Milton Ezrati, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
• The brand was the star, and the emphasis was on live classes, not tapes.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 13 June 2019
• But at the turn of the century, the emphasis turned to home runs.
  — Jason Parker, NBC News, 21 Oct. 2023
• That’s a good start — to make the emphasis on life rather than death.
  — Sophia Nguyen, Washington Post, 16 June 2023
• That re-emphasis has gone a long way in a short amount of time.
  — Ashley Bastock, cleveland, 7 Nov. 2021
• This time around, though, the emphasis is on the breathing.
  — Washington Post, 7 Dec. 2021
• Trump places a lot of emphasis on the market, of course.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2020
• The emphasis was always on the thought rather than the expense.
  — Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2020
• Turnovers were a point of emphasis this week for the defense.
  — Cameron Teague Robinson, The Courier-Journal, 23 Oct. 2020
• The game with Lowndes is a unique game with a lot of emphasis put on it.
  — Ben Thomas | [e-mail], al, 20 Apr. 2020
• And with cotton, the whole emphasis is on high thread count...the closer the weave the better.
  — Carmen Rosy Hall, Vogue, 21 Dec. 2018
• The mids are decently tuned, with an emphasis on the warm, low mids, and a dip in the high mids.
  — Christian De Looper, BGR, 30 July 2021
• That’s been a point of emphasis for Bowness coming out of the break.
  — Matthew Defranks, Dallas News, 5 Sep. 2020
• Be all the things that Hollywood used to put a lot of emphasis on.
  — Marta Balaga, Variety, 25 Jan. 2022
• That's why there's such an emphasis on foods like cheeses and olive oils.
  — NBC News, 12 July 2019
• A year ago, the team placed an emphasis on the offensive line.
  — Scott Horner, Indianapolis Star, 7 Aug. 2019
• That puts more emphasis on getting a good shot off the tee even more.
  — Shawn McFarland, courant.com, 21 June 2018
• Big dumb fun, sure, but with too much emphasis on the big and dumb parts of that equation.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, azcentral, 12 July 2018
• Maybe this emphasis now is getting back to his roots, what he was raised on.
  — Orion Sang, Detroit Free Press, 12 July 2018
• Rodriguez wrote in the clip's caption—and no, emphasis is not added.
  — Kayleigh Roberts, Marie Claire, 3 Feb. 2020
• Trojans want to put more emphasis on their tight ends in the passing game.
  — oregonlive, 16 Oct. 2020
• Perhaps more emphasis from the clergy should be put on men to not be so thirsty.
  — Maliya Naz, Allure, 27 Mar. 2021
• This gets me to a point of emphasis and my biggest regret.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 4 Sep. 2020

Last Updated: 26 Sep 2024