How to Use format in a Sentence

format

1 of 2 noun

• The journals are available in electronic format.
• The file is saved in MP3 format.
• Here’s how the seeding will play out in the new format.
  — Trisha Garcia-Easto, Sacramento Bee, 22 Feb. 2024
• Walmart said the amount of the annual stock grant is based on the store format.
  — Anne D'innocenzio, Fortune, 29 Jan. 2024
• Break it down in a step-by-step format or descriptive paragraphs that paint the picture of the plan.
  — Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone, 8 Nov. 2023
• This isn't the first attempt to adapt the series into a live-action format.
  — Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 10 Nov. 2023
• The format for a Club World Cup lasting about three weeks has yet to be decided.
  — Graham Dunbar, Fortune, 25 June 2023
• Even with the change in format, players from schools of all sizes will be together on one team.
  — James Weber, The Enquirer, 7 June 2023
• At press time, there are over 100 million copies of all four books in print and digital formats around the world.
  — Carly Tagen-Dye, Peoplemag, 18 Jan. 2024
• There is a lot of blending in formats and styles, and visual effects.
  — Addie Morfoot, Variety, 20 July 2023
• The lottery format has undergone a few changes since the New York Knicks won the first one in 1985, when there were seven teams.
  — Brian Mahoney, Chron, 13 May 2023
• To pre-order the album in a variety of formats, click here.
  — Jonathan Cohen, SPIN, 11 May 2023
• In the new format, the top four finishers in each weight class in each of the state’s eight regions will advance to the state championships.
  — Jason Frakes, The Courier-Journal, 10 May 2023
• The Rolling Stones were early to the cheap, randomized ticket format.
  — Jasmine Li, Fortune, 13 Sep. 2023
• This is the smallest group of Derby horses in the race since the Triple Crown series went to its current format 54 years ago.
  — Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 15 May 2023
• Offensive formats, a lot of times, are based on who those people are -- their body types and their skill sets.
  — Evan Dudley, al, 11 Aug. 2023
• The witness-interview format, now well-worn, was still new in 1969.
  — The New Republic, 22 June 2023
• What’s equally remarkable is the format of the many longer entries.
  — Lauren Kane, The New York Review of Books, 17 June 2023
• In a way, this is the only format in which Jackson can truly do her tale justice.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 3 Nov. 2023
• Every show has lots of different format points and beats to it, and in Naked Attraction the nudity is one of the beats of the show.
  — James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Oct. 2023
• Thomas is eighth in fantasy points per game in standard formats and 10th in PPR.
  — Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Oct. 2023
• This is an open format, meaning your data should be readable for decades to come.
  — WIRED, 14 June 2023
• This format is a great way to keep your file lists clean, organized, and very easy to navigate.
  — WIRED, 30 Sep. 2023
• The format’s five-day layoff for the two best teams in each league adds another layer of contention.
  — Jorge Castillo, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2023
• With the imminent launch of Harris’ show in 2015, Smothers spoke with Rolling Stone about the state of the format and his own history with it.
  — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 28 Dec. 2023
• Here’s a full list of the theaters offering the Imax 70mm (in addition to other formats).
  — Kevin Uhrmacher, Washington Post, 20 July 2023
• The study found that the mayor-councils style makes up 38 percent of governing formats.
  — Paul Gattis | [e-mail], al, 8 May 2023
• Nikon is turning its attention to the DX sensor format for the second lens release in a row.
  — Jim Fisher, PCMAG, 31 May 2023
• That’s why the ideal format for tracing the Kim’s story is oral history—a project that this movie only hints at.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 10 Apr. 2024
• Announcing the format changes, WPR said the changes were the result of two years of audience research and analysis.
  — Chris Foran, Journal Sentinel, 12 Apr. 2024

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format

2 of 2 verb

• The book is formatted in several different styles.
• The data was improperly formatted.
• To check to see what format your photos are stored in, go to photos.google.com/settings.
  — Mark Hachman, PCWorld, 11 Nov. 2020
• What shows up will be the URL of the image, plus some formatting junk on the end.
  — Kevin Dupzyk, Popular Mechanics, 20 Nov. 2018
• Learn how to format the budget sheet to fit your needs.
  — courant.com, 9 Oct. 2019
• Others needed editing to format them for the blog, and so on.
  — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 31 Dec. 2010
• At the very least, format the drive(s) before recycling the old PC.
  — PCMAG, 21 Sep. 2022
• The two used Adobe Suite to format the book and used the self-publishing website LuLu to print it.
  — Elliot Hughes, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 17 June 2019
• According to the sellers, all of the drives had been formatted and erased of data.
  — Mark Hachman, PCWorld, 25 Apr. 2019
• But people still struggle with how to best format their posts from solemn places or sad events.
  — Taylor Lorenz, The Atlantic, 12 June 2019
• With the way the playoffs are formatted, the Central Division’s second-place team plays the third-place team in the first round.
  — Dane Mizutani, Twin Cities, 31 Mar. 2017
• Prince George and Princess Charlotte's names are formatted the same way.
  — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 8 May 2019
• Malware that uses right-to-left formatting dates back to at least 2009.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 14 Feb. 2018
• Adults can learn how to create, format and edit a document in Word at 11 a.m. Feb. 19.
  — Shellie Lister, NOLA.com, 8 Feb. 2021
• Moore’s Law was a surprisingly small part of Nvidia’s magic and new number formats a very large part.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 7 Sep. 2023
• The rest of the console is well formatted, with a wireless charging pad, out-of-the-way cupholders, and narrow-but-deep storage under the armrest.
  — Elana Scherr, Car and Driver, 30 Aug. 2023
• Will the Prep Challenges format differ from a regular high school or college game?
  — Adam Zagoria, Forbes, 13 Oct. 2021
• Jackson’s tournament will be formatted in a one-on-one style, with the 1-4 seeds decided in a free-for-all match using just snipers.
  — Sean Collins, Dallas News, 22 Apr. 2020
• And of course, all the episodes are formatted vertically to be easily watched on your smartphone.
  — Kathryn Lindsay, refinery29.com, 15 June 2019
• Ghosted takes much of its formatting from its predecessor Catfish but doesn’t have half the charisma and the know-how to follow through.
  — Clarkisha Kent, EW.com, 19 Sep. 2019
• Proof your work, design the cover, format your document, plan your launch and marketing campaign, and unleash your book to the world.
  — Ellevate, Forbes, 13 May 2021
• The county had to format 79 types of ballots among all the ranked choice, traditional and service district elections this year.
  — Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 Nov. 2021
• For more information to help job seekers, such as formatting tips for your resume, check Emory's list of FAQs.
  — Mary Caldwell, ajc, 5 June 2018
• In the bizarre letter — which is postmarked June 28, the day of the shooting — the suspect, Jarrod W. Ramos, formatted his remarks in such a way that the letter looks and reads much like a court document.
  — Matt Stevens, New York Times, 2 July 2018
• But Weyand studied pronghorn antelopes in the lab, specially formatting treadmills that could go fast enough.
  — Teal Burrell, Discover Magazine, 15 June 2018
• The site will even format your current resume to one of the many professional templates available for download.
  — Dallas News, 4 Oct. 2022
• The play, opening April 19, is formatted in sketches specific to the experiences of the students who wrote them.
  — Zipporah Osei, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Apr. 2018
• How to Invent Everything is formatted as a helpful tool for you, the reader, who has just decided to rent the FC3000™ time machine.
  — Angela Chen, The Verge, 12 Oct. 2018
• Human editors will still need to check the final papers, but AI will be able to deal with time-consuming adjustments to things like formatting.
  — Lavender Au, WIRED, 13 Sep. 2023
• The company had to navigate arcane Securities and Exchange Commission rules about formatting and get the placement of the banks involved just right on the prospectus cover.
  — Corrie Driebusch, WSJ, 5 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024