How to Use into line in a Sentence

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• Easing off the throttle a tiny amount brings the car right back into line.
  — Csaba Csere, Car and Driver, 7 Sep. 2023
• As with its ally Russia, the go-to tool to try to bring Belarus into line has been sanctions.
  — Aliaksandr Kudrytski, Bloomberg.com, 3 Mar. 2022
• The campaign succeeded when Britain’s Parliament stepped in to bring the region into line with the rest of the country.
  — NBC News, 6 Jan. 2022
• How people are quite willing to fall into line and follow.
  — ELLE, 19 Mar. 2022
• Still, Hungary did fall into line with the EU and impose sanctions on Russia.
  — Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Apr. 2022
• Cupich concurred there was more the Holy See could and should do to bring religious orders into line.
  — Nicole Winfield, ajc, 25 May 2023
• Powell said the Fed’s goal was to cool off consumer and business spending and bring it more into line with the restrained supply of goods and workers.
  — Christopher Rugaber, USA TODAY, 17 May 2022
• In time, rents will come into line as supply and demand come into balance.
  — USA TODAY, 25 July 2023
• The cosmos will do that for you from time to time as the ceaseless wanderings of our planet, the sun and moon bring them into line like billiard balls on a velvet space table.
  — New York Times, 10 June 2021
• After that, there was an effort in Europe and North America to push the continent into line.
  — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 27 July 2023
• Her teacher promptly pulled her back into line with a yank whose mildness astonished me.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 4 May 2023
• By 1972, however, these women had strong support for their work to bring the law into line with actual practice.
  — Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 5 May 2022
• This week, Biden’s approval rating was measured at 31 percent, which brings him perfectly into line with Trump, whose number is the ...
  — Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 13 June 2023
• This week, Biden’s approval rating was measured at 31 percent, which brings him perfectly into line with Trump, whose number is the ...
  — Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 13 June 2023
• This change will bring expenses and revenue back into line while preserving our core assets and long term upside.
  — Todd Spangler, Variety, 30 June 2023
• Until the West can come up with a more persuasive argument of its own, African nations are unlikely to jump into line behind it.
  — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 27 July 2023
• That move, which follows a long-running debate over the issue, will bring the country into line with most of the rest of the world and cut down on legal discrepancies that arise from the use of three different systems.
  — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 9 Dec. 2022
• And the call to bring the police into line has struck a resounding chord in a country weary of war and atrocity at the hands of a host of paramilitaries, guerrilla fighters and security forces.
  — New York Times, 12 May 2021
• Appointees routinely fall into line without a hint of dissent when picking a chairman.
  — Kevin Spear, Orlando Sentinel, 27 Apr. 2022
• And rather than smoothing strands into line and straightening the lot into sleek and perfect order, roughing it up with a mussy, unruly cut can feel exquisitely defiant.
  — Elle Turner, Glamour, 11 Nov. 2021
• On Wednesday, North Carolina legislators will be voting on a bill to bring its state law into line with federal law.
  — Josh Archambault, Forbes, 21 June 2022
• Someone in your group of coworkers or friends may attempt to assert their dominance after a long period of having fun and joking around, and the rest of the people around you might just fall into line.
  — Chicago Tribune, 13 Jan. 2023
• On a recent Sunday evening, fans crowded into line outside a multiplex in India’s capital city of New Delhi.
  — Robbie Whelan, WSJ, 4 July 2023
• While the organization staggered into line to back Tagovailoa, the quarterback is a believer in the 2022 Dolphins.
  — Mark Inabinett | [e-mail], al, 3 Nov. 2022
• That made collectives permissible for the likes of Alabama and Auburn, bringing them into line with peer institutions.
  — Michael Casagrande | [e-mail], al, 9 May 2022
• But then Grassley fell into line and proudly accepted Trump’s endorsement for his reelection.
  — Steve Lopezcolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2022
• There is a 3% surtax on incomes exceeding $5 million, but the principle of bringing levies on investments more into line with wage-earners’ incomes is eroded.
  — Mike Dorning, Fortune, 14 Sep. 2021
• But Beijing has also exerted growing pressure on foreign companies to bring them into line with its agenda.
  — Laura He, CNN, 3 Apr. 2023
• Spain is also due to pass a new insolvency law next month to bring it into line with a European directive and that would tilt the legal situation more in favor of Celsa’s creditors.
  — Irene Garcia Perez, Bloomberg.com, 14 June 2022
• As rate increases make their way through the economy, people buy fewer things and borrow less money, which eventually brings demand back into line with supply.
  — Isabella Simonetti, New York Times, 23 Sep. 2022

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024