How to Use linkage in a Sentence

linkage

noun
  • As more names and linkages are unearthed, the full extent of the network becomes more known.
    Michael McCann, SI.com, 29 Sep. 2017
  • Since teams and their fans traveled to games by train in those days, transportation linkage was vital to a league’s success.
    Arthur Hart, idahostatesman, 19 Aug. 2017
  • This lets the researchers find protein linkages that might otherwise be too fleeting to detect.
    Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 5 Oct. 2017
  • The shift throws are a little longer than my current car, but the clutch and shift linkage work well - nothing heavy, progressive engagement.
    Bengt Halvorson, Car and Driver, 4 Aug. 2017
  • There is an obvious linkage corridor that would cut a huge amount of that distance off; the village would need to buy a small strip of land to make that happen.
    Jeanne Houck, Cincinnati.com, 9 Aug. 2017
  • But beyond that, [concern over] the linkage between these floods and outbreaks of lots of different diseases is not yet so evident.
    Alexandra Sifferlin, Time, 18 Sep. 2017
  • This mythology established linkages between Turks, the Turkish language, and the land.
    Steven A. Cook, The Atlantic, 25 June 2017
  • The explanation must also demonstrate the linkage between Iran and North Korea.
    John R. Bolton, National Review, 28 Aug. 2017
  • The votes cast by individual Republican incumbents may be more important to their survival than any linkage with the president.
    Cathleen Decker, latimes.com, 25 June 2017
  • The linkage of the 2020s with the Dark Ages feels cautionary.
    Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 12 July 2023
  • There are plans to buy other land in the area to widen the wildlife linkage.
    J. Harry Jones, latimes.com, 29 Apr. 2018
  • The linkage between one year's performance and the next is hard to find.
    Ben Carlson, Fortune, 20 Jan. 2022
  • All the talk is of linkage and leverage, to give the transactional Mr Trump a taste of his own medicine.
    The Economist, 26 Oct. 2017
  • The gearshift linkage is clunky; the single brake discs on the front and rear wheel are undersized and overmatched.
    Dan Neil, WSJ, 16 July 2021
  • On top of that, the fun of stirring your own gears is diminished by a clunky shift linkage.
    Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver, 12 Apr. 2023
  • To be fair, transfer season is all-year-round at this point, but this is peak linkage.
    SI.com, 18 July 2019
  • After 10 minutes in the Hesse room, the linkage between her and Wilke begins to feel frayed.
    Sophie Madeline Dess, The New Republic, 18 May 2021
  • This is a big deal because, as the brain imagery shows, the brain starts to form new linkages and new connections.
    Sean Illing, Vox, 21 May 2018
  • As the usage and linkage of Aadhaar grows, this is going to increase.
    Vidhi Doshi, Washington Post, 4 Jan. 2018
  • What makes something a serial killing is that there is a linkage with the nature of the crime and the circumstances, Bray said.
    Aria Jones, Dallas News, 21 July 2023
  • In the 1800s, an invention called the planimeter consisted of a little wheel, a shaft, and a linkage.
    Charles Platt, WIRED, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Threads took off like a rocket, with its close linkage to Instagram as the booster.
    Michael Kan, PCMAG, 26 July 2023
  • Indeed, much of the moral fervor that fed the liberal project in the 1940s came precisely from its linkage to the cause of racial justice.
    Eric Schickler, Vox, 21 Apr. 2018
  • The glitch at Julius Baer had something to do with a linkage between the bank’s IT systems and a data center that broke down, the people said.
    Jan-Henrik Foerster, Bloomberg.com, 23 Feb. 2024
  • The linkage is stiff and imprecise and undergoes as many jerks and seizures between throws as Mark Fidrych.
    John Phillips, Car and Driver, 8 Aug. 2023
  • And don't try to listen for the whistle of a turbine wheel spinning up to tell you good things are going on at the other end of the throttle linkage.
    Don Sherman, Car and Driver, 1 May 2023
  • Silky, smooth—all the adjectives from a bottle of Pantene apply to the six-speed's linkage, even after 26 shifts per lap.
    Tony Quiroga, Car and Driver, 7 Feb. 2023
  • The effects of this linkage were seen three years later in the 2018 Assembly elections in Telangana.
    Manavi Kapur, Quartz, 21 Dec. 2021
  • The problem has been that the chemical linkages in the polymers are often distinct from the chemicals that living things have come across in the past, so enzymes that break down polymers have been rare.
    Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 30 Apr. 2024
  • Damage from things like radiation can break these chemical linkages, with fragmentation increasing over time.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 11 July 2024

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