How to Use online in a Sentence

online

adjective
  • The city libraries are all online.
  • He likes to engage in online chats.
  • Many of the comments used the argot of the online far right.
    David D. Kirkpatrick, The New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2024
  • The genre has even worked its way into the worlds of online rap and digicore.
    Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 14 Dec. 2023
  • The Ragnarok forums sent me on my first trips down the online rabbit hole.
    Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2024
  • She is listed in online BOP records by her dead name, the name she was assigned at birth, and as male.
    Katie Moore, Kansas City Star, 2 May 2024
  • Liles has pleaded not guilty and a trial date has been set for March 4, online court records say.
    Sam Stanton, Sacramento Bee, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Psychics weighed in with their visions, and online groups played the Where-Is-Relisha game.
    Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2024
  • And some pro tips to protect your website with free online tests.
    Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 13 Apr. 2023
  • But there’s one corner of the world where the very online penchant for micro-shorts has yet to take hold: Bermuda.
    Eric Twardzik, Robb Report, 26 July 2024
  • The online retailer's iconic two-day sale brings out the best deals of the year for Amazon Prime members.
    Emily Shiffer, Women's Health, 14 June 2023
  • This may mean logging in to your account and filling out an online form.
    CBS News, 21 Dec. 2022
  • Temple of Wings will head to a live auction in New York on June 14, in addition to online sales.
    Isiah Magsino, Town & Country, 11 May 2023
  • Amazon had once owned a large piece of an online pharmacy called Drugstore.com, which rose and fell during the Web 1.0 era.
    Jason Del Rey, Fortune, 13 June 2023
  • After Filio raised the prospect with the mother in an online meeting, the mother’s screen went blank.
    Maggie Jones, New York Times, 17 May 2023
  • There are some real risks that come with online sports betting.
    Becca Stanek, theweek, 6 Nov. 2024
  • Making its way from the big screen to the online stream, the Avatar sequel is expected to hit the streamer sometime this year.
    Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 27 Mar. 2023
  • For the first time, online retailers have displaced brick-and-mortar stores as the preferred way to shop.
    Diane Brady, Fortune, 29 Nov. 2024
  • Breaking it up would send shock waves through the $500 billion online-ad market.
    Patience Haggin, WSJ, 29 Jan. 2023
  • The song was censored and the singer’s online accounts suspended.
    Li Yuan, New York Times, 4 May 2023
  • The city will arrange to pick up hard copies of entries from students who are unable to submit them through the online form.
    cleveland, 30 Dec. 2022
  • The designer presented an online poll to fans asking if the bike should be built.
    Peter Jackson, Robb Report, 1 Mar. 2024
  • People wanted to look away from all of the scary news, and online puzzles were an easy way to escape for a few minutes.
    cleveland, 28 Jan. 2023
  • But, online, many journalists seemed to side with Merchan, and spoke up out of concern for the safety of the jury pool.
    Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2024
  • Roughly 60 copies of the game have been sold on the online resale site since posts on X started gaining traction.
    Kalhan Rosenblatt, NBC News, 12 Nov. 2024
  • One of the online subcultures that influenced the birth of e/acc are the Rationalists.
    Robert Evans, Rolling Stone, 27 Jan. 2024
  • The elastic bottom can also be cuffed if the length is too long, which some online reviewers found.
    Paula Lee, Glamour, 3 Jan. 2024
  • After the show’s premiere, online sleuths were able to track Harvey as the person who inspired the show’s stalker.
    Bruce Gil, Quartz, 7 June 2024
  • But in a busy, chronically online world, any number of books read is something to be proud of.
    Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 12 Dec. 2024
  • Crypto culture, with its terminally online slang and imagery, is alienating and off-putting.
    Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 11 Dec. 2024

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