How to Use silo in a Sentence

silo

1 of 2 noun

• His body crashed down the silo chute and straight into the earth.
  — Melina Mara, Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2023
• Price* Don't take these price figures with a grain of salt; take them with the whole silo's worth.
  — Andrew Krok, Car and Driver, 3 July 2023
• The Early & Daniel Co. first owned the silos, which sat vacant for decades.
  — Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 2 Aug. 2023
• With luck, the twig will grow into a clone of the tree in the silo, and produce more of the same delicious fruit.
  — Jacob Roberts, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Feb. 2022
• The sense is of being at the bottom of a silo spinning rapidly.
  — Michael J. Lewis, WSJ, 5 Nov. 2022
• The goal is to never let a piece of content sit in a silo in one channel.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 12 July 2022
• But those of us who find Trump odious are not living in a silo.
  — Roxane Gay, Fortune, 13 May 2023
• Removal of fly ash from silos will begin the week of July 24.
  — Linda Gandee, cleveland, 17 July 2023
• If so, pack yourself a bug-out kit and invest in a disused bomb silo.
  — Jazz Shaw, National Review, 26 June 2021
• The film is very much, here’s these two people in a silo because of the grief of the loss of their son, Dino, after years of illness.
  — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 19 Dec. 2023
• My roots in the theater [taught me to] create a complete character based on the script, the choices and the world that is in its own silo.
  — Tyler Coates, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Mar. 2022
• What’s wrong with painting your silo like a huge barber pole?
  — Owen Thomas, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Oct. 2022
• Agent 355 sends Yorick off with Sonia and Mann to a nearby silo that's just outside town.
  — Nick Schager, EW.com, 1 Nov. 2021
• The centerpiece of Pask’s set is a barn with two silos, all set on a six-degree angle.
  — Ingrid Abramovitch, ELLE Decor, 7 June 2023
• Fencing surrounds the place; underneath the ground, there is a silo.
  — Abe Streep, Scientific American, 10 Nov. 2023
• Economists tend to look at things in a silo, Holman said, while a soccer fan would be able to see the whole pitch.
  — Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 26 July 2022
• Their house was just a mile from the cemetery, but is long gone, with only a silo remaining.
  — Robert McCoppin, Chicago Tribune, 7 Dec. 2022
• The grain silo still looks like it was punched in, but the water tower the tornado ripped out of the ground has been removed and even replaced.
  — Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 11 Dec. 2022
• The interior of the 672-square-foot silo has a modern artistic vibe.
  — Kristi Eaton, Chron, 25 Oct. 2021
• Shrapnel eviscerated the roof of a grain silo the size of a football field.
  — Dalton Bennett, Washington Post, 19 July 2022
• On his way to and from town, Jack drove past the 50-foot grain silo where his brother, Tim, nearly died three decades prior at just 19 years old.
  — Melina Mara, Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2023
• Within his silo, the pandemic did not change as much because APG and its staff could not afford to let it.
  — James Whitlow, baltimoresun.com, 11 June 2021
• Firefighters opened the hatch at the top of the six-story silo in order to spray the burning material.
  — Clifford Ward, Chicago Tribune, 17 July 2023
• In January of 2004, his body was found inside of an unused grain silo.
  — Nicolás Viñuela, NBC News, 19 Nov. 2023
• Ziemkiewicz directed Hurley to open the metal door of the treatment system, which looked like a miniature grain silo built over the seep.
  — Eliza Griswold, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2022
• Beyond the privacy fence was a trailer park and a row of gray silos at the grain elevator.
  — Ted Genoways, The New Republic, 25 May 2023
• The work contributes to the artist’s U.S. silo series, Monuments.
  — Dallas News, 10 Oct. 2022
• The next one does the same for mortar, which is typically dispensed from a large storage silo.
  — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 15 Feb. 2024
• The cost of surgery is in a different silo of Medicare so dialysis centers don’t incur the cost.
  — Grace-Marie Turner, Forbes, 1 June 2021
• Read Next National Secret wine cellar, silo guest house and a lake?
  — Tj MacIas, Sacramento Bee, 5 Mar. 2024

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silo

2 of 2 verb

• And yet to silo the best looks from award shows in the 20th century to just that would be a disservice.
  — Sarah Spellings, Vogue, 13 Apr. 2021
• Just as important, consumers don’t silo their digital and IRL selves, so marketers shouldn’t either.
  — Kris Persons, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2022
• These choices range from our enthusiasm for landfill to the city planner Robert Moses’s decision to silo the poor in huge housing projects on the Rockaways, a difficult-to-access barrier spit.
  — Willa Glickman, The New York Review of Books, 19 Mar. 2020
• The endeavor has already sparked new friendships between athletes from different sports who often silo themselves among teammates.
  — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2022
• The judge’s ruling didn’t draw final conclusions about whether CertainTeed’s move to silo its asbestos liabilities ahead of a bankruptcy filing did in fact defraud asbestos claimants.
  — Andrew Scurria, WSJ, 11 Aug. 2021
• Too often, people purposefully or even subconsciously silo themselves into a specific sector and become blind to the rest of the business process or too comfortable in their processes.
  — Dave Knox, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2021
• To try and silo his future results into what previous Foyt drivers have done underestimates his potential and racing prowess.
  — Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 22 Feb. 2022
• The potency of the tactic has been magnified multiple times by social media networks that allow misinformation to spread quickly, often unchecked, and that tend to silo like-minded people into networks of falsehoods.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 11 Mar. 2022
• The driver primarily uses its god-like permissions to silo the game, preventing other processes from dropping in and tampering with the game state—less an all-seeing eye than a highly intimidating bouncer.
  — Bryan Menegus, Wired, 30 Jan. 2022
• The situation underscores the challenge of designing flexible and usable web applications that also silo and limit access to high-value data like passwords.
  — Wired, 7 Aug. 2022
• To the contrary, different organizations involved in cancer research such as the National Institute of Health, researchers at academic institutions and industry all silo their information.
  — Russell Flannery, Forbes, 8 Aug. 2022
• And yet to silo the best looks from award shows in the 20th century to just that would be a disservice.
  — Sarah Spellings, Vogue, 13 Apr. 2021
• Just as important, consumers don’t silo their digital and IRL selves, so marketers shouldn’t either.
  — Kris Persons, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2022
• These choices range from our enthusiasm for landfill to the city planner Robert Moses’s decision to silo the poor in huge housing projects on the Rockaways, a difficult-to-access barrier spit.
  — Willa Glickman, The New York Review of Books, 19 Mar. 2020
• The endeavor has already sparked new friendships between athletes from different sports who often silo themselves among teammates.
  — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2022
• The judge’s ruling didn’t draw final conclusions about whether CertainTeed’s move to silo its asbestos liabilities ahead of a bankruptcy filing did in fact defraud asbestos claimants.
  — Andrew Scurria, WSJ, 11 Aug. 2021
• Too often, people purposefully or even subconsciously silo themselves into a specific sector and become blind to the rest of the business process or too comfortable in their processes.
  — Dave Knox, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2021
• To try and silo his future results into what previous Foyt drivers have done underestimates his potential and racing prowess.
  — Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 22 Feb. 2022
• The potency of the tactic has been magnified multiple times by social media networks that allow misinformation to spread quickly, often unchecked, and that tend to silo like-minded people into networks of falsehoods.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 11 Mar. 2022
• The driver primarily uses its god-like permissions to silo the game, preventing other processes from dropping in and tampering with the game state—less an all-seeing eye than a highly intimidating bouncer.
  — Bryan Menegus, Wired, 30 Jan. 2022
• The situation underscores the challenge of designing flexible and usable web applications that also silo and limit access to high-value data like passwords.
  — Wired, 7 Aug. 2022
• To the contrary, different organizations involved in cancer research such as the National Institute of Health, researchers at academic institutions and industry all silo their information.
  — Russell Flannery, Forbes, 8 Aug. 2022

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