How to Use text message in a Sentence
text message
noun-
And every cellphone in the U.S. will get the same text message this week.
— Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 3 Oct. 2023 -
These are all perfect to write in a card or text message.
— Jill Gleeson, Country Living, 13 Apr. 2023 -
In a text message to The Post, the woman declined to comment.
— Shawn Boburg and Jon Swaine, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Sep. 2021 -
Eden’s Homes didn’t respond to a call and text message.
— Lea Skene, Quartz, 22 Apr. 2024 -
Try the same thing, but as an SMS text message instead.
— Andy Meek, BGR, 8 July 2022 -
And the spec sheet contains more acronyms than a teenager’s text message.
— Tim Pitt, Robb Report, 9 Nov. 2022 -
Yates, 34, told The Post on Tuesday that he was first made aware of the Greenville listing in a group text message.
— Timothy Bella, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Aug. 2022 -
The Davisville Middle School teacher did not respond to a text message from the Globe.
— Amanda Milkovits, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Jan. 2023 -
DePaoli sent a text message to a group of friends announcing the news.
— oregonlive, 1 Oct. 2021 -
Here, unedited, is what Lee told me via text message that evening.
— Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Dec. 2022 -
Or they can be sent to a user's smartphone via text message.
— Alex Veiga, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Feb. 2023 -
What is known, according to the police reports, is the time of Joseph’s last text message.
— Sarah Portney, NBC News, 14 Oct. 2022 -
To name a group text message, everyone in the group needs to be using an iPhone, iPad or iPod touch.
— Kurt Knutsson, Fox News, 26 Sep. 2023 -
This can be done through a phone call or a text message, for example.
— David Nield, Wired, 7 Nov. 2021 -
Just then a text message came through: a picture from Ben of Julien running up and down the numbered steps.
— Lauren Elkin, Travel + Leisure, 21 Mar. 2023 -
Sign up for text message alerts from the experts at Reviewed.
— Jillian Lucas, USA TODAY, 21 Jan. 2022 -
They are also sent by email or text message to subscribers of those alerts.
— Elliot Hughes, Journal Sentinel, 9 Apr. 2024 -
In a text message, Mano echoed the effort to keep the team in the city and said that field upgrades already are underway.
— Blake Apgar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Nov. 2022 -
In a text message to Curt, DiCamillo sent a link to the story and described it as a birthday gift for him.
— Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023 -
Singh has received death threats via a text message and visits of concern from the FBI.
— Joe Rubin, Sacramento Bee, 31 Jan. 2024 -
Every year on June 11, Jared Sandberg’s day begins with the buzz of a text message.
— Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Apr. 2022 -
On the afternoon of the worst day of Terry Badger II's life, the text message from his son never came.
— The Indianapolis Star, 30 Mar. 2023 -
Boston declined to comment when reached by The News via text message.
— Dallas News, 29 Sep. 2022 -
Bertolino said in a text message at the time the lawsuit was filed that his clients were fully within their rights not to talk.
— CBS News, 30 Mar. 2022 -
Jones did not return a phone call or text message from ArtsATL.
— Jim Farmer, ajc, 9 Dec. 2021 -
The government will send you updates by email and text message, so make sure to sign up to receive text alerts.
— Chris Quintana, USA TODAY, 2 Oct. 2022 -
One of the fifth graders involved in the group text message over the weekend told their parent about the threat and the parent contacted the school, Lynch said in the letter.
— Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2023 -
Touchpoints can jump from a chatbot to a text message to email to social media and back again.
— Laura Apel, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2023 -
Catch up fast: Pig butchering is a scam where people get an unexpected text message from a stranger.
— Brady Dale, Axios, 3 Sep. 2024 -
Marine Mind is grief-stricken, its founder Sebastian Strand said over text message on Wednesday.
— Leslie Katz, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2024
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