How to Use the Internet in a Sentence

the Internet

noun
  • This presages major changes ahead for the design of the internet and the rights of users.
    Tim Hwang, WIRED, 11 July 2023
  • The story is set in 1993, before cell phones and the Internet.
    Martin Dale, Variety, 30 Nov. 2023
  • The police may not like the footage of the search being all over the internet, but there's nothing false about it.
    Jack Greiner, The Enquirer, 14 Apr. 2023
  • This week, the nine Justices of the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two cases that could change the Internet.
    Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2023
  • The clip sparked so much conversation on the internet, even Snoop Dogg weighed in.
    Antonia Debianchi, Peoplemag, 4 Aug. 2023
  • But, thanks to the Internet, miners are increasingly aware of the value of their finds.
    Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Ghost guns are firearms assembled from parts and sold in kits on the internet without background checks.
    Nicole Asbury, Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2023
  • At the University of Michigan, it’s been a hectic start to the school year, as the internet is down at all three campuses on the first day of school.
    Marina Johnson, Detroit Free Press, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Over the past year, the two have gotten a kick out of the misinformation about their nuptials that has spread like wildfire across the internet.
    Alexandra MacOn, Vogue, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Removing a Google result will not wipe it from the internet and the tool is only available in the U.S. in English only for now.
    USA TODAY, 4 Aug. 2023
  • The printers use opensource templates downloaded from the Internet to make the braces, which are printed flat in plastic and shipped to Ukraine.
    William Thornton | Wthornton@al.com, al, 28 Feb. 2023
  • The image of Rodgers that traveled around the internet seemed to warrant suspicion.
    Wesley Morris, New York Times, 24 July 2023
  • Google Search, like the rest of the internet, is pivoting to generative AI.
    Justin Pot, The Atlantic, 11 July 2023
  • Ryder spent a lot of time on the internet, learning the ins and outs of cryptocurrency investing.
    Jon Stojan, USA TODAY, 19 Aug. 2023
  • Most people are nice in person, but a few strangers on the internet have bashed Manis’s hairstyle.
    Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2023
  • If the internet's verdict is any indication, the jumbo bed is a hit.
    Kelsey Mulvey, House Beautiful, 11 July 2023
  • Using it is like talking to a very powerful librarian whose purview is the breadth of the Internet.
    Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Grant, meanwhile, gets to tap once more into the hammy villainy that made Paddington 2 the internet's favorite movie.
    Christian Holub, EW.com, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Believe it or not, those are just two of the many customizable name necklaces the internet has to offer.
    Kayla Blanton, Peoplemag, 27 Aug. 2023
  • Now, as the era of the global watercooler ends, small private group chats are becoming the future of social life on the internet.
    Kai Ye, WIRED, 23 July 2023
  • But even the internet was taken aback by the couple’s situation as much as Ramsey was.
    Jane Thier, Fortune, 14 Apr. 2023
  • The photos circulating on the internet appear to show Shayk and Brady together in LA over the weekend.
    Mark Shanahan, BostonGlobe.com, 25 July 2023
  • Fast forward to the Internet age, and houseplants appear to be more popular than ever.
    Melissa Breyer, Treehugger, 22 Mar. 2023
  • The couple turned to the Internet for a solution and discovered the safety net foster program.
    Gary Warth, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Mar. 2023
  • Also, most young Russians are not raised in troubled neighborhoods, but on the Internet.
    TIME, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Google quickly took down the image, but not before the image was captured and circulated on the internet.
    Kegan Mooney, PCMAG, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Musk is known for writing emails to employees that are then widely distributed over the Internet.
    Russ Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2023
  • But the Internet era overwrote these roles with another one: a cultural joke.
    Isaac Butler, The New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2023
  • Technology and the Internet Elon Musk is dying to be funny.
    Brian Contreras, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2023
  • While the podcast hosts—and many others on the Internet—seemed to find his cluelessness hard to believe, another statement inspired even more ire.
    Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 22 Dec. 2023

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