How to Use the gist in a Sentence

the gist

noun

• But the gist of his comments were that gains are still there to be made with the Heat.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 7 June 2022
• Yeah, there’s other stuff mixed in there fasho, but that’s the gist of it.
  — Tirhakah Love, Vulture, 10 Mar. 2023
• The titles change after that, but the gist remains the same.
  — Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2022
• So the gist of this story so far is that Ohtani’s close friend betrayed him.
  — Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2024
• That’s the gist of the headlines about a recent war game from a Washington think-tank.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 19 Jan. 2023
• Diners who know the menu at Coni’Seafood will recognize the gist of many dishes.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2022
• There are glory moments but the real work isn’t as glamorous, is the gist.
  — Michael Casagrande | [e-mail], al, 19 Sep. 2022
• Or at least that’s the gist of a recent report by Alludo.
  — Jasmine Browley, Essence, 15 Jan. 2024
• Regardless of the delivery method, the gist was the same: new jobs for everyone.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 6 June 2023
• Perhaps then there will be more enlightenment, but that’s the gist of where things stand with the Hornets’ big man.
  — Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 8 Mar. 2024
• That’s the gist of the business lobby’s lawsuit over the California laws.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2024
• That’s the gist, at any rate, of Agatha, in which Vanessa Redgrave plays a fragile, delicate Christie.
  — Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 18 Sep. 2023
• Money is a touchy subject for many young adults, or at least that’s the gist of a new report by the Principal® Foundation.
  — Jasmine Browley, Essence, 18 Aug. 2023
• But while the Hamas and Russia messages make Binance look shady, the gist of the lawsuit isn’t about criminal behavior.
  — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune Crypto, 28 Mar. 2023
• Here, too, the decoding model captured the gist of the unspoken version.
  — Oliver Whang, New York Times, 1 May 2023
• But here’s the gist: Ripple created a bunch of XRP, kept a lot of it for itself and its executives, and sold the rest—more than $1 billion’s worth—to the public.
  — Wired, 10 Aug. 2022
• That was the gist of headlines two years ago, when Swift’s Eras Tour resulted in a ticket-sales fiasco of epic proportions.
  — Christie D’zurilla, Los Angeles Times, 23 May 2024
• This may explain why the publication of Mann's sequel has made much less of a splash than did 1491; the gist of the argument and much of the evidence are so familiar.
  — Jeremy Adelman, Foreign Affairs, 1 May 2012
• Active listeners vary by service, but the gist is people can speak their minds for about an hour to someone who won't chime in like a therapist would.
  — David Oliver, USA TODAY, 2 Sep. 2023
• Getting the gist Think of this approach as collapsing public opinion.
  — Bruce Schneier, The Conversation, 20 June 2023
• Meta is giving away some of the family jewels: That’s the gist of an announcement from the company formerly known as Facebook this week.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Mar. 2023
• The rules are complicated, but the gist is simple: Payments are based on your earnings and family size and readjusted each year.
  — Tara Siegel Bernard, New York Times, 1 June 2023
• As the meal proceeds, Ruan guides me — per my asking — through the gist of Jōji’s creative philosophy, and what makes the team he’s assembled distinctive.
  — Paul Winner, Travel + Leisure, 17 May 2023
• That’s the gist of a new report commissioned by the Pentagon in 2021 and released quietly with little notice in December.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 1 Jan. 2024
• The mechanism is complicated, but here’s the gist: A lot of things that salamanders eat, including springtails and beetle larvae, chew up leaves on the forest floor.
  — Benji Jones, Vox, 18 June 2024
• Of course, there are maybe only three people in the world who would even get the reference, but anybody can see the image as a representation of impending doom, and that’s definitely the gist of my story.
  — Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2023
• There is a messy political situation in the background, but the gist is that the recent resignation of Vice President Gary Liguori led to an opening on the committee.
  — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Jan. 2023
• That is accurate enough to generally get the gist of a sentence, Henderson said, but the authors concluded that the error rate is too high for everyday use and that the system as a whole isn’t yet viable for patients.
  — Daniel Gilbert, Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2023
• While the gist of the reports was typical of past years, the court's report included 20 pages of charts, graphs and illustrations apparently designed to convey its message of being tough on crime with greater clarity.
  — Elaine Kurtenbach, Quartz, 8 Mar. 2024
• Given their familiarity, pulling that track together was easy, with Miranda delivering the gist of Diggs’ bars over Facetime from an airport.
  — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 25 May 2023

Last Updated: 29 Sep 2024