How to Use to in a Sentence

  • In 2020, the band changed the name from the Dixie Chicks to the Chicks.
    Mark Olsen Los Angeles Times (tns), arkansasonline.com, 26 Dec. 2023
  • Lift the toes up off of the ground, then come back to center.
    Stephanie Mansour, CNN, 18 Dec. 2020
  • This time, the guest list is down to just a few people.
    John Seewer, Anchorage Daily News, 3 July 2020
  • Byrd rushed for back-to-back 19-yard carries on the drive.
    al, 12 Sep. 2020
  • The ninth month of the year means back to school, the change of seasons, the autumnal equinox.
    Lauren Goode, Wired, 12 Sep. 2020
  • In the case of rain, the event will be rescheduled to the next weekend.
    Meagan Ellsworth, Chron, 16 Jan. 2021
  • The affidavit goes on to say that Young and his friends then followed the agents to the Dawg House.
    Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 24 Jan. 2024
  • The app is likely to morph and add more features as Meta grows the team assigned to the project.
    Reece Rogers, WIRED, 16 July 2023
  • Choose what is most important to you, and let the rest go.
    cleveland, 24 Apr. 2022
  • But very few of them have had more mystery to it than this one.
    Nick Canepacolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Apr. 2022
  • Thus there is a limit to what teams will pay for his clients.
    Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 13 Nov. 2021
  • This is child abuse, as is so much of what happened to her in her youth.
    Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review, 12 Apr. 2021
  • People close to you turned their back on you, but not us.
    Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 9 Aug. 2022
  • This summer has been good to them as far as car shows go.
    Annie Alleman, chicagotribune.com, 7 Aug. 2020
  • Next to it, second from right, is the new base-model iPad.
    Brenda Stolyar, Wired, 14 Sep. 2021
  • There’s no business saying the things those guys said to him.
    Matt Young, Chron, 23 Apr. 2022
  • So much so that the idea of bringing the series to the Ceilândia-Brasília hub was his.
    Callum McLennan, Variety, 24 Jan. 2024
  • The Coast Guard is responding to people who were forced to go into the ocean due to the flames.
    Jennifer Sinco Kelleher, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Aug. 2023
  • All that went to the winds, however, as soon as a train came in.
    The Economist, 20 Mar. 2021
  • Zuckerberg has said that his goal is to get Threads to 1 billion users.
    Oliver Darcy, CNN, 5 Apr. 2024
  • Tariq is confident the murders won’t come back to him and Cane.
    Kyesha Jennings, Vulture, 7 Dec. 2021
  • The suspect is seen throwing the victim to the ground and holding him down.
    Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 2 Nov. 2022
  • Again, one child may have hurt feelings, and your only work is to hug and love them through it.
    Washington Post, 25 Nov. 2021
  • To submit a question to the Ethicist, send an email to ethicist@nytimes.com.
    Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2024
  • Heavy damage to the front end of the pickup from its impact with the cyclists.
    Jay R. Jordan, Chron, 27 Sep. 2021
  • Three meals a day were served, buffet style, to more than 100 people.
    Evan Frank, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 June 2021
  • The race for governor got off to an early start this week.
    Patrick Marley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 31 Mar. 2021
  • This price will be gone soon enough, but your fresh air will make a difference to you for a long time.
    Grace Smith, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Nov. 2022
  • Jimmy Collins was sentenced two weeks ago to 10 years in prison.
    Lyndsay Winkley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Feb. 2024
  • Also, while most schools are back to class today, many aren’t.
    Ike Morgan | Imorgan@al.com, al, 18 Jan. 2022

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