How to Use to-go in a Sentence

to-go

1 of 2 adjective
  • But, fear not: All the food here is served in to-go boxes.
    Amy Drew Thompson, Orlando Sentinel, 18 July 2024
  • The stay was brief, and the coffee to-go — the Panthers were on their way to the Elbo Room.
    Ben Crandell, Sun Sentinel, 29 June 2024
  • The milk is hot and ready to pour into the to-go mug once the second pod is done.
    Bon Appétit Contributor, Bon Appétit, 4 Apr. 2024
  • The ice cream can be served in a dog bowl, cone, waffle bowl or to-go cup.
    Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 14 Mar. 2023
  • That could mean a scoop of ice cream, a sandwich to-go, or a carton of eggs to take home.
    Amanda Hancock, The Courier-Journal, 6 Sep. 2024
  • The first guy ordered five tacos de carne guisada, two for here and three to-go.
    Marco Torres, Chron, 2 Mar. 2023
  • The shop sells to-go meals and unique pantry items alongside a daily grab & go deli menu.
    Alex Darus, cleveland, 14 Aug. 2023
  • So foam to-go and meat containers can go in but they must be rinsed.
    Dana Oland, Idaho Statesman, 8 Apr. 2024
  • The farm stand is open for to-go purchases and The Cider Bar has hard cider ready for drinking.
    Laura Barrero, Axios, 15 Aug. 2024
  • Put your leftover, about-to-go-stale sourdough to good use.
    Good Housekeeping, 10 Mar. 2023
  • One to-go cup buyer will win a one-year supply of Cold Brew Pods.
    Cheryl V. Jackson, The Indianapolis Star, 18 July 2024
  • For people on the move, to-go kits should contain three days of supplies.
    Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 4 Aug. 2024
  • For late-night dimsums, all-day kaya toasts, and pillowy roll cakes to-go.
    Audrey Phoon, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 June 2024
  • Since there are no seats inside, this shop is best for to-go orders.
    Carlos Rico, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 May 2024
  • Grab a to-go meal and enjoy it in the park's shaded seating area or on the sunny lawn.
    Vicki Salemi, Chron, 21 Feb. 2023
  • What to expect: The 700-square-foot shop will mostly serve to-go orders.
    Laura Barrero, Axios, 5 Sep. 2024
  • The wind threatened to scatter the white clamshell to-go containers on the table.
    Jordan P. Hickey, Longreads, 22 Feb. 2024
  • The other thing is to-go coffee cups, which are lined with plastic.
    Alice Short, Los Angeles Times, 22 Aug. 2023
  • The bake can be made to-go or catered; add-ons include shrimp cocktail, oysters on the half shell, and cheese platters.
    Alex Erdekian, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 July 2024
  • Others shifted to takeout food and to-go cocktails but still had to cut staff.
    Abha Bhattarai, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2024
  • Here are more than 18 places offering dine-in or to-go meals around town just in time for Valentine's Day.
    The Courier-Journal, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Indianapolis Star The to-go options on Mass Ave could get a bit stronger soon.
    Bradley Hohulin, The Indianapolis Star, 16 Sep. 2024
  • But the problem doesn’t stop with snail slime; there are allegedly fake brand-name perfumes and trendy to-go cups.
    WIRED, 19 Sep. 2023
  • More droppings were on top of to-go containers and on the floor under the containers.
    Jacqueline Pinedo, Sacramento Bee, 3 May 2024
  • There’s also a cap and a to-go coffee cup, in black and white respectively.
    Talia Abbas, Vogue, 21 June 2024
  • That changed with the waivers, which allowed families to pick up multiple days’ worth of to-go meals to bring home to their kids.
    Elizabeth Chuck, NBC News, 25 July 2023
  • That afternoon, Liv and I grabbed to-go piña coladas from the beach bar to enjoy while getting ready.
    Shelby Wax, Vogue, 30 July 2024
  • The House bill would extend cocktails-to-go for another year.
    Jon Chesto, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Mar. 2023
  • However, our to-go favorites often come with a huge side of waste.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Hill Valley Dairy will still have a retail component for to-go cheese, and a cut-to-order cheese case behind the bar.
    Jordyn Noennig, Journal Sentinel, 11 Sep. 2024
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to go

2 of 2 idiomatic phrase
  • The tree is ready to go straight from the box with some light fluffing.
    Maggie Horton, People.com, 2 Oct. 2024
  • There’s also the sense that there is nowhere else to go.
    Laura Paddison, CNN, 2 Oct. 2024
  • The Witts are the ninth father-son duo to be first-round picks — the first to go in the first three picks.
    Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2023
  • The ultimate goal for those kids is still to go back to the city in the long run.
    Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 2 Oct. 2024
  • The first hand to go in the air was that of Vivek Ramaswamy, who has promised to pardon Trump.
    Alexandra Hutzler, ABC News, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Time to go on the hunt, even with an IPO-sized elephant in the room to contend with.
    Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Her wish is to go to Riverdale just one more time to relive her youth.
    Marianne Garvey, CNN, 24 Aug. 2023
  • The Kings still had a chance to tie the game, but Barnes missed a 3-pointer with 18.1 seconds to go.
    Jason Anderson, Sacramento Bee, 30 Mar. 2024
  • Yet telling people to go to the doctor wasn’t the answer.
    Meg Dunn, CNN, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Choose from 12 sizes, two of which have a contour to go around the base of your toilet.
    Toni Sutton, Peoplemag, 8 Dec. 2023
  • The lawsuit continues to move through the courts and is poised to go to trial in the fall.
    Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 17 May 2024
  • Ma-scare-a. When do ghosts like to go trick or treating?
    Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 14 Oct. 2024
  • To find providers, taxpayers need to go to IRS.gov/freefile.
    Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 16 May 2023
  • Most Black residents did not have the means to go out to eat, Dwight said.
    Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 8 June 2024
  • The actors were about to go on strike the day after we were supposed to wrap.
    Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 10 Aug. 2024
  • That has to be a very healing process, as well, to get to be able to go back through your life like that.
    Stephen Daw, Billboard, 20 Oct. 2023
  • One of the reasons this worked so well is that Love is always a threat to go to the rim — 30% of his shots are at the rim.
    Shreyas Laddha, Kansas City Star, 10 Feb. 2024
  • After that, something told me not to go back to New York.
    Zac Ntim, Deadline, 14 Oct. 2024
  • And, last but not least, the Fashion Awards was the perfect place to go brunette spotting.
    Hannah Coates, Vogue, 7 Dec. 2023
  • For $49, this pass allows seniors to go straight from the car to the lift all season long.
    Roger Sands, Travel + Leisure, 27 Sep. 2023
  • And yet some decided to go anyway and just take on the loans.
    Michelle Singletary, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2023
  • The last time Fox aired the Emmys, in 2019, the network opted to go without a host.
    Michael Schneider, Variety, 11 Aug. 2023
  • In 2073, rap is considered the highest among the fine arts, so the hip hop artists are the last to go to auction.
    C. Brandon Ogbunu, WIRED, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Her doctor’s advice was to go outside and sit in the sun, but even that was tough.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 5 Mar. 2024
  • Mystik Dan, with a smart ride up the rail, had pulled to about a three-length lead with about a sixteenth of a mile to go.
    John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2024
  • So, when Emmanuel Rivera hit a grounder to short, Trea Turner was forced to go home.
    Ryan Morik, Fox News, 20 Oct. 2023
  • In fact, his alarms were what prompted me to go to San Diego to report on the problem last year.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 30 May 2024
  • Or just head straight here to go directly to the right settings page.
    Dell Cameron Lily Hay Newman, WIRED, 27 July 2024
  • No need to take a break from feeling blue just because there’s a party to go to!
    Evelyn Bauer, Them, 4 Sep. 2024
  • His father needs Pawlik's brother to go to his house to sign in for a telehealth visit.
    Betty Lin-Fisher, USA TODAY, 25 Oct. 2024

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