How to Use index in a Sentence

index

1 of 2 noun
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  • Look up the recipe for potato soup in the index.
  • The card catalog is an index to the materials in the library.
  • Potato soup is listed under “soup” in the index.
  • The index has fallen 8.7% in a year and 42% in two years.
    — Andy Hoffman, Fortune Europe, 10 Apr. 2024
  • The book had reference points on the pages and an index with cities in the area.
    — Brahmjot Kaur, NBC News, 26 Sep. 2023
  • The index declined about 7 percent in the past year and was flat over the past 30 days.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 7 Feb. 2024
  • But the index is still down nearly 10% this year, one of the worst performers in the world.
    — Laura He, CNN, 25 Oct. 2023
  • The son got out at the right time; Gillespie, who’d mostly stuck to index funds, did not.
    — Vulture, 10 Sep. 2023
  • An index for the price of gold has risen about 5% since a year ago, but has fallen from a peak reached in May.
    — Max Zahn, ABC News, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Tesla and Apple are weighing on the index to kick off the week.
    — WSJ, 7 Aug. 2023
  • Sit outside—in a back yard, on a stoop, on your windowsill—and let the heat index try its damnedest.
    — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 6 Aug. 2023
  • The three major indexes are on pace for their best five-day stretch in a month or more.
    — David Uberti, WSJ, 31 Aug. 2023
  • And even with three new starters, the size of the unit was heralded among the biggest in the conference on the beef index.
    — Nick Alvarez | Nalvarez@al.com, al, 11 Sep. 2023
  • The index had climbed 2.8% on a weekly basis as of press time Friday.
    — Benzinga, Detroit Free Press, 15 July 2023
  • The index has now increased for the third month in a row and stands at its highest point since December 2021.
    — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2024
  • On a monthly basis, prices increased 0.3%, down from a 0.4% jump the prior month, the PCE index shows.
    — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 29 Mar. 2024
  • July’s index grew by 0.3%, led by an uptick of 0.5% from the service sector.
    — Benzinga, Detroit Free Press, 13 Aug. 2023
  • The heat index could reach as high as 110 in those areas this afternoon.
    — Leigh Morgan, al, 16 July 2023
  • The index has jumped twenty-nine per cent in the past two months, which is the biggest such increase in more than thirty years.
    — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2024
  • In the hottest areas, heat indices in the triple digits could continue.
    — Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Meanwhile, Bezos’ net worth has increased by $23 billion over the past year, the index shows.
    — Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 5 Mar. 2024
  • As the heat settles over the region in the coming week, the Gulf Coast and Southeast will see widespread heat indices of over 110 degrees.
    — Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY, 15 July 2023
  • That means an afternoon heat index as high as about 105.
    — Dan Stillman, Washington Post, 26 July 2023
  • Major stock indexes ticked up on the Fed news, after remaining flat for much of the day.
    — Rachel Siegel, Washington Post, 20 Mar. 2024
  • The lower the student aid index, the more likely a student qualifies for aid.
    — Kristen Taketa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Dec. 2023
  • That helped stock indexes to reverse their losses as the day progressed.
    — Yuri Kageyama, Quartz, 12 Mar. 2024
  • Check out the index pages at the bottom of this article for product categories.
    — Kaylee Remington, cleveland, 14 Sep. 2023
  • For those cities left, the team then looked at their livability index on AreaVibes, and combined all the data to come up with its top 15 cities.
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 17 Nov. 2023
  • The Mercer team pinpointed a handful of improvements that would raise the U.S. system’s index score in the future.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2023
  • The index, which the Federal Reserve closely monitors, showed that prices rose 0.4% from March to April.
    — Christopher Rugaber The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 27 May 2023
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index

2 of 2 verb
  • This search engine has indexed hundreds of millions of websites.
  • At the time, Google's crawlers were only able to index the first 100KB of pages.
    — Don Dodds, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2023
  • The gas tax last was raised in 1990 and will be indexed to the rate of inflation in the future.
    — Kimberly Fornek, chicagotribune.com, 1 July 2019
  • Many small business loans are indexed to the prime rate, too.
    — Susan Tompor, USA TODAY, 15 Dec. 2017
  • All the plants will be indexed on Google, and signage around the little path tells passersby about the space and the plans.
    — Sean Cotter, BostonGlobe.com, 13 May 2023
  • The gas tax was last raised in 1993 and it is not indexed to inflation.
    — The Washington Post, cleveland.com, 10 Jan. 2018
  • At the same time, pensions are also indexed to RPI, widening a divergence between the fortunes of the young and the old.
    — Bloomberg.com, 15 Aug. 2017
  • The earnings are indexed to the change in overall wage levels and the rise in the nation's standard of living while you were employed.
    — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 24 May 2023
  • The House wants to index those deductions to inflation.
    — Michael Dresser, baltimoresun.com, 28 Mar. 2018
  • There are three main types of annuities: fixed, variable and indexed.
    — Emilia Benton, Houston Chronicle, 24 Feb. 2020
  • Content on the dark Web is not indexed by popular search engines such as Google.
    — Doug Stanglin, USA TODAY, 17 Aug. 2017
  • But there’s a setting to make all of your tweets private, so only your online friends can read them, and Google will no longer be able to index them.
    — Hiawatha Bray, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Apr. 2018
  • No one on Murray’s side of this debate is saying that all social self-worth is indexed by IQ scores.
    — Ezra Klein, Vox, 9 Apr. 2018
  • The gas tax last was raised in 1990 and would be indexed to future inflation increases.
    — Jamie Munks, chicagotribune.com, 3 June 2019
  • Enter a competitor's website or page URL to see if Google has indexed it.
    — Don Dodds, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Conversely, it under-indexed in mid-sized cities such as Salt Lake City.
    — Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Oct. 2019
  • The dark web is a hidden part of the internet that isn’t indexed by conventional search engines.
    — Amanda Garrett, Cincinnati.com, 13 Feb. 2020
  • As of Wednesday, the site could not be reached—but a copy of it was posted to a Tor hidden service, part of what’s known as the dark web because it isn’t indexed by search engines.
    — Will Oremus, Slate Magazine, 16 Aug. 2017
  • Oppenheimer indexed to a 20 percent share of Imax screens, the company said, marking a new record.
    — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 July 2023
  • That same holding indexed to inflation would be subject to a 21.4% tax rate, the research service said.
    — Saleha Mohsin, latimes.com, 27 June 2019
  • The 1940 census records were released a decade ago, but the federal government didn't transcribe and index the names.
    — Bill Bowden, Arkansas Online, 10 Apr. 2022
  • Because this amount was not indexed to inflation, the AMT clobbers more people each year.
    — Kathleen Pender, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Dec. 2017
  • One option would be to index a minimum wage increase to the cost of living in each state instead of mandating an across-the-board rate.
    — Michael Collins, USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2021
  • Each event is indexed so a particular play can later be viewed with a single tap.
    — Tom Simonite, WIRED, 6 June 2018
  • The higher Ohio wage would also be indexed to inflation.
    — Olivera Perkins, cleveland, 19 Jan. 2020
  • The Southern city over-indexed by 60 percent, according to those with access to grosses.
    — Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Dec. 2019
  • The gas tax, last raised in 1990, will be indexed to future inflation increases.
    — Mary Wisniewski, chicagotribune.com, 7 June 2019
  • And when the fingertips merely shear, and yet perceive, a dip so shallow, the brain is brought up short, with no way to index the experience.
    — Virginia Heffernan, Wired, 21 Jan. 2020
  • The company’s crawlers, which trawl the web and collect information about pages, have indexed more than six billion web pages.
    — Boone Ashworth, WIRED, 26 Nov. 2023
  • And the journals often advertise on their websites that they are indexed by Google Scholar.
    — Gina Kolata, New York Times, 30 Oct. 2017

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