How to Use web in a Sentence

web

1 of 2 noun
Definition of webnext
Synonyms for webnext
  • The spider was spinning its web.
  • I spent the afternoon surfing the Web.
  • The creepy crawler appears to be spinning a web that continues from the tail of the bat.
    — Kaitlyn Huamani, Peoplemag, 21 July 2023
  • But the protective web spun around the Duke and Duchess of Sussex did not help.
    — Elizabeth Leonard, Peoplemag, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Tab Time is a 10-episode web series aimed at preschool-age children.
    — Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 4 Nov. 2022
  • Sponsored by the San Diego Beer News web site — or was that obvious?
    — Peter Rowe, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Mar. 2023
  • For Pixel 7 devices, though, the VPN works in any web browser on the phone at no extra cost.
    — Dave Leclair, PCMAG, 5 Dec. 2022
  • There’s a worldwide web, there’s clickbait, there’s la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la.
    — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Dec. 2023
  • To view this newsletter in your web browser, click here.
    — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2023
  • For now, the blue checkmark is only available to Tumblr users on the web version.
    — PCMAG, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Online worship services are available on You Tube and through the church's web site at www.fpcspringdale.org.
    — Becca Martin-Brown, Arkansas Online, 24 Dec. 2022
  • Signe knows a drug dealer, the jittery Stian (Steiner Klouman Hallert), who can get anything for you on the dark web.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 15 Apr. 2023
  • The web version doesn’t seem to push the algorithmic For You timeline as hard as the mobile switch.
    — Jay Peters, The Verge, 13 Jan. 2023
  • Dafoe, Peter Sarsgaard and Emmanuelle Seigner are just a few of the hapless adults caught in their web.
    — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 17 Aug. 2023
  • The bad typing and decent scrolling mean that the Quest web browser is perhaps the best showcase of the Direct Touch controls.
    — Jay Peters, The Verge, 24 Mar. 2023
  • The laser had failed to pick up some of the wires in the spider web, with more than 20 wires emanating from single hangpoints in the ceiling.
    — Hilarie M. Sheets, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2023
  • This is the web version of The Broadsheet, a daily newsletter for and about the world’s most powerful women.
    — Paige McGlauflin, Fortune, 6 Dec. 2022
  • The streaming service is available for use in web browsers and as an app on Apple and Android products.
    — Thomas Goodwin Smith, Baltimore Sun, 26 Aug. 2023
  • Some iPhone apps have proper desktop apps or web apps to use of course, but sometimes the mobile app option works best.
    — David Nield, Popular Science, 10 Jan. 2024
  • One of them, senior Will Cooke, stood during breaks in the action to hold up a poster with the logo of the popular web browser Firefox.
    — Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Dec. 2022
  • Instead, customers have had to redirect to a web browser at the behest of the streaming platform.
    — Byryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Visit the sportsbook’s web-browser betting platform or the sports-gambling app in order to browse the bets and odds available.
    — cleveland, 2 Jan. 2023
  • The survey was conducted via landline, cellphone and text-to-web.
    — Alexandra Marquez, NBC News, 22 Nov. 2022
  • The flower bunches that have a web covering on them are also brown and shriveled, but the half that don’t have the web covering are fine.
    — oregonlive, 9 July 2023
  • To get started, head to Twitter in your web browser, open the settings, and click the Download an archive of your data button.
    — WIRED, 24 Mar. 2023
  • The feature will roll out gradually, starting with Android users and coming to web and iOS users over the next few months.
    — Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, The Verge, 3 Oct. 2023
  • Here are some questions I was asked recently about web series.
    — Susan Johnston, Rolling Stone, 9 Dec. 2022
  • These bolts thread into the block down near the main-bearing web to minimize distortion of the cylinders bores when they are tightened.
    — Csaba Csere, Car and Driver, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Meanwhile, one tweak of the Facebook or Google algorithm can tank an outlet’s web traffic.
    — Joseph Abrams, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2023
  • There are simpler ways for websites and apps to track your web activity through your email address.
    — Brian X. Chen, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2023
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web

2 of 2 verb
  • By the time the mites form webs it’s usually too late to save the plants.
    — Neil Sperry, ExpressNews.com, 13 Sep. 2019
  • The retablos are framed in webbing made from the same ragged material that forms the body of the snake.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 25 May 2023
  • Glass had webbed on the mirror and wadded paper towels were scattered on the wet floor around the sink.
    — Hazlitt, 14 June 2023
  • Instead, the ball landed in George’s webbing for the game’s final out.
    — Blair Kerkhoff, kansascity, 8 June 2018
  • Adults have white plumage, black wings, and webbed feet, along with tubular nostrils on either side of their hooked, pink bills.
    — National Geographic, 15 May 2018
  • A clamp on Dino’s webbed foot fed her vital signs to a monitor.
    — Krista Stevens, Longreads, 15 May 2017
  • My boobs are up two cup sizes and also webbed with little apostrophes of growth.
    — Laura Goode, Glamour, 22 Mar. 2018
  • Worm-snails then filter-feed like baleen whales by pulling the mucus webs back into their mouths and straining the food through barbs on their tongues.
    — National Geographic, 5 Apr. 2017
  • Sans sports bra, her perky breasts were intricately webbed with stretch marks.
    — Hannah Morrill, Cosmopolitan, 29 Aug. 2016
  • Google pays out billions to web sites, apps and other companies that send search traffic to its servers.
    — Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 25 Sep. 2017
  • The district center in Qadis is home to just 4,000 or so families, living in low, mud-brick homes webbed by dirt alleys.
    — Yaqoob Akbary Kiana Hayeri, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2023
  • The piece also featured a deep v-neckline with material that appeared like webbing from the top of the design all the way to the middle of her waist.
    — Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 2 Sep. 2023
  • It’s made from a durable polyester jacquard webbing that gently wraps around your foot’s natural contours.
    — Todd Plummer, Robb Report, 13 May 2023
  • The small spiderlike pests suck the juices from the underside of the tomato foliage to the point that the leaves fade and look dusty, and eventually there will be webs visible.
    — Calvin Finch, ExpressNews.com, 21 June 2019
  • By then the city will have started to adjust to the new Roosevelt Island, webbing it with connections and responding with a fresh round of growth.
    — Justin Davidson, Daily Intelligencer, 13 Sep. 2017
  • Some have switched to web video broadcasts or online gatherings and some have postponed or rescheduled planned events.
    — Chase Difeliciantonio, SFChronicle.com, 5 Mar. 2020
  • Here, cliffs rise at near-right angles to the highway, which is protected by giant skeins of webbing that catch the falling boulders.
    — Thomas Curwen, latimes.com, 26 May 2017
  • Magnified 15 times on the monitor, her brain, webbed with bright red blood vessels, gleamed in the light and pulsated with each heartbeat.
    — Denise Grady, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2018
  • Also look out for rounder, thicker slices of coppa that are webbed with tender fat and available in hot or sweet varieties.
    — Kyle Frischkorn, GQ, 23 Dec. 2017
  • Ella's feet are webbed and her fingers are fused together by the scar tissue from incessant wounds.
    — Ellen McCarthy, chicagotribune.com, 31 May 2017
  • The knit upper features synthetic suede side panels and the signature webbing tape 3-Stripes.
    — Megan Gustashaw, GQ, 13 Feb. 2018
  • There will also be webbing going down into the water and anchors to the bottom so people cannot swim underneath.
    — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 8 June 2023
  • Using plywood and lumber, firefighters build supports and webbing to hold up the sides of the trench, and access patients through ladders and safety ropes.
    — Jaclyn Cosgrove, latimes.com, 3 July 2019
  • Araña shot another strand of webbing toward the Manhattan skyline and pulled herself up, letting the winds and a New York evening propel her home to Brooklyn.
    — Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Apr. 2023
  • The other main types of sofa suspension are webbing and sinuous-springs.
    — Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, 5 Jan. 2019
  • All three models are water and stain resistant, have self-repairing double zippers with rope pulls, and webbed grab handles at the top and bottom.
    — Judi Dash, Philly.com, 15 Sep. 2017
  • Whereas bird and insect wings are quite stiff, similar to airplanes, bats have webbed hands with multiple joints, and the webbing is muscular.
    — Jonathon Keats, Discover Magazine, 21 June 2019
  • Mosquitoes and flies, which also develop inside the pitcher’s fluid, get trapped in X. beaveri webs when exiting the plant as adults.
    — Joanna Klein, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2018
  • The popular video conferencing platform Zoom routes web traffic to 17 of its data centers sprinkled around the globe.
    — Dalvin Brown, USA TODAY, 13 Mar. 2020
  • Most models come with carabiners, but only some also have webbing straps.
    — Ryan Wichelns, Popular Mechanics, 16 June 2023

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