How to Use omit in a Sentence

omit

verb
Definition of omitnext
Synonyms for omitnext
  • Please don't omit any details.
  • The caption also omitted the name of the model in the photo.
    — New York Times, 26 Sep. 2023
  • My advice is to omit this person off your guest list, and if you are asked why, be truthful.
    — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 13 Jan. 2023
  • The role of a judge, said the court, is to determine the terms of a contract as written, not to insert terms the parties omitted.
    — Dan Eaton, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Sep. 2023
  • These next seven scents are ones that find themselves among the top 10 at other times of the year, or are simply too good to omit.
    — Dallas News, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Many voiced concerns about the project, including the decision to omit parkways from the lead cleanup.
    — Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2023
  • The Donnie Darko star was omitted from a more recent schedule.
    — Ethan M Steinberg, Fortune, 9 Mar. 2024
  • The article omitted the name of Tate’s friend Voytek Frykowski, who was among those killed with her.
    — Los Angeles Times, 16 July 2023
  • This is quite a complex thing to explain quickly, which is why it was omitted last week.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2023
  • The head of the startup excitedly tells them to go ahead and omit the AI Ethics elements.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 7 July 2022
  • The review has since been edited to omit that line and features an editor’s note.
    — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 3 Oct. 2022
  • But do omit the part about checking the tracking, which, though perfectly rational, tends to raise the hairs on the back of one’s neck.
    — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 23 June 2022
  • Some mower designs omit the plug and have a pivoting plate that closes off the deck.
    — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 10 July 2023
  • Renaissance is the first album of hers to completely omit them.
    — Mosi Reeves, Rolling Stone, 29 July 2022
  • As for the how: Cole’s original doesn’t have salt, and salt is omitted from most official recipes.
    — Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 20 Jan. 2024
  • The Buds 2 even have a great feature that much pricier earbuds from the likes of Beats and Bose often omit — wireless charging.
    — Antonio G. Di Benedetto, The Verge, 14 July 2023
  • Hagerty gives advice about how to interview, how to tell a story, what to include and what to omit.
    — Judith Newman, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Fahy might have had reason to omit the balls-tripping bit, however.
    — Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 15 Dec. 2022
  • The case was framed as a mystery, with content creators carefully choosing which aspects of the case to include and which to omit.
    — Caitlin Flynn, Rolling Stone, 21 Dec. 2023
  • Dietz also honors some of Christie’s own wording from the novel, the sort that’s too delicious to omit.
    — David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Apr. 2023
  • According to Rhodes, Dylan kept omitting the line from the middle of a chunk of dialogue.
    — Vulture, 25 Nov. 2023
  • This quote, reported by Reuters, was omitted from the ministry’s online transcript of the briefing.
    — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 19 July 2023
  • So, the system people have long followed omitted an entire star sign.
    — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Saveur suggests gin, not vodka, and omits the lemon juice in favor of Lillet Blanc, a French aperitif.
    — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 30 Jan. 2024
  • If using ground beef, lamb or turkey, omit the oil, as the meat will contain enough fat to saute the other ingredients.
    — G. Daniela Galarza, Washington Post, 9 June 2022
  • Mexico’s release of the communiqué the same day, in Spanish, omitted that phrase.
    — Mary Anastasia O’Grady, WSJ, 7 Jan. 2024
  • McKinney cites a study that found women were more than 2½ times as likely as men to be omitted from title.
    — Josh Snyder, Arkansas Online, 15 Oct. 2023
  • Scholars came to him from all over our region seeking knowledge of the important manuscripts that were omitted from the modern Bible.
    — Mohammed Naseehu Ali, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
  • That would omit a wide range of less serious but more common misconduct.
    — Peter Hermann, Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2024
  • Words related to weight, gender and race were omitted or replaced.
    — David K. Li, NBC News, 24 Feb. 2023

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