How to Use online in a Sentence

online

adjective
  • The city libraries are all online.
  • He likes to engage in online chats.
  • The genre has even worked its way into the worlds of online rap and digicore.
    Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 14 Dec. 2023
  • The Ragnarok forums sent me on my first trips down the online rabbit hole.
    Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2024
  • Liles has pleaded not guilty and a trial date has been set for March 4, online court records say.
    Sam Stanton, Sacramento Bee, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Psychics weighed in with their visions, and online groups played the Where-Is-Relisha game.
    Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2024
  • The online retailer's iconic two-day sale brings out the best deals of the year for Amazon Prime members.
    Emily Shiffer, Women's Health, 14 June 2023
  • Amazon had once owned a large piece of an online pharmacy called Drugstore.com, which rose and fell during the Web 1.0 era.
    Jason Del Rey, Fortune, 13 June 2023
  • The designer presented an online poll to fans asking if the bike should be built.
    Peter Jackson, Robb Report, 1 Mar. 2024
  • One of the online subcultures that influenced the birth of e/acc are the Rationalists.
    Robert Evans, Rolling Stone, 27 Jan. 2024
  • The elastic bottom can also be cuffed if the length is too long, which some online reviewers found.
    Paula Lee, Glamour, 3 Jan. 2024
  • The online court docket says McCaughan’s trial is set for March 11.
    David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 3 Mar. 2024
  • The sober Instagram world was invaluable to me in the early days, as was The Luckiest Club, an online support group.
    Kara Baskin, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Each of the 27 European Union states will soon have its own online harms regulator.
    Rod McGuirk, ajc, 22 June 2023
  • The team has been donating pineapples to food banks across Maui and giving 10% of their online sales to local nonprofits.
    Riddhi Sarkar, ABC News, 16 Dec. 2023
  • Elaine worked as a talent manager, as well as an actor, and appeared in the 1993 online game series Return to Zork.
    Catherine Santino, Peoplemag, 16 Sep. 2023
  • Amazon included the Levi’s and Free People collections in an online storefront curated to shop the look of the show.
    Valli Herman, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2023
  • The holiday season is upon us, and for many people that means more online shopping.
    Simon Constable, WSJ, 22 Nov. 2023
  • Breton said other online platforms will be carrying out their own stress tests in the coming weeks but didn’t name them.
    Kelvin Chan, Fortune, 23 June 2023
  • This belief, along with the more modest goal of a quick hookup, has kept countless online dating companies in business.
    Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Over the last five years, Sharon has written product reviews and roundups for a variety of online publishers.
    Sharon Brandwein, Southern Living, 21 Sep. 2023
  • More than a dozen times that night, the student tried to access online mental health resources, and the district's web filter blocked their requests for help every time.
    Todd Feathers, WIRED, 4 Dec. 2023
  • Try an online class: Check YouTube or workout apps for foam rolling routines that target specific body parts.
    Health Editorial Team, Health, 4 Dec. 2023
  • Davie is currently being held at Polk County Jail, online records show.
    Samira Asma-Sadeque, Peoplemag, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Free online games Get our free daily crossword puzzle, sudoku, word search and arcade games in our new game center at latimes.com/games.
    Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Police could not confirm that her death stemmed from an online purchase meetup, according to the release.
    Rebekah Riess, CNN, 3 June 2023
  • Homes will be able to be ordered online Amazon-style, with customers adding features to their cart and the order sent to a warehouse where all the elements will be flat packed and shipped ready to install.
    Andrea Darr, Kansas City Star, 26 Jan. 2024
  • There are many reasons that becoming an online expert can be useful to your career.
    Emma Fox, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Readers and online commenters described being bogged down by managers who don’t trust their skills or judgment.
    Karla L. Miller, Washington Post, 1 June 2023
  • More than 4,700 people have signed an online petition in support of a statue of Flaco being built in Central Park.
    Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2024

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