How to Use merge in a Sentence

merge

verb
  • Three lanes of traffic all merge at this point.
  • Along the coast the mountains gradually merge with the shore.
  • The two banks merged to form one large institution.
  • She merged into the crowd and disappeared.
  • Many small companies have been forced to merge.
  • To save the business, the owners decided to merge it with one of their competitors.
  • Day slowly merged into night.
  • The two schools merged as Mobile Ballet, and Corey was hired to lead it.
    Lawrence Specker | , al, 11 May 2023
  • One of the most meaningful projects was when the two cities merged their water departments in 2001.
    Paige Eichkorn, Arkansas Online, 5 Oct. 2023
  • Pulpy yet precise, those red strokes merge form and hue as surely as any of Louis’s rivulets of poured color.
    Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Last fall, Kroger and Albertsons — two of the largest U.S. grocery chains — announced plans to merge in a $20 billion deal.
    Dee-Ann Durbin, Chicago Tribune, 16 Aug. 2023
  • The goal was to merge the most iconic parts of the treasured bakery and the legendary shoe brand in fun and unexpected ways.
    Amber Love Bond, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
  • The previous year, Dow Chemical agreed to merge with DuPont.
    Maureen Farrell, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2023
  • Decades later, the Shields and Kennedy families almost merged again.
    Emily Blackwood, Peoplemag, 10 Jan. 2024
  • And then one day these many small worlds would merge into one, and there would be no place left for Putin; this Russia wouldn’t belong to him.
    Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
  • The next big wave of change in the grocery sector is simmering on the sidelines as Albertsons and Kroger look to merge.
    Samantha Gowen, Orange County Register, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Drivers were asked to be prepared to slow down and merge safely when venturing through work zones.
    The Arizona Republic, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Chang could sense a call to ministry, a desire to merge her Christian faith with a career of meaningful work.
    Amy Joyce, Washington Post, 26 Sep. 2023
  • Drivers were also asked to be ready to slow down and to merge safely when maneuvering through work zones.
    The Arizona Republic, 1 Mar. 2024
  • She’s now engaged and figuring out how to best merge her finances with her partner.
    Chloe Berger, Fortune, 25 Nov. 2023
  • Drivers should be prepared to slow down and merge safely when venturing through work zones.
    The Arizona Republic, 12 May 2023
  • The idea for it was born circa 1980, around the time David was beginning to merge his first trade, sculpture, with jewelry design.
    Leena Kim, Town & Country, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Belafonte also looked for a way to merge his activism with his career and found a mentor and friend in Paul Robeson.
    John Blake, CNN, 25 Apr. 2023
  • JetBlue had an agreement to buy and merge with Spirit, but a federal judge last month blocked that merger.
    Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Ask Yadi: Is my road rage justified when idiot drivers wait to merge until the last minute?
    Yadi Rodriguez, cleveland, 18 July 2023
  • Multiple spots on a single leaf will eventually merge, causing the entire leaf to turn brown and fall off the plant.
    Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 May 2023
  • Mullin sees words merged together in shapes like a silhouette or city skyline.
    Jan Goldsmith, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Oct. 2023
  • By mid-2018, astronomers figured that the Milky Way had merged with a few small galaxies throughout its lifetime, but that most of these were minor events.
    WIRED, 12 Nov. 2023
  • Moshiri, a mother of three, was announced as one of the channel's chief presenters in February, when BBC merged both of its news channels.
    Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 7 Dec. 2023
  • By March 2024, Likud’s candidates for local elections in a handful of towns had merged their slates with those of Jewish Power.
    Anshel Pfeffer, The Atlantic, 27 Mar. 2024

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