How to Use DM in a Sentence

DM

noun

• Now, there's no need to stress over a DM your friend sent or a meme on TikTok.
  — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 8 July 2023
• On the platform, shoppers can DM the experts with requests for an item and their preferred size.
  — Halie Lesavage, Harper's BAZAAR, 28 July 2023
• Getting an ocelot or a cheetah can be as easy as sending a DM or text, agreeing on a price, and setting a pick-up date.
  — Rachel Nuwer, Longreads, 10 Mar. 2020
• Three months after their first DM, Castro offered them five of her embryos.
  — Sara Harrison, ELLE, 17 Aug. 2023
• Looking to jog her memory, Humberstone reaches for her phone and brings up the DM.
  — Waiss Aramesh, Rolling Stone, 16 Aug. 2023
• Or, What does this specific punctuation in this specific part of this DM mean?
  — Raven Smith, Vogue, 9 Aug. 2023
• Message requests live in the Requests button located above your inbox in Instagram’s DM tab.
  — Emma Roth, The Verge, 3 Aug. 2023
• Tell them how to confirm the source of an official-sounding email, text or DM by contacting senders independently though another method.
  — Heather Kelly, Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2023
• That's right, this means more flirting than ever between the people sitting alone in their empty apartments, sending spicy emojis and questionable hashtags via DM to someone who is most likely to be a catfish.
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 20 Mar. 2024
• The athlete then shared alleged DM exchanges between herself and Hill, in which the actor appeared to send her several flirty comments reacting to her surfing photos.
  — Nicholas Rice, Peoplemag, 8 July 2023