How to Use alphabet in a Sentence

alphabet

noun

• Or ask them to race to collect items whose names begin with a certain letter of the alphabet.
  — Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2020
• Hint #5: One of the last three letters in the alphabet is featured.
  — David Faris, Newsweek, 3 Nov. 2024
• Zeta is the furthest into the Greek alphabet the Atlantic season has gone.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 27 Oct. 2020
• This year’s season has so many storms that the hurricane center has turned to the Greek alphabet after running out of official names.
  — N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA TODAY, 26 Oct. 2020
• That year was also the first time the normal list of storm names was exhausted, prompting the use of names beginning with letters from the Greek alphabet.
  — Douglas S. Wood, CNN, 19 Oct. 2020
• Forecasters used up all of 2020′s storm names in September and have had to turn to the Greek alphabet.
  — Leigh Morgan, al, 24 Oct. 2020
• So many have formed that the hurricane center has used up all the names on its official list and has resorted to the Greek alphabet to designate systems.
  — Brian K Sullivan, Bloomberg.com, 6 Oct. 2020
• So many storms have formed in the Atlantic that forecasters have started using the Greek alphabet to name them after using up the list of human names.
  — Cameron McWhirter and Anthony Harrup, WSJ, 7 Oct. 2020
• This season has had so many storms that the Hurricane Center had to turn to the Greek alphabet for storm names after running out of official names.
  — CBS News, 21 Oct. 2020
• What's the difference between the Christmas alphabet and the ordinary alphabet?
  — Taylor Murphy, Good Housekeeping, 19 Oct. 2020
• This year’s hurricane season has had so many storms that the Hurricane Center has turned to the Greek alphabet for storm names after running out of official names.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 20 Oct. 2020
• Epsilon is named for the fifth letter of the Greek alphabet because the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season used up all the available names.
  — Abby Smith, Washington Examiner, 21 Oct. 2020
• Four of the 12 US named storms were from the Greek alphabet.
  — Allison Chinchar and Haley Brink, CNN, 30 Nov. 2020
• It’s also the first storm with the name of Theta, which is from the Greek alphabet.
  — Leigh Morgan, al, 10 Nov. 2020
• Its name comes from the 15th letter of the Greek alphabet.
  — John Wayne Ferguson, San Antonio Express-News, 13 Dec. 2021
• Some of you may have names that start with letters near the end of the alphabet.
  — Laura Newberry, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2021
• Rather, it is known as delta, the fourth letter of the Greek alphabet.
  — Vimal Patel, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Nov. 2021
• Watch Haim sing through the alphabet on Sesame Street above.
  — Glenn Rowley, Billboard, 11 May 2023
• If the Atlantic basin comes near that mark again the Greek alphabet won’t be used.
  — Chris Perkins, sun-sentinel.com, 21 May 2021
• By the end of the year, Julie taught the child the alphabet, how to type their name on a computer and sound out some small words.
  — Skyler Trepel, Peoplemag, 6 Oct. 2023
• The omicron variant shares a name with the 15th letter in the Greek alphabet.
  — Ella Lee, USA TODAY, 8 Dec. 2021
• In classrooms, teachers used to have a poster with the alphabet.
  — Jillian Kramer, Glamour, 6 Dec. 2022
• The second half of the alphabet will start back on Thursday.
  — Olivia Krauth, The Courier-Journal, 4 Apr. 2021
• There were so many storms that the Greek alphabet had to be used to name all of the storms for only the second time on record.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 1 June 2021
• If there are more than 21 storms in a season, the names transition to the Greek alphabet.
  — Angela Fritz, CNN, 1 June 2023
• Then Chris [Kenopic], the guy who plays our father, was the one who would teach us the whole alphabet and other signs.
  — Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 5 Mar. 2021
• The Cyrillic script, like the Roman one, has its origins in the Greek alphabet.
  — The Economist, 8 May 2021
• Nine letters of the Greek alphabet have been used to name storms this season.
  — Paola Pérez, orlandosentinel.com, 19 Nov. 2020
• If the 24 letters in the Greek alphabet have been used up, WHO will move to a new naming system.
  — Julie Mazziotta, PEOPLE.com, 2 June 2021
• Julian learned the alphabet and could count to 20 in English and Spanish.
  — Melanie Asmar, The Denver Post, 3 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Dec 2024