How to Use alphabet in a Sentence

alphabet

noun

• 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
• Hint #5: One of the last three letters in the alphabet is featured.
  — David Faris, Newsweek, 3 Nov. 2024
• After that, the NHC will move on to using the Greek alphabet.
  — Allison Chinchar, CNN, 13 Sep. 2020
• 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
• The Atlantic has burned through all its storm names this year and is now working through the Greek alphabet.
  — Leigh Morgan, al, 30 Sep. 2020
• Nine letters of the Greek alphabet have been used to name storms this season.
  — Paola Pérez, orlandosentinel.com, 19 Nov. 2020
• The only other time the Greek alphabet was used was the 2005 season.
  — Kyle Whitfield, NOLA.com, 28 Sep. 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
• That includes 21 named storms in the standard list of names along with the now four named storms in the Greek alphabet, Javaheri said.
  — Madeline Holcombe, CNN, 6 Oct. 2020
• One way to think about it is to picture peptides as the letters of an alphabet that are the building blocks of all the words in a book.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 23 Sep. 2023
• This initial necklace is set in 14-karat gold and comes in all letters of the alphabet.
  — Ellen McAlpine, Good Housekeeping, 21 Nov. 2022
• Hurricane Zeta was one of nine names in the Greek alphabet that were used for storms for the first time since 2005.
  — al, 1 Dec. 2020
• The officer asked the driver to perform some tests, the first being the alphabet.
  — cleveland, 27 May 2022
• In a bare room, students seated on the floor recite the alphabet.
  — Eileen Ng, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Nov. 2020
• On a recent day, a student held up flashcards at the front of the class and led her peers in a call and response chant through the alphabet.
  — al, 10 Nov. 2021
• The new system, which was announced Monday, is based on the letters of the Greek alphabet.
  — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 31 May 2021
• After all 21 names on the list have been assigned to a storm, forecasters will use the Greek alphabet to name storms until the season ends.
  — Abigail Adams, People.com, 4 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 3 Jan 2025