How to Use alphabet in a Sentence
alphabet
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
The human-cell atlas project aims to map all the cells in our body — equivalent to words in this alphabet.
— Noam Solomon, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2021 -
One section of the artifact is carved with the first three characters of the runic alphabet.
— Brigit Katz, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Jan. 2023 -
They are named after letters of the alphabet, starting with A — the highest risk zone.
— Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 28 Sep. 2022 -
For a car named after the last letter of the alphabet, the Z-car got off to an incredibly strong start.
— Dan Edmunds, Car and Driver, 16 May 2022 -
The new variant is named after the 15th letter in the Greek alphabet, Omicron.
— Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 29 Nov. 2021 -
The lively mother sometimes swore and burped the alphabet.
— The Salt Lake Tribune, 22 May 2022 -
And if even newer variants emerge, there are nine more letters in the Greek alphabet.
— Faith Karimi, CNN, 29 Nov. 2021 -
The podcast will feature alphabet sing-a-longs, tongue-twisters and wordplay.
— Todd Spangler, Variety, 28 Aug. 2023 -
Driver spoke very quickly and began to sing the alphabet.
— David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 14 July 2024 -
Not one of these major companies are hitting the higher highs of some of those further along in the alphabet.
— John Navin, Forbes, 22 Sep. 2024
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