How to Use coordination in a Sentence

coordination

noun
  • The manager is in charge of project coordination.
  • The illness causes a loss of coordination.
  • The new agency will oversee the coordination of the various departments.
  • Playing sports improves strength and coordination.
  • There needs to be better coordination between departments.
  • Pitt gets bonus points for the coordination here: the shoes matched the yellow stitching on his suit.
    Christian Allaire, Vogue, 2 Aug. 2022
  • Start with the flows in this workout, which challenges your strength, coordination, and mind in all the right ways.
    Eric Leija, Men's Health, 6 May 2022
  • But none of these sanctions were done in full coordination with the EU.
    Nate Dicamillo, Quartz, 28 Feb. 2022
  • If your child needs to work on fine motor coordination (and their nerves), this is the game!
    Rachel Rothman, Good Housekeeping, 17 Oct. 2022
  • Managers there have seen some of the challenges to coordination up close in large and small ways.
    Patricia Cohen, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2023
  • When asked why the restoration has taken so long, the mayor said there needed to be more coordination on the part of the city.
    Erin Edgemon, AL.com, 28 Mar. 2018
  • Potential: Has the hands and foot coordination to dazzle with the puck and could be a top-six winger.
    Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press, 16 June 2019
  • Is this supposed to be one of many projects, in which case, where is the coordination to make sure that there is an impact.
    Dileep Rao, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2021
  • Four or five years ago there wasn’t this kind of coordination.
    Kevin Fagan, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Feb. 2018
  • The two stars chose to match for their first appearance, though the coordination was hardly in your face.
    Vogue, 14 Mar. 2019
  • Part of the delay has been the lack of coordination between city agencies.
    Shwanika Narayan, SFChronicle.com, 25 Feb. 2020
  • The texts mostly concerned the coordination of phone calls and a meeting between the two.
    Tess Riski, Miami Herald, 22 Feb. 2024
  • As opposed to the painstaking coordination of film sets, these shots are often off the cuff.
    Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 28 Dec. 2022
  • Young pandas pounce and play not just for fun, but to build skills like balance and coordination.
    Corryn Wetzel, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Mar. 2022
  • Inhalants can cause a person to slur their speech and lose coordination of their body.
    Kashmira Gander, Newsweek, 19 Feb. 2018
  • Here’s a fun way to work on your core strength, balance and coordination: Try walking along a slackline.
    Sarah Sekula, Fox News, 7 June 2018
  • One is the kind of stove-piping where each unit or department sort of does its own thing and there is very little coordination.
    Justin George, Washington Post, 28 May 2022
  • Union and Wade kept the coordination tight with a silver and black color scheme and matching hoods on top of their glittering looks.
    Zoey Lyttle, Peoplemag, 1 May 2023
  • The key word there is coordination, and that’s really what this office is about.
    Sarah Matusek, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Aug. 2022
  • Know the effects medicines can have on your balance, coordination and judgment, and avoid swimming if the medicine affects any of those.
    Chandra Fleming, Detroit Free Press, 31 May 2022
  • Slurring speech or loss of coordination can be warning signs to slow down.
    Richard Sima, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Dec. 2022
  • If that coordination fails the city will die, but if an individual thing fails then of course the city can repair it.
    Matt Reynolds, WIRED, 18 Mar. 2024
  • For starters, there are few, if any, signs that the overt coordination of mass protests that characterized the weeks and months before Jan. 6 have taken place.
    Alan Feuer, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Apr. 2023
  • This pose takes a lot of coordination, but is totally worth it!
    Katie Robinson, Seventeen, 12 Feb. 2018
  • I was often mocked for being too girly, for my lack of coordination in sports, or for defending bugs from the boys who wanted to crush them.
    Damian Alexander, Teen Vogue, 21 June 2017

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