How to Use hyperlink in a Sentence

hyperlink

noun
  • Hover over a hyperlink and click the wheel of your mouse.
    Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 29 Apr. 2021
  • The site’s hyperlinks glow in the brilliant default shade of blue; there are banner ads.
    Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2023
  • Maybe the girls need a hyperlink to a style guide with each invitation, but something needs to be done.
    Shamira Ibrahim, Vulture, 12 Sep. 2021
  • Now is the time to click the hyperlink to them and add the cancellation deadline to your calendar.
    Elaine Glusac, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2020
  • The notice was printed in a tiny grey font and the hyperlink was not set off in a different color.
    Jack Greiner, The Enquirer, 3 May 2022
  • Click here or use any hyperlink on this page to register as a new user.
    Xl Media, cleveland, 13 Feb. 2022
  • To make the prompt go away, users had to click a big blue button to agree to share their Instagram posts on Facebook, or a smaller hyperlink to opt out.
    Sheera Frenkel, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2023
  • When in doubt, hover your cursor over a hyperlink and scrutinize the URL.
    ProPublica, 29 Jan. 2022
  • Booking.com, a competitor owned by the Priceline Group, has a hyperlink on its home page that allows users to filter for rentals.
    Stephanie Rosenbloom, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2017
  • Hidden hyperlinks or fine print will not suffice, the agency said.
    Taylor Telford, Washington Post, 5 Nov. 2019
  • Twitter posted fact-check hyperlinks to two of Trump's tweets about mail-in voter fraud Tuesday.
    Spencer Neale, Washington Examiner, 27 May 2020
  • From my experience, the hyperlink may take you to an error page.
    WIRED, 29 Oct. 2022
  • Grobstein was all ours, a human hyperlink to Chicago’s sports past.
    Paul Sullivan, chicagotribune.com, 20 Jan. 2022
  • Both of the platforms are hyperlink deserts: Users can post only one or two external links anywhere on the sites, and the most important appears, yes, in the bio at the top of their profile.
    Michael Waters, The Atlantic, 26 Jan. 2022
  • The researchers also looked at whether stories included a hyperlink to the preprint.
    Cathleen O’Grady, Science | AAAS, 21 Jan. 2021
  • Joining a friend’s server is as simple as clicking a hyperlink.
    Matthew Gault, Time, 5 May 2020
  • The disclosures need to be prominent, not buried in fine print or hidden behind hyperlinks.
    Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 5 Nov. 2019
  • And a hyperlink, its main piece of evidence, led me to a local news site that already corrected the main element of its story.
    Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2020
  • Also introduced at the demonstration were precursors to the hyperlink, the computer window, and the video call.
    Oliver Effron, CNN, 5 Aug. 2020
  • Life was a series of hyperlinks that loaded at what, in retrospect, seems like an absolutely glacial pace.
    Davey G. Johnson, Car and Driver, 12 Dec. 2017
  • The case involved a lawyer, George Defteros, who alleged that a Google search of his name returned a hyperlink to and a snippet of a newspaper article that was defamatory.
    Mike Cherney, WSJ, 17 Aug. 2022
  • What about quality media such as a video of you speaking, a hyperlink to an article in which your expertise has been featured or a link to a blog or website?
    Christina Hager, Forbes, 5 May 2021
  • Rudy Giuliani tweeted a hyperlink by accident when writing about the G-20.
    Emily Stewart, Vox, 5 Dec. 2018
  • Most of the hyperlink advertisements on these victim's videos redirect the visitor to MindGeek's paysite, www.
    Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 16 Dec. 2020
  • As part of the update, Spotify will begin sending artists custom hyperlinks when their songs are added to those playlists that will place the artist's song at the top of the list, further incentivizing artists' sharing with fans.
    Tatiana Cirisano, Billboard, 10 Apr. 2019
  • Consumers who got the email, clicked on a hyperlink that redirected them to a different website, one of many which the company operated.
    USA TODAY, 18 Aug. 2023
  • The commercial web steams on as a hopped-up, strung-out system of hyperlinks, engineered to mix Barnumesque humbug with authentic reports, and to overlap ads and news—the better to sucker the eye.
    Virginia Heffernan, WIRED, 23 May 2018
  • Despite many warnings, the CFPB has proposed a rule that could require consumers to click on hyperlinks in unfamiliar emails.
    David Vladeck, WIRED, 23 Aug. 2019
  • Asked what resources the court system offered its judges for being alert to health problems, Chalfen sent a hyperlink to the Judicial Family Institute.
    Joe Sexton, ProPublica, 12 Oct. 2020
  • The emails also contained embedded hyperlinks that, when opened, would transmit information about the recipients to a server controlled by the suspects, the indictment says.
    Jonathan Dienst, NBC News, 25 Mar. 2024

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