How to Use index in a Sentence

index

1 of 2 noun

• Look up the recipe for potato soup in the index.
• The card catalog is an index to the materials in the library.
• Potato soup is listed under “soup” in the index.
• The index has fallen 8.7% in a year and 42% in two years.
  — Andy Hoffman, Fortune Europe, 10 Apr. 2024
• The book had reference points on the pages and an index with cities in the area.
  — Brahmjot Kaur, NBC News, 26 Sep. 2023
• The index declined about 7 percent in the past year and was flat over the past 30 days.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 7 Feb. 2024
• But the index is still down nearly 10% this year, one of the worst performers in the world.
  — Laura He, CNN, 25 Oct. 2023
• The son got out at the right time; Gillespie, who’d mostly stuck to index funds, did not.
  — Vulture, 10 Sep. 2023
• An index for the price of gold has risen about 5% since a year ago, but has fallen from a peak reached in May.
  — Max Zahn, ABC News, 4 Oct. 2023
• Tesla and Apple are weighing on the index to kick off the week.
  — WSJ, 7 Aug. 2023
• Sit outside—in a back yard, on a stoop, on your windowsill—and let the heat index try its damnedest.
  — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 6 Aug. 2023
• The three major indexes are on pace for their best five-day stretch in a month or more.
  — David Uberti, WSJ, 31 Aug. 2023
• And even with three new starters, the size of the unit was heralded among the biggest in the conference on the beef index.
  — Nick Alvarez | [e-mail], al, 11 Sep. 2023
• The index had climbed 2.8% on a weekly basis as of press time Friday.
  — Benzinga, Detroit Free Press, 15 July 2023
• The index has now increased for the third month in a row and stands at its highest point since December 2021.
  — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2024
• On a monthly basis, prices increased 0.3%, down from a 0.4% jump the prior month, the PCE index shows.
  — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 29 Mar. 2024
• July’s index grew by 0.3%, led by an uptick of 0.5% from the service sector.
  — Benzinga, Detroit Free Press, 13 Aug. 2023
• The heat index could reach as high as 110 in those areas this afternoon.
  — Leigh Morgan, al, 16 July 2023
• The index has jumped twenty-nine per cent in the past two months, which is the biggest such increase in more than thirty years.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2024
• In the hottest areas, heat indices in the triple digits could continue.
  — Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY, 16 Aug. 2023
• Meanwhile, Bezos’ net worth has increased by $23 billion over the past year, the index shows.
  — Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 5 Mar. 2024
• As the heat settles over the region in the coming week, the Gulf Coast and Southeast will see widespread heat indices of over 110 degrees.
  — Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY, 15 July 2023
• That means an afternoon heat index as high as about 105.
  — Dan Stillman, Washington Post, 26 July 2023
• Major stock indexes ticked up on the Fed news, after remaining flat for much of the day.
  — Rachel Siegel, Washington Post, 20 Mar. 2024
• The lower the student aid index, the more likely a student qualifies for aid.
  — Kristen Taketa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Dec. 2023
• That helped stock indexes to reverse their losses as the day progressed.
  — Yuri Kageyama, Quartz, 12 Mar. 2024
• Check out the index pages at the bottom of this article for product categories.
  — Kaylee Remington, cleveland, 14 Sep. 2023
• For those cities left, the team then looked at their livability index on AreaVibes, and combined all the data to come up with its top 15 cities.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 17 Nov. 2023
• The Mercer team pinpointed a handful of improvements that would raise the U.S. system’s index score in the future.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2023
• All of the major stock indexes closed in the red, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average falling more than 1 percent.
  — Rachel Siegel, Washington Post, 10 Apr. 2024

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index

2 of 2 verb

• This search engine has indexed hundreds of millions of websites.
• At the time, Google's crawlers were only able to index the first 100KB of pages.
  — Don Dodds, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2023
• The gas tax last was raised in 1990 and will be indexed to the rate of inflation in the future.
  — Kimberly Fornek, chicagotribune.com, 1 July 2019
• Many small business loans are indexed to the prime rate, too.
  — Susan Tompor, USA TODAY, 15 Dec. 2017
• All the plants will be indexed on Google, and signage around the little path tells passersby about the space and the plans.
  — Sean Cotter, BostonGlobe.com, 13 May 2023
• The gas tax was last raised in 1993 and it is not indexed to inflation.
  — The Washington Post, cleveland.com, 10 Jan. 2018
• At the same time, pensions are also indexed to RPI, widening a divergence between the fortunes of the young and the old.
  — Bloomberg.com, 15 Aug. 2017
• The earnings are indexed to the change in overall wage levels and the rise in the nation's standard of living while you were employed.
  — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 24 May 2023
• The House wants to index those deductions to inflation.
  — Michael Dresser, baltimoresun.com, 28 Mar. 2018
• There are three main types of annuities: fixed, variable and indexed.
  — Emilia Benton, Houston Chronicle, 24 Feb. 2020
• Content on the dark Web is not indexed by popular search engines such as Google.
  — Doug Stanglin, USA TODAY, 17 Aug. 2017
• But there’s a setting to make all of your tweets private, so only your online friends can read them, and Google will no longer be able to index them.
  — Hiawatha Bray, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Apr. 2018
• No one on Murray’s side of this debate is saying that all social self-worth is indexed by IQ scores.
  — Ezra Klein, Vox, 9 Apr. 2018
• The gas tax last was raised in 1990 and would be indexed to future inflation increases.
  — Jamie Munks, chicagotribune.com, 3 June 2019
• Enter a competitor's website or page URL to see if Google has indexed it.
  — Don Dodds, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2023
• Conversely, it under-indexed in mid-sized cities such as Salt Lake City.
  — Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Oct. 2019
• The dark web is a hidden part of the internet that isn’t indexed by conventional search engines.
  — Amanda Garrett, Cincinnati.com, 13 Feb. 2020
• As of Wednesday, the site could not be reached—but a copy of it was posted to a Tor hidden service, part of what’s known as the dark web because it isn’t indexed by search engines.
  — Will Oremus, Slate Magazine, 16 Aug. 2017
• Oppenheimer indexed to a 20 percent share of Imax screens, the company said, marking a new record.
  — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 July 2023
• That same holding indexed to inflation would be subject to a 21.4% tax rate, the research service said.
  — Saleha Mohsin, latimes.com, 27 June 2019
• The 1940 census records were released a decade ago, but the federal government didn't transcribe and index the names.
  — Bill Bowden, Arkansas Online, 10 Apr. 2022
• Because this amount was not indexed to inflation, the AMT clobbers more people each year.
  — Kathleen Pender, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Dec. 2017
• One option would be to index a minimum wage increase to the cost of living in each state instead of mandating an across-the-board rate.
  — Michael Collins, USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2021
• Each event is indexed so a particular play can later be viewed with a single tap.
  — Tom Simonite, WIRED, 6 June 2018
• The higher Ohio wage would also be indexed to inflation.
  — Olivera Perkins, cleveland, 19 Jan. 2020
• The Southern city over-indexed by 60 percent, according to those with access to grosses.
  — Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Dec. 2019
• The gas tax, last raised in 1990, will be indexed to future inflation increases.
  — Mary Wisniewski, chicagotribune.com, 7 June 2019
• And when the fingertips merely shear, and yet perceive, a dip so shallow, the brain is brought up short, with no way to index the experience.
  — Virginia Heffernan, Wired, 21 Jan. 2020
• The company’s crawlers, which trawl the web and collect information about pages, have indexed more than six billion web pages.
  — Boone Ashworth, WIRED, 26 Nov. 2023
• Though the list has only just begun indexing Yelp's bad actors, Yelp plans to keep growing the index into a robust resource.
  — Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 21 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024