How to Use into line in a Sentence

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• Easing off the throttle a tiny amount brings the car right back into line.
  — Csaba Csere, Car and Driver, 7 Sep. 2023
• As with its ally Russia, the go-to tool to try to bring Belarus into line has been sanctions.
  — Aliaksandr Kudrytski, Bloomberg.com, 3 Mar. 2022
• The marching orders go out, and the infantry falls quickly into line.
  — Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 22 Jan. 2024
• The campaign succeeded when Britain’s Parliament stepped in to bring the region into line with the rest of the country.
  — NBC News, 6 Jan. 2022
• How people are quite willing to fall into line and follow.
  — ELLE, 19 Mar. 2022
• Still, Hungary did fall into line with the EU and impose sanctions on Russia.
  — Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Apr. 2022
• The old way of doing things—whipping weaker peoples into line—was no longer going to work.
  — Andrew J. Bacevich, Foreign Affairs, 28 Feb. 2023
• Cupich concurred there was more the Holy See could and should do to bring religious orders into line.
  — Nicole Winfield, ajc, 25 May 2023
• Powell said the Fed’s goal was to cool off consumer and business spending and bring it more into line with the restrained supply of goods and workers.
  — Christopher Rugaber, USA TODAY, 17 May 2022
• In time, rents will come into line as supply and demand come into balance.
  — USA TODAY, 25 July 2023
• The cosmos will do that for you from time to time as the ceaseless wanderings of our planet, the sun and moon bring them into line like billiard balls on a velvet space table.
  — New York Times, 10 June 2021
• After that, there was an effort in Europe and North America to push the continent into line.
  — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 27 July 2023
• Her teacher promptly pulled her back into line with a yank whose mildness astonished me.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 4 May 2023
• By 1972, however, these women had strong support for their work to bring the law into line with actual practice.
  — Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 5 May 2022
• This week, Biden’s approval rating was measured at 31 percent, which brings him perfectly into line with Trump, whose number is the ...
  — Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 13 June 2023
• This week, Biden’s approval rating was measured at 31 percent, which brings him perfectly into line with Trump, whose number is the ...
  — Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 13 June 2023
• Now Prosus needs to bring its other investments into line.
  — Stephen Wilmot, WSJ, 18 Sep. 2023
• At first, the fronts pulled us away from a stop sign, but at the slightest steering input, the little car simply leapt across the road then snapped back toward centerline when the rears quickly fell back into line.
  — Michael Teo Van Runkle, Ars Technica, 17 Nov. 2023
• This change will bring expenses and revenue back into line while preserving our core assets and long term upside.
  — Todd Spangler, Variety, 30 June 2023
• Until the West can come up with a more persuasive argument of its own, African nations are unlikely to jump into line behind it.
  — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 27 July 2023
• That move, which follows a long-running debate over the issue, will bring the country into line with most of the rest of the world and cut down on legal discrepancies that arise from the use of three different systems.
  — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 9 Dec. 2022
• About a decade ago, there was an effort to eliminate the ambiguities in Markdown and bring it into line with coding dogma.
  — Scott Gilbertson, WIRED, 24 June 2024
• And the call to bring the police into line has struck a resounding chord in a country weary of war and atrocity at the hands of a host of paramilitaries, guerrilla fighters and security forces.
  — New York Times, 12 May 2021
• Appointees routinely fall into line without a hint of dissent when picking a chairman.
  — Kevin Spear, Orlando Sentinel, 27 Apr. 2022
• And rather than smoothing strands into line and straightening the lot into sleek and perfect order, roughing it up with a mussy, unruly cut can feel exquisitely defiant.
  — Elle Turner, Glamour, 11 Nov. 2021
• On Wednesday, North Carolina legislators will be voting on a bill to bring its state law into line with federal law.
  — Josh Archambault, Forbes, 21 June 2022
• Someone in your group of coworkers or friends may attempt to assert their dominance after a long period of having fun and joking around, and the rest of the people around you might just fall into line.
  — Chicago Tribune, 13 Jan. 2023
• On a recent Sunday evening, fans crowded into line outside a multiplex in India’s capital city of New Delhi.
  — Robbie Whelan, WSJ, 4 July 2023
• While the organization staggered into line to back Tagovailoa, the quarterback is a believer in the 2022 Dolphins.
  — Mark Inabinett | [e-mail], al, 3 Nov. 2022
• That made collectives permissible for the likes of Alabama and Auburn, bringing them into line with peer institutions.
  — Michael Casagrande | [e-mail], al, 9 May 2022

Last Updated: 25 Sep 2024