How to Use key word in a Sentence

key word

noun

• Keep in mind, though, that the key word here is slowly.
  — Olivia Muenter, Woman's Day, 8 May 2020
• Scouting report: Change is the key word for the Cougars.
  — John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Aug. 2022
• But the key word, resilience, that’s the mark of a successful team.
  — James Crepea | The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 3 Oct. 2021
• Phillips can impact — which is the key word here — the game in a multitude of ways.
  — David Furones, sun-sentinel.com, 7 Sep. 2021
• There’s no key word in our system to say a photo is a mug shot.
  — cleveland, 26 Feb. 2022
• Look for milder options, with key words like soap-free or milk.
  — Maddie Aberman, Cosmopolitan, 30 May 2017
• That’s the key word for season No. 5 of pushing for a title.
  — Ann Killion, SFChronicle.com, 8 June 2019
• Yet the key word there is progress—the idea that things are indeed getting better, if at a glacial pace.
  — Fortune, 18 July 2019
• Space, of course, is the key word, since the sparsely populated state (pop.
  — Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY, 10 Oct. 2017
• The key word, as George notes later in the article, is practice.
  — Kevin Kruse, Forbes, 8 Nov. 2021
• The concept gets a little tricky though, where the key word is someone else’s trademark.
  — Jack Greiner, The Enquirer, 18 Aug. 2020
• That has been the key word in every game in this series, and this one will be no exception.
  — Jeff Greer, The Courier-Journal, 14 Sep. 2017
• A year ago, Tara VanDerveer had a key word for her team: flexible.
  — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Nov. 2021
• All are immersed in their own survival game, hinged on one key word: Pivot.
  — Michael Granberry, Dallas News, 28 Sep. 2021
• In the 24 hours that separated one of the ugliest Rangers’ games from the next, the key word was consistency.
  — Dallas News, 12 May 2022
• Most is the key word here and leaves just a little wiggle room where some health upgrades could arrive in the coming weeks.
  — David Phelan, Forbes, 2 Sep. 2021
• Nearly is the key word—finding the best scarf is not impossible.
  — Gaby Keiderling, Harper's BAZAAR, 17 Oct. 2022
• The key words being ‘up to,’ but voters were confused by the first ballot which was incorrect and asked for a 10-cent sales tax.
  — David Taylor, Houston Chronicle, 6 May 2018
• What particularly stood out to me in the first day of the conference was a key word: Access.
  — Fortune, 29 Apr. 2021
• Balance is the key word to use when describing her styling work—the proportions are always just right.
  — Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 15 Jan. 2024
• The key words are doubt, movement, and synchronization.
  — Grant Wahl, SI.com, 3 May 2018
• The website sells shirts with various generic T-shirt sayings but with a twist — a key word is replaced in each phrase with the word horny.
  — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 30 Oct. 2021
• In the Weather Service forecast for the next seven days, one key word was notably absent.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 17 Feb. 2018
• The key word here is some, because certainly not all tech companies would be.
  — Dryden Pence, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2021
• The company's marketing themes draw from three key words: thrilling, aware and stunning.
  — Russ Mitchell, latimes.com, 29 Mar. 2018
• The key word there is quality, because not all bar carts are created equal.
  — Rachel Klein, Popular Mechanics, 16 Sep. 2022
• The refit also saw the swimming pool on the main deck—once again the key word here—stretched to 23 feet, while two new bridge-deck VIP suites were added, each with 39-foot-long private balconies.
  — Howard Walker, Robb Report, 28 Apr. 2023
• If the key word in sustainability used to be zero, the next big word will be positive.
  — Jenny Southan, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Aug. 2019
• Then, there were the Grammys in mid-March, which, in my opinion, fared slightly better (the keyword being slightly).
  — Angel Madison, Good Housekeeping, 31 Mar. 2021
• Eventually is the key word—the team is still working just to identify all the molecules at play here.
  — Andrew Moseman, Discover Magazine, 10 Sep. 2010

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024