How to Use lineup in a Sentence

lineup

1 of 2 noun
  • The team has a powerful lineup.
  • She was asked to pick her attacker out of a lineup.
  • The networks all had different lineups for the new season.
  • And the Move fits right in with the rest of the lineup.
    Brandon Widder, The Verge, 18 Oct. 2023
  • To see the full livestream lineup, check out hulu.com/lollapalooza.
    Tim Chan, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Over the last decade or so, there’s been a handful of changes to the Rangers lineup.
    Garret K. Woodward, Rolling Stone, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Then, the spotlight shifted to the East Coast as Eve, the sole female artist in the lineup, graced the stage.
    Shelby Stewart, Essence, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Flenser knows how to pick the next cult bands, and Friday’s lineup was full of them.
    Andy O'Connor, SPIN, 27 June 2023
  • He was scheduled to pitch Thursday, but the lineup is now up in the air.
    Mirna Alsharif, NBC News, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Here are the lineups for Friday night’s game between the Guardians and Rays.
    Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 11 Aug. 2023
  • At the start of the season there were holes throughout the entire lineup.
    Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Feb. 2024
  • Chris Taylor went two for four at the bottom of the lineup.
    Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2024
  • The Red Sox have a left-handed heavy lineup, and Young is the only left-hander in the Reds’ bullpen.
    Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 2 June 2023
  • However, the Dodgers wanted to keep Lux’s bat in the lineup.
    Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Here are the starting lineups for Sunday’s game between the Guardians and Rangers.
    Joe Noga, cleveland, 17 Sep. 2023
  • The all-conference pick from last year out of Highlands has left a big void in the lineup.
    James Weber, The Enquirer, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Here are lineups for Tuesday night’s game between the Guardian and Twins.
    Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 5 Sep. 2023
  • An off-road-ready Force E model is said to be joining the lineup later by the end of the year.
    Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 10 May 2023
  • The junior catcher has been in and out of the lineup at her favorite spot all season.
    Rick Armstrong, Chicago Tribune, 27 May 2023
  • So Thommy moved out wide, while the lineup shifted around him.
    Daniel Sperry, Kansas City Star, 29 Mar. 2024
  • Check out a lineup of classic cars right in downtown Solvang.
    Sponsored Content, The Mercury News, 25 Sep. 2024
  • On Wednesday, the Rangers put Smith in the No. 2 position, opting not to move around anybody else in the top half of the lineup.
    Evan Grant, Dallas News, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Later, Eco and Plus trims will join the lineup with one of two battery packs, with the Eco boasting the most range at 264 miles per charge.
    Austin Irwin, Car and Driver, 16 May 2023
  • And right now, the brand’s entire luxe lineup is on sale for 25 percent off for Black Friday.
    Ariel Scotti, Travel + Leisure, 22 Nov. 2023
  • So far, the Yankees haven’t gained a platoon advantage when Rice is out of the lineup.
    Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 4 July 2024
  • The Ugg Classic Suede Slippers deserve a spot in your fall footwear lineup.
    Alyssa Grabinski, Peoplemag, 16 Sep. 2023
  • Once that happened, Nevin was scratched from the Triple-A Toledo starting lineup.
    Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 26 June 2023
  • With just one more notch in the win column in year three, Arizona will be back in the postseason lineup.
    Eddie Timanus, USA TODAY, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Place Alvarez on the Injured List, and Houston's lineup is far less fearsome.
    Michael Shapiro, Chron, 23 Sep. 2024
  • There were Appalachian trans punk bands, a multiracial many-gendered lineup of drag performers, and more.
    Rae Garringer, Them, 7 Oct. 2024
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2 of 2 verb
  • The sausages stretched in the outfield as the chefs lined up along the third base line.
    Rachel Bernhard, Journal Sentinel, 1 May 2024
  • Simply put, solar eclipses take place when the Sun, the Moon, and Earth line up.
    Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Tom Nolan lines up his picks for the best mystery and crime fiction of 2023.
    Wsj Books Staff, WSJ, 28 Dec. 2023
  • In the first picture, the Browns line up in the four-front alignment with each gap covered.
    Lance Reisland, cleveland, 14 Oct. 2022
  • They were all lined up on Seventh Street and my dad worked at all of them and ran movies.
    Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 Feb. 2024
  • At the end of Day 2, the recruits were asked again to line up again from strongest to weakest.
    Alex Ross, Peoplemag, 4 Jan. 2023
  • There are a lot of aid groups lining up to condemn this strike.
    Abc News, ABC News, 28 May 2024
  • In the background, more than a dozen bodies covered in white shrouds were lined up on the ground.
    Hajar Harb, Washington Post, 24 Dec. 2023
  • The first opened in April in Alliance, where over 800 people lined up to shop on its first day.
    Lillie Davidson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 June 2024
  • The rest of the world, in this division, will line up behind one of these agendas.
    Blaise Malley, The New Republic, 5 Oct. 2023
  • Everything has to line up with the venue and the availability of the dancers.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Dec. 2022
  • Trevor just wasn't lining up, and my gut was telling me something.
    Joelle Goldstein, Peoplemag, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Police entered the building around 10:30 p.m. and told students to line up against the walls.
    Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff, Washington Post, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Customers lined up in the parking lot, some waiting up to an hour to buy.
    Robert Klemko, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2023
  • Most of the routes were quick passes, but in the NFL teams want running backs that can line up on the hashes and run routes.
    Nubyjas Wilborn | , al, 22 Mar. 2023
  • All were lined up in a merchandise line that wrapped around the concourse.
    Thuc Nhi Nguyen, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2024
  • That process — to get one pipe to line up with the next — felt very dancer-ly and choreographic.
    Gia Kourlas, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2022
  • Toney has the speed to beat defenses deep, quickness enough to line up in the slot and can even work out of the backfield.
    Dave Skretta, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Oct. 2022
  • As the children line up at the book table, many of them are hopping up and down and smiling.
    Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Nov. 2022
  • My thoughts were as much about the in-sync way Gauff struck that last ball as how the moment had lined up for this column.
    Kurt Streeter, New York Times, 17 Sep. 2023
  • People would line up to coach Justin Herbert if that job came open.
    Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 1 Dec. 2022
  • Once in a great while, the timing lines up so that multiple broods emerge at the same time, and 2024 is one such year.
    Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 22 May 2024
  • The lyrics seem to line up with other songs Swift has written about Alwyn.
    Kelsie Gibson, Peoplemag, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Who wouldn’t line up to see the last-and-final effort of a beloved filmmaker?
    James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Apr. 2024
  • Everything was lining up for her as one of the fastest-rising artists in R&B and pop.
    Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 20 Sep. 2023
  • Friedland knew that one of the soccer players who lined up that day had the power to save his life.
    Thomas Schlachter, CNN, 13 July 2024
  • Squads of goons carrying enormous guns line up for Statham to take on one at a time.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 10 Jan. 2024
  • The rescue group has a storefront in a busy shopping area, and tourists line up in the mornings to have a chance to take a pup on a walk on the beach.
    Sydney Page, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Folks line up at Paşa Döner for dark meat–only chicken kebabs shaved onto buns served alongside drive-thru-thin french fries.
    Betsy Andrews, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Oct. 2024
  • Batiste told IndieWire that the sharp, sometimes discordant, sometimes howling cues could still work hand-in-hand with the film’s sound design and editing rhythm because the point was never to have every element in the film line up neatly.
    Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 13 Oct. 2024

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