How to Use meet in a Sentence

meet

1 of 3 verb

• Let's meet at the park.
• The couple met at a dance.
• He met his wife at work.
• We arranged to meet for lunch.
• They met for drinks after work.
• I'd like you to meet my good friend Bob.
• We met each other in college.
• Did you meet anyone interesting at the party?
• Have we met? You look familiar.
• They meet together every week.
• In October 2023, five of the moms met for the first time in person.
  — Brittany Kasko, Fox News, 8 Nov. 2023
• The target of the robbery had been directed to meet there.
  — Kevin Grasha, The Enquirer, 12 Jan. 2024
• More from Carolyn Hax From the archive: Best friend, meet my new boyfriend.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 31 Dec. 2023
• The prospect of coming up with enough shelters and homes to meet the need seems slim to none, at least in the near future.
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Oct. 2023
• On paper, the MBTA has made some plans to meet the moment.
  — Taylor Dolven, BostonGlobe.com, 22 July 2023
• For the most part, fashion is still not on track to meet its climate targets.
  — Emily Chan, Vogue, 29 Dec. 2023
• His dream was to meet Rays manager Kevin Cash and the pair delivered the lineup card to the umpires.
  — Mark Didtler, oregonlive, 8 Sep. 2023
• The board meets several times a year, and members serve six-year terms that can be renewed once.
  — Maureen Farrell, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2023
• The couple, who had met when Solano was a teenager, were together for two and a half decades and married in a church.
  — Emily Alpert Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 19 Nov. 2023
• Stone and Lawrence have also been long-time friends who first met through Woody Harrelson.
  — Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 12 Mar. 2024
• Achilles, the son of a sea goddess and King Peleus, meets Patroclus, a prince who is quite his opposite.
  — Dina Kaur, The Arizona Republic, 29 June 2023
• However, not all of the Teamster’s demands have been met.
  — Isabelle Butera, USA TODAY, 28 June 2023
• So maybe there’s like a layer of meeting there with the Oscar that is unconscious for her.
  — Addie Morfoot, Variety, 12 Mar. 2024
• Ice Spice nearly starts a conga line as more and more people appear to wait in the aisle’s wings, hoping to get a chance to meet the Carters.
  — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 5 Feb. 2024
• According to the paper, there’s currently only one car on sale in the U.S. that meets the demand for the next wave of EV adopters.
  — Owen Bellwood / Jalopnik, Quartz, 24 Mar. 2024
• Bands these days are forced to rely on merch sales and VIP experiences in order to help make ends meet.
  — Mike Palm, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Mar. 2024
• In his belief that the basics are enough, your partner could wind up being the better prepared of the two of you for meeting the unique needs of your child.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2023
• The pair started dating after meeting at a party in 2001.
  — Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 3 Aug. 2023
• But when my mother, sister and I arrived at our first appointment, we were met with a mob of tulle and sparkle, sweetheart necklines and tea-length hems, and white, white, white.
  — Isabelle Stillman, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2024
• The strike occurred just five days after his triumphant claim of a new six-year term in an election that was heavily controlled by the Kremlin and widely denounced abroad as failing to meet democratic standards.
  — Robyn Dixon, Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2024

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meet

2 of 3 noun

• On deck for the Seals is a meet at Waugh Chapel on July 8.
  — Craig Clary, Baltimore Sun, 3 July 2023
• The two first meet as schoolmates in their home city, Seoul.
  — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 1 June 2023
• The two rays of light from points A and B meet at the midpoint, M, on the embankment.
  — Kat Friedrich, Popular Mechanics, 25 July 2023
• Be sure the root flare—where the roots and the trunk meet—is above the soil for proper oxygen transfer.
  — Laura Drummond, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 June 2023
• Cathedral’s Kailee Swart set a state meet record with 13-6 ½ pole vault.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 4 June 2023
• Rylan Kennedy, a Texas A&M football signee, has won the high jump in four of the first five meets of the season.
  — Greg Riddle, Dallas News, 22 Mar. 2023
• The Palomar League meet will be staged at Guajome Park.
  — Steve Brand, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Oct. 2023
• That time is five seconds faster than the winning time in 5A at last year’s state meet.
  — Greg Riddle, Dallas News, 22 Mar. 2023
• The senior has the top mark this season going into the next week’s state meet.
  — Kyle Neddenriep, The Indianapolis Star, 24 May 2023
• The winners and losers from Friday night’s game meet Sunday.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Nov. 2023
• Lott came into the meet with the eight-best long jump in the nation this season at 20 feet, 3½ inches.
  — Lee Nichols, Dallas News, 12 May 2023
• The key is to add leverage with the 'state championship' title linked with this meet, so the kids will show up.
  — Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 4 May 2023
• By the first scrimmage at Bushwick, there were seven swimmers, and then 12 by the first meet.
  — Corey Kilgannon, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2023
• Their cute meet finds her in a mud puddle, after an encounter with a goat.
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2023
• He’s clinched his second meet title of the outdoor track-and-field season.
  — Time, 6 June 2023
• At their first meet of the season, their six gymnasts all scored above 9.0 on balance beam.
  — Kat Cornetta, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Jan. 2023
• The tightness of the meet was symbolic of UW’s Big Ten dual season.
  — Mark Stewart, Journal Sentinel, 13 Feb. 2023
• Barnett, ranked fifth nationally, is the fourth seed at the Big Ten meet.
  — Mark Stewart, Journal Sentinel, 3 Mar. 2023
• Children's and youth classes from age 3 to grade 5 meet in Lower Knox.
  — Deb Harvell, Arkansas Online, 22 Oct. 2023
• The best track and field meet of the season is set for Saturday at Arcadia High.
  — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2024
• Here’s how Anthony jumped the barriers to the meet the woman who’d be his bride.
  — Maureen O'Hare, CNN, 25 Feb. 2023
• To finish the championship meet, the Bluebirds took seventh place in the 400-yard freestyle relay.
  — Alex Harrison, The Enquirer, 19 Feb. 2023
• Treat the munchkins to an afternoon of egg hunts, sweets, Bunny meet & greets, bounce house, games, face painting and arts & crafts.
  — Miami Staff, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
• But Conner said the highlight of the meet came in the last event when Panther Creek shaved six seconds off its 400 freestyle relay time.
  — Carter Yates, Dallas News, 10 Feb. 2023
• All told, about 40 people showed up to the meet - a good turnout, according to the organizers.
  — Michael Dobuski, ABC News, 18 Feb. 2023
• When the train arrived in Cannes, de Havilland ran over to Kelly and suggested that the two meet.
  — Christine Rousselle, Fox News, 14 Sep. 2023
• Shackell helped the Greyhounds win the championship meet’s first race as the third leg of Carmel’s 200-yard medley relay team.
  — Paul Shepherd, The Indianapolis Star, 26 Feb. 2023
• One month later, Grimstad led his team to first-place finishes in three events at one meet.
  — USA TODAY, 12 Mar. 2024
• Once a meet ends, young fans orbit the ever-approachable and ebullient Gators star.
  — Edgar Thompson, Orlando Sentinel, 12 Apr. 2023
• The team didn’t have enough swimmers to field a full roster last year but still managed to finish fifth at the state championship meet.
  — Josh Reed, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Sep. 2023

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meet

3 of 3 adjective

• For other couples, the Met Gala has served as a meet-cute spot.
  — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 7 Sep. 2021
• The region track meets determine who advances to the state meet May 11-12 in Austin.
  — Matt Young, Houston Chronicle, 27 Apr. 2018
• Lacy said the warm weather was a good prep for next week, when the state meet events will run at nearly the same time and conditions.
  — Steve Bittenbender, The Courier-Journal, 12 May 2018
• Menomonee Falls: Wunschel led Falls to its first state meet appearance in 23 years.
  — Mark Stewart, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 Aug. 2017
• Juhi Jhaveri is still searching for her first state meet appearance.
  — Bob Narang, chicagotribune.com, 8 May 2017
• The rest meet in regular session every year, and seven meet year-round.
  — Shane Sanderson, kansascity.com, 8 June 2017
• After an opening ceremony, both sides split and did not meet face-to-face again.
  — Philip Issa, Orange County Register, 23 Jan. 2017
• The annual barrage of meet-cute holiday movies may not be so feel-good if you just got dumped on Turkey Day.
  — Jenna Ryu, USA TODAY, 30 Nov. 2020
• The movie isn’t just relying on a meet cute premise, it is also bolstered by some star power in the form of Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum.
  — Brent Lang, Variety, 25 Mar. 2022
• And while supply did not meet initial demand, the recreational market has reached a balance, Gray said.
  — Kathleen Gray, Detroit Free Press, 27 Oct. 2019
• Hui, 33, and Do, 28, have a meet-cute story fitting for two Hollywood stunt performers.
  — Christi Carras, Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2021
• Russell Robinson, a junior, dominated the boys long jump with the four best leaps of the competition in his first state meet appearance.
  — Buddy Collings, OrlandoSentinel.com, 5 May 2018
• The night marked a season-best meet team score for the Tide and also registered a season-best team score on the uneven bars and career-best scores for a number of gymnasts in different skills.
  — Cheryl Wray, AL.com, 2 Mar. 2018
• Putin’s announcement has been meet with near-global skepticism.
  — John Haughey, Washington Examiner, 13 Aug. 2020
• Eating out is a social exercise, and on Las Olas that exercise can come in places that are open-air casual, meet-market boisterous or small and quirky.
  — Michael Mayo, sun-sentinel.com, 15 Aug. 2019
• Fact: Only a fraction of the tests advertised meet FDA specifications.
  — Madelyn Fernstrom, NBC News, 10 July 2020
• Their meet-cute starts with an unlikely mistake of the dabbawalas, which was a lunch delivery system studied by Harvard for its accuracy.
  — Esra Erol, Bon Appétit, 24 Mar. 2022
• Pewaukee wins Woodland After winning the dual-meet season title, Pewaukee's wrestling team capped off the year with a win in the Woodland tournament, lifted by a big final round.
  — Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 Feb. 2018
• The Lions repeated as county, regional, and state champions for a fourth straight season last fall, and captured their fourth straight county meet title Thursday by placing five athletes in the top 10.
  — Megan Woodward, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 24 Oct. 2019
• Long gun sales may also have dropped because dealers are still waiting for the Department of Justice to specify which guns are legal and meet requirements outlined by a set of statutes that are already in law, Paredes said.
  — Hattie Xu, sacbee, 24 July 2017
• The first six conditions would ultimately involve the city’s five-member Board of Zoning Appeals granting the developers relief from aspects of the development that do not now meet city code.
  — cleveland.com, 30 July 2019
• Six other cases did not meet definitions provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 21 Sep. 2019
• When buying a home, residents agreed to share anonymized data on energy usage with Alabama Power and meet researchers monthly to discuss their experience and likes and dislikes.
  — Nell Lewis, CNN, 7 Aug. 2019
• Richardson won’t discuss her return until a pre-meet press conference Friday, agent Renaldo Nehemiah said.
  — Callie Caplan, Dallas News, 19 Aug. 2021
• It’s only when circumstances (and fate, in one bizarre twist on meet-cute tradition) force the overgrown brats into the same room that the film takes on a nervous, recognizably human energy, cuing at least one honest, plausibly halting conversation.
  — Guy Lodge, Variety, 20 May 2022
• Late Monday, Mexico's immigration authority said in a statement directed at the caravan that agents would have to review them individually at the border and those who did not meet requirements would not be allowed to enter.
  — Fox News, 15 Oct. 2018
• Late Monday, Mexico’s immigration authority said in a statement directed at the caravan that agents would have to review them individually at the border and those who did not meet requirements would not be allowed to enter.
  — Sonia Perez D., The Seattle Times, 15 Oct. 2018
• To assure safety, the Federal Government requires that cellphones meet radio frequency (RF) exposure guidelines.
  — Tom Lochner, The Mercury News, 22 Apr. 2017
• Senior information and vendors fair Meet representatives from local businesses, nonprofit organization and government agencies.
  — Washington Post, 24 May 2017
• For other couples, the Met Gala has served as a meet-cute spot.
  — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 7 Sep. 2021

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