How to Use point-to-point in a Sentence

point-to-point

noun

• The plan was brilliant: Flyer set up rental shops at train stations, while Hasler mapped out the most thrilling point-to-points.
  — Tim Neville, Travel + Leisure, 1 Apr. 2024
• They're mostly focused on not very long haul, but kind of point-to-point stuff.
  — WIRED, 10 Aug. 2023
• Gig offered one-way point-to-point rentals, letting users pick up a car in one place and drop it off anywhere within Sacramento.
  — Ari Plachta, Sacramento Bee, 7 Mar. 2024
• The 2023 event will include a point-to-point course on the lake, short one-design racing on the Detroit River, and a match-racing clinic for new and seasoned female sailors.
  — Marina Johnson, Detroit Free Press, 16 Aug. 2023
• With the intel provided by Ghazi, Aaron can adjust his positioning in the net on odd-man rushes, plays along the half-wall, and point-to-point passes.
  — Cam Kerry, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Feb. 2023
• Most of them use relatively simple point-to-point wiring, tubes, and transistors—all of which can be repaired if something goes wonky.
  — Parker Hall, WIRED, 29 June 2023
• That also created a challenge for airlines with hub-and-spoke networks to get the planes to the right places, as the smaller planes had more flexibility of being point-to-point, Birdsong adds.
  — Rachel Chang, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 July 2023
• With most of its hubs focused on smaller to mid-sized cities, the airline operates on a point-to-point model that connects travelers to leisure destinations across the nation.
  — Stella Shon, Travel + Leisure, 3 Jan. 2024
• Jordan reaffirmed that the carrier stands behind its business model and point-to-point network, saying its disruption review has not revealed the need for any structural changes there.
  — Alexandra Skores, Dallas News, 14 Mar. 2023
• Smaller airlines might operate a point-to-point model that connects smaller airports directly, but those flights are still subject to demand.
  — Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 9 July 2023
• This experiment shows how smarter, faster algorithms have not entirely solved the problem of point-to-point delivery, long a difficult business model with margins that hinge on small variances of dollars and cents.
  — Joe Fox, Washington Post, 1 June 2023
• Closer to home, SpaceX has sold Starship as a vehicle that could eventually provide global point-to-point flights for people and cargo between destinations on opposite sides of the world.
  — Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 24 July 2023
• These days, terahertz is also being used to offer very-wide-bandwidth, high-data-rate point-to-point communications for computer backhaul systems and high-video-rate systems.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 7 Mar. 2024
• There were various advantages in point-to-point communication—particularly as new forms of transportation arose—but radio also came to be seen as a way to transmit mass media.
  — Vince Guerrieri, Popular Mechanics, 1 June 2023
• ComfortDelGro’s management thinks the deal is complementary tothe company’s Australian business and is in line with its strategy to scale its point-to-point mobility business in the country, the analyst says.
  — WSJ, 3 Jan. 2024
• The foregoing alternative: point-to-point claim submission via carrier pigeon.
  — Seth Joseph, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
• This overwhelmed its outdated flight management systems, which operate within a primarily point-to-point airport network, which is more vulnerable to disruption than the hub-and-spoke model used by other airlines.
  — Laurie Garrow, Scientific American, 2 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 7 Sep 2024