How to Use text in a Sentence

text

1 of 2 noun

• You can find the full text of his speech on his website.
• A good critic will refer back to the text often.
• The book is mostly photographs—it has very little text.
• At this point the website is only text. Graphics will be added later.
• Students will read and discuss various literary texts.
• The next morning, around 7 a.m., Megan sent her mother a text.
  — David Begnaud, CBS News, 6 Jan. 2024
• Soon, a friend answered the girl’s text and sent her mother to go pick her up.
  — Sean Neumann, Peoplemag, 7 Mar. 2024
• Ramer responded to the text with a thumbs-up emoji and put down his phone.
  — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2023
• So much is going on that is context outside of the text.
  — Joe Lynch, Billboard, 10 Oct. 2023
• That meant that the wedding cake, however iconic or true to the text, had to go.
  — Anna Fixsen, ELLE Decor, 18 Apr. 2023
• And the audience should have been given more light for reading the texts.
  — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 16 Sep. 2023
• Those selected for the sale will get a text with an access code.
  — Hanh Truong, Sacramento Bee, 14 Feb. 2024
• The text of Dahl’s book—reactions, directions and all—make up most of the film’s script.
  — Douglas Greenwood, Vogue, 4 Sep. 2023
• There may be some differences between the audio and the text.
  — Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 25 Feb. 2024
• Try to send a text, bang on a pipe or wall or use a whistle instead of shouting.
  — Miriam Marini, Detroit Free Press, 4 Apr. 2023
• Read the full text of the Trump indictment and our top takeaways from the indictment.
  — Mark Berman, Washington Post, 18 July 2023
• Discord lets users form servers to chat by text, audio or video.
  — Rachel Lerman, Washington Post, 31 Jan. 2024
• These scams can come via phone, text, email and social media.
  — Adriana Morga, Quartz, 8 Mar. 2024
• Why not suggest that the 9-year-olds have a flip phone that only has the ability to make phone calls and text?
  — Michaeleen Doucleff, NPR, 14 Apr. 2024
• The Pin can do texts and calls, take notes, and capture video and photos through its 12 MP camera.
  — Kyle Barr, Quartz, 13 Apr. 2024
• If your dog leaves those borders you’ll be alerted by email and/or text.
  — John Gaudiosi, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
• Catch up on more text slang explainers: What does 'IMO' mean?
  — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 27 May 2023
• The texts were displayed to the jury on Friday, with Jabbari reading some of the messages into the record.
  — Vulture, 8 Dec. 2023
• One side noticed that the other side had filed a brief that seemed to have more lines of text per page than their own briefs contained.
  — Derek H. Kiernan-Johnson, The Conversation, 1 Feb. 2024
• But who among us hasn’t sent texts that would look terrible out of context?
  — Jp Brammer, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2023
• Is there any better answer in the text of Bad Cinderella?
  — Vulture, 25 Mar. 2023
• The huge volume of data comes in various forms, such as photos, videos and text.
  — Queenie Wong, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2024
• Details such as the timestamps of every text to your boyfriend might not be under lock and key, either.
  — Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 22 Aug. 2023
• On April 6, the department gave approval to only 19 of the books but then worked for the past month to get publishers to update their texts.
  — Leslie Postal Orlando Sentinel (tns), al, 10 May 2023
• The deal also includes some agreements not clearly included in the 99 pages of bill text.
  — Chris Cameron, BostonGlobe.com, 29 May 2023

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text

2 of 2 verb

• She just texted me back.
• I texted a message to her.
• I texted her a little while ago.
• Then click the link and subscribe to be able to text us.
  — oregonlive, 19 Sep. 2023
• It’s been the kind of thing where my best friends will text me.
  — Waiss Aramesh, Rolling Stone, 11 Nov. 2023
• Now, teenagers text with their friends and make TikTok videos.
  — Hannah Frystaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2023
• But now cabdrivers text her to pick her up for a trip to the hospital.
  — Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 22 July 2022
• Timmaraju is far from the only woman to call or text their mom in the wake of the news.
  — Anna Tingley, Washington Post, 27 June 2022
• Don't answer the phone, don't look at a work thing, don't text somebody, don't do any of it.
  — Georgia Slater, Peoplemag, 29 Nov. 2022
• Just text her mom for her shoe size, and know that the platform is probably the best pick.
  — Emily Shiffer, Women's Health, 25 Jan. 2023
• Anyone who drives knows the roads are filled with people who text when drive.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 16 Dec. 2022
• Take a short clip of it and put your cell phone back up, and then text it to them or whatever.
  — Ben Flanagan | [e-mail], al, 20 July 2023
• Put your best convo-starters to work and text your crush about their weekend plans.
  — Carolyn Twersky, Seventeen, 12 Dec. 2022
• If taking a taxi alone, take a photo of the taxi number and/or license plate and text it to a friend.
  — Chris Sims, The Indianapolis Star, 1 Mar. 2024
• Our teen will often want to watch TV with us but will also text with his friends.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2022
• In one video, a woman texts the question to her father.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 22 Sep. 2023
• Many users set up systems to text their phone numbers with codes needed to log in.
  — Katie Deighton, WSJ, 9 Mar. 2022
• On your next date, don’t speak, just text each other across the dinner table.
  — Meredith Goldstein, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Jan. 2023
• When she was first detained, Griner could text using WhatsApp but not talk on the phone.
  — Bill Oram, oregonlive, 24 Dec. 2022
• Teachers would text parents cute things their kids did during the day.
  — Andrea Stanley, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Apr. 2022
• Gallup said Thursday that Cooper was the first to text Gallup when the extension in Dallas was reached.
  — Jori Epstein, USA TODAY, 17 Mar. 2022
• Simply text a photo of your pup to the barista and your drink will come with your dog's picture on your cold foam or frothed milk.
  — Bahar Anooshahr, The Arizona Republic, 29 Aug. 2023
• Your child will never text you at work to tell you their sibling called them an idiot.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2023
• Oh yeah, this is a song about pants that are way too low, shirts that are way too short, phones that are really hard to text on.
  — Stephen Daw, Billboard, 22 Sep. 2022
• But for two weeks, the center continued to call and text her, asking her to follow up.
  — New York Times, 23 June 2022
• Families text one another if someone gets a lead on where to buy a brick of the right rounds.
  — Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Dec. 2021
• No, if anything, just text me the cost of debt servicing or something.
  — Kira Bindrim, Quartz, 25 Apr. 2022
• But when there are things that are going on with your family, hey, text us from the airport.
  — Michael Gehlken, Dallas News, 28 July 2023
• The victim was able to text a friend who contacted police.
  — Josie Howell | [e-mail], al, 3 Dec. 2022
• His immediate goals are to be able to control his Alexa and turn on Netflix, as well as to learn how to text.
  — Catherine Thorbecke, CNN, 28 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024