How to Use texting in a Sentence

texting

noun

• God, even the texting between Nicholas and Anne is hot.
  — Emma Specter, Vogue, 3 May 2024
• Most of us rely on email, texting, video chat and phone calls to stay in touch.
  — Monique Valeris, Good Housekeeping, 6 Jan. 2023
• And no amount of Facetime or texting could change that.
  — Kelly McMasters, The Atlantic, 1 Jan. 2023
• Ali spent hours texting with the women and talking to them on video calls.
  — Larissa MacFarquhar, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2023
• The platform supports texting, video and voice calls, as well as file-sharing.
  — Sandra Gutierrez G., Popular Science, 13 Mar. 2023
• One with all the bells and whistles: texting, video chat, social media.
  — Sona Charaipotra, Parents, 13 Sep. 2023
• This cool smartphone case throws it back to tactile texting.
  — Rudie Obias, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Jan. 2024
• But Miller says while RCS may be poised to solve some of the technical problems with texting, one thing will remain the same.
  — Michael Dobuski, ABC News, 16 Dec. 2023
• The two moms live about 10 minutes apart and are constantly talking and texting.
  — Wendy Grossman Kantor, Peoplemag, 30 June 2023
• The cell phone whose primary purpose was for calling and texting is no longer.
  — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 3 Aug. 2022
• The footage published by The Oklahoman shows the judge texting while Judith Danker, the boy’s mother, is sitting on the witness stand.
  — Sean Neumann, Peoplemag, 27 July 2023
• Current law bans texting and driving, but this new plan goes further.
  — Arpan Lobo, Detroit Free Press, 2 May 2023
• But there’s much more to it than that, even if the conduct on trial dealt with texting specifically.
  — Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 6 Apr. 2024
• Scammers used texting as the mode of contact for 22% of all fraud cases filed by Americans last year, in which a mode of contact was named.
  — Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 8 June 2023
• The non-emergency line was working as well as 911 texting, police said.
  — Riley Hoffman, ABC News, 17 Apr. 2024
• In my school, there is a rule of absolutely no texting between staff and students.
  — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2024
• Through Episode 7, there’s been no texting between Carrie and Samantha.
  — Kate Aurthur, Variety, 22 June 2023
• Our relationship started with texting, then moved to the phone.
  — Lisa Mogull, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2023
• The top button goes to the home screen, or if already home, pulls up calling, texting, alarms, and a button to check activity totals.
  — PCMAG, 5 June 2024
• Laila is early, standing outside the restaurant and texting, in a men’s button-​down and barn jacket, both several sizes too big.
  — Tamar Adler, Vogue, 1 Mar. 2023
• Calls and texting were fine, and typical boundaries seemed to be respected.
  — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 27 May 2023
• Lying seems to happen rarely for many people, even toward strangers and even via social media and texting.
  — Christian B. Miller, CNN, 25 June 2024
• The prevalence of texting and short messaging has led to sloppy spelling and woeful grammar.
  — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Dec. 2023
• The woman said Polito would try to have contact with her every day for nearly the entire semester, through emails and texting.
  — Melissa Chan, NBC News, 8 Dec. 2023
• Keep in mind those numbers are for only social media, gaming and texting.
  — David Rosenberg, Fortune Well, 24 Oct. 2023
• One guest was on her phone nearly the whole time — texting and even watching live videos that her friends posted while others were trying to have a conversation.
  — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2024
• That includes texting, snapping friends, checking box scores.
  — Amy Joyce, Washington Post, 25 May 2023
• What makes this different from banning texting and driving?
  — Arpan Lobo, Detroit Free Press, 2 May 2023
• But why not begin the day by posting, texting or otherwise sharing some words of wisdom about women from famous ladies?
  — Jill Gleeson, Country Living, 24 Aug. 2023
• As everyone gets the boat ready, Barbie calls a friend to brag about how much she’s been working, but this is intercut — and thus undercut — with her texting while Paris and Xandi clean.
  — Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 20 May 2024

Last Updated: 4 Sep 2024