How to Use the gist in a Sentence

the gist

noun

• But the gist of his comments were that gains are still there to be made with the Heat.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 7 June 2022
• Yeah, there’s other stuff mixed in there fasho, but that’s the gist of it.
  — Tirhakah Love, Vulture, 10 Mar. 2023
• The titles change after that, but the gist remains the same.
  — Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2022
• So the gist of this story so far is that Ohtani’s close friend betrayed him.
  — Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2024
• And yeah, just really get into the gist of like, this new phase in my life.
  — L'oréal Blackett, refinery29.com, 8 Jan. 2024
• That’s the gist of the headlines about a recent war game from a Washington think-tank.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 19 Jan. 2023
• Diners who know the menu at Coni’Seafood will recognize the gist of many dishes.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2022
• There are glory moments but the real work isn’t as glamorous, is the gist.
  — Michael Casagrande | [e-mail], al, 19 Sep. 2022
• Or at least that’s the gist of a recent report by Alludo.
  — Jasmine Browley, Essence, 15 Jan. 2024
• Regardless of the delivery method, the gist was the same: new jobs for everyone.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 6 June 2023
• Perhaps then there will be more enlightenment, but that’s the gist of where things stand with the Hornets’ big man.
  — Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 8 Mar. 2024
• That’s the gist of the business lobby’s lawsuit over the California laws.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2024
• That’s the gist, at any rate, of Agatha, in which Vanessa Redgrave plays a fragile, delicate Christie.
  — Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 18 Sep. 2023
• Does the force of that momentum obscure the gist of the ideology, or soothe it, or excuse it?
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 25 July 2024
• Money is a touchy subject for many young adults, or at least that’s the gist of a new report by the Principal® Foundation.
  — Jasmine Browley, Essence, 18 Aug. 2023
• But while the Hamas and Russia messages make Binance look shady, the gist of the lawsuit isn’t about criminal behavior.
  — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune Crypto, 28 Mar. 2023
• Here, too, the decoding model captured the gist of the unspoken version.
  — Oliver Whang, New York Times, 1 May 2023
• But here’s the gist: Ripple created a bunch of XRP, kept a lot of it for itself and its executives, and sold the rest—more than $1 billion’s worth—to the public.
  — Wired, 10 Aug. 2022
• That was the gist of headlines two years ago, when Swift’s Eras Tour resulted in a ticket-sales fiasco of epic proportions.
  — Christie D’zurilla, Los Angeles Times, 23 May 2024
• This may explain why the publication of Mann's sequel has made much less of a splash than did 1491; the gist of the argument and much of the evidence are so familiar.
  — Jeremy Adelman, Foreign Affairs, 1 May 2012
• Active listeners vary by service, but the gist is people can speak their minds for about an hour to someone who won't chime in like a therapist would.
  — David Oliver, USA TODAY, 2 Sep. 2023
• Getting the gist Think of this approach as collapsing public opinion.
  — Bruce Schneier, The Conversation, 20 June 2023
• Meta is giving away some of the family jewels: That’s the gist of an announcement from the company formerly known as Facebook this week.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Mar. 2023
• The rules are complicated, but the gist is simple: Payments are based on your earnings and family size and readjusted each year.
  — Tara Siegel Bernard, New York Times, 1 June 2023
• As the meal proceeds, Ruan guides me — per my asking — through the gist of Jōji’s creative philosophy, and what makes the team he’s assembled distinctive.
  — Paul Winner, Travel + Leisure, 17 May 2023
• That’s the gist of a new report commissioned by the Pentagon in 2021 and released quietly with little notice in December.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 1 Jan. 2024
• The mechanism is complicated, but here’s the gist: A lot of things that salamanders eat, including springtails and beetle larvae, chew up leaves on the forest floor.
  — Benji Jones, Vox, 18 June 2024
• Essentially, in every ad spot, the gist was to leave potential audiences yearning to know what happens next.
  — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 30 Aug. 2024
• Of course, there are maybe only three people in the world who would even get the reference, but anybody can see the image as a representation of impending doom, and that’s definitely the gist of my story.
  — Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2023
• There is a messy political situation in the background, but the gist is that the recent resignation of Vice President Gary Liguori led to an opening on the committee.
  — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024