How to Use word for word in a Sentence

word for word

adverb

• Preller can still recite the sales pitch, word for word.
  — Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Aug. 2022
• Gandalf utters this line, word for word, to the hobbits in The Fellowship of the Ring.
  — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 14 Oct. 2022
• Anderson pays homage by sticking to the script word for word.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 28 Sep. 2023
• Joseph’s singing-rapping was matched word for word by the audience through most of it all.
  — Chris Varias, Cincinnati.com, 23 Oct. 2019
• When my parents went to their favorite soul food restaurant, the servers got a kick out of the 3-year-old who read the menu word for word.
  — Ken Makin, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 May 2024
• But not all the questions are translated word for word.
  — Jennie Rothenberg Gritz, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 May 2023
• Note that all of these caveats can be applied, word for word, to Putin’s current effort in Ukraine.
  — Andrew L. Stigler, Twin Cities, 7 Jan. 2024
• The entire crowd — the whole stadium — was alive with song, singing the song back to Stapleton word for word.
  — Kathryn Gregory, The Courier-Journal, 3 Nov. 2019
• Shouts of encouragement from the upper row could be heard word for word.
  — John Whisler, San Antonio Express-News, 18 Dec. 2021
• The Bible is the actual word of God and is to be taken literally, word for word.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 3 May 2010
• In both season one and season two, there's very little that is word for word, or even scene for scene coming from the books.
  — Emily Burack, Town & Country, 31 Mar. 2022
• For the most part, though, Scott's critics just ignored that Harris had agreed point for point, and sometimes word for word, with him.
  — Ramesh Ponnuru Bloomberg Opinion, Star Tribune, 10 June 2021
• Eagles players danced and rapped the song word for word before blowing out the Vikings in the N.F.C. championship game.
  — Kris Rhim, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2023
• Below, word for word, is Buranelli's story from the old Gazette (so, these are not my words).
  — Celia Storey, Arkansas Online, 31 Oct. 2022
• The danger in memorizing your entire talk word for word is that you’re bound to mess up.
  — Andrea Heuston, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2022
• How many of us can recite those memes about never having friends to travel with word for word?
  — Danielle Pointdujour, Essence, 17 July 2019
• The account appeared again almost word for word in The Innocents Abroad, the 1869 book that made Twain famous.
  — John J. Miller, National Review, 16 Apr. 2020
• That dude spit out that dialogue word for word, perfect.
  — Scott Huver, CNN, 14 Oct. 2019
• In 2015, close to the end of his presidency, Mugabe read the same state-of-the-nation speech to Parliament, word for word, twice in three weeks.
  — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2019
• Namely, the incandescent sound of Mitchell singing harmonies — word for word — into the back of my head.
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 May 2021
• In June 2020, a Twitter account began tweeting it out, word for word.
  — Tim Diovanni, Dallas News, 9 Sep. 2021
• The trial is not televised nor is there live audio, so the transcripts provide the only way to read what is said in the courtroom, word for word.
  — Alan Feuer, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2024
• But to hear people on Instagram screaming the entire song, word for word ?
  — Annie Noelker, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2022
• For the first time ever, the entire New Testament of the Bible will be spoken aloud word for word, by memory, on stage.
  — Brittany Kasko, Fox News, 10 Oct. 2022
• This blueberry exemption in the Illinois bill is the exact same provision, word for word, as the one found in the Maine bill.
  — Patrick Gleason, Forbes, 1 Jan. 2022
• Ginsburg writes, quoting word for word from Kennedy’s opinion.
  — Cristian Farias, Daily Intelligencer, 1 June 2018
• He got busted plagiarizing in law school, five straight pages, word for word.
  — Fox News Staff, Fox News, 9 Feb. 2023
• The voter then scrolls down and reads the candidate promising exactly what the voter wants to see, word for word, in a tailored tone.
  — David E. Clementson, The Conversation, 21 July 2023
• The memo repeats almost word for word one the OMB issued in 2013, in advance of the last partial government shutdown.
  — Eric Yoder, Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2018
• But his rationale, almost word for word, mirrors that of his competitor just up the road.
  — al, 21 Aug. 2021

Last Updated: 2 Dec 2024