How to Use context in a Sentence

context

noun

• We need to look at the event within the larger context of world history.
• We need to consider these events in context.
• The book puts these events in their proper historical and social contexts.
• Those that aren't shown to us lose all of their historic value as their context is lost.
  — Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 30 Nov. 2024
• For context, one private jet can emit two tons of CO2 in just an hour.
  — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 8 Feb. 2023
• All of that builds a context for the climactic moment of physical violence in the story.
  — Dennis Zhou, The New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2024
• The inclusion of the videos to activate the space support this goal and provided enhanced visual context.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Feb. 2023
• For context, no other online sportsbook covers first bets worth anything close to $3,000.
  — cleveland, 3 Feb. 2023
• There’s a whole historical and scientific context for that.
  — Lisa Chase, Outside Online, 29 Nov. 2024
• For context, Lynskey plays the leader of a brutal resistance movement on The Last of Us.
  — Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 9 Feb. 2023
• For context, that’s roughly a thousandth of the monthly userbase for Roblox, whose metaverse-ish platform is wildly popular with kids.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 7 Feb. 2023
• For context, North Korea's gross domestic product hovers around the $29 billion mark.
  — Matthew Humphries, PCMAG, 2 Feb. 2023
• All of this context is to explain Spotify’s priorities going forward.
  — Jacob Kastrenakes, The Verge, 1 Feb. 2023
• For context, Dixon has served for over four years, following his appointment in September 2020.
  — Rachel Burchfield, People.com, 29 Nov. 2024
• He's attempted 31 career passes, and for context, that's 5% of the attempts Fields has made in the NFL.
  — Nate Atkins, The Indianapolis Star, 2 Feb. 2023
• While it was possibly manufactured decades earlier, its context of use can be firmly dated to 1541, the study reported.
  — Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 28 Nov. 2024
• The context for this drought starts in the winter and spring.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 17 Aug. 2022
• And now a new book is adding more context — and more logs to the fire.
  — Barbara Vandenburgh, USA TODAY, 8 July 2019
• Many things are done in the name of God and taken out of context.
  — Michelle L. Quinn, Post-Tribune, 13 Aug. 2017
• But critics bashed the agency for the lack of context in the tweet linking to the files.
  — Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 8 Feb. 2023
• For some reason that’s funny in the context of the play.
  — Dan Snierson, EW.com, 31 Jan. 2020
• To put into context, that’s three years of fire loss for us in the span of about a week.
  — Madison Dibble, Washington Examiner, 16 Sep. 2020
• A lot of things that were said were taken out of context.
  — Jo Yurcaba, NBC News, 7 Nov. 2023
• But the courts have not ruled on this issue in context of the workplace.
  — Johnny C. Taylor Jr., USA TODAY, 1 Apr. 2020
• The video comes from an unknown source and lacks any context.
  — Christopher Sherman, Star Tribune, 18 Aug. 2020
• For context, most parties take around three days to climb the route.
  — Matt Skenazy, Outside Online, 6 June 2018
• Here’s what to look for and ways to put the numbers into context.
  — Adam Shell, USA TODAY, 18 Apr. 2020
• But that doesn’t mean it can’t be done within the context of the offense.
  — oregonlive.com, 19 July 2019
• Broberg dismisses them with a wave of the context wand.
  — Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2023
• In a pop burger, the meat is subsidiary to its context.
  — Peter Meehan, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2019

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024