How to Use coordination in a Sentence

coordination

noun
  • The manager is in charge of project coordination.
  • The illness causes a loss of coordination.
  • The new agency will oversee the coordination of the various departments.
  • Playing sports improves strength and coordination.
  • There needs to be better coordination between departments.
  • Four or five years ago there wasn’t this kind of coordination.
    — Kevin Fagan, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Feb. 2018
  • Even their hair was a point of coordination.
    — Ryma Chikhoune, Footwear News, 2 Nov. 2025
  • If your child needs to work on fine motor coordination (and their nerves), this is the game!
    — Rachel Rothman, Good Housekeeping, 17 Oct. 2022
  • Managers there have seen some of the challenges to coordination up close in large and small ways.
    — Patricia Cohen, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Inhalants can cause a person to slur their speech and lose coordination of their body.
    — Kashmira Gander, Newsweek, 19 Feb. 2018
  • Young pandas pounce and play not just for fun, but to build skills like balance and coordination.
    — Corryn Wetzel, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Mar. 2022
  • Despite its free entry, the show took a lot of coordination to fund.
    — Gabrielle Gillette, Oc Register, 9 May 2025
  • Many patients look to their providers as an unsung hero for their care coordination.
    — Forbes, 27 May 2021
  • Slurring speech or loss of coordination can be warning signs to slow down.
    — Richard Sima, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Dec. 2022
  • This pose takes a lot of coordination, but is totally worth it!
    — Thalia Ortiz, Seventeen, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Start with the flows in this workout, which challenges your strength, coordination, and mind in all the right ways.
    — Eric Leija, Men's Health, 6 May 2022
  • Is this supposed to be one of many projects, in which case, where is the coordination to make sure that there is an impact.
    — Dileep Rao, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2021
  • There are relay runners who might learn a thing or two from their timing and coordination.
    — Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2026
  • As opposed to the painstaking coordination of film sets, these shots are often off the cuff.
    — Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 28 Dec. 2022
  • The two stars chose to match for their first appearance, though the coordination was hardly in your face.
    — Vogue, 14 Mar. 2019
  • Yet most viewers are unaware of the complex coordination that takes place out of sight.
    — Tom Mullen, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025
  • But none of these sanctions were done in full coordination with the EU.
    — Nate Dicamillo, Quartz, 28 Feb. 2022
  • Part of the delay has been the lack of coordination between city agencies.
    — Shwanika Narayan, SFChronicle.com, 25 Feb. 2020
  • The key word there is coordination, and that’s really what this office is about.
    — Sarah Matusek, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Aug. 2022
  • Yet even as more of these cases stacked up, there was no coordination between states to protect women.
    — Kavitha Surana, ProPublica, 26 May 2026
  • Thanks to his height and coordination, Mara is a top-notch finisher.
    — Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 23 June 2026
  • When asked why the restoration has taken so long, the mayor said there needed to be more coordination on the part of the city.
    — Erin Edgemon, AL.com, 28 Mar. 2018
  • Trump tried to use it during his first term but failed because of a lack of coordination with Congress.
    — The Editors, National Review, 10 Mar. 2025
  • One is the kind of stove-piping where each unit or department sort of does its own thing and there is very little coordination.
    — Justin George, Washington Post, 28 May 2022
  • One of the outstanding questions is how the blasts were planned and then triggered with such coordination.
    — Greg McKenna, Fortune Asia, 18 Sep. 2024

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