How to Use dateline in a Sentence

dateline

noun
  • Check out the fancy all-caps dateline below.
    — Chris Branch, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2026
  • The rates quoted here are current as of the dateline at the top of the story.
    — Martha C. White, wsj.com, 29 Oct. 2023
  • Customize the dateline above the time by tapping on it to add info like the moon phase.
    — Heather Kelly, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2022
  • The new dateline has been used hundreds of times since its introduction last year.
    — Mathew Brownstein, New York Times, 26 May 2023
  • No one in Washington seems to know what the story is, or even where to set the dateline.
    — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2021
  • The letter, which carried a Rochester dateline, was addressed to Maj.
    — Deneen L. Brown, Washington Post, 14 Feb. 2018
  • Because tennis does have new seasons, runs of momentum can sometimes get lost across their datelines.
    — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2026
  • For places formally designated as refugee camps, avoid the clunky refugee camp verbiage in a dateline.
    — WSJ, 28 Dec. 2023
  • This version has been corrected to correct the spelling of Pokrovsk in the dateline.
    — Yuras Karmanau, BostonGlobe.com, 29 May 2022
  • Such storms are called typhoons west of the international dateline and hurricanes to the east.
    — Audrey McAvoy, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Aug. 2023
  • The story has been updated to correct the spelling of Newburgh in the dateline.
    — ABC News, 3 Mar. 2026
  • This story has been corrected to show that the city in the dateline is Mombasa, not Nairobi.
    — ABC News, 16 June 2026
  • Say a prayer, dear reader, for the vehicles behind the bylines and datelines at The Times.
    — Manny Fernandez, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2020
  • The spelling of New Orleans in the dateline also has been corrected.
    — Stacey Plaisance, Houston Chronicle, 1 May 2020
  • Get used to lots of rallies with datelines like Oshkosh, Reading and Kalamazoo.
    — Dante Chinni, NBC News, 28 July 2019
  • Our overall policy on datelines and stand-alone datelines is in the stylebook in the datelines and dateline selection entries.
    — WSJ, 28 Dec. 2023
  • Hurricanes are spawned east of the international dateline, while typhoons develop west of it.
    — Audrey McAvoy, The Seattle Times, 26 Oct. 2018
  • Many of the towns had been notorious datelines during the Civil Rights Movement.
    — Scott Simon, NPR, 21 Feb. 2026
  • Each thumbnail portrait takes a minute or so to read, and each one begins with the dateline recitation of the address in Amsterdam where the person’s story took place.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 17 May 2023
  • As one of the first countries to the west of the international dateline, Tokyo is a full 17 hours ahead of Las Vegas.
    — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 10 Feb. 2024
  • Typhoons are tropical cyclones that form in or move into the western North Pacific Ocean west of the dateline.
    — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 19 July 2013
  • The last version of the dateline was introduced in 2007, when The Times stopped including the date of reporting in a dateline.
    — Mathew Brownstein, New York Times, 26 May 2023
  • While Hernández is back, another Sox infielder remains stuck on the other side of the international dateline.
    — Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Mar. 2023
  • But, from a purely strategical standpoint, neither dateline had previously been associated with anything at the forefront of the sport, which speaks to the seismic shift.
    — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas Morning News, 9 Jan. 2026
  • The average page has a main header and footer and then may also use the same tags within an article tag, for example, to wrap a headline, dateline and other auxiliary information.
    — Scott Gilbertson, WIRED, 13 Jan. 2011
  • For two months last year, a smoky plume stretched around half the globe at the equator, drifting from East Africa to the international dateline in the western Pacific Ocean.
    — Aaron Sidder, National Geographic, 1 Aug. 2016
  • Abnormally warm surface waters concentrated mostly east of the dateline in the Pacific are a hallmark of El Niño.
    — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 9 July 2015
  • The international dateline also marks the border between Russia and the United States off Alaska’s west coast.
    — Frank Jordans, The Seattle Times, 18 July 2017
  • Note that abnormally warm water along the equator on either side of the dateline, along with its extension up along the coast of North America, as well as the cold patch in the northern Pacific?
    — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 19 Apr. 2015
  • So did dozens of journalists hoping only to file a story with a Madrid dateline and thereby prove their access and daring via this war of fascism against democracy, pitting the great powers of the world against one another in shadowy combat.
    — Literary Hub, 24 Feb. 2026

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