How to Use in order in a Sentence

in order

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  • However, some folks may forgo those events in order to use fireworks.
    — Paris Barraza, USA Today, 1 July 2026
  • The jockeys take on months of intensive training in order to ride in the Ladies’ Race.
    — Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 2 July 2026
  • The new round of funding also requires cities and counties to provide a local match in order to receive the funds.
    — Theresa Clift, Sacbee.com, 2 July 2026
  • Some have called for the county to issue bonds, Abarca said, in order to pay homeowners back in lump sums up front.
    — Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 1 July 2026
  • Assuming that your broker is right and her financials were in order, then something might have happened during the interview process.
    — Clio Chang, Curbed, 1 July 2026
  • Consumers are not being asked to leave the emotional energy of Wimbledon in order to transact.
    — Kate Hardcastle, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
  • Once the efficacy of those ideas is proven by a startup, capital is needed to upscale in order to realize that potential.
    — Gaurav Sharma, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
  • Michael Rucker pitched a scoreless eighth for the Mariners, and Andrés Muñoz set the Angels down in order in the ninth.
    — Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2026
  • There are often fewer international flights to begin with, meaning airlines don’t need to make as many changes to capacity in order to have full flights.
    — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 30 June 2026
  • Currently, initiative petitions require a statewide majority (50% of the vote plus one) in order to pass.
    — Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 30 June 2026
  • Amendments placed on the ballot by the General Assembly would still only have to receive a simple majority statewide in order to pass.
    — Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 30 June 2026
  • Professors are discouraged from assigning books, supposedly in order to lower students’ financial burden, even as the school has raised various other fees.
    — Ann Manov, Harpers Magazine, 30 June 2026
  • However, the bill was so contentious that in order to squeak it through, legislators stuffed it full of carve-outs and exemptions, allowing cities to delay implementation by passing their own plans to add density.
    — Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2026
  • Born with cerebral palsy, he's required to undergo different kinds of occupational and physical therapy weekly in order to improve his quality of life.
    — Conor Wight, CBS News, 2 July 2026
  • He had been dressed as a woman among the king’s daughters in order to avoid participating in the Trojan War and ultimately his fate to die a young heroic death, as opposed to a long life of obscurity.
    — Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 2 July 2026
  • These advocates accuse law enforcement and politicians of overstating the human trafficking problem on Figueroa in order to justify more police actions and the passage of harsher laws.
    — Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2026
  • New York Knicks’ owner James Dolan has gone on the record in stating that the team was not going to go above the 2nd apron in order to field a team for the 2026-27 season.
    — Tom Rende, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • But exploring it is vital, NASA says, in order to not just unlock the secrets of the moon, but to discover how human interplanetary travel could be possible.
    — Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 1 July 2026
  • During this period, qualifying borrowers leaned heavily on the assurances of public officials, and coverage of those statements in the press, in order to assess what might happen to their tens of thousands of dollars in student loan debt.
    — Paxton Honerkamp, CNBC, 2 July 2026
  • The core ingredient is the engagement of the campus — students, faculty, staff and sometimes the outside community — in reading the same book in order to spark wide-ranging conversations about an important issue or controversy.
    — Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • It’s made from a soft, breathable fabric that’s comfortable enough to wear for hours at a time, and features secure zippered pockets with RFID-blocking protection in order to prevent digital theft of your information.
    — Sophie Dodd, Travel + Leisure, 2 July 2026
  • Pointing to a recent tranche of videos released by the Pentagon, Gallaudet says the council will try to determine the velocities and rates of movement of UAPs, in order to better understand their nature.
    — Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 2 July 2026
  • After Democrats lost big in the 2024 election, some party members speculated that a Great Ideological Rejiggering was in order.
    — Elaine Godfrey, The Atlantic, 1 July 2026
  • The lawsuit states that Kuka has singlehandedly caused irreparable harm to Boca View by refusing to abide by Florida law and the association’s own bylaws in order to further her self-serving agenda.
    — Nicole R. Kurtz, Miami Herald, 1 July 2026
  • The indictment alleged Beasley purposefully under- and over-performed statistically in order to influence prop bets made by Plascencia and other co-defendants on Beasley’s individual statistics.
    — Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 1 July 2026
  • With three different categories, judges from across the USA TODAY Network ranked each submission in order to narrow down the contest to just 30 finalists.
    — Krista Johnson, USA Today, 1 July 2026
  • Mecklenburg County’s history with emissions testing The General Assembly proposed review of the EPA law, would allow the SIP to be reworked in order to exclude Mecklenburg County from the emissions program.
    — Maveah Griffith, Charlotte Observer, 30 June 2026

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