How to Use index in a Sentence

index

1 of 2 noun
  • Look up the recipe for potato soup in the index.
  • The card catalog is an index to the materials in the library.
  • Potato soup is listed under “soup” in the index.
  • Berlin came in third in the same index.
    — Lauren Schuster, Charlotte Observer, 8 June 2026
  • The index is up six months in a row.
    — John Towfighi, CNN Money, 4 Nov. 2025
  • To look in the index and pick where to land?
    — Sophia Rosenfeld september 26, Literary Hub, 26 Sep. 2025
  • The index has risen more than 8% this year.
    — Priyanka Salve, CNBC, 6 Nov. 2025
  • That's a 3 of 5 on the drought index.
    — Andrew Kozak, CBS News, 17 May 2026
  • The index is up about 15% so far this year.
    — Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Still, the broad index is coming off a hot streak.
    — Alex Harring, CNBC, 2 Sep. 2025
  • The index is still up about 20% from a year ago.
    — Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 10 Mar. 2026
  • An index fund must sell when a stock leaves its benchmark.
    — Jim Osman, Forbes.com, 20 June 2026
  • That's a 3 of5 on the drought index.
    — Tammie Souza, CBS News, 16 May 2026
  • Both indexes touched new highs and closed at records.
    — Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 6 May 2026
  • Index providers and the passive funds that track them.
    — Shivaram Rajgopal, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
  • The index closed flat in its last session.
    — Jim Edwards, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Not the index of the Dow Jones.
    — NBC news, 22 Mar. 2026
  • Year-to-date, the index is still up about 10%.
    — Benzinga, Freep.com, 6 Sep. 2025
  • The blue-chip index was last up more than 400 points.
    — Michelle Fox, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2025
  • The index has risen just a little over 3% this year.
    — Priyanka Salve, CNBC, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Most lenders use Wall Street’s prime rate as their index.
    — Jeff Lazerson, Oc Register, 14 May 2026
  • Both forecasts have a Kp index of five.
    — Cailey Gleeson, jsonline.com, 5 Sep. 2025
  • On Wednesday, the index hit a record high.
    — Chloe Taylor, CNBC, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Both indexes are set to snap a two-week winning streak.
    — Priyanka Salve, CNBC, 8 Jan. 2026
  • All three major indexes are on track to close the week in the red.
    — Josephine Rozzelle, CNBC, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Both stock indexes were only just shy of all-time highs.
    — Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 18 Sep. 2025
  • In 2024, the index broke out and went on an epic run.
    — Jay Woods, CNBC, 26 Mar. 2026
  • The rate is based on an index, plus a profit margin.
    — Jeff Lazerson, Oc Register, 14 May 2026
  • The index is back in the green after steep losses at the end of last week.
    — Leonie Kidd, CNBC, 18 May 2026
  • All three indexes pulled closer to their records set at the start of the week.
    — Boston Herald Wire Services, Boston Herald, 26 Sep. 2025

index

2 of 2 verb
  • This search engine has indexed hundreds of millions of websites.
  • Google found it, indexed it, and ranked it, right at the top.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 16 May 2026
  • Search is no longer just about being indexed.
    — Al Sefati, Forbes.com, 12 Mar. 2026
  • It may be indexed by search engines.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 18 Mar. 2026
  • Many small business loans are indexed to the prime rate, too.
    — Susan Tompor, USA TODAY, 15 Dec. 2017
  • The amount is indexed for inflation each year.
    — Bob Carlson, Forbes.com, 25 May 2026
  • An address from a people-search site that Google indexed and ranked on page one.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 16 May 2026
  • The aperture ring is properly indexed, and each click makes a one-third stop change.
    — PC Magazine, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Google allows website owners to choose when and how their content is indexed for search.
    — Iain Martin, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
  • After that, it will be indexed for inflation.
    — Bob Carlson, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Those numbers are indexed for inflation each year.
    — Bob Carlson, Forbes.com, 20 May 2026
  • The gas tax was last raised in 1993 and it is not indexed to inflation.
    — The Washington Post, cleveland.com, 10 Jan. 2018
  • So, the vertices that are indexing positions of my code word.
    — Quanta Magazine, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Each event is indexed so a particular play can later be viewed with a single tap.
    — Tom Simonite, WIRED, 6 June 2018
  • Recent new partners have over-indexed in the health sector after the birth of her two daughters.
    — Kurt Badenhausen, Sportico.com, 1 June 2026
  • Then, Google indexed these attachments in its search results.
    — Kayla Dwyer, IndyStar, 2 Dec. 2025
  • All the plants will be indexed on Google, and signage around the little path tells passersby about the space and the plans.
    — Sean Cotter, BostonGlobe.com, 13 May 2023
  • The annual limits are indexed to inflation and will rise over time.
    — Kinsey Crowley, USA Today, 25 Feb. 2026
  • The annual limits are indexed to inflation and will rise over time.
    — Kinsey Crowley, USA Today, 28 May 2026
  • The annual limits are indexed to inflation and will rise over time.
    — Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 6 May 2026
  • The annual limits are indexed to inflation and will rise over time.
    — Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 10 Feb. 2026
  • The annual limits are indexed to inflation and will rise over time.
    — Kinsey Crowley, USA Today, 18 Feb. 2026
  • The post title, indexed by the underlying web search, is what matters.
    — Lisa Curtis, Forbes.com, 23 May 2026
  • The gas tax last was raised in 1990 and will be indexed to the rate of inflation in the future.
    — Kimberly Fornek, chicagotribune.com, 1 July 2019
  • Note that these numbers are the same as 2025—they are not indexed for inflation.
    — Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Content on the dark Web is not indexed by popular search engines such as Google.
    — Doug Stanglin, USA TODAY, 17 Aug. 2017
  • At the time, Google's crawlers were only able to index the first 100KB of pages.
    — Don Dodds, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2023
  • The dark web is a hidden part of the internet that isn’t indexed by conventional search engines.
    — Amanda Garrett, Cincinnati.com, 13 Feb. 2020
  • Meta still allows shared chatbot conversations to be indexed by search engines.
    — Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 25 Aug. 2025
  • The earnings are indexed to the change in overall wage levels and the rise in the nation's standard of living while you were employed.
    — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 24 May 2023

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