How to Use linkage in a Sentence

linkage

noun
  • Alas, those shoes have lost all linkage to the sport that birthed them.
    — Heshel Rolnick, Rolling Stone, 26 Oct. 2024
  • There are plans to buy other land in the area to widen the wildlife linkage.
    — J. Harry Jones, sandiegouniontribune.com, 28 Apr. 2018
  • There are plans to buy other land in the area to widen the wildlife linkage.
    — J. Harry Jones, latimes.com, 29 Apr. 2018
  • To improve the drain rate, shorten the trip waste linkage by about ¼ inch.
    — Merle Henkenius, Popular Mechanics, 15 July 2016
  • To be fair, transfer season is all-year-round at this point, but this is peak linkage.
    — SI.com, 18 July 2019
  • Denmark would not need the linkage explained.
    — Joel Shulman, Forbes.com, 16 Jan. 2026
  • The linkage between one year's performance and the next is hard to find.
    — Ben Carlson, Fortune, 20 Jan. 2022
  • On top of that, the fun of stirring your own gears is diminished by a clunky shift linkage.
    — Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver, 12 Apr. 2023
  • There is no linkage established to a foreign actor at this point.
    — CBS News, 5 Jan. 2025
  • As more names and linkages are unearthed, the full extent of the network becomes more known.
    — Michael McCann, SI.com, 29 Sep. 2017
  • To Tracey, that reflexive linkage is telling.
    — Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 3 Mar. 2026
  • What might be done to waylay any further evidence of linkages?
    — Sean Illing, Vox, 29 Nov. 2018
  • In the novel, these scenes occur far apart, with no obvious linkage.
    — John Matteson, The Atlantic, 1 Jan. 2020
  • The gearshift linkage is clunky; the single brake discs on the front and rear wheel are undersized and overmatched.
    — Dan Neil, WSJ, 16 July 2021
  • This is a big deal because, as the brain imagery shows, the brain starts to form new linkages and new connections.
    — Sean Illing, Vox, 21 May 2018
  • It’s defined as all cases linked to a common source through an epidemic linkage.
    — Joseph Choi, The Hill, 20 Jan. 2026
  • It’s defined as all cases linked to a common source through an epidemic linkage.
    — Sophie Brams, The Hill, 28 Jan. 2026
  • As the usage and linkage of Aadhaar grows, this is going to increase.
    — Vidhi Doshi, Washington Post, 4 Jan. 2018
  • Threads took off like a rocket, with its close linkage to Instagram as the booster.
    — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 26 July 2023
  • Today’s large language models have no such linkage built into them by people.
    — Robert Wright, Fortune, 24 June 2026
  • Step three, weld it together and attach the steering and other linkages.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 11 Feb. 2018
  • Since teams and their fans traveled to games by train in those days, transportation linkage was vital to a league’s success.
    — Arthur Hart, idahostatesman, 19 Aug. 2017
  • Once this linkage is verified by the company’s servers, the tokens are sent to the wallet.
    — Edd Gent, IEEE Spectrum, 22 Dec. 2022
  • East Hartford has approved the linkage to its sidewalk network.
    — Peter Marteka, courant.com, 1 Oct. 2019
  • But for wearing a hoodie, there was no linkage between the appellant and the shooting.
    — Baltimore Sun Staff, baltimoresun.com, 9 Sep. 2019
  • The idea is using that linkage to bind the party's moderate and progressive wings.
    — John Harwood, CNN, 26 Sep. 2021
  • Health professionals can focus on the linkage between the vaccine and the measles.
    — Lena H. Sun, Washington Post, 26 May 2017
  • The team first tested this idea using model compounds that represent lignin’s key linkages.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 29 Mar. 2026
  • The linkage of the 2020s with the Dark Ages feels cautionary.
    — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 12 July 2023
  • What makes something a serial killing is that there is a linkage with the nature of the crime and the circumstances, Bray said.
    — Aria Jones, Dallas News, 21 July 2023

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