How to Use metaverse in a Sentence

metaverse

noun
  • Starbucks may not be done with its pup cups, but it is done with the metaverse.
    — Morgan Haefner, Quartz, 19 Mar. 2024
  • In the metaverse, every glance and movement can be tracked.
    — Cortney Harding, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Crypto’s winter has meant hard times in the nascent metaverse.
    — Maria Gracia Santillana Linares, Forbes, 2 Apr. 2023
  • And by that time, the people who are saying the metaverse is over will not be able to catch up.
    — Amy Verner, Vogue, 12 June 2023
  • Soon, all of our identities will just be in the metaverse or something.
    — Lily Hay Newman, WIRED, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Faith in the metaverse, as the survey put it, lies with Epic Games.
    — WIRED, 19 Jan. 2023
  • The jerks and the misogynists have so far been left to shape the metaverse in their own image.
    — Moira Donegan, ELLE, 14 Apr. 2023
  • The lifting of his hat to the crowd after hitting his golf ball off some rocks in the metaverse?
    — Hugh Kellenberger, The Athletic, 25 Mar. 2025
  • Now, Ikea is trying its hand in the Roblox metaverse as well—with a twist.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 7 June 2024
  • Why is Meta shifting focus from the metaverse?
    — Noe Padilla, USA Today, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Meta is reversing its plans to shut down its VR metaverse — sort of.
    — Jay Peters, The Verge, 19 Mar. 2026
  • Mark Zuckerberg could be on the verge of a big boost for his visions of an omnipresent metaverse.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Since then, Zuckerberg has smartly avoided much talk about the metaverse.
    — Zev Fima, CNBC, 4 Dec. 2025
  • Think of an airplane in real life, and a copy simulated in the metaverse.
    — Joanna Stern, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Meta wasted $60 billion on the metaverse.
    — ArsTechnica, 23 June 2026
  • Schissel’s metaverse is too flat to be entered, but nonetheless beckons the viewer in.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2022
  • Some even argue that Fortnite, in its own right, is a functioning metaverse.
    — Jason Hahn, Peoplemag, 10 Jan. 2023
  • Quantum computing could change that by making the metaverse faster, more secure, and smarter.
    — Dr. Diane Hamilton, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025
  • Facebook changed its name to Meta and jumped headlong into the virtual world of the metaverse.
    — Mike Isaac, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2023
  • While the promise of the metaverse has declined, the appellation still stands (although maybe not on legs).
    — Gabriela Riccardi, Quartz, 8 June 2023
  • Disney and Epic Games seem to understand that to build a metaverse, people need to want to be there.
    — Gene Park, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2024
  • The metaverse may not be quite ready for the campaign cycle, but perhaps the political system should be ready for it.
    — Boone Ashworth, WIRED, 6 Nov. 2024
  • That cool factor is decidedly lacking in the metaverse.
    — Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 4 Dec. 2025
  • Zuckerberg has spent tens of billions of dollars on an effort to build the metaverse — a digital world where people can work and play.
    — Kurt Wagner, Fortune, 2 Feb. 2023
  • The progress toward making the metaverse a reality hasn’t been without growing pains, to say the least.
    — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2023
  • Ralph Lauren is one of the legacy brands embracing the metaverse as retail’s next frontier.
    — Joan Verdon, Forbes, 19 Jan. 2022
  • These days, Ball spends a lot of time thinking about another big tech development — the metaverse.
    — Josef Adalian, Vulture, 16 Aug. 2024
  • But the metaverse could also emerge as a major competitor for Disney World.
    — Katie Rice, orlandosentinel.com, 30 Sep. 2021
  • But despite the many eulogies for the metaverse, the promise has not died and the technologies seem to be improving.
    — WIRED, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Bloomberg does report that Zuckerberg still believes in the metaverse and thinks that people will one day work and play in virtual worlds.
    — Zev Fima, CNBC, 4 Dec. 2025

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