How to Use publish in a Sentence

publish

verb
  • He has not published anything for a long time.
  • The magazine published two of my stories.
  • It's a small company that only publishes about four books a year.
  • The newspaper is published daily.
  • There is a lot of pressure for professors to publish regularly.
  • The university press publishes academic titles.
  • It was published the next year.
    — Literary Hub, 27 Apr. 2026
  • There’s no way that they would be published.
    — Sean Woods, Rolling Stone, 25 May 2026
  • The study was published in Small.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 27 Apr. 2026
  • There were a few books published, and there’s so much available.
    — Damon Wise, Deadline, 9 Jan. 2026
  • While his work was banned at home, Sorokin was able to publish abroad.
    — Jennifer Wilson, Harper’s Magazine , 25 May 2022
  • The first report was published last year.
    — Christopher Lamb, CNN Money, 16 Oct. 2025
  • And in 2019, the book was published.
    — Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 9 Apr. 2026
  • The study is published in the journal Small.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 13 Mar. 2026
  • The study is published in the journal Joule.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Democrats wanted to publish the new map ahead of the April vote.
    — Arkansas Online, 21 Feb. 2026
  • Democrats wanted to publish the new map ahead of the April vote.
    — Olivia Diaz, Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2026
  • It's been published each year since 1792.
    — Kelli Arseneau, jsonline.com, 30 Jan. 2026
  • In 1996, my book, was published.
    — Laura Isensee, Scientific American, 18 May 2026
  • The state and districts also must publish goals and their progress.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 17 July 2021
  • The research was published in eScience.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 23 Oct. 2025
  • She is expected to publish her findings by the end of the month.
    — Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2022
  • This story was co-published with Next City.
    — Stacker, Boston Herald, 18 May 2026
  • Our commitment to those partners is to publish that work free of charge.
    — Greg Burton, The Arizona Republic, 30 Jan. 2022
  • The study has been published in the journal PhotoniX.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Enough time had passed for a newspaper to publish a story, but no one had told him.
    — Evan Allen, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Dec. 2021
  • Nothing like this had already been published.
    — Courtney Crowder, USA Today, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Surely that’s not the seediest way a book has come to be published?
    — Literary Hub, 6 July 2026
  • So who’s going to publish a book at the end of this story of writers with swollen egos?
    — Stephen Farber, HollywoodReporter, 15 June 2026
  • Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published.
    — ProPublica, 3 Nov. 2023

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