How to Use silo in a Sentence

silo

1 of 2 noun
  • His body crashed down the silo chute and straight into the earth.
    — Melina Mara, Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2023
  • There was a ladder leading up the side of the silo.
    — Judith Kohler, Denver Post, 9 Sep. 2025
  • What’s wrong with painting your silo like a huge barber pole?
    — Owen Thomas, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Oct. 2022
  • Firms that work in silos can miss those connections.
    — Connie Etemadi, USA Today, 27 Apr. 2026
  • If not, even the best ideas will likely get stuck in silos or die in handoffs.
    — Keshav Agrawal, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • With its quiet streets, neat homes, and grain silos standing tall against big skies.
    — Karthika Gupta, Travel + Leisure, 9 Nov. 2025
  • There’s also been a breakdown of old silos.
    — David Wingrave, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Fashion does not exist in a silo.
    — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 18 Sep. 2025
  • The silo rents for up to $250 a night on weekends.
    — Joe Marusak april 22, Charlotte Observer, 22 Apr. 2026
  • The goal is to never let a piece of content sit in a silo in one channel.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 12 July 2022
  • But those of us who find Trump odious are not living in a silo.
    — Roxane Gay, Fortune, 13 May 2023
  • If so, pack yourself a bug-out kit and invest in a disused bomb silo.
    — Jazz Shaw, National Review, 26 June 2021
  • And these consumers don’t exist in silos.
    — Sonia Thompson, Forbes.com, 19 May 2026
  • The fire then spread to a nearby dust silo, which exploded.
    — Alexandra Koch, FOXNews.com, 15 May 2026
  • Price* Don't take these price figures with a grain of salt; take them with the whole silo's worth.
    — Andrew Krok, Car and Driver, 3 July 2023
  • New programs were approved in silos.
    — Kathryn Muchnick, Louisville Courier Journal, 26 Feb. 2026
  • The congressman also sees a city stuck in silos.
    — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Threats today don’t arrive in silos.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 1 June 2026
  • The sense is of being at the bottom of a silo spinning rapidly.
    — Michael J. Lewis, WSJ, 5 Nov. 2022
  • Relying on one skill, one discipline, or one silo may not be enough.
    — Ethan Stone, USA Today, 18 May 2026
  • Their house was just a mile from the cemetery, but is long gone, with only a silo remaining.
    — Robert McCoppin, Chicago Tribune, 7 Dec. 2022
  • One of his jobs is to decorate every step of the 60-foot silo.
    — John Lauritsen, CBS News, 18 Dec. 2025
  • The property includes a barn, silos, a shed and a chicken coop.
    — Francesca Pica, jsonline.com, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Data doesn't live inside silos.
    — Cody Pierce, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • With luck, the twig will grow into a clone of the tree in the silo, and produce more of the same delicious fruit.
    — Jacob Roberts, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Feb. 2022
  • Fencing surrounds the place; underneath the ground, there is a silo.
    — Abe Streep, Scientific American, 10 Nov. 2023
  • There’s a silo effect, Brander said.
    — Susanne Rust follow, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2026
  • Shrapnel eviscerated the roof of a grain silo the size of a football field.
    — Dalton Bennett, Washington Post, 19 July 2022
  • Ahmad says that while great work has been done to combat trafficking, it was often done in silos.
    — Dan Snyder, CBS News, 18 Nov. 2025
  • ICBMs in silos, with an eye on Taiwan?
    — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 23 Dec. 2025

silo

2 of 2 verb
  • And yet to silo the best looks from award shows in the 20th century to just that would be a disservice.
    — Sarah Spellings, Vogue, 13 Apr. 2021
  • Then there’s the fact that platforms like TikTok tend to silo users based on interests.
    — Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 26 June 2024
  • Having fought for much of their career to be seen as artists, not women artists, many were reluctant to silo themselves intentionally.
    — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Now Meta and its peers have a legal basis to keep going in Europe without having to silo off their operations there.
    — Bydavid Meyer, Fortune, 10 July 2023
  • The endeavor has already sparked new friendships between athletes from different sports who often silo themselves among teammates.
    — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2022
  • Just as important, consumers don’t silo their digital and IRL selves, so marketers shouldn’t either.
    — Kris Persons, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2022
  • This can be challenging in some environments where there is a tendency for teams to silo themselves away from others, or for companies with a remote or hybrid workforce.
    — Tim Eyre, Forbes, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Instead politically polarized Google users tend to silo themselves by clicking on links to partisan news sites.
    — Joanna Thompson, Scientific American, 24 May 2023
  • Virtualization then had two functions, to silo data and to translate commands for the underlying hardware.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 30 Dec. 2010
  • Reactive content marketers silo their content efforts within their department.
    — Joel Goobich, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2021
  • The facility houses silo launch sites critical for firing ballistic missiles with earthwork and construction around them.
    — Farida Elsebai, CNN Money, 20 Feb. 2026
  • To try and silo his future results into what previous Foyt drivers have done underestimates his potential and racing prowess.
    — Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 22 Feb. 2022
  • Modern computers and servers are specifically designed to silo data so multiple users can share the same processing resources without being able to access each others’ data.
    — Lily Hay Newman, WIRED, 16 Jan. 2024
  • The series so fully silos off its characters that the rest of its world-building falls out of alignment and overestimates our interest in this cohort of physicists as the most superspecial people in the entire world.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Too often, people purposefully or even subconsciously silo themselves into a specific sector and become blind to the rest of the business process or too comfortable in their processes.
    — Dave Knox, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2021
  • The situation underscores the challenge of designing flexible and usable web applications that also silo and limit access to high-value data like passwords.
    — Wired, 7 Aug. 2022
  • The judge’s ruling didn’t draw final conclusions about whether CertainTeed’s move to silo its asbestos liabilities ahead of a bankruptcy filing did in fact defraud asbestos claimants.
    — Andrew Scurria, WSJ, 11 Aug. 2021
  • Gone was the governor who launched his campaign talking about the value of Bitcoin on a buggy website and proceeded to silo himself in niche forums maintained by professional controversialists.
    — Noah Rothman, National Review, 13 Dec. 2023
  • The driver primarily uses its god-like permissions to silo the game, preventing other processes from dropping in and tampering with the game state—less an all-seeing eye than a highly intimidating bouncer.
    — Bryan Menegus, Wired, 30 Jan. 2022
  • These choices range from our enthusiasm for landfill to the city planner Robert Moses’s decision to silo the poor in huge housing projects on the Rockaways, a difficult-to-access barrier spit.
    — Willa Glickman, The New York Review of Books, 19 Mar. 2020
  • The potency of the tactic has been magnified multiple times by social media networks that allow misinformation to spread quickly, often unchecked, and that tend to silo like-minded people into networks of falsehoods.
    — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 11 Mar. 2022
  • Migrating From Fragmented Legacy Systems Migrating from fragmented legacy systems that silo data and slow teams down is a challenge.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • To the contrary, different organizations involved in cancer research such as the National Institute of Health, researchers at academic institutions and industry all silo their information.
    — Russell Flannery, Forbes, 8 Aug. 2022

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