How to Use social network in a Sentence

social network

noun
  • The social network has rules about what can be shown to minors.
    — Sidney Fussell, Wired, 4 May 2021
  • Buchheit worked on a few projects at the social network and left.
    — Owen Thomas, SFChronicle.com, 20 Dec. 2020
  • Both of us have written about social networks for over a dozen years.
    — Mike Isaac, New York Times, 12 July 2023
  • And these guys are in charge of our media and social networks?
    — Christian Josi, Boston Herald, 31 Aug. 2025
  • Discord was a social network built for gamers.
    — Juwayriah Wright, Time, 30 Apr. 2026
  • But the social network has not yet tipped its hand to the findings of the survey.
    — Fortune, 6 May 2021
  • As Venus and Jupiter unite, your social network swells.
    — Usa Today, USA Today, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Musk has used his social network, X, to call for a new election.
    — Jackson Thompson, Fox News, 8 Jan. 2025
  • Facebook is at the heart of the problem as the world’s largest social network.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 10 May 2021
  • Even the size of a person’s social network can impact health.
    — Monica Haider, CNN Money, 6 June 2025
  • Even the size of a person’s social network can impact health.
    — Monica Haider, CNN, 16 June 2024
  • But unless the social network includes guardrails, users may come to rue that wish.
    — Dalvin Brown, WSJ, 7 Apr. 2022
  • And strangers don’t carry the risk of spilling our secrets to the rest of our social network.
    — Annabel Abbs-Streets, Washington Post, 25 July 2024
  • And why did Meta just buy a social network built for AI?
    — TheWeek, 13 Mar. 2026
  • In terms of pants, there are five styles that have taken over the streets, shop windows, and social networks.
    — Mayte Salido, Vogue, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Musk said the moves were necessary to stem losses at the social network.
    — Time, 9 Nov. 2022
  • The Dutch data also showed that close social networks tend to shrink with age.
    — Kuan-Ju Huang, Scientific American, 8 May 2025
  • And those that sing and dance tend to have more social cohesion and more social networks?
    — Quanta Magazine, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Of course Musk can’t build cars or rockets or a social network without help.
    — Washington Post, 27 Apr. 2022
  • Twitter has been in a tither since Elon Musk took over at the social network.
    — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 16 Nov. 2022
  • In response to the abuse, the social network has tweaked its ad-targeting tools over time.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 9 Nov. 2021
  • Your social network is buzzing as the moon harmonizes with Venus.
    — Usa Today, USA Today, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Studies have shown that young people may be more likely to seek help from social networks such as peers.
    — Suzette Hackney, USA Today, 27 Feb. 2026
  • TikTok isn’t the first social network to overlay words on videos.
    — Brian Contreras, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2021
  • So in Seattle’s social networks there are two sorts of counter-factions.
    — Matt Thompson, SPIN, 30 July 2024
  • After all, the world’s largest social network isn’t too fond of Apple.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 12 Aug. 2021
  • Zuckerberg and company didn’t just want to build the largest social network.
    — Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2022
  • Meta’s other social network, Facebook, has worked this way for a while.
    — Joanna Stern, wsj.com, 23 Mar. 2022
  • Kindness spreads through social networks.
    — Chris John Amorosino, Hartford Courant, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Like a party, a social network draws attendees if there are already some in the room.
    — Max Zahn, ABC News, 8 Aug. 2023

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