How to Use the ether in a Sentence

the ether

noun
  • Ideas floating in the ether are easy to steal.
    — Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Somewhere up in the ether there, where art seems to live.
    — Literary Hub, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Those who fail to reach the icy shores vanish into the ether.
    — Erin Douglass, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Apr. 2023
  • Off my sando went into the ether.
    — Adam Dalva, Longreads, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Some ideas would stick, most would vanish—maybe even a good one or two lost to the ether.
    — Dan Rockmore, New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2025
  • And you’re lost and alone in the universe, circling through the ether.
    — Martin Scorsese, Rolling Stone, 17 Sep. 2023
  • Then, both mother and daughter take a break to scream into the ether.
    — Erin Qualey, Vulture, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Thanks to some toy leaks, Plaza's Death was already out in the ether.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 24 Oct. 2024
  • Who knows what other future-defining memes will spring forth from the ether?
    — Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 22 July 2024
  • One of hip-hop’s great gifts is its ability to conjure new slang from the ether.
    — August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2023
  • Some of it comes from the ether… from the ether going after Ethan [laughs].
    — Andrea Flores, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2025
  • And so even talk of two states might simply disappear into the ether.
    — Foreign Affairs, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Anything a blog throws into the ether is likely to be shared and devoured by fans.
    — Herb Scribner, Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Grok isn’t designed to be just a floating consciousness in the ether.
    — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 10 July 2025
  • Making things is a little bit like plucking ideas from the ether, and wrangling them.
    — Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 9 May 2025
  • Pulling ideas from the ether and realizing them in real time.
    — Natasha Lyonne, Time, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Between the ether and an electric smooch from her man, Cobel gets a spark of an idea.
    — Erin Qualey, Vulture, 7 Mar. 2025
  • It’s believed that some of this sentiment is in the ether, which has pushed down ticket sales.
    — Nancy Tartaglione, Deadline, 18 Mar. 2025
  • Despite his young age, the then 36-year-old was far from a nobody plucked from the ether, though.
    — Chris Evans, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
  • While his brothers were flying into the ether, Tito kept them grounded.
    — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 16 Sep. 2024
  • Who knows how many entries, histories, entire discographies have been lost to the ether?
    — Rodney Carmichael, NPR, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Mysterious first wife in the ether…Bertha Rochester boots!
    — Emma Specter, Vogue, 19 Dec. 2025
  • In didn’t come out until 2013, but the girlboss was already in the ether.
    — Nate Jones, Vulture, 20 Aug. 2024
  • The crime may disappear into the ether, or the youth may be sent into diversion.
    — Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 3 Aug. 2024
  • From the ether came a voice with an erotic tale replete with moaning and exhortations.
    — Scott Johnson, Rolling Stone, 19 June 2023
  • The Sponsor does not actively manage the ether held by the Trust.
    — Quartz Intelligence Newsroom, Quartz, 17 Mar. 2025
  • Software might exist in the ether—but hardware is a real physical thing.
    — Byjeremy Kahn, Fortune, 28 Feb. 2023
  • The fear bubble pops By the time Mae pulled into her driveway, the ether had lifted.
    — Dr. David P. Weber, The Conversation, 3 Sep. 2024
  • The movies did big business for Sony and the TV version has been in the ether for a long while.
    — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 13 Jan. 2026
  • There’s not just energy floating out there in the ether, there’s a stash of unfinished music.
    — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 28 July 2023

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