How to Use username in a Sentence

username

noun
  • Tap on the three dots on a tweet in which your username is mentioned.
    — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 11 July 2022
  • The first is that Twitter sees a lot of churn in its usernames.
    — Philip Bump, Washington Post, 20 June 2017
  • Just go back into the app and sign in with your old username and password.
    — Wyatte Grantham-Philips, USA TODAY, 16 Nov. 2021
  • Use a unique username and passphrase for all your online accounts.
    — Leada Gore | [email protected], al, 6 May 2022
  • Most of her videos have fun stories behind them — and so does her username.
    — Antonia Debianchi, PEOPLE.com, 19 July 2022
  • Right out of the box, your router comes with a default username and password.
    — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 2 Jan. 2020
  • Make a note of each account’s username and password and keep it in a safe place.
    — Jim Rossman, Dallas News, 15 Apr. 2021
  • Why not pay homage to your favorite CW show with your username?
    — Kori Williams, Seventeen, 12 June 2020
  • The sender of the check by then had removed the username from the app, so contact could not be made.
    — cleveland, 25 June 2020
  • Is the username similar to one that has been kicked off the platform in the past?
    — Katy Steinmetz, Time, 8 July 2019
  • The app does not store your username or password and has read-only access.
    — PCMAG, 30 July 2024
  • There is a Facebook page with the same username sharing the same videos.
    — Ryan Broderick, WIRED, 30 Sep. 2024
  • This wasn’t just usernames or email addresses.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 6 Aug. 2025
  • All a user needs to join is a username and password—no email, no phone number.
    — Wired, 16 Dec. 2019
  • But this is not the first time that Musk has changed his Twitter username.
    — Patrick May, The Mercury News, 17 June 2019
  • Fill out your name, create a username and password, and click Next.
    — Reece Rogers, Wired, 3 Feb. 2022
  • His online username was silent hill 333.
    — E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026
  • The first was a basic hacker’s kit that could do things like steal usernames and passwords.
    — Nicole Perlroth, New York Times, 15 May 2017
  • Keep a list of your parents’ usernames and passwords and ask them to update you if any change.
    — Janet Arzt, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Change the admin username and password to something strong and unique.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 13 June 2025
  • First came the request for the 15-year-old’s Snapchat username.
    — Maureen Groppe, USA TODAY, 2 July 2024
  • Zelle will open your banking app’s log-in screen and ask you to input your username and password.
    — Washington Post, 21 July 2021
  • Then sign in using your admin username and password.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Later the same day, the account appeared to have been restored with a new username.
    — Adam Crafton, The Athletic, 19 Feb. 2025
  • There is no public directory and no way to search for usernames.
    — Anisha Sircar, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
  • Calling out the person who already used the @christianyelich username.
    — Hannah Kirby, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 21 Jan. 2022
  • All users in the group share the same username and password, the affidavit confirms.
    — Kate Cox, Ars Technica, 9 Dec. 2020
  • For starters, Instagram users can keep the same username on Threads.
    — Todd Spangler, Variety, 5 July 2023
  • Enter the phone number, email address or username along with words like scam or romance scam.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 17 Apr. 2026
  • The username is also linked to a Reddit account.
    — Chad De Guzman, Time, 25 Sep. 2025

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