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How to use emoji in a sentence

37 example sentences · noun

Emoji means a digital graphic icon with a unique code point used to represent a concept, object, person, animal or place, originally used in Japanese text messaging but since adopted internationally in other contexts such as social media. Example: “He was suffering from a typical millennial problem: Which is the correct emoji to use?”

Examples of emoji by meaning

nounA digital graphic icon with a unique code point used to represent a concept, object, person, animal or place...

  • In order to communicate quickly, many mobile phone users use emoji characters (similar to emoticons) while sending messages.2002, Language International: The Business Resource for a Multilingual Age, volume 14, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISSN...
  • Twitter suggests examples such as MIDI data (for music) or emoji (for fancy emoticons).2010 April 17, Martin Bryant, “Twitter Reveals Details of New ‘Annotated Tweets’ Feature”, in The Next Web, archived from the original on...
  • They bring emojis to life.2011 April 5, Sam Biddle, “IRL Emojis: Our New Favourite Way to Waste Time on the Phone”, in Gizmodo, archived from the original on 20 Mar...

More sentences with emoji

  • He was suffering from a typical millennial problem: Which is the correct emoji to use?From the entry millennial
  • Millennial cringe may include skinny jeans, using the laugh-cry emoji 😂, over-sharing on social media, or obsessing over "adulting".From the entry millennial cringe
  • Emoji are in the astral plane.From the entry astral plane
  • We migrated on to texts, voice notes, emojis and the Snapchat “streak”.2025 May 31, Jo Ellison, “The beguiling charm of a bedtime phone call”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times…. From the entry streak
  • X (fka Twitter) has quietly redesigned its 🔫 Water Pistol emoji to display as a firearm.2024 July 23, Keith Broni, “X Redesigns Water Pistol Emoji Back To A Firearm”, in Emojipedia Blog. From the entry fka
  • Until recently, journalist inquiries to X's press department received an auto-response of a poop emoji.2023 September 30, Hannah Murphy, “The wildest job in Silicon Valley”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times…. From the entry usher in
  • I send a winky face emoji right after this, so he knows I am just teasing him.2021, Theresa Leigh, Cluck Buddies: A Friends With Benefits Romance, LuxLife Publishing. From the entry winky
  • We began with a worksheet exemplified in Example 6 Match the emojis to the Bak̓wa̱mk̓ala.2021, Peter John Wilson, Developing Indigenous language materials for schools and land-based documentation: Gwa'sala-'Nak'waxda'xw Nation…. From the entry Bak̓wa̱mk̓ala
  • Victor uses the Kissing Face with Heart emoji as a pragmatic particle.2018 May 30, Michelle A. McSweeney, The Pragmatics of Text Messaging: Making Meaning in Messages, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, unnumbered page. From the entry emoji sequence
  • The first major red flag with Barbara was her use of emojis.2016 July 9, Angelina Chapin, “Text therapy: once my therapist sent me an emoji, I knew it was game over”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The…. From the entry red flag
  • I use the smiley face with the hearts for eyes as my emoji.2016 November 7, Lauren Cochrane, quoting Beth Ditto, “Beth Ditto on liking the word fat, meeting Kate Moss and shopping at thrift…. From the entry heart eyes
  • My mom’s favourite emoji is the frog, just because she likes frogs.2016 November 7, Lauren Cochrane, quoting Beth Ditto, “Beth Ditto on liking the word fat, meeting Kate Moss and shopping at thrift…. From the entry heart eyes
  • “We both have iPhones, and we both have emojis,” Johnson testified.2015 April 3, Amanda Hess, “Move Over, Banana”, in Salon. From the entry sextually
  • “Now, I feel like certain emojis shouldn’t just get sent to anybody.2015 April 3, Amanda Hess, “Move Over, Banana”, in Salon. From the entry sextually
  • Nitro users, who pay $10 a month, get to stream videos in 4K and use emojis in channels.2024 September 4, Anurag Singh, “Discord lowers free upload limit to 10MB: “Storage management is expensive””, in Dexerto, archived from…. From the entry GB
  • LOVE YOUUUU," adding a fire flame emoji.2024 July 26, Kelly Coffey-Behrens, “Suni Lee, Jordan Chiles, And Hezley Rivera 'Ate' In Pre-Podium Vibe Video”, in The Blast. From the entry eat down
  • Because of this, emoji and emoticons can be extremely useful to attach an element of feeling and emotion to the message.2021 October 8, Ori Manor Zuckerman, “The Importance Of Subtext In Digital Communications”, in Forbes, archived from the original on 04…. From the entry emoticon
  • Future British PMs will probably just use emojis anyway.2017 June 29, Frances Robinson, “12 things Brexit has already ruined”, in Politico Europe, archived from the original on 18 Dec 2017. From the entry whevs
  • Pseudo-Chinese, an emergent online language phenomenon blending Chinese, Japanese, emojis, and emoticons, is examined in this study through a translanguaging lens on Weibo.2026 March 11, Yi Liu, “Abstract”, in Understanding translanguaging creativity on Chinese Weibo: the example of pseudo-Chinese phenomenon. From the entry pseudo-Chinese
  • Basically like how there is an emoji button for statuses and bios but make them for certain settings such as channel names or descriptions.2024 June 30, Narunzo, “I can't find a decent place where I can post a suggestion and it would be seen by staff in Guilded so I'm posting…. From the entry server
  • Hashflags are custom emojis specific to Twitter that help boost a particular hashtag on the platform and draw attention to a movement.2022 September 30, Mahsa Alimardani, Kendra Albert, Afsaneh Rigot, “Big Tech Should Support the Iranian People, Not the Regime”, in The…. From the entry hashflag
  • If I’m not doing that, I leave rude comments with super sassy emojis or direct message my friends with passive-aggressive cat GIFs.2022 October 27, Paloma Torres, quoting Potentially Petty/Hot Person, “Advice Column: Am I becoming hotter or just pettier? Paloma Torres…. From the entry soft-block
  • Gendercrits are now putting dinosaur emoji in their bios 🦕🦖, presumably to illustrate that their views are extinct relics of the past.2021 October 9, Wizarding News (@HPANA), Twitter. From the entry bio
  • A Disney-themed quiz with quotes, silhouettes, random facts, emoji film titles, song texts, and a faceswap with the committee heads and Disney-characters.2021, Erik Goudart, “Diesney”, in Chimica Acta Lugduni, volume 55, Leiden: Chemisch Dispuut Leiden, →OCLC, page 25. From the entry faceswap
  • Many musers use their time to feature their fans on the stream in exchange for the “love” they show (i.e., follows, hearts, and emojis).2019, A Parent’s Guide to TikTok, David C Cook, →ISBN, page 5. From the entry muser
  • Laura, on the other hand, regularly makes a situationally specific emoji sequence relevant to the conversation, as she did in Example 4.17.2018 May 30, Michelle A. McSweeney, The Pragmatics of Text Messaging: Making Meaning in Messages, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, unnumbered page. From the entry emoji sequence
  • “Gotchu,” Jacobs wrote with two heart emojis, while Donaldson wrote, “Gotchu” with three heart emojis: “I did one more heart then Karl because I’m a better friend,” he wrote.2023 April 6, EJ Dickson, “Chris Tyson, MrBeast Sidekick, Reveals Gender Journey on Social Media”, in Rolling Stone, New York, N.Y.…. From the entry gotchu
  • In the process, her bushy vajay became bare and because she was aware of it, she edited it by using a big emoji to cover that part after filming.2022 February 1, Kpakpo, “Married woman mistakenly displays her vajay while filming fun moment probably to entertain her husband- Watch”…. From the entry vajay
  • Different vendors such as Apple and Google will then be expected to support it alongside other flags (though notably, Microsoft has historically never supported any emoji flag sequences).2022 April 4, Keith Broni, “Propose A New Emoji, But No More Flags”, in Emojipedia. From the entry emoji flag sequence
  • There are poop emoji birthday parties for three-year-olds, people WhatsApping photos of their ordure to friends, TripAdvisor threads on how to avoid or avail yourself of squat toilets.2018 November 30, Alex Blasdel, “Bowel movement: the push to change the way you poo”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London…. From the entry whatsapp
  • The Emoji Movie takes place in “Textopolis,” where emojis maintain their assigned expression with no deviation, waiting to be called up for their on-screen appearance as needed.2017 July 27, Tony Leondis, “The Emoji Movie is Inside Out crossed with a Sony commercial and dunked in toxic ooze”, in The Onion AV Club. From the entry call up
  • We'll start at the beginning, with the basic building blocks not just of emoji, nor even digital communication, but of all written language: characters and character sets.2016 November 14, Rob Reed, “Everything You Need To Know About Emoji”, in Smashing Magazine, archived from the original on 12 Feb 2025. From the entry character
  • He believed himself to be the most banterous emoji in Emojitown, referring to himself as a 'bantelope', the 'Bantersaurus Rex', and One time even 'Banter Claus'.2016, Emoji: Laughing Crying (An Official Emoji Story). From the entry bantersaurus rex
  • “You've left me on read since one o'clock.” This was true; she'd sent me a long string of increasingly distraught and complicated emojis that I'd flicked away to decipher later.2021, Katie Jane Gallagher, Unearthly, Hidden Bower Press. From the entry leave someone on read

Meaning of emoji

  1. noun A digital graphic icon with a unique code point used to represent a concept, object, person, animal or place, originally used in Japanese text messaging but since adopted internationally in other contexts such as social media.
  2. noun Any non-standard emoji-like image inserted inline in text, e.g. an image emoticon.

Full definition of emoji

Questions about emoji in a sentence

How do you use emoji in a sentence?
Emoji is used as a noun. For example: “He was suffering from a typical millennial problem: Which is the correct emoji to use?”
What is a short sentence with emoji?
“They bring emojis to life.”
What does emoji mean?
Emoji means a digital graphic icon with a unique code point used to represent a concept, object, person, animal or place, originally used in Japanese text messaging but since adopted internationally in other contexts such as social media.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: emoji (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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