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How to use form in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Form means the shape or visible structure of a thing or person. Example: “The team's form has been poor this year.”

Examples of form by meaning

nounThe shape or visible structure of a thing or person.

  • As towns continue to grow, replanting vegetation has become a form of urban utopia and green roofs are spreading fast.2013 May 10, Audrey Garric, “Urban canopies let nature bloom”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 22, page 30

nounConstitution; mode of construction, organization, etc.; system.

  • a republican form of government

nounShow without substance; empty, outside appearance; vain, trivial, or conventional ceremony; conventionality; formality.

  • a matter of mere form

nounPast history (in a given area); a habit of doing something.

  • As for the notion that it’s not how Sunak would have won, that doesn’t mean a whole lot coming from a guy whose recent form includes losing to Liz Truss.2023 July 4, Marina Hyde, “Who’s for political Bazball with Rishi? Voters? Tories? Anyone?”, in The Guardian

nounLevel of performance.

  • The team's form has been poor this year.
  • The orchestra was on top form this evening.

nounA numbered division grouping school students (usually every two years) in education between Years 1 and 13 (often...

  • From the sixth form will come the scholars and the administrators.1976, Ronald King, School and college: studies of post-sixteen education

nounA blank document or template to be filled in by the user.

  • To apply for the position, complete the application form.

nounA grouping of words which maintain grammatical context in different usages; the particular shape or structure of a word...

  • participial forms; verb forms

More sentences with form

  • Bovine spongiform encephalopathy is more commonly known by its abbreviated form BSE.From the entry abbreviate
  • Each of the chelicerae is composed of two articles, forming a powerful pincer.From the entry article
  • German uses the masculine form of the definite article, der, with Student.From the entry masculine
  • Spanish verb forms have different endings depending on the tense, mood and person.From the entry ending
  • The kitchen counter formed a right angle with the back wall.From the entry right
  • I am enclosing an application form, which I should be grateful if you'd sign and return.From the entry which
  • Our party formed a train at the funeral parlor before departing for the burial.From the entry train
  • Interrogators have used many forms of torture to break prisoners of war.From the entry break
  • In the wintertime, heavy truck tires dig into the road, forming potholes.From the entry dig
  • The train was formed of a locomotive and a rake of six coaches.From the entry rake
  • The forms inheritress and inheritrix are used only in literature, and then but rarely.From the entry then
  • The form has fields for each element of the customer's home address and shipping address.From the entry field
  • Chimpanzees are known to form bands to hunt and kill other monkeys.From the entry monkey
  • Overall, there is not enough evidence to form a clear conclusion.From the entry overall
  • Digging ditches has long been considered one of the most demanding forms of manual labor.From the entry ditch
  • We need a name to put in this form, so let's just invent one.From the entry invent
  • He hesitated whether to accept the offer or not; men often hesitate in forming a judgment.From the entry hesitate
  • A DNA molecule is formed from two strands, each of which is the complement of the other.From the entry complement
  • The form letter included a canned answer stating that what I asked was against policy.From the entry canned
  • Filling in the voting form, I hovered between Labour and Liberal Democrat.From the entry hover
  • Most people in that region practise their own form of paganism.From the entry paganism
  • Various neopagan movements have arisen, each advancing its own form of paganism. Some are monotheist.From the entry paganism
  • In this slide, you can see a yeast cell forming buds.From the entry bud
  • Idioms such as "red herring" are listemes, as are irregular forms such as "geese".From the entry listeme
  • The sculptor modelled the clay into the form of a dolphin.From the entry model
  • The route was used so much that it formed a rut.From the entry route
  • The traditional form of the character has twice as many strokes as the simplified form.From the entry traditional
  • Caustic curves and surfaces are called catacaustic when formed by reflection, and diacaustic when formed by refraction.From the entry caustic curve
  • Use this clip to attach the check to your tax form.From the entry clip
  • That imam said that drawing the prophet Muhammad was a form of blasphemy.From the entry blasphemy
  • The count demanded satisfaction in the form of a duel at dawn.From the entry satisfaction

Meaning of form

  1. noun The shape or visible structure of a thing or person.
  2. noun A thing that gives shape to other things as in a mold.
  3. noun Regularity, beauty, or elegance.

Full definition of form

Questions about form in a sentence

How do you use form in a sentence?
Form is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The team's form has been poor this year.”
What is a short sentence with form?
“participial forms; verb forms”
What does form mean?
Form means the shape or visible structure of a thing or person.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: form (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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