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How to use gen in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, adjective, verb

Gen means information. Example: “Nose around any modest-sized station and the odds are you'll find that the chargeman's office doubles as a bashers' club, a place where shivering spotters can get warm and catch up on the gen.”

Examples of gen by meaning

nounInformation.

  • Nose around any modest-sized station and the odds are you'll find that the chargeman's office doubles as a bashers' club, a place where shivering spotters can get warm and catch up on the gen.2015, Nicholas Whittaker, Platform Souls: The Trainspotter as 20th-Century Hero

nounInformation about the location of a bird.

  • I had some recent gen that they had been seen quite recently at Kunoth Well, a little dot on the map on the edge of the Tanami Desert.2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 172

verbTo generate using an automated process, especially a computer program.

  • genned with a LLM
  • Defining the devices so that they will be genned during the sysgen and installation is the other half.1991, Bruce H. Hunter, Karen Bradford Hunter, UNIX Systems: Advanced Administration and Management Handbook
  • The older, genned files are difficult to keep up-to-date and are unsupported for some newer NICs.1993, Debra R. Niedermiller-Chaffins, Drew Heywood, Inside Novell NetWare, →ISBN, page 100

verbTo genetically engineer.

  • Samples could be taken from the original, and plans could be made, but genning could not be initiated until death had occurred.2008, Bart Dahmer, Primal Screams, →ISBN, page 36
  • Her nurturer ears, genned to be hyper-sensitive, had to be hurting from the noise.2011, Karen Sandler, Tankborn, →ISBN, page 28

nounA shilling.

  • "Give me two gen, then, and take the whole bloody tol.1978, Rose Ayers, The Street Sparrows

nounA generation (group of people born in a specific range of years).

  • "Mladenovic playing in what the young gen is calling a crop top, but what my gen is calling a bra," Bouchard tweeted.2022 June 28, “Wimbledon tennis: Fans react to Kristina Mladenovic's eye-catching outfit”, in The New Zealand Herald, archived from the...
  • It’s anyone’s guess whether such attitudes will persist into adulthood, but if Gen Z (and the gens to come) do prove more alco-skeptic than their forbears then the above twelve steps are deftly primed to cash in.2022 July 4, Ben Schott, “Is There Anything That Gen Z Won’t Drink?”, in The Washington Post

nounA specific version of something in a chronological sequence.

  • For my fellow first-gens, get ready to hide a smirk, because your life story is likely hidden somewhere in this chapter.2004, Sally Bishai, “Courtship, Marriage and the Ubiquitous ‘Dating Thing’”, in Mid-East Meets West: On Being and Becoming a Modern Arab...
  • Most of these students are low income and nearly 1,200 first-gens have grown up in poverty.2016, Dwight Lang, “Witnessing Social Class in the Academy”, in Allison L. Hurst, Sandi Kawecka Nenga, editors, Working in Class...

More sentences with gen

  • Gen Zers are taking to TikTok to film themselves unpeeling conkers from their spiky capsules.2025 October 13, “‘Nature’s Labubu’: why are gen Z ‘unboxing’ conkers?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry conker
  • Shopify is one company emphasizing gen AI in the workplace, but it isn't the only one.2025 April 29, Jon Reed, “Shopify, Duolingo Workers Face a New Gen AI Reality at Work. Is Your Job Next?”, in CNET. From the entry AI-first
  • But ignoring gender for the time being, why that gen X bulge in the first place?2021 September 22, Zoe Williams, “Generation X are heavy, risky drinkers. Will anything ever persuade us to stop?”, in The Guardian. From the entry Gen X
  • Gen Y is a "force majeure" that will determine the future of the housing market.2013 October 31, “A&E 2013 Surveys: Weber Thompson”, in Daily Journal of Commerce, Portland, Or.: Daily Journal of Commerce, Inc., →ISSN…. From the entry force majeure
  • Gen Ys grew up in a media-saturated postmodern world where technology was pervasive.2013, Pierre Benckendorff, Gianna Moscardo, “Generational cohorts and ecotourism”, in Roy Ballantyne, Jan Packer, editors, International…. From the entry Gen Y
  • In any case, I need to be genned up for this research.2012, Wendy Robertson, Family Ties, →ISBN. From the entry gen up
  • I find the doctors are very surprised when they realise I'm genned up about my condition.2005, Gervase Phinn, Up and Down in the Dales, →ISBN. From the entry gen up
  • The pine-music that followed featured Okina with three noh and two kyōgen.2004, The Ethos of Noh: Actors and Their Art (Harvard East Asian Monographs; 232), Harvard University Asia Center, →ISBN, page 111. From the entry kyōgen
  • Gen Xers have been described by author Douglas Coupland as the first generation raised without religion.2003, Ross Lockhart, Gen-X: Y-Faith?. From the entry Gen Xer
  • Some were curious about the proportion of gen only, slash only, and bifictional readers.2000 June 6, S. Mallet (AKA Marmoset), “Preferences in Sentinel Fanfic -- New Poll”, in alt.tv.sentinel (Usenet). From the entry bifictional
  • Gen Z in particular have taken to the idea of nonnamaxxing as an antidote to the modern condition.2026 April 15, “Nonnamaxxing: do Italian grandmothers hold the secret to a long and happy life?”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The…. From the entry nonnamaxxing
  • Gen Z is using micro-retirement to avoid burnout, find greater fulfillment in their work, and enhance their overall well-being.2025 July 1, Kimanzi Constable, “What is a micro-retirement? Inside the latest Gen Z trend”, in Fast Company, archived from the original…. From the entry sabbatical
  • “The kids love it so much, the word ‘skibidi’ is now part of gen Z and gen Alpha vernacular.”2025 June 25, Elle Hunt, “From Chimpanzini Bananini to Ballerina Cappuccina: how gen alpha went wild for Italian brain rot animals”, in…. From the entry Gen Alpha
  • Gen Z embed online culture into their everyday talk.[2023 September 18, Allie Daisy King, “In A Sea Of Disposable Content, Video Essays Offer A Reprieve”, in Refinery29, archived from the…. From the entry thirteenth reason
  • So the rise in drinking seems to centre on gen X women, or, to give us our proper title, ladettes.2021 September 22, Zoe Williams, “Generation X are heavy, risky drinkers. Will anything ever persuade us to stop?”, in The Guardian. From the entry ladette
  • Gen Alphas are the kindergarten and pre-school children of Millennials.2016, Joeri Van Den Bergh, How Cool Brands Stay Hot: Branding to Generations Y and Z, Kogan Page, →ISBN, page 11. From the entry Gen Alpha
  • Gen Xer's are children of two working parents.2011, Kelly McDonald, How to Market to People Not Like You. From the entry Gen Xer
  • When compared with taxa from the Mustersan and Tinguirican, Patagonhippus canterensis n. gen. et n. sp. and P.2010, Richard H. Madden, Alfredo A. Carlini, Maria Guiomar Vucetich, The Paleontology of Gran Barranca, page 149. From the entry fossettid
  • Dukei n. gen. et n. sp. share the absence of a posterior fossettid, but have a more hypsodont dentition.2010, Richard H. Madden, Alfredo A. Carlini, Maria Guiomar Vucetich, The Paleontology of Gran Barranca, page 149. From the entry fossettid
  • I don't know if Henry Wyckoff is bi-fictional, but the stories of his that I've read were gen.1999 October 2, Sally, “Re: looking for. . .”, in alt.tv.sentinel (Usenet). From the entry bifictional
  • It didn’t take me long to discover that “unc” (short for uncle) is the latest semi-disparaging gen Z name for anyone over about 30.2026 April 15, Keza MacDonald, The Guardian, archived from the original on 17 Apr 2026. From the entry AAVE
  • In place of “Best wishes” and “Kind regards”, some gen Z-ers prefer “Slay, serve, survive”, or – for a particularly tough day – “Heavy sigh”.2024 July 25, Chloe Mac Donnell, “‘Slay, serve, survive’: How gen Z is rewriting the rules of work”, in The Guardian. From the entry Gen Z-er
  • Gen Z have reclaimed dark academia and have built a growing community on TikTok, alongside other budding aesthetics like cottagecore, grandmacore, goblincore and light academia.2020 April 24, Caroline Edwards, “Dark Academia is the witchy literary aesthetic sweeping TikTok”, in i-D, archived from the original on…. From the entry light academia
  • Gen Xers were said to be lazy—“slackers” in the parlance of the time—who didn’t exhibit the straightforward work ethic of their predecessors.2010, Clay Shirky, Cognitive Surplus, page 121. From the entry slacker
  • Can someone point me at more Senfic (gen, slash or adult, I don't care) that deals with shamanism as a central part of the plot?1998 October 1, Shomeret, “Re: More favorite fanfic”, in alt.tv.sentinel (Usenet). From the entry Senfic
  • The twenty-two kyōgen in this volume give a broad sampling of the delightful comic interludes which were traditionally performed between the more austere nō plays.1973, Leonard C[abell] Pronko, “Nō and Kyōgen: Texts”, in Guide to Japanese Drama, G. K. Hall & Co., →ISBN, page 65. From the entry nō
  • Gen Z now overwhelmingly prefers to consume visual content on YouTube as opposed to traditional media, and that has tracked with a drop in reading levels, attention spans.2026 March 28, Lulu Garcia-Navarro, “What Is YouTube’s Dominance Doing to Us? We Asked Its C.E.O.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry postliteracy
  • The Boring Phone is part of a new dumbphone boom, built on the suspicion of gen Z towards the data- and attention-harvesting technologies they have grown up with.2024 April 27, James Tapper, Aneesa Ahmed, “The ‘boring phone’: stressed-out gen Z ditch smartphones for dumbphones”, in The Observer…. From the entry dumbphone

Meaning of gen

  1. noun Information.
  2. noun Information about the location of a bird.
  3. noun Fan fiction that does not specifically focus on romance or sex.

Full definition of gen

Questions about gen in a sentence

How do you use gen in a sentence?
Gen is used as a noun, adjective and verb. For example: “Nose around any modest-sized station and the odds are you'll find that the chargeman's office doubles as a bashers' club, a place where shivering spotters can get warm and catch up on the gen.”
What is a short sentence with gen?
“genned with a LLM”
What does gen mean?
Gen means information.

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