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How to use linkage in a sentence

26 example sentences · noun

Linkage means a mechanical device that connects things. Example: “A linkage in my car's transmission is broken so I can't shift out of first gear.”

Examples of linkage by meaning

nounA mechanical device that connects things.

  • A linkage in my car's transmission is broken so I can't shift out of first gear.

nounA connection or relation between things or ideas.

  • Far from ignoring linkages between gays and the poor and working class, I specifically made the point that they are common victims of the bureaucratic revolution.1976 August 21, A. Nolder Gay, “Another View”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 8, page 4

More sentences with linkage

  • A single locus governing the petal colour character was detected on the linkage group A2.From the entry character
  • If viewers remember a funny commercial was for tissues instead of the brand Puffs, then the ad has poor brand linkage.From the entry brand linkage
  • An evacuated bellows and mechanical linkage operates an aneroid barometer.From the entry aneroid
  • Certain drugs can be conjugated to polymer molecules with a linkage that is labile at low pH to effect controlled release in a cellular endosome.From the entry labile
  • The low stickiness rating helped explain why our ad’s brand linkage rating was so low: people were turned off by the blurriness of the main photo.From the entry stickiness
  • Generally speaking, plants have a much greater variety of sugars and linkages than animal tissues have.1994, Peter J. Van Soest, Nutritional Ecology of the Ruminant. From the entry sugar
  • Homohedral and tangential polyhedral shapes are found to be suitable for the task and some examples of linkages are worked out.2013, G. Kiper, E. Söylemez, “Homohedral and Tangential Polyhedral Linkages”, in Fernando Viadero, Marco Ceccarelli, editors, New Trends…. From the entry homohedral
  • Currently ABC's linkage with parent Disney has paid off on Saturday morning, with a 3-hour lineup of shows from Disney-owned studios.2011, Dorothy G. Singer, Jerome L. Singer, Handbook of Children and the Media. From the entry lineup
  • It is through the activities and relations of responsibilisation that the linkages between the modernisation, democratisation and communitarian projects are forged.2006, Dee Cook, Criminal and Social Justice, →ISBN, page 122. From the entry responsibilisation
  • Theories abounded as to the best configuration of this linkage--screen early, screen late; disperge early, disperge late; bleach early, bleach late.1997, Proceedings, International Recovered Paper VIII, page 76. From the entry disperge
  • An exclusive feature is the triple-safe brakes in the Rolls—two independent hydraulic systems plus mechanical linkage to the rear wheels.1965 January, Jim Dunne, Alex Markovich, “How Plus is a Luxury Car?”, in Popular Mechanics, volume 125, number 1, Hearst Magazines, →ISSN…. From the entry rolls
  • Civicizing public spaces is an antidote to marginalization and exclusion, and it requires that we restore linkages between municipalities, social networks, cultural institutions and communities.2023, Teddy Cruz, Fonna Forman, Socializing Architecture: Top Down / Bottom Up, page 60. From the entry social network
  • With phenotypic heterogeneity, diverse linkage signals, and risk loci identified in various studies, etiological and genetic heterogeneity has been suggested across subsyndromes and different populations.2015 September 24, “Genome-Wide Association Study for Autism Spectrum Disorder in Taiwanese Han Population”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry subsyndrome
  • It is not clear on what basis the names were chosen, but a systematic anthroponymous linkage across generations and between affines seemed likely.2013, Feuding, Conflict and Banditry in Nineteenth-Century Corsica, page 396. From the entry anthroponymous
  • Nevertheless Adrian declares his inheritance and linkages with the Molesworthian world not only in his name, but also by his introduction to the reader.1996, George E. C. Paton, The Social Faces of Humour: Practices and Issues, page 93. From the entry Molesworthian
  • The complicated scopophilic-scopophobic dialectic of exhibitionism and paranoia that is evident in such figures as Rousseau shows the intimate linkages between vision and psychological phenomena.1986, Martin Jay, “In the Empire of the Gaze: Foucault and the Denigration of Vision in Twentieth-century French Thought”, in David…. From the entry scopophobic
  • A new family of antibiotics, the orthosomycins, which contain in their structures one or more orthoester linkages associated with carbohydrate residues, is described.1979, Derek E.Wright, The orthosomycins, a new family of antibiotics^(https://doi.org/10.1016/0040-4020(79)80046-0). From the entry orthosomycin
  • The manager publicly announced that the kutcha house loan was for those who lived in thatched huts and the linkage loan for those who lived in tiled houses!2016 July 7, K. Kalpana, Women, Microfinance and the State in Neo-liberal India, Routledge, →ISBN, page 129. From the entry kutcha
  • At the rear, stiffer springs, a new aluminum swingarm and a redesigned linkage for the suspension all benefit on-road behavior, though there is now an inch less ground clearance.2007 September 9, Jerry Garrett, “Updating a Dual-Purpose Stalwart”, in New York Times. From the entry swingarm
  • But critics argue that the potential for a cyberghetto is real because the Internet will retain vestiges of traditional communities with similar hierarchical social linkages and class-structural relationships.1998, Bosah L. Ebo, Cyberghetto or Cybertopia?: Race, Class, and Gender on the Internet. From the entry cyberghetto
  • Conscious of their location facing the Pacific Ocean, they demanded, like the Vostochniki, sliyanie (merger) of Russian and Chinese cultures at the expense of the European linkage.1990, Milan Hauner, What is Asia to Us?: Russia's Asian Heartland Yesterday and Today, Unwin Hyman, page 158. From the entry Kharbin
  • Definitions of social network draw attention to the ties or linkages that connect individuals (and sometimes groups or institutions)—linkages that can be conduits for diverse resources.1989, Deborah Belle, Children's Social Networks and Social Supports, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 1. From the entry social network
  • The fructans of the inulin series are hydrolyzed by fructanohydrolases which attack the P-(2, 1 )-fructofuranoside linkages at the nonreducing chain ends with the release of fructose.1987, David W. Newman, Kenneth G. Wilson, Models in Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, volume 1, page 87. From the entry fructanohydrolase
  • The film's psychosexual turmoil is heightened still further by the director's linkage of these two milieus: gays cruise in cop costumes, and off-duty cops cruise in S-M drag.1980 February 18, Frank Rich, “Cop Out in a Dark Deminmonde”, in Time. From the entry psychosexual

Meaning of linkage

  1. noun A mechanical device that connects things.
  2. noun A connection or relation between things or ideas.
  3. noun The act or result of linking: the combination of multiple object files into one executable, library, or object file.

Full definition of linkage

Questions about linkage in a sentence

How do you use linkage in a sentence?
Linkage is used as a noun. For example: “A linkage in my car's transmission is broken so I can't shift out of first gear.”
What is a short sentence with linkage?
“An evacuated bellows and mechanical linkage operates an aneroid barometer.”
What does linkage mean?
Linkage means a mechanical device that connects things.

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