Word.ws English Dictionary

How to use pod in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Pod means a seed case for legumes (e.g. peas, beans, peppers); a seedpod. Example: “You have to grind up the cardamom pods.”

Examples of pod by meaning

nounA small vehicle, especially used in emergency situations; see escape pod.

  • Near-synonym: escape pod

nounA group of whales, dolphins, seals, porpoises or hippopotami.

  • I point to a pod of beluga whales we encountered in Cunningham Inlet off Somerset Island during our third and final season.1989 May, Jeff MacInnis, “Braving the Northwest Passage”, in National Geographic, volume 175, number 5, page 594

nounA set of commercials to be shown together.

  • These matrilineal groups associate with related families, who are probably sister lineages, to form pods.2016, Joseph Henrich, chapter 8, in The Secret of Our Success […] , Princeton: Princeton University Press, →ISBN
  • For many people forming pods last year, finding compatible people to group with was not a cost but a goal.2021 October 1, Calder Katyal, “Schools Need to Undo the Damage of Pods”, in The Atlantic

verbTo bear or produce pods.

  • One of the rocks seemed to have podded into something swollen, black and smooth.1939, Leonard Alfred George Strong, The Open Sky, page 64
  • In the herbaceous border many flowers had seeded and podded; spears of them, brown, now rose up behind the mauve blur of the michaelmas daisies.2012, Deborah Moggach, You Must Be Sisters, →ISBN, page 219

verbTo put into a pod or to enter a pod.

  • Thus the torpedoes will have to be stored internally or be podded into streamline containers.1955, Military Review - Volume 35, Issue 9, page 81
  • Lycoming is working on a twin T53 or T55 turboprop installation whereby two engines would be podded together to drive a single propeller.1957, Aviation Week - Volume 66, page 23
  • One, called An- 12BZ-2, was a single-point hose-and- drogue tanker similar to the RAF's Lockheed C-130K Hercules C.1K, except that the hose drum unit was podded, not built in.2004, Yefim Gordon, Dmitriy Komissarov, Antonov An-12 Cub, page 90

More sentences with pod

  • You have to grind up the cardamom pods.From the entry grind up
  • The nickname is short for "ketamine pods" and refers to how etomidate has similar effects to ketamine.2025 August 28, Elaine Lee, “Caning and fines for those caught in Singapore drug vape crackdown”, in BBC. From the entry Kpod
  • The pods of the tara plant are used to make tara gum and tara flour.2024 October 3, Sandee LaMotte, “‘I’ve never experienced pain like that’: Consumers pay the price for untested food ingredients”, in CNN. From the entry tara
  • THE TRUMPTINI 1 part bleach 1 part disinfectant 1 Tide pod Take with your morning covfefe.2021 January 18, “Section 7”, in KORONAKOMİK, Holistence Publications, →ISBN, page 60. From the entry covfefe
  • A door slid open and Levine and Talbot stepped into the pod.2020 August 20, J.R. Boleyn, edited by Steve Denmark, Dawn of the Seventh Midnight, Abernathy & Smyth Publishing House, →ISBN, page 102. From the entry D.U.M.B.
  • Pod has become a magic word, even though its meaning is not always clear.2020 August 12, Brian Platzer, “I Run a Tutoring Company. I Get Dozens of Calls a Day About Learning Pods.”, in The Atlantic, archived…. From the entry microschool
  • Perl's pod docs are a disorganized mess on the relation of hashes, packages, objects, references and globs.2015 June 27, bulk 88, “documentation: do we want perlblurb?”, in perl.perl5.porters (Usenet). From the entry copypasta
  • Stink bean pod is regarded as waste material during the processing of commercial preserved stink bean seed.2014, Suchanuch Wonghirundecha, Soottawat Benjakul, Punnanee Sumpavapo, “Total phenolic content, antioxidant and antimicrobial activities…. From the entry stink bean
  • The pod was getting ready to make a run for it.2014 May 6, Anne Cameron, “A Christmas Podding”, in The Storm Tower Thief (The Lightning Catcher; 2), New York, N.Y.: Greenwillow Books…. From the entry flumpf
  • “Gotcha!” He flung himself on top of the malicious pod, squashing it flat.2014 May 6, Anne Cameron, “A Christmas Podding”, in The Storm Tower Thief (The Lightning Catcher; 2), New York, N.Y.: Greenwillow Books…. From the entry flumpf
  • The podder chain returns large trash and pods to the reel.2012, Douglas M. Considine, Foods and Food Production Encyclopedia, page 172. From the entry podder
  • A people pod—a bi-rail system where each person gets into his or her own pod or car.2012, James L. Lowther, The Group, →ISBN. From the entry people pod
  • 'Yeah, and conveying themselves round in those cryonic selfdrive people pods.2011, Chloe Rayban, Terminal Chic, →ISBN. From the entry people pod
  • Nor does she cotton to combination grind-and-brew makers or anything dependent on pod packets of preground coffee.2009 August 19, S.S. Fair, “Singing the Brews”, in New York Times. From the entry preground
  • Green mirids may be present at any crop stage from seedlings to podding.2007, H. Brier, “7: Pulses—Summer (including Peanuts)”, in P. T. Bailey, editor, Pests of Field Crops and Pastures: Identification and…. From the entry mirid
  • Often called yardlong bean in English, these green to pale-green pods are tender, stringless, succulent, and sweet.2006, National Research Council, “Long Bean (Vigna unguiculata)”, in Lost Crops of Africa, volume II (Vegetables), Washington, D.C.…. From the entry pencil-thin
  • Assiduoud field-workers have discovered little pods of a rock called eclogite in the rocks around San Bernardino.2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 101. From the entry eclogite
  • A pod of twenty-two footers raced and frolicked like ten-year-olds on skateboards.2003 08, Sabra Morgan, The Majesty of Trees, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 104. From the entry broody
  • The pod chute doors were left open during the flooding and we have diving equipment.2003, Ralles, H.J., Keeper of the realm, page 193. From the entry pod-chute
  • A pod of ferals was moving towards the exit, a half-dozen soap-shy, low-tech, bush-dwelling hippies.2002, Shane Maloney, Something Fishy, published 2003, page 208. From the entry feral
  • When the signal came to repod, I trod toward the sleep pods.2002, James Van Pelt, Strangers and Beggars, →ISBN, page 210. From the entry repod
  • Later called "pods," these groups of eight to ten people are facilitated by two convenors.1988 February 7, Marea Murray, “Battles Joined: Oddysey of a Lesbian AIDS Activist”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 29, page 9. From the entry convenor
  • Udders dry, grain reserves shot – even the insipid nitta pods in short supply.1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 65. From the entry nitta
  • Here he learned that the slow man on a pod grapple.1969 November, James Tiptree, Jr., Worlds of IF, page 17. From the entry mailpod
  • His mount reared and shelled him out of the saddle like a pea out of a pod.1924 October 10, Harold Lamb, “Forward”, in Arthur Sullivant Hoffman, editor, Adventure, volume XLIX, number I, New York, N.Y.; London…. From the entry feint
  • Acacia concinna (Soap pod), known as “Sompoi,” belongs to the family Fabaceae, and widely grows throughout Southern Asia.2022 October 10, Aunyachulee Ganogpichayagrai, Chutinan Suksaard, “Evaluation of proximate composition and biological activities of sompoi…. From the entry sompoi
  • Housed in a can, within a box, inside of a mail pod, the bomb wasn’t as successful as Ted had hoped.2022, James Gehring, Madman in the Woods : AG. Ted's Neighbours Autobiographies, page 224. From the entry mailpod
  • He began to crack tamarinds, pulling out the pod flesh, adding sugar and black pepper from his palms.2021, Leone Ross, This One Sky Day, Faber & Faber Limited, page 253. From the entry tamarind
  • Despite this year's restrictions on social gatherings, Halloweekend was still a great time to have fun while staying within pods.2020 November 12, Sydney Olinger, “Friars Celebrate Día de los Muertos”, in The Cowl, Providence College, Providence, RI, page 2. From the entry halloweekend
  • A small pod of zombies stood in the open parking spots near the large ice bag cooler out front.2020, Albert Aykler, Welcome to the Zombie Mill. From the entry zombie dance
  • Once in the quaranteam pod, you will have to adhere to a golden rule: You can't see anybody else.2020 May 8, Emma Betuel, “Quarantine with friends? 5 tips experts say to consider”, in Inverse, archived from the original on 19 Apr 2024. From the entry quaranteam

Meaning of pod

  1. noun A seed case for legumes (e.g. peas, beans, peppers); a seedpod.
  2. noun A very small room or space for one person to inhabit, as in a capsule hotel.
  3. noun A small vehicle, especially used in emergency situations; see escape pod.

Full definition of pod

Questions about pod in a sentence

How do you use pod in a sentence?
Pod is used as a noun and verb. For example: “You have to grind up the cardamom pods.”
What is a short sentence with pod?
“Near-synonym: escape pod”
What does pod mean?
Pod means a seed case for legumes (e.g. peas, beans, peppers); a seedpod.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: pod (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.

Last updated:

Cite this page: “How to use pod in a sentence.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/sentences/pod. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.