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How to use sync in a sentence

32 example sentences · noun, verb

Sync means harmony. Example: “Our cloud storage automatically syncs your files to all your devices.”

Examples of sync by meaning

nounA music synchronization license, allowing the music to be synchronized with visual media such as films.

  • The 2008 animation Waltz With Bashir was the first in a series of screen commissions and syncs that has made him a fixture of pop culture, marrying his exquisite melancholy to the saccharine and spectacular.2024 September 4, Jazz Monroe, “Max Richter on the Music That Made Him”, in Pitchfork

verbTo synchronize, especially in the senses of data synchronization, time synchronization, or synchronizing music with...

  • Our cloud storage automatically syncs your files to all your devices.
  • He synced his phone to the laptop to transfer data about the field trip.

More sentences with sync

  • Debbie lip synced the theme song to All In The Family.From the entry lip sync
  • The two recordings aren't synced up well enough to get rid of that flutter.From the entry flutter
  • They asked us to sync up our proposed conference dates and submit our answer by next Tuesday.From the entry sync up
  • Occasionally it reads the sector into a dirty buffer, which means it needs to sync the dirty buffer first.From the entry dirty
  • He banged his bongo in sync with the band.From the entry bang
  • The TV and the speakers are in sync.From the entry in sync
  • You could tell that the video and the audio hadn't been synced up properly, so watching the movie was kind of annoying.From the entry sync up
  • Do you watch mostly dance challenges, lip syncs, comedians, travel videos or something else?2021 May 28, Nicole Daniels, “Lesson of the Day: ‘TikTok, the Fastest Way on Earth to Become a Food Star’”, in The New York Times. From the entry FoodTok
  • The shruggie will seamlessly sync and you shan’t need to stress.2014 May 21, Robinson Meyer, “The Best Way to Type ¯\_(ツ)_/¯”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 16 Mar 2016. From the entry seamlessly
  • Bekoff says it's natural for humans to want to live more in sync with their natural surroundings.2014 November 25, Natalie DiBlasio, quoting Marc Bekoff, “Wild things: More 9-5'ers 'undoing domestication'”, in USA Today, archived from…. From the entry unwild
  • A minder and a mindee needed to be in perfect sync.2010, Martina Cole, The Family. From the entry mindee
  • The oddly counted lords are always out of sync with at least one other evenly counted cycle.1998, Kay Almere Read, Time and Sacrifice in the Aztec Cosmos, page 107. From the entry evenly
  • Reference sync servo system — permits minimal time-base error, assuring minimum jitter and drift.1975, Broadcast Management/engineering, volume 11. From the entry drift
  • The holidays are all happening within two days this year because several long solar, lunar and lunisolar calendar cycles sync up.2026 February 16, Alicia Eler, “Lunar New Year, Ramadan and Lent in rare alignment this year. The holidays follow different solar and…. From the entry lent
  • It's the time of late nights and unconscious days, of life schedules lived out of sync with the waking, quotidian world.2019, Scott T. Smith, José Alaniz, Uncanny Bodies: Superhero Comics and Disability. From the entry vampire time
  • I saw you on the lip sync TV show, and was so happy you beat that schmarmy talk show host.2019, Melissa Brayden, Back to September. From the entry schmarmy
  • Was a single high-stepping soldier out of sync?2016 May 15, Donald Kirk, “North Korea’s ‘rare’ party congress only shows a country at a standstill”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN…. From the entry Daedong
  • To make a music video, users simply add a song and sync the model’s movements to the beat and lyrics.2013 February 19, Akky Akimoto, “Freeware has animators dancing to the Hatsune Miku beat”, in The Japan Times. From the entry MMD
  • The line connected to a signal related to vertical sync.1999 November 9, Markus Wandel, “Blowing Processors”, in alt.folklore.computers (Usenet), message-ID <809ej1$2ip$1@bcarh8ab.ca.nortel.com>. From the entry killer poke
  • You will roll the second tape for about 15 seconds until the tape "locks up" with house sync.1994, Carl Hausman, Philip J. Palombo, Modern Video Production: Tools, Techniques, Applications (page 148). From the entry lock up
  • The crate shifted on its pallet, out of sync now.1988, Lois McMaster Bujold, Falling Free, Baen Publishing,, →ISBN, page 96. From the entry true
  • But I knew I needed a click, so we put a click on the 24-track, which then was synced to the Moog Modular.2013, “Giorgio by Moroder”, in Giorgio Moroder (lyrics), Random Access Memories, performed by Daft Punk. From the entry click
  • Furthermore, you can sync with other Minecrafters on a local area network in order to invite and play with friends in your own little world.2013, Darren Murph, “The Best Not-exactly-productive Apps”, in iPhone Secrets: Do What You Never Thought Possible with Your iPhone…. From the entry Minecrafter
  • Our Gold Award winner, Legacy Family Tree, has features that connect you to popular genealogy searches, sync with online tree makers and import any sources you find online.2017, Leonard Hendershott, The Story Gleaner, page 179. From the entry tree-maker
  • In Sydney you'd better be riding the clutch and completely in sync with the traffic lights so that your car is already moving as they turn green.2005, Paul Carter, Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs, Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin, page 65. From the entry traffic light
  • Choose Generic Multisync as your monitor type if you don't know the horizontal and vertical sync ranges of your monitor and are sure you have a multisync monitor.2001, Arman Danesh, Making Linux Work: Essential Tips and Techniques, page 51. From the entry multisync
  • Everybody prefers one side for something that they do, it's just a matter if syncing that something with a good choice to start the unknown with.1997 April 11, RP Pelletier, “Re: Burton Slide Test”, in rec.skiing.snowboard (Usenet). From the entry amby
  • One of the most popular social video-sharing apps is Musical.ly, a music-sharing app that allows “Musers” (as users are aptly named) to post videos of themselves lip synching to songs.2018, Ana Homayoun, Social Media Wellness: Helping Tweens and Teens Thrive in an Unbalanced Digital World, Corwin, →ISBN. From the entry muser
  • Sometimes I feel like there is also spiritual dimension in acrobalance, when Bridget and I are working together, very focused on one another, and when our breathing is in sync.2008, Therese Schmid, Promoting Health Through Creativity: For professionals in health, arts and education, →ISBN, page 137. From the entry acrobalance

Meaning of sync

  1. noun Harmony.
  2. noun A music synchronization license, allowing the music to be synchronized with visual media such as films.
  3. verb To synchronize, especially in the senses of data synchronization, time synchronization, or synchronizing music with video.

Full definition of sync

Questions about sync in a sentence

How do you use sync in a sentence?
Sync is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Our cloud storage automatically syncs your files to all your devices.”
What is a short sentence with sync?
“The TV and the speakers are in sync.”
What does sync mean?
Sync means harmony.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sync (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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