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How to use triad in a sentence

22 example sentences · noun

Triad means a grouping of three. Example: “They often included the symbolic triad of Sun, Moon, and Venus.”

Examples of triad by meaning

nounA grouping of three.

  • They often included the symbolic triad of Sun, Moon, and Venus.1998, John H. Roger, “Origins of the ancient constellations: I. The Mesopotamian traditions”, in Journal of the British Astronomy...
  • There are, says the Irish triad, 'three fewnesses that are better than plenty: a fewness of fine words; a fewness of cows on grass; a fewness of good friends around good ale'.2000, David Pierce, Irish Writing in the Twentieth Century: A Reader, page 625

nounA branch of a Chinese underground criminal society, mostly based in Hong Kong.

  • Harry had seen the result of zjuk carried out by the Tapei Triad on a poor jerk they found in a back street of Tan-shui.2012 [2011], Jo Nesbø, translated by Don Bartlett, Gjenferd [Phantom] (Fiction), New York: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 99

More sentences with triad

  • As the end of the game, game tiebroke in favor of triad, inexplicably.2014 February 13, “Judge and Triad Enforcer win tiebreak over two Doctors.”, in Sc2 Mafia, archived from the original on 01 Jan 2024. From the entry tiebreak
  • And the triad is made complete by she who is violenced by him.2011, Timothy D. Forsyth, The Alien, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 24. From the entry violence
  • It comprises a triad of diffuse scleroatrophy of the hands, mild palmoplantar keratoderma and hypoplastic nail changes.2008, Tony Burns, Stephen M. Breathnach, Neil Cox, Rook's Textbook of Dermatology. From the entry scleroatrophy
  • The three colors are often rendered in a spinning circle called samtaegeuk to represent the harmonious intermingling of the triad.2008 December 28, Sung Youn Sonya Gwak, Be(com)ing Korean in the United States: Exploring Ethnic Identity Formation Through Cultural…. From the entry samtaegeuk
  • There are links between nutrition, eumenorrhoea and bone health, which in extreme cases are referred to as the 'female athlete triad'.2004, Thomas Reilly, Dave Richardson, Gareth Stratton, & A. Mark Williams, Youth Soccer: From Science to Performance, Routledge, →ISBN…. From the entry eumenorrhoea
  • The comedies work in very obvious ways to feminize this socially-ominous triad of young fops, old lechers, and greedy businessmen.2000, Deborah Payne Fisk, The Cambridge Companion to English Restoration Theatre, page 202. From the entry lecher
  • After harmony was introduced into music during the late Middle Ages, major and minor triads emerged as the principal chords.1948 November, J.M. Barbour, “Music and Ternary Continued Fractions”, in American Mathematical Monthly, volume 55, number 9, page 545. From the entry minor
  • Further generation was produced by addition and multiplication of the triad and quaternary to form a series of hebdomads and duodecads.1938, Vincent Foster Hopper, Medieval Number Symbolism: Its Sources, Meaning, and Influence on Thought and Expression, Courier…. From the entry duodecad
  • The U.K. is now an object lesson for other countries dealing with a dark triad of deindustrialization, degrowth, and denigration of foreigners.2022 October 25, Derek Thompson, “How the U.K. Became One of the Poorest Countries in Western Europe”, in The Atlantic. From the entry object lesson
  • One of the Irish triads stated that the oath of a woman in childbirth was one of the three oaths that could not be countersworn.2011, Sharon Paice MacLeod, Celtic Myth and Religion, page 190. From the entry counterswear
  • No, the two guys don't go for each other; the triad tried a ménage à trois once but stopped because Chris thought it was icky.1999 November 15, John Cloud, “Henry & Mary & Janet &…”, in Time. From the entry ménage à trois
  • Nonacquainted triads were more inhibited in their speech and seemed more concerned about how they were presenting themselves to others in their groups.1996, Jon W. Beard, Impression Management and Information Technology, page 12. From the entry nonacquainted
  • Brownell, More and Babbitt—the names often formed a triad, and yet Brownell never held explicitly the general ideas worked out by More and Babbitt.1930, Gorham Munson, The Dilemma of the Liberated, page 62. From the entry standpatter
  • Occurring always together in apparently similar manner, the symptom triad of dyshydrocephalotony, dysarteriotony, and toxemia constitutes a physical syndrome connected with constitutional psychopathic personality.1919 August 14, Claës Julius Enebuske, “A Neurological Syndrome”, in The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, page 202. From the entry dysarteriotony
  • He mentions Rilke, too, in passing, whose “Archaic Torso of Apollo” forms, along with “Grecian Urn” and Auden’s “Musée des Beaux Arts,” a triad of classic examples.2026 June 3, Elisa Gabbert, “How Poets Went From Describing Art to Personally Admiring It”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry ekphrastic
  • The complete pitch content of the opening seven measures is the enneatonic collection, the highly symmetrical nine-note mode of limited transposition that is the complement of an augmented triad.2009, Evan Allan Jones, Intimate Voices: Debussy to Villa-Lobos, →ISBN, page 217. From the entry enneatonic
  • A reading of Matthew 5:33-37, the fourth of the triads in the Sermon, requires us to devote our attention to the moral issues associated with truthtelling.2003, Glen Harold Stassen, David P Gushee, Kingdom ethics: following Jesus in contemporary context. From the entry truthtelling
  • In each of the triads, one type overexpresses the characteristic faculty of the triad, another underexpresses it and the third is most out of touch with it.1999, Anthony Falikowski, Mastering Human Relations, page 414. From the entry underexpress
  • But an important minor triad, D F A, is harsh in just intonation, and other unsatisfactory triads result when this tuning is extended to the complete chromatic scale.1948 November, J.M. Barbour, “Music and Ternary Continued Fractions”, in American Mathematical Monthly, volume 55, number 9, page 545. From the entry minor

Meaning of triad

  1. noun A grouping of three.
  2. noun A romantic or sexual relationship between three individuals; a throuple.
  3. noun A word of three syllables.

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Questions about triad in a sentence

How do you use triad in a sentence?
Triad is used as a noun. For example: “They often included the symbolic triad of Sun, Moon, and Venus.”
What is a short sentence with triad?
“They often included the symbolic triad of Sun, Moon, and Venus.”
What does triad mean?
Triad means a grouping of three.

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