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How to use via in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, preposition, interjection

Via means a main road or highway, especially in ancient Rome. (Mainly used in set phrases, below.). Example: “They drove from New York to Los Angeles via Omaha.”

Examples of via by meaning

prepositionBy way of; passing through.

  • They drove from New York to Los Angeles via Omaha.
  • You can enter the building via the western gate.

prepositionBy (means of); using.

  • I'll send you the information via e-mail.
  • A supplier many miles away would then take the part to the local matternet station for airborne dispatch via drone.2012 December 1, “An internet of airborne things”, in The Economist, volume 405, number 8813, archived from the original on 11 Mar 2023...
  • White House chief strategist Steve Bannon has been in contact via intermediaries with Curtis Yarvin, Politico Magazine reported this week.2017 February 10, Rosie Gray, “Behind the Internet's Anti-Democracy Movement”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 10 Jan 2020

More sentences with via

  • Melinda and Bill maintained a dialogue via email over the course of their long-distance relationship.From the entry dialogue
  • Several images of the compound were obtained via a drone overflight.From the entry drone
  • "The throbulator is connected via the tertiary wiring loom."' — "Do what??"From the entry do what
  • A house's distribution panel should always be bonded to the grounding rods via a panel bond.From the entry bond
  • The official notice will be sent via both email and snail mail owing to legal requirements.From the entry snail mail
  • You can watch us via satellite on Wikistar 1 tp. 8.From the entry tp
  • The skeleton of echinoderms is made of ossicles, linked to each other via muscles and connective tissue.From the entry ossicle
  • He pursued various higher education via trade school and community college.From the entry higher education
  • This machine transfers a heavy load via a rack and pinion.From the entry rack and pinion
  • I sent the memo to the accounting department via interdepartmental mail.From the entry interdepartmental
  • Most inhaled uranium that reaches the lungs is eliminated via mucociliary clearance.From the entry mucociliary
  • A windmill transmits motion to the ground level via a vertical driveshaft, which operates a water pump.From the entry driveshaft
  • You can access your messages via Option 3 of our dial-in service menu.From the entry dial-in
  • The many species that live in the forest canopy constitute a network of life via their complex interactions.From the entry network
  • You can provide input via this form.From the entry input
  • He sent me his details via email.From the entry email
  • Her French counterpart attended the meeting via video call.From the entry counterpart
  • The professors' communications consisted of lively discussions via email.From the entry communication
  • The options are selected via the user interface.From the entry interface
  • The disease was mainly communicated via rats and other vermin.From the entry communicate
  • An engineer must recognize the difference between a constraint (to work within) and a problem (to be eliminated via resolution).From the entry constraint
  • I find that for me, my sponsorship of a child via a charitable NGO provides a sense of great satisfaction.From the entry sponsorship
  • The witness gave evidence to the court via videolink.From the entry videolink
  • The topological charge of families of lattice gauge fields is defined fermionically via families index theory for the overlap Dirac operator.From the entry fermionically
  • The concert was transmitted via satellite and live stream.From the entry live stream
  • In 21st-century practice, orthopox cases are usually treated as mpox cases until proven otherwise (via nucleic acid tests).From the entry orthopox
  • In this study, the AYAs were stratified for risk and were assigned to a treatment arm via randomization.From the entry aya
  • You can send it via email or fax. You can use an online fax service where you upload a PDF and then send it to a fax number.From the entry fax
  • Only one university in the country had the book they needed but they were able to get it sent to their local library via interlibrary loan.From the entry interlibrary loan
  • RFIs will be submitted via the RFI Submittal Form link below.2025 September 2, “2026 American Society of Civil Engineers Concrete Canoe Competiton Request for Proposals”, in ASCE, archived from the…. From the entry RFI
  • When you're popping babies via multiple partners, the “harem drama” is intense.2025 April 26, Jo Ellison, “Make America Pregnant Again”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN…. From the entry balls-out
  • The clients still wanted the companies they owned via the funds to be run for their benefit.2025 November 14, John Authers, “Has Passive Investing Grown Too Big to Proxy? The inconvenient truth of shareholder detachment surfaces…. From the entry big three
  • Like SARS-CoV-2, HKU5-CoV-2 can enter cells via the human ACE2 receptor protein on cell surfaces.2025 February 25, Jen Christiensen, “Scientists have identified a new coronavirus in bats, but it’s not a public health threat”, in CNN. From the entry ACE2
  • These tell your brain about the world around you via your nervous system.2023, translated in 2025, Berta Páramo and translated by Marc Correa Haro, Lice: How to Survive on Humans, pages 30-31. From the entry sensilla
  • Typically, these are published on personal websites or via a Google doc link.[2023 May 31, Elle Hunt, Rebecca Clark, Daisy Schofield, Zoe Beaty, “'A friend said it gave them hope': four ways to find love – without…. From the entry date-me doc

Meaning of via

  1. noun A main road or highway, especially in ancient Rome. (Mainly used in set phrases, below.).
  2. noun A small hole in a printed circuit board filled with metal which connects two or more layers.
  3. noun An electrical connection which connects two or more layers on a printed circuit board or an integrated circuit.

Full definition of via

Questions about via in a sentence

How do you use via in a sentence?
Via is used as a noun, preposition and interjection. For example: “They drove from New York to Los Angeles via Omaha.”
What is a short sentence with via?
“He sent me his details via email.”
What does via mean?
Via means a main road or highway, especially in ancient Rome. (Mainly used in set phrases, below.).

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: via (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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