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How to use vis in a sentence

11 example sentences · noun

Vis means force; energy; might; power. Example: “I talked with my vis-à-vis in the French embassy.”

More sentences with vis

  • I talked with my vis-à-vis in the French embassy.From the entry vis-à-vis
  • He was seated vis-à-vis the president.From the entry vis-à-vis
  • There was an expression of halalization as the support of Malays vis-à-vis the Chinese through consumption.2011, J. Fischer, The Halal Frontier: Muslim Consumers in a Globalized Market, page 58. From the entry halalization
  • But Sophocles and Rhode are both very much concerned with crude biologism vis-à-vis the Oedipal situation.1988, Angela Carter, “Eric Rhode: On Birth and Madness”, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage, published 2013, page 95. From the entry biologism
  • VIs use a variety of methods to simulate natural conversation, including an audio interface and an avatar personality to interact with.2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (science fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Computers: Virtual Intelligence (VI)…. From the entry avatar
  • The record of philosophy vis-à-vis silence is generally dismal, as good a gauge as any to its overall failure.2008 Spring/Summer, John Zerzan, “Silence”, in Green Anarchy, number 25. From the entry gauge
  • I was attempting to rectificate the relative positioning of the ginnel door hinges vis a vis the door itself.2002 March 12, Richard Robinson, “My Sis needs pooter advice”, in uk.rec.sheds (Usenet), archived from the original on 02 Jul 2026. From the entry rectificate
  • Yatima felt distinctly stretched by the process—but vis symbols were still connected to each other in the same way as before.1997, Greg Egan, Diaspora, reprint edition, New York: HarperPrism, published 1998, →ISBN, page 52. From the entry ve
  • Ve held up vis right hand; I reached down and took it, and began to haul ver up; ve shook vis head impatiently.1995, Greg Egan, Distress, reprint edition, London: Phoenix, published 1996, →ISBN, page 223. From the entry ve
  • Therefore, with my passport properly viséd and my papers all in order, I one night left Hull for Stockholm by the weekly Wilson service.1905, William Le Queux, The Czar's Spy, Ch. 10. From the entry visé
  • As the number of native speakers of Singapore English and Mandarin increases, the colonial-era ideology of English vis-à-vis the languages of the immigrants needs to be re-examined.2015, Zhiming Bao, The Making of Vernacular Singapore English: System, Transfer, and Filter, page 35. From the entry Singapore English

Meaning of vis

  1. noun Force; energy; might; power.

Full definition of vis

Questions about vis in a sentence

How do you use vis in a sentence?
Vis is used as a noun. For example: “I talked with my vis-à-vis in the French embassy.”
What is a short sentence with vis?
“He was seated vis-à-vis the president.”
What does vis mean?
Vis means force; energy; might; power.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: vis (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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