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How to use zone in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Zone means each of the five regions of the earth's surface into which it was divided by climatic differences, namely the torrid zone (between the tropics), two temperate zones (between the tropics and the polar circles), and two frigid zones (within the polar circles). Example: “There is a no-smoking zone that extends 25 feet outside of each entrance.”

Examples of zone by meaning

nounA given area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic, use, restriction, etc.

  • There is a no-smoking zone that extends 25 feet outside of each entrance.
  • The white zone is for loading and unloading only.
  • Files in the Internet zone are blocked by default, as a security measure.

nounA restricted category or virtual place.

  • The discussion was veering off into a danger zone.

nounA band or area of growth encircling anything.

  • a zone of evergreens on a mountain
  • the zone of animal or vegetable life in the ocean around an island or a continent

nounThe strike zone.

  • That pitch was low and away, just outside the zone.

nounEvery of the three parts of an ice rink, divided by two blue lines.

  • Players are off side, if they enter the attacking zone before the puck.

nounA semicircular area in front of each goal.

  • The defender playing at the top of the zone is nine to fourteen metres out from the goal line.1974, Franko Blazic with Zorko Soric, Team Handball, page 31

nounA mental state of high concentration and performance; see: in the zone.

  • I just got in the zone late in the game: everything was going in.

verbTo divide into or assign to sections or areas.

  • Please zone off our staging area, a section for each group.
  • The high-level process is to shut down the server, unzone the server from Generation 2, zone the server to Gen3, and then define and activate the data-migration (DM) volumes between the Generation 2 and Gen3.2018, Bertrand Dufrasne, Christian Burns, Wenzel Kalabza, IBM XIV Storage System Business Continuity Functions, page 331

More sentences with zone

  • If the Bruins ice the puck, the faceoff will be in their own zone.From the entry ice
  • The state trooper pulled me for going 60 in a 55 zone.From the entry pull
  • He sacked the quarterback in the end zone for a safety.From the entry safety
  • Scientific advances can draw us outside of our myopic comfort zone.From the entry myopic
  • The noise and drunkenness made the area a no-go zone at night for families.From the entry no-go
  • That umpire often compresses the strike zone late in the game.From the entry strike zone
  • Emergency food and bottled water were airlifted into the earthquake zone.From the entry airlift
  • You might feel differently about this policy if you were on the ground in a war zone.From the entry on the ground
  • Some style guides write north temperate zone upstyle as North Temperate Zone.From the entry upstyle
  • Dead zones are hypoxic areas in the world's oceans and large lakes.From the entry hypoxic
  • And your husband's parents were in the earthquake zone? Mother of God! Did they survive?From the entry Mother of God
  • The demanding interview panel took him well out of his comfort zone.From the entry comfort zone
  • If you park your car in a no-parking zone, watch out for clampers.From the entry clamper
  • The villagers were astonished to learn that they were living in an orogenous zone.From the entry orogenous zone
  • Saprolites form in the lower zones of soil profiles and represent deep weathering of the bedrock surface.From the entry saprolite
  • The fines are doubled if you speed in a school zone or a work zone.From the entry school zone
  • He made a beauty pass through the neutral zone.From the entry beauty
  • Jones chases one out of the zone for strike two.From the entry chase
  • Outside shooting is essential to beating a zone defense.From the entry zone defense
  • Without the KC-46 tankers orbiting in friendly airspace, our fighters would've run out of fuel long before reaching the combat zone.From the entry tanker
  • In pickleball, a foot fault occurs when a player volleys a ball while in the kitchen, or non-volley zone.From the entry foot fault
  • Orogenous zones are usually found along plate boundaries.From the entry orogenous zone
  • The game will not respond to small movements of the joystick, until the stick is pushed out of its dead zone.From the entry deadband
  • They're not trying to keep you well informed, nor to balance both sides — they're flooding the zone.From the entry flood the zone
  • Availability zones are typically geographically separated from one another, to prevent local disasters from affecting more than one of them.From the entry availability zone
  • The park is an anti-smoking zone.From the entry anti-smoking
  • This line bounds the limital zone.From the entry limital
  • The crate of supplies soft-landed in the drop zone under its parachute, allowing the soldiers to replenish their food and ammo for the next few days of fighting.From the entry soft-land

Meaning of zone

  1. noun Each of the five regions of the earth's surface into which it was divided by climatic differences, namely the torrid zone (between the tropics), two temperate zones (between the tropics and the polar circles), and two frigid zones (within the polar circles).
  2. noun Any given region or area of the world.
  3. noun A given area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic, use, restriction, etc.

Full definition of zone

Questions about zone in a sentence

How do you use zone in a sentence?
Zone is used as a noun and verb. For example: “There is a no-smoking zone that extends 25 feet outside of each entrance.”
What is a short sentence with zone?
“The park is an anti-smoking zone.”
What does zone mean?
Zone means each of the five regions of the earth's surface into which it was divided by climatic differences, namely the torrid zone (between the tropics), two temperate zones (between the tropics and the polar circles), and two frigid zones (within the polar circles).

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Adapted from Wiktionary: zone (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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