How to Use coordinated in a Sentence

coordinated

adjective
  • The escape that prompted the overnight search for the teens was a coordinated effort, Beohm said.
    Celina Tebor, CNN, 18 Sep. 2023
  • The two coordinated looks for the royal event, and Finnegan stole the show with her breezy pastel yellow cape dress.
    Rosa Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 8 May 2023
  • Some thieves don't even try to hide their crimes, like with coordinated flash mobs.
    Carter Evans, CBS News, 1 Dec. 2023
  • In other words, the coordinated effort of your entire body wins the day (or in this case, the workout).
    Men's Health, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Unlike the coordinated chintz of the '80s, try contrasts in color and scale.
    Kristina McGuirk, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Hang around the house in style with a coordinated loungewear set or a matching pajama set that’s on sale for more than 40% off.
    Phoebe Sklansky, Parents, 17 Nov. 2023
  • And so there has to be a real coordinated effort to be able to respond to this crisis.
    CBS News, 31 Dec. 2023
  • For the less coordinated among us, a simple slip of the knife while trying to remove the pit can easily lead to slicing the flesh of one’s hand instead of the flesh of the fruit.
    Aaron Hutcherson, Washington Post, 2 June 2023
  • In the video, Mendes is sporting a denim-on-denim look in a jean skirt and coordinated jacket.
    Stephanie Wenger, Peoplemag, 10 Mar. 2024
  • By nightfall, a coordinated attack would shift focus away from that part of the city.
    Timothy McLaughlin, Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Still, the movements of each wheel must remain coordinated to steer, and the suspension must smooth bumps and potholes across four wheels.
    IEEE Spectrum, 1 Nov. 2023
  • This allows the hour of daylight to stay coordinated with the time most people are active outside.
    Amy Huschka, Detroit Free Press, 13 Feb. 2024
  • But doing that in a way that’s lined up and deeply coordinated with our likeminded allies around the world and that’s a that’s an integral part of the approach.
    Fortune Editors, Fortune, 21 Dec. 2023
  • This is the best zero-gravity chair that comes in a set of two for a cohesive, coordinated look in your backyard.
    Sarah Halverson, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 May 2023
  • This is why four time zones were established in 1883 for coordinated time keeping across the country.
    Katie Wiseman, The Indianapolis Star, 8 Mar. 2024
  • The pair, initially performing a few feet apart in front of Son Lux, met in the middle of the small stage to clasp hands (or, in Byrne’s case, rubbery fingers) as the dancers fell to the ground in a coordinated circle.
    Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Caicedo hugged her teammates and then broke out into a coordinated dance, before flashing a heart to the cameras on the sideline.
    Sean Neumann, Peoplemag, 25 July 2023
  • One thing that’s missing in this work, however, is a unified goal and coordinated plan.
    Will Stewart, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Layer it with a coordinated purse to use on your weekend outings.
    Aemilia Madden, harpersbazaar.com, 14 Apr. 2023
  • This fall’s outreach efforts will help the city create a master plan — a blueprint for how the regional park should evolve in coordinated way.
    David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Nov. 2023
  • At one point the three of them showed off a coordinated dance routine —wearing nearly identical brown sweater dresses and (very) tall heels.
    Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 24 Nov. 2023
  • This allows the hour of daylight to stay coordinated with the time most people are active outside according to NIST.
    Chandra Fleming, Detroit Free Press, 21 Feb. 2023
  • The couple have booked the bands, selected the venue and coordinated donations themselves.
    Meredith Newman, Kansas City Star, 25 Jan. 2024
  • There were plenty of adorable family dates on the red carpet Monday, but the Pascals were arguably the most glamorous of the bunch, in their coordinated black ensembles.
    Emma Specter, Vogue, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Nearly 3,000 people were killed that in a string of coordinated attacks by the terrorist group al-Qaida.
    Alexandra Hutzler, ABC News, 11 Sep. 2023
  • Any newcomers to the camp will be met by a coordinated team of social workers and law enforcement who will inform them that no new tents will be allowed.
    Brianna Herlihy, Fox News, 31 Oct. 2023
  • In the photo, the couple are wearing coordinated outfits while Barbour shows off his wedding ring finger in the photo.
    Jordan Greene, Peoplemag, 8 Sep. 2023
  • The Double Denim Outfit You may be used to wearing your favorite pair of jeans to work, but take things up a notch by styling them with a coordinated (or contrasting) denim trench.
    Aemilia Madden, Harper's BAZAAR, 29 Aug. 2023
  • The use of coordinated sanctions, both in Russia and as a broader foreign policy tool, doesn’t seem to be going away, experts agreed.
    Richard Vanderford, WSJ, 25 Feb. 2023
  • Marshall passes the fans back and forth in a coordinated fashion with a friend to symbolize electron exchanges between the metal ions.
    Byclaudia Lopez Lloreda, science.org, 13 Mar. 2023

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