How to Use coordination in a Sentence

coordination

noun
  • The manager is in charge of project coordination.
  • The illness causes a loss of coordination.
  • The new agency will oversee the coordination of the various departments.
  • Playing sports improves strength and coordination.
  • There needs to be better coordination between departments.
  • Managers there have seen some of the challenges to coordination up close in large and small ways.
    Patricia Cohen, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Pitt gets bonus points for the coordination here: the shoes matched the yellow stitching on his suit.
    Christian Allaire, Vogue, 2 Aug. 2022
  • Part of the delay has been the lack of coordination between city agencies.
    Shwanika Narayan, SFChronicle.com, 25 Feb. 2020
  • Four or five years ago there wasn’t this kind of coordination.
    Kevin Fagan, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Feb. 2018
  • When asked why the restoration has taken so long, the mayor said there needed to be more coordination on the part of the city.
    Erin Edgemon, AL.com, 28 Mar. 2018
  • Inhalants can cause a person to slur their speech and lose coordination of their body.
    Kashmira Gander, Newsweek, 19 Feb. 2018
  • The two stars chose to match for their first appearance, though the coordination was hardly in your face.
    Vogue, 14 Mar. 2019
  • As opposed to the painstaking coordination of film sets, these shots are often off the cuff.
    Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 28 Dec. 2022
  • Young pandas pounce and play not just for fun, but to build skills like balance and coordination.
    Corryn Wetzel, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Mar. 2022
  • If your child needs to work on fine motor coordination (and their nerves), this is the game!
    Rachel Rothman, Good Housekeeping, 17 Oct. 2022
  • Start with the flows in this workout, which challenges your strength, coordination, and mind in all the right ways.
    Eric Leija, Men's Health, 6 May 2022
  • But none of these sanctions were done in full coordination with the EU.
    Nate Dicamillo, Quartz, 28 Feb. 2022
  • Is this supposed to be one of many projects, in which case, where is the coordination to make sure that there is an impact.
    Dileep Rao, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2021
  • Slurring speech or loss of coordination can be warning signs to slow down.
    Richard Sima, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Not everyone had the arm strength or coordination to use them.
    Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 24 May 2023
  • Many patients look to their providers as an unsung hero for their care coordination.
    Forbes, 27 May 2021
  • Staff have welcomed new teams and beds and are eager to see citywide care coordination.
    Mallory Moench, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Dec. 2021
  • The staff will assist with the coordination of second doses.
    BostonGlobe.com, 31 July 2021
  • That sort of project takes an absurd amount of coordination between hundreds of people to pull off.
    Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 12 Apr. 2019
  • This pose takes a lot of coordination, but is totally worth it!
    Katie Robinson, Seventeen, 12 Feb. 2018
  • One stop may feature a combination of punches on a bag to work on strength and hand and eye coordination.
    Andrea K. McDaniels, baltimoresun.com, 24 Apr. 2018
  • Potential: Has the hands and foot coordination to dazzle with the puck and could be a top-six winger.
    Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press, 16 June 2019
  • The chorus work improved after some coordination issues in the first scene.
    Heidi Waleson, WSJ, 25 Apr. 2022
  • One is the kind of stove-piping where each unit or department sort of does its own thing and there is very little coordination.
    Justin George, Washington Post, 28 May 2022
  • The male magnolia in spring is one of my favorite warblers in terms of color coordination.
    Taylor Piephoff, charlotteobserver, 14 May 2018

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