How to Use group in a Sentence

group

1 of 2 noun
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  • She presented the idea to the group.
  • It'll be easier if we go there as a group.
  • She joined a discussion group.
  • A select group of scientists has been invited to the conference.
  • We like to let these students work in groups whenever possible.
  • She belongs to an environmental group.
  • The group is in the process of raising funds to build the ballfield.
    — The Aegis, 13 July 2018
  • The control group, with no dough on the line, showed the least change.
    — Molly Shea, Glamour, 17 May 2018
  • The group is calling for the three other girls to be charged.
    — CBS News, 22 Dec. 2017
  • Tayshia gets the group date rose, and no one jumps over a fence.
    — Amanda Mitchell, Marie Claire, 12 Feb. 2019
  • Add a sing-a-long to the agenda of your next friend group hang.
    — Hannah Oh, Seventeen, 9 Nov. 2022
  • For now though, the group could relax and gain their sea legs.
    — Francesca Street, CNN, 12 May 2021
  • Landry may not want to hear it but the success of the theater group may hinge on her.
    — Jevon Phillips, Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2022
  • And those groups are also putting feet on the ground this weekend.
    — Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2017
  • But how would Dana Altman fill out the rest of the group.
    — oregonlive, 9 Oct. 2020
  • The other days were counted as a group before the next named day.
    — Jill Gleeson, Country Living, 15 Mar. 2019
  • That, that would just slow down the process of putting this group together.
    — Staff Reports, cleveland, 2 Dec. 2022
  • The dancers, though, are a more diverse group — both in terms of skin tone and styles.
    — New York Times, 16 June 2021
  • The show confirmed that Neil’s voice remains a weak point in the group.
    — Ross Raihala, Twin Cities, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Kings of the New Age marks the pop punk group’s fifth album.
    — Ian Blau, Rolling Stone, 15 June 2022
  • But The Contours were the kind of group who could sing that and get away with it.
    — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Aug. 2022
  • In an instant, one of the boys grabbed the money, and the whole group bolted down a side street.
    — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Look for signs to distinguish one group from the other.
    — Natalie B. Compton, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Mar. 2023
  • For others, an active group chat is part of the answer.
    — Washington Post, 8 July 2020
  • My group of friends all wear masks and are pretty careful.
    — The Washington Post, 31 July 2020
  • Hunter found out about the program in her foster care and adoptive group.
    — Alana Minkler, The Arizona Republic, 13 July 2020
  • The group planned a convention this summer, then scrubbed it.
    — Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2024
  • This girl group reminds us that our friends will always be there to lift us up.
    — Kori Williams, Seventeen, 2 Dec. 2022
  • Even non-locals in the dance world have checked in and made sure the group is OK.
    — Leah Asmelash and Eileen McMenamin, CNN, 8 July 2020
  • But one group of fans for Argentina has found a new home at the pub.
    — Dearbea Walker, Philly.com, 30 June 2018
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group

2 of 2 verb
  • The key to arranging leaves is to group them by size and color.
    — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 4 Sep. 2023
  • They are grouped by sport, taking up blocks or floors of rooms.
    — Adam Carlson, PEOPLE.com, 17 Feb. 2018
  • In most years, my household would be grouped among the Advent snobs.
    — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 22 Nov. 2019
  • In this simple pairing, the rules of grouping plants by their ilk are thrown out the window.
    — Adrian Higgins, sacbee, 8 June 2018
  • People live in isolation, afraid to group up in cities.
    — Matthew Gault, Time, 1 Nov. 2019
  • There are no grades, and students are grouped in mixed-age classrooms.
    — Alia Malik, ExpressNews.com, 26 Dec. 2019
  • The honorees will be grouped based on focus of volunteerism.
    — Elizabeth Marie Himchak, Rancho Bernardo, 11 Apr. 2018
  • The hospital has no choice but to group the sick together.
    — New York Times, 3 Dec. 2020
  • Some states lack data and have been grouped in with surrounding states.
    — Erin Prater, Fortune Well, 23 Dec. 2023
  • Humans decided to group the rise and fall of the sun into discrete days and weeks.
    — New York Times, 20 July 2021
  • About half of those whales have been grouping by the entrance to the canal since Saturday.
    — Daniel Kool, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Apr. 2023
  • My two best friends and I were grouped with 20 strangers.
    — Marie-Noëlle Bauer, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 June 2018
  • Campers will be grouped into leagues by age and ability.
    — Staff Report, Houston Chronicle, 28 May 2018
  • But it is still grouped with teams ranked in the coaches’ top 20.
    — David Wharton, latimes.com, 28 June 2018
  • The cars were grouped into classes, and the winner of each class was eligible for best in show.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 24 Aug. 2019
  • And, sure, this guide is grouped by flower, but that’s just to simplify things.
    — Jennifer Goldstein, Marie Claire, 7 Oct. 2019
  • If released into the wild, goldfish can group up into what’s called a school.
    — National Geographic, 20 Oct. 2019
  • Rows of griffins and what look like monkey faces with wings line the building, each grouping framed by a stoic crowned face.
    — San Antonio Express-News, 28 Mar. 2020
  • The tipping points are grouped into three main categories.
    — Wired, 27 Nov. 2019
  • This comes in handy during the colder months when fish are grouped up around a piece of deep structure or in a wintering hole.
    — Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Why does the wine world want to be grouped in with Picasso and Mozart, anyway?
    — Brian Palmer, Slate Magazine, 12 June 2017
  • Use one to group similar items such as cleaning supplies.
    — Mariah Thomas, Good Housekeeping, 1 Oct. 2022
  • Write the answers on sticky notes, group them together by theme, and then discard the ones that don’t resonate.
    — Janine MacLachlan, Forbes, 29 June 2021
  • But there was a huge difference in how those without dementia had grouped their foods.
    — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 22 Apr. 2020
  • Click on the app to allow notifications, turn them off, or group them.
    — Adrienne So, WIRED, 5 Sep. 2022
  • In other words, take stock of which items reliably drive your sales and group those together.
    — Kiran Herbert, Outside Online, 18 Dec. 2020
  • These could be grouped to give a sense of community, and better serve all types of visitors.
    — Harriot Manley, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 May 2018
  • This allowed Xbox friends to group up and move from one game type to another together.
    — Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2021
  • Omari and a handful of other prisoners grouped together spoke about this at length.
    — Jackie Mansky, Smithsonian, 8 Jan. 2018
  • To be sure, women cannot be grouped together as a monolithic set of consumers.
    — Nathan Bomey, USA TODAY, 8 July 2019

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