Examples of password in a Sentence
You need to enter your password to check your e-mail.
the password for the all-night rave will be changed next week
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Who once set us in the deep a password, lock and mercenary.
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Timmy Straw, The New York Review of Books, 4 Apr. 2026
Netflix's price increases also come after the company began cracking down on password sharing to get more customers to pay and subscribe for the streaming platform — which received much backlash from customers.
—Ashley Soebroto, Houston Chronicle, 4 Apr. 2026
In May, an Italian man was held captive for weeks in a Manhattan townhouse while abductors beat him, shocked him with electric wires and held him over a ledge in order to get his Bitcoin password.
—Megan Cassidy, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Apr. 2026
According to its statement, no passwords were stolen and employee phones were not compromised.
—News Desk, Artforum, 3 Apr. 2026
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Timmy Straw, The New York Review of Books, 4 Apr. 2026
Netflix's price increases also come after the company began cracking down on password sharing to get more customers to pay and subscribe for the streaming platform — which received much backlash from customers.
—Ashley Soebroto, Houston Chronicle, 4 Apr. 2026
In May, an Italian man was held captive for weeks in a Manhattan townhouse while abductors beat him, shocked him with electric wires and held him over a ledge in order to get his Bitcoin password.
—Megan Cassidy, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Apr. 2026
According to its statement, no passwords were stolen and employee phones were not compromised.
—News Desk, Artforum, 3 Apr. 2026
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“Password.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/password. Accessed 8 Apr. 2026.
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password
noun
pass·word
-ˌwərd 
1
: a word or phrase that must be spoken by a person in order to pass a guard
2
: a secret series of numbers or letters required for access to a computer
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