How to Use DM in a Sentence

DM

noun
  • Go viral in your niche, then DM people that come through.
    — Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Become a student of the DM game.
    — Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Now, there's no need to stress over a DM your friend sent or a meme on TikTok.
    — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 8 July 2023
  • Comment ‘Angela’ and I’ll DM you a link to the full episode!
    — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 17 Nov. 2025
  • Send a message via email or DM on Instagram, or even ask to hop on a Zoom.
    — Literary Hub, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Find people who match your ICP and start a DM sales outreach process.
    — Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
  • On the platform, shoppers can DM the experts with requests for an item and their preferred size.
    — Halie Lesavage, Harper's BAZAAR, 28 July 2023
  • Three months after their first DM, Castro offered them five of her embryos.
    — Sara Harrison, ELLE, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Other teens will just gain access to this same content by having friends send them content over DM.
    — ​wendy Wisner, Parents, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Those who see the instant can send reactions, reply by DM, and share their own instants.
    — Kelly McCarthy, ABC News, 13 May 2026
  • Every text creates a nightmare, every DM, every voice note shouldn’t be sent.
    — Ellise Shafer, Variety, 25 Mar. 2026
  • The app now allows users to send voice notes and share up to nine images or videos via DM, either one-on-one or in group chats.
    — PC Magazine, 30 Aug. 2025
  • Getting an ocelot or a cheetah can be as easy as sending a DM or text, agreeing on a price, and setting a pick-up date.
    — Rachel Nuwer, Longreads, 10 Mar. 2020
  • Newsweek reached out to Wilson via Instagram DM for comment.
    — Alia Shoaib, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Looking to jog her memory, Humberstone reaches for her phone and brings up the DM.
    — Waiss Aramesh, Rolling Stone, 16 Aug. 2023
  • So whoever this mystery man is, Gomez hadn’t even noticed the DM until the podcast episode.
    — Ryan Brennan, Kansas City Star, 5 Mar. 2026
  • However, going out of your way to DM my wife is unacceptable and what is shown in this image is crossing the line.
    — Paulina Dedaj, FOXNews.com, 24 Aug. 2025
  • Hadari did not acknowledge a DM Thursday seeking comment.
    — Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 14 May 2026
  • Or, What does this specific punctuation in this specific part of this DM mean?
    — Raven Smith, Vogue, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Give me one message for email, one for text, one for voice note, one for LinkedIn DM, and one for an in-person conversation.
    — Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 6 June 2026
  • One person, chosen at random, will receive two tickets and will be notified by DM on Sunday.
    — Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 3 June 2026
  • There were endless options for how to monetize—subscriptions, pay-to-unlock content, paying to go to the top of a creator’s DM inbox.
    — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Watch Haines discuss her Summer House star DM in the Behind the Table podcast episode above.
    — Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 25 June 2026
  • Tell them how to confirm the source of an official-sounding email, text or DM by contacting senders independently though another method.
    — Heather Kelly, Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2023
  • Your mind is racing, and you’re tempted to say something impulsive, especially in a text, DM or conversation that triggers you.
    — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 4 May 2026
  • McCartney also reveals that the link-up with the brothers began with an Instagram DM from Nick.
    — Rachel Desantis, PEOPLE, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Message requests live in the Requests button located above your inbox in Instagram’s DM tab.
    — Emma Roth, The Verge, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Most inspiring for her has been seeing how Vergara juggles growing a viable online presence with selling unique, high-end pieces both in-person and via DM.
    — Talia Abbas, Vogue, 5 Nov. 2025
  • The best way to ward off conflict, suggests Abramowitz, is to limit public messages on a certain subject to two-to-three reply-alls max, before taking it to a DM.
    — Sara Lieberman, Curbed, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Like other apps, Weverse allows fans the chance to connect directly through Weverse DM.
    — Nicole Fell, HollywoodReporter, 1 Oct. 2025

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