How to Use concatenation in a Sentence

concatenation

noun
  • But though Gus could still ramble and meander, the new writing didn’t become anything more than a concatenation of details.
    — Literary Hub, 20 Feb. 2026
  • The cost concatenation problem arises not only at a national level, but at countless local levels as well.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 28 Jan. 2023
  • This undue optimism is a concatenation of many other biases and cognitive quirks.
    — Kyle Hill, Discover Magazine, 18 Oct. 2012
  • To many investors, that concatenation of stronger growth and higher inflation looks increasingly likely.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 1 Dec. 2021
  • What follows is an overlong concatenation of OK set pieces featuring oodles of predictable globe-hopping derring-do.
    — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 June 2023
  • Most computer voice programs use a library of syllables and words to construct sentences, something called concatenation synthesis.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 8 Jan. 2018
  • Meanwhile a concatenation of clutches, gears, shafts and axles must be hurriedly reorganized by their electromechanical masters.
    — Dan Neil, WSJ, 1 Jan. 2021
  • That underpainting, rather than continuous from edge to edge across the surface, is a concatenation of independent patches, all different.
    — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 19 Nov. 2022
  • This concatenation of adverse events has prompted comparisons to the nineteen-seventies, when an oil-price shock combined with domestic price pressures led to stagflation and recession.
    — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2022
  • The exhibition follows an incredible concatenation of important shows at the museum in recent years.
    — Steven Litt, cleveland, 18 Dec. 2022
  • For a full minute, the quiet concatenation gurgles along, accumulating extra notes and flourishes, suggesting an eventual kosmische surge.
    — Dash Lewis, Pitchfork, 20 Dec. 2025
  • According to the press release shared with Interesting Engineering, the key to elevator codes is code concatenation.
    — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Smoke & Dough in Miami’s West Kendall neighborhood takes its very name from the empanadas’ two prime ingredients, and the shop is a literal concatenation of the two concepts.
    — Robert F. Moss, Southern Living, 10 Feb. 2026
  • But his spare, precise, deceivingly matter of fact prose often invites readers to join the dots, considering the elliptical concatenation of events, or finding resonance in seemingly casual dialog.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 27 Apr. 2022
  • Seeded within that plausible sadness and loneliness and horror and hopelessness is the story of the strange concatenation of events that produced the moment when McCrae found his path to poetry, first as anchor to life and then as avenue to himself.
    — Wyatt Mason, New York Times, 27 July 2023
  • This is a concatenation of digital effects dedicated to the proposition that Newton got his laws of motion all wrong, and that physical objects, including human beings, can perform whatever gyrations a computer can concoct.
    — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 17 Feb. 2022

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