How to Use palindrome in a Sentence

palindrome

noun
  • The word “dad” and the number “1881” are palindromes.
  • The date is also a palindrome, which is read the same way forward and backward.
    — Charmaine Patterson, PEOPLE.com, 24 Feb. 2022
  • This is a palindrome — a sentence that reads the same forward and backward.
    — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 July 2023
  • Tuesday marked the fourth date in February that is a palindrome—and more are on the way.
    — Joseph De Avila, WSJ, 22 Feb. 2022
  • The date will be a palindrome for nine straight days during May 2015.
    — Joel Shannon, USA TODAY, 1 Feb. 2020
  • And Jones seemed to have an early lead on the Cam-Mac palindrome scoreboard.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2021
  • To dust off your memory from English class, a palindrome is a word spelled the same backward as forward.
    — Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 24 June 2020
  • Real quick Sunday's date is a rare palindrome that hasn't happened in more than 900 years.
    — Editors, USA TODAY, 2 Feb. 2020
  • Today's rare palindrome comes toward the beginning of a long stretch of such dates to kick off December.
    — Jay Cannon, USA TODAY, 2 Dec. 2021
  • He is obsessed with numbers and his Mixed Blood career fits almost into a neat palindrome.
    — Rohan Preston, Star Tribune, 30 Apr. 2021
  • Twosday is a global celebration, a set-in-stone palindrome no matter the date format.
    — Zachary Smith, cleveland, 21 Feb. 2022
  • This year's 4/20 festivities will fall on a rare calendar event known as a palindrome.
    — Raphael Romero Ruiz, The Arizona Republic, 19 Apr. 2024
  • This year had 22 palindrome dates, according to the Farmer’s Almanac.
    — al, 22 Dec. 2021
  • Several food joints are rolling out deals for the day, weekend or even month in honor of 4/20, which is a special palindrome date this year.
    — The Arizona Republic, 19 Apr. 2024
  • Thursday marks an eight-digit palindrome, which occurs only 12 times this century.
    — Jay Cannon, USA TODAY, 2 Dec. 2021
  • Mensa provides a set of friends who understand his anagrams, palindromes and other word games, Lederer said.
    — Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 26 May 2018
  • But the movie is confusing, and its time-reversal palindrome premise requires constant exposition.
    — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 25 Jan. 2021
  • Starting June 20 and continuing through June 29, each day's date will read as a palindrome when written out in the month/day/year format.
    — Melina Khan, USA Today, 18 June 2026
  • Here, the composer counted years, 20 for Disney, with a sequence of 20 chords, used in various sequences, this way and that, and as palindromes.
    — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Finally, not everyone in the world would consider this week a palindrome week, because different countries follow different date formats.
    — Doug Criss, CNN, 10 Sep. 2019
  • Lo Castro expressed this through structural palindromes in the geometric and colorful installation.
    — Junette Reyes, Sun-Sentinel.com, 3 July 2017
  • February 23 through February 28 are also palindrome dates -- though not ubiquitous ones.
    — Megan Marples, CNN, 22 Feb. 2022
  • The most significant palindrome date will be the one from Inauguration day, which also marks the start of 10 consecutive days of palindromes.
    — Sonia Ramirez, Chron, 21 Jan. 2021
  • Writer-director-palindrome Tim Smit, an effects guy making his feature debut, has a germ of an idea for a nifty chase scenario that mixes paranoia, parallel-world fizziness and apocalyptic action.
    — Robert Abele, latimes.com, 15 June 2017
  • Manufactured by Honda, the Civic automobile is a palindrome composed entirely of Roman numerals.
    — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 June 2023
  • As for the Protagonist, the new guy who turns out to be responsible for everything, figuring out the arc of the character (including the final reveal) for Washington was, like the movie's title, a palindrome.
    — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 6 Sep. 2020

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