How to Use texting in a Sentence

texting

noun
  • A lot of texting, a lot of checking in.
    — Kathleen Perricone, Entertainment Weekly, 12 June 2026
  • Most of us rely on email, texting, video chat and phone calls to stay in touch.
    — Monique Valeris, Good Housekeeping, 6 Jan. 2023
  • Ali spent hours texting with the women and talking to them on video calls.
    — Larissa MacFarquhar, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Those darn things don’t offer a texting option.
    — Gabriel Burns, AJC.com, 6 Apr. 2026
  • And these are things that often stem from some sort of social media or texting.
    — Doc Louallen, ABC News, 9 Dec. 2024
  • Calls can be made through the Garmin Bounce 2, as well as two-way texting.
    — Andrew Williams, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Current law bans texting and driving, but this new plan goes further.
    — Arpan Lobo, Detroit Free Press, 2 May 2023
  • The platform supports texting, video and voice calls, as well as file-sharing.
    — Sandra Gutierrez G., Popular Science, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Phone calls and texting seem to be what takes up most of our human interaction these days.
    — Barton Goldsmith, AJC.com, 2 June 2026
  • The cell phone whose primary purpose was for calling and texting is no longer.
    — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 3 Aug. 2022
  • So, fart texting, for example, probably doesn’t move enough of your body around enough.
    — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2025
  • And, depending on that director, a fair amount of late-night texting.
    — Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 9 Feb. 2026
  • In my school, there is a rule of absolutely no texting between staff and students.
    — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2024
  • Our relationship started with texting, then moved to the phone.
    — Lisa Mogull, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Their connection was obvious once the texting dwindled to just the two of them.
    — Emma Kershaw, Peoplemag, 21 July 2024
  • But there’s much more to it than that, even if the conduct on trial dealt with texting specifically.
    — Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 6 Apr. 2024
  • The teenager was also seen texting on her phone, walking alongside a brick building.
    — Hannah Sacks, People.com, 14 Jan. 2025
  • Miller was wanted for shoplifting, failure to stop for police and texting while driving.
    — Landon Mion, Fox News, 18 Aug. 2024
  • And for uninterrupted texting, opt for a style with touch screen-friendly tips.
    — Cortne Bonilla, Vogue, 6 Jan. 2025
  • The two moms live about 10 minutes apart and are constantly talking and texting.
    — Wendy Grossman Kantor, Peoplemag, 30 June 2023
  • Calls and texting were fine, and typical boundaries seemed to be respected.
    — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 27 May 2023
  • You may be used to texting and Snapchat, and may feel intimidated to talk to clients one-on-one on a call.
    — Heather Kelly, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
  • Lying seems to happen rarely for many people, even toward strangers and even via social media and texting.
    — Christian B. Miller, CNN, 25 June 2024
  • This increase is due to the inclusion of third-party texting fees in pricing agreements.
    — Quartz Bot, Quartz, 19 Nov. 2024
  • Each mode allows or blocks certain features such as texting, browsing, or access to the camera.
    — PC Magazine, 18 July 2025
  • The non-emergency line was working as well as 911 texting, police said.
    — Riley Hoffman, ABC News, 17 Apr. 2024
  • The prevalence of texting and short messaging has led to sloppy spelling and woeful grammar.
    — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Dec. 2023
  • Dry texting is the most common way kids at her school find out someone is mad at them, Akshaya, also 18, told me.
    — Anna North, Vox, 15 May 2025
  • Marlinspike merged two existing open source apps, one for texting and one for voice calls, to create Signal.
    — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 25 Mar. 2025
  • Laila is early, standing outside the restaurant and texting, in a men’s button-​down and barn jacket, both several sizes too big.
    — Tamar Adler, Vogue, 1 Mar. 2023

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