How to Use joining in a Sentence

joining

noun
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  • The joining of the two will result in a wet ending to the week.
    — oregonlive, 27 Oct. 2022
  • That this joining of two worlds can bring about a birth not of fear, but of love.
    — Salman Rushdie, VanityFair.com, 21 Feb. 2017
  • This could be the end of the uneasy joining of Nebraska to the Big Ten.
    — oregonlive, 12 Aug. 2020
  • The sportsmanship didn’t stop after the pregame joining of the hands.
    — Matt Massey, The Seattle Times, 31 Aug. 2017
  • For now, make sure your Zoom is up to date and change your video settings to block auto-joining.
    — Lily Hay Newman, WIRED, 9 July 2019
  • Kendall wrote in an April 11 filing objecting to the joining of the cases.
    — Hannah Leone, Aurora Beacon-News, 19 Apr. 2018
  • Last month the company grounded eight planes over a problem with the joining of parts of the 787's fuselage.
    — Chris Isidore, CNN, 8 Sep. 2020
  • One way to do this with adolescents is to encourage the joining of a club or sports league.
    — Emy Rodriguez Flores, Redbook, 6 Mar. 2020
  • What might have come off as coy is anything but in the joining of the work’s disparate elements.
    — Steven Winn, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Apr. 2018
  • The too-few endowment dollars led to a joining of forces in 1930, but squabbles soon led the churchmen to back out.
    — Darryl Levings, kansascity, 15 June 2018
  • Neves said that even if the pandemic hadn’t happened, the joining of Bar Nohm and Water Witch would’ve still come about.
    — Kolbie Peterson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 July 2023
  • The experience of kissing someone does not end with the joining of lips or the dancing of tongues.
    — Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 25 May 2018
  • Since March, those numbers have entered the millions – with more than 1.6 million joining in June.
    — Noah Robertson, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Aug. 2020
  • The text, by John Milton, celebrates the joining of verse and voice and imagines their heavenly union.
    — Dallas News, 4 Mar. 2023
  • Tragedy, we're told in the first 10 minutes of the class, etymologically comes from the joining of two words: the Greek 'tragos' for goat and 'oide' for song.
    — Kole Fulmine, refinery29.com, 20 July 2022
  • If confirmed, the discovery would mark the first time that astronomers have captured light produced by the joining of the darkest objects in the universe.
    — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 25 June 2020
  • This is a joining of forces at a state-of-the-art facility for two doctors who used to play hooky from anatomy lab to play basketball.
    — Jonathan Jones, SI.com, 20 July 2017
  • But within days of joining, Whitehouse found an excess dose available for her son.
    — Emily Brindley, courant.com, 7 Mar. 2021
  • Almost all of the big tech firms already offer it, including Facebook, Salesforce and VMware, with more joining by the day.
    — Joanne Lipman, Time, 25 Jan. 2018
  • Partnerships fail when there is mistrust or the joining of two companies requires a change to the focus or intent of one of the parties.
    — Colson Hillier, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2022
  • The possible joining of the two companies sent shockwaves through the industry this week.
    — Susan Glaser, cleveland, 4 Oct. 2019
  • This was the joining of the rest of Canada with new Brunswick and Nova Scotia into a singular country.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 1 July 2022
  • Wright and Hill acknowledge the joining of finances isn’t without struggle.
    — Erin Lowry, USA TODAY, 14 Jan. 2020
  • The hangar is composed of 10 sections laced together by a system of inner joining strips and eyelets.
    — Jennifer Conn, Akron Reporter, cleveland.com, 13 Dec. 2017
  • And yet, weddings are the public celebration of the joining of two families.
    — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 24 Sep. 2023
  • The accident that led to Michael’s unplanned joining of the three-member crew also damaged a device that clears carbon dioxide from the air.
    — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 5 May 2021
  • More and more, as sales become relegated to regional rep shows or even private dealer events, the value of big shows lies in this joining of the tribes.
    — Doug Schnitzspahn, Outside Online, 13 May 2016
  • The onboarding process can start even before the formal joining date so that the soon-to-be employees can get a feel of the organization's culture ahead of time.
    — Anand Inamdar, Forbes, 13 Oct. 2021
  • But no joining of forces is more difficult to fathom than the partnership between two writers.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 3 June 2018
  • But the price of joining has brought about criticism over access, especially when women of color make less than most and the wealth gap is real.
    — Jeneé Osterheldt, BostonGlobe.com, 31 July 2019

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