How to Use mainline in a Sentence

mainline

1 of 3 verb
Definition of mainlinenext
  • In a city that mainlines major brands, d3 is a welcome change.
    — Laura Ratliff, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Mar. 2018
  • And no one seemed to be given pause by the fact that the brand’s most famous son had mainlined a fatal speedball just across the street.
    — Benjamin Wallace, HWD, 19 May 2017
  • And no one seemed to be given pause by the fact that the brand’s most famous son had mainlined a fatal speedball just across the street.
    — Benjamin Wallace, HWD, 1 May 2017
  • The story may as well have been conceived by a 10-year-old after mainlining Fruit Roll-Ups.
    — Paul Schrodt, Esquire, 5 July 2017
  • This pipeline, which runs under the Baltic Sea, gave Germany the option to mainline Russian gas.
    — University Of Houston Energy Fellows, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2022
  • And as a way to mainline into a viewer’s emotions, horror can hardly be beat.
    — Celia Wren, Washington Post, 14 Oct. 2022
  • That both doctors vouched for the health of a man who mainlines McDonald's and likes steak and meatloaf is incredible.
    — Z. Byron Wolf, CNN, 1 May 2018
  • That used to mean something (like mainlining caffeine and cursing the weekend for ending).
    — Kathleen Newman-Bremang, refinery29.com, 11 May 2020
  • Those infective eggs hatch larvae, the larvae pierce the intestinal wall, and these larvae mainline their way via the blood to the eyes and central nervous system.
    — Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 1 July 2015
  • Hook up a bunch of preschoolers to brain scanners and show them the movie, and the data would probably look similar to scans of a bunch of Fox News nightmare uncles mainlining Hannity.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 31 Oct. 2019
  • There are rappers who mainline the aesthetic and vibrating energy of punk.
    — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2017
  • The company, at its core, encourages hyper-centralization, ensuring that teens around the world can mimic the same dance or mainline the same 15-second snippet of a song.
    — Elias Leight, Rolling Stone, 15 Dec. 2021
  • Through the mid-20th century, most Protestants in the U.S. belonged to mainline churches, but now they are outnumbered by evangelicals.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 Sep. 2020
  • Ideal conditions to mainline some headlines before starting the day.
    — Heidi Stevens, chicagotribune.com, 14 Aug. 2019
  • Given the past 72 hours the Norwegian producer has just careened through, his need to mainline caffeine is understandable.
    — Katie Bain, Billboard, 10 Mar. 2022
  • And that's not including the tanks of fuel these vehicles mainlined during performance testing and hot lapping at a racetrack.
    — Daniel Pund, Car and Driver, 12 Feb. 2020
  • No wonder American diplomats are getting louder in their frustrations with Russia's plan to mainline into Europe with a new pipeline that will make Russia the continent's natural gas pusher.
    — Zachary B. Wolf, CNN, 28 Sep. 2021
  • Shortly after burbling out his unhinged suggestions for investigating whether the coronavirus can be killed by mainlining household disinfectants or shooting burst of super light under the skin, Trump tried to walk that back.
    — The Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2020
  • Before any stars turned up to rehearse for Sunday's ceremony, crew members were busy putting the finishing touches on the elaborate production, rushing around wearing headsets and mainlining coffee from craft services.
    — Amy Kaufman, latimes.com, 2 Mar. 2018
  • Initially resistant to Trump’s relentless assault on the party’s dignity and legitimacy, Republicans are now mainlining Trump’s xenophobia, and politicians like Kobach are the beneficiaries.
    — Eric Armstrong, New Republic, 7 July 2017
  • In a city that mainlines major brands, d3 is a welcome change.
    — Laura Ratliff, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Mar. 2018
  • And no one seemed to be given pause by the fact that the brand’s most famous son had mainlined a fatal speedball just across the street.
    — Benjamin Wallace, HWD, 19 May 2017
  • And no one seemed to be given pause by the fact that the brand’s most famous son had mainlined a fatal speedball just across the street.
    — Benjamin Wallace, HWD, 1 May 2017
  • The story may as well have been conceived by a 10-year-old after mainlining Fruit Roll-Ups.
    — Paul Schrodt, Esquire, 5 July 2017
  • This pipeline, which runs under the Baltic Sea, gave Germany the option to mainline Russian gas.
    — University Of Houston Energy Fellows, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2022
  • And as a way to mainline into a viewer’s emotions, horror can hardly be beat.
    — Celia Wren, Washington Post, 14 Oct. 2022
  • That both doctors vouched for the health of a man who mainlines McDonald's and likes steak and meatloaf is incredible.
    — Z. Byron Wolf, CNN, 1 May 2018
  • That used to mean something (like mainlining caffeine and cursing the weekend for ending).
    — Kathleen Newman-Bremang, refinery29.com, 11 May 2020
  • Those infective eggs hatch larvae, the larvae pierce the intestinal wall, and these larvae mainline their way via the blood to the eyes and central nervous system.
    — Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 1 July 2015
  • Hook up a bunch of preschoolers to brain scanners and show them the movie, and the data would probably look similar to scans of a bunch of Fox News nightmare uncles mainlining Hannity.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 31 Oct. 2019
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mainline

2 of 3 adjective
  • In 1994, the mainline Churches of Christ severed ties with the group.
    — Andrea Marks, Rolling Stone, 3 Aug. 2023
  • The third highest were mainline Protestants at 40% and white Catholics at 36%.
    — David Noyce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 June 2022
  • In any event, these mainline churches are not the same as those of the suburban heyday of the sixties.
    — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 16 July 2021
  • Not to mention that the newer mainline games are even available in English.
    — Ollie Barder, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2021
  • Where’s this ambition in design with the mainline games?
    — Washington Post, 26 Feb. 2021
  • Loki seems not to be the Loki who got killed in the mainline continuity.
    — Adam Rogers, Wired, 11 Feb. 2021
  • By the end of next year, all the Airbus jets will be gone, and the airline expects to have 78 MAX jets, making up nearly one-third of its mainline fleet.
    — Dominic Gates, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Oct. 2022
  • Still, even among mainline Democrats, just 39 percent would like to see Biden as the nominee; 50 percent think not.
    — Gary Langer, ABC News, 4 Feb. 2023
  • Overall about 10% of its mainline flights have been canceled over the four-day period.
    — Pete Muntean and Chris Isidore, CNN, 1 Nov. 2021
  • In 2001, the church changed its name to the Community of Christ to reflect a more mainline approach than their Latter-day Saint cousins.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 Nov. 2021
  • The looks were bolstered by pieces plucked from the mainline pre-spring Boss collection produced by Ingo Wilts and his team.
    — Luke Leitch, Vogue, 24 Sep. 2021
  • Pilots at the mainline carrier had not received the same bonus pay until this new deal.
    — Dallas News, 7 July 2022
  • More than half of Evangelicals plan to attend, with 36% of Catholics and 27% of mainline Protestants.
    — Alexis Oatman, cleveland, 26 Mar. 2021
  • The Skywalker Saga is a silly and accessible send-up of the nine mainline Star Wars films.
    — Ars Staff, Ars Technica, 4 June 2022
  • The Skywalker Saga is a lighthearted and easygoing send-up of the nine mainline Star Wars films.
    — Jeff Dunn, Ars Technica, 11 Sep. 2022
  • Lin will stick around for two more sequels, which will allegedly end the mainline series.
    — Darren Franich, EW.com, 22 June 2021
  • But the nation’s third-largest mainline Protestant church intends to make up for that loss starting this weekend.
    — Jonathan M. Pitts, Baltimore Sun, 7 July 2023
  • Gone are the tropes of the previous mainline games, replaced with an open world set in the ancient past, heavily based on feudal Japan.
    — Washington Post, 22 Apr. 2022
  • But most mainline Protestant churches still aren’t hosting in-person worship and many Catholics still haven’t returned to the pews.
    — Jean Hopfensperger, Star Tribune, 2 Nov. 2020
  • Two new mainline Pokémon games are out today, but Pokémon fans aren’t talking about these games’ vast new open worlds.
    — Jhaan Elker, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2022
  • In the last quarter of the 20th century, mainline Protestantism faded from public view.
    — Diana Butler Bass, CNN, 10 July 2021
  • Some of the available videos document journeys on multitrack, mainline straightaways, which cleave a wide swath through the land.
    — Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2021
  • The reported rise in the number of mainline Protestants, though, is surprising.
    — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 16 July 2021
  • Murphy last voiced Donkey in 2010's Shrek Forever After, the fourth and most recent mainline film in the franchise.
    — Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 29 Jan. 2023
  • But with the arrival of Starfield as a new science fiction property from Bethesda, that’s left the fate of mainline Fallout games unclear.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2021
  • But, as the complaint notes, there are phones in every mainline housing module, meaning a lack of phone access should not have been an issue.
    — Kelly Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Aug. 2021
  • Tsujimoto said the focus really came from a desire to create a mainline game that stands apart from the rest.
    — Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2021
  • The mainline Bethesda team that’s making Starfield is responsible for some of its biggest hits.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 7 May 2023
  • Already, Taylor said, one of his new bosses had threatened to take his welding gang after Taylor shut down a mainline track.
    — Danelle Morton, ProPublica, 18 Nov. 2023
  • For the first time in a mainline Street Fighter game, Capcom offers different control schemes that players can freely choose between.
    — Aurich Lawson, Ars Technica, 30 May 2023
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main line

3 of 3 noun
  • The San Joaquin trains are the main lines of the valley.
    — Carl Nolte, SFChronicle.com, 29 June 2019
  • These storms are way out ahead of the main line of storms.
    — Leigh Morgan, al, 12 Jan. 2023
  • The break was in an 8-inch main line at 111 E. New Hope Road.
    — Mike Jones, Arkansas Online, 3 May 2023
  • One of the city's main lines of defense was—well, this works.
    — Ryan Smith, Chicago Reader, 24 Oct. 2017
  • Check the main line connection at the street and house.
    — Gary Robbins, sandiegouniontribune.com, 8 July 2018
  • ByteDance has been in games for a few years, but not as a main line of business.
    — Jacky Wong, WSJ, 26 Apr. 2021
  • The waiting time for the main line has been dropping throughout the day.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 17 Sep. 2022
  • Try not to get overwhelmed by all the choices in main lines.
    — Jerry Audet, Field & Stream, 3 May 2023
  • But Gunter is on the main line of growth spreading north from Dallas.
    — Dallas News, 26 Oct. 2022
  • To set up, tie the main line to one of the swivel loops and add about 18 inches of leader to the other two.
    — Bob McNally, Field & Stream, 4 Mar. 2020
  • In May 27, a spill was reported from the main line north of Kamloops.
    — Hal Bernton, The Seattle Times, 11 June 2018
  • Attached is a prussic-knot loop that slides up and down this main line.
    — Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 11 Sep. 2020
  • Tonight: The main line of showers and storms should be east, but a few showers could linger into the evening.
    — Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2021
  • The divination practice centers around four main lines on your palm: the heart line, the fate line, the head line, and the life line.
    — Alyssa Girdwain, Women's Health, 31 May 2023
  • When this happens, your main line twists, and that twisting can travel far, even all the way to the reel spool.
    — Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 7 Mar. 2024
  • During the course of the year, production will move to the main line and begin ramping up.
    — Sam Abuelsamid, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2021
  • The diminutive iPhone has been the dream iPhone of many, a smaller handset with similar specs to the main line of phones.
    — Ewan Spence, Forbes, 21 June 2021
  • The war largely doesn’t change the equation for the Navy, which is the main line of defense against China in the Pacific.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 30 Mar. 2022
  • Many magnet fishers wrap duct tape around the excess rope and their main line.
    — Ben Demchak, Popular Mechanics, 3 June 2022
  • In fact, even prior to this launch, many fans of the brand have opted for dresses from the main line for their nuptials.
    — Irina Grechko, refinery29.com, 26 June 2020
  • The main lines of the Trump approach jettison these concerns.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 12 Dec. 2017
  • Several split shot were attached to the leader, spaced about 18 inches apart, and a float was added to the main line.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 Mar. 2018
  • Start by sliding an egg sinker or sinker slide up your main line, then connect a barrel swivel to the end of the line.
    — Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Pinch the braid tag and main line between your fingers and being pulling slowly.
    — Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 6 June 2024
  • At least three hydrants dot that main line in front of the senior citizens home.
    — Mari A. Schaefer, Philly.com, 15 Dec. 2017
  • The rupture caused the property’s main line to be dry and exposed since Tuesday.
    — Teo Armus, Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2023
  • The 9-piece collection also comes in at a lower price point than her main line.
    — Kerry Pieri, Harper's BAZAAR, 23 Nov. 2019
  • The Children’s Tumor Foundation has been the main line of support for the Jementes.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Sep. 2022
  • The answer to that question has become one of Democrats' main lines of attack against Hovde.
    — Hope Karnopp, Journal Sentinel, 19 Mar. 2024
  • Instead, pinch the overhand knot and main line together with one hand.
    — Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 18 Oct. 2023

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