How to Use palindrome in a Sentence

palindrome

noun
Definition of palindromenext
  • The date will be a palindrome for nine straight days during May 2015.
    — Joel Shannon, USA TODAY, 1 Feb. 2020
  • So palindrome is a word of phrase that runs back on itself.
    — Emma Reynolds, CNN, 2 Feb. 2020
  • And Jones seemed to have an early lead on the Cam-Mac palindrome scoreboard.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2021
  • 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 is also a palindrome, which is read the same way forward and backward.
    — Charmaine Patterson, PEOPLE.com, 24 Feb. 2022
  • It’s a palindrome date, meaning it can be read the same forward and backward.
    — Leada Gore | Lgore@al.com, al, 22 Feb. 2022
  • This year had 22 palindrome dates, according to the Farmer’s Almanac.
    — al, 22 Dec. 2021
  • Real quick Sunday's date is a rare palindrome that hasn't happened in more than 900 years.
    — Editors, USA TODAY, 2 Feb. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • After February, the U.S. won’t have any other palindrome dates for 2022.
    — Leada Gore | Lgore@al.com, al, 22 Feb. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • Interview with, and essay by, palindrome king Barry Duncan.
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 29 Oct. 2011
  • That’s where the puzzle element could come in: Some categories might be defined by their use of wordplay — palindromes, homophones, adding or dropping letters and words — rather than the literal meanings of the words on the cards.
    — Wyna Liu, New York Times, 26 June 2023
  • Thursday marks an eight-digit palindrome, which occurs only 12 times this century.
    — Jay Cannon, USA TODAY, 2 Dec. 2021
  • But the movie is confusing, and its time-reversal palindrome premise requires constant exposition.
    — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 25 Jan. 2021
  • 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
  • News: An earlier version of this article misstated how frequently sets of palindrome dates occur.
    — USA TODAY, 1 July 2019
  • February 23 through February 28 are also palindrome dates -- though not ubiquitous ones.
    — Megan Marples, CNN, 22 Feb. 2022
  • Lo Castro expressed this through structural palindromes in the geometric and colorful installation.
    — Junette Reyes, Sun-Sentinel.com, 3 July 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • Manufactured by Honda, the Civic automobile is a palindrome composed entirely of Roman numerals.
    — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 June 2023
  • That makes Sunday’s palindrome unusually cross-cultural.
    — Ben Guarino, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Jan. 2020

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