How to Use alphabet in a Sentence

alphabet

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  • Four of the 12 US named storms were from the Greek alphabet.
    — Allison Chinchar and Haley Brink, CNN, 30 Nov. 2020
  • It’s also the first storm with the name of Theta, which is from the Greek alphabet.
    — Leigh Morgan, al, 10 Nov. 2020
  • Its name comes from the 15th letter of the Greek alphabet.
    — John Wayne Ferguson, San Antonio Express-News, 13 Dec. 2021
  • Some of you may have names that start with letters near the end of the alphabet.
    — Laura Newberry, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2021
  • Rather, it is known as delta, the fourth letter of the Greek alphabet.
    — Vimal Patel, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Nov. 2021
  • Watch Haim sing through the alphabet on Sesame Street above.
    — Glenn Rowley, Billboard, 11 May 2023
  • If the Atlantic basin comes near that mark again the Greek alphabet won’t be used.
    — Chris Perkins, sun-sentinel.com, 21 May 2021
  • By the end of the year, Julie taught the child the alphabet, how to type their name on a computer and sound out some small words.
    — Skyler Trepel, Peoplemag, 6 Oct. 2023
  • The omicron variant shares a name with the 15th letter in the Greek alphabet.
    — Ella Lee, USA TODAY, 8 Dec. 2021
  • Hint #5: One of the last three letters in the alphabet is featured.
    — David Faris, Newsweek, 3 Nov. 2024
  • After that, the NHC will move on to using the Greek alphabet.
    — Allison Chinchar, CNN, 13 Sep. 2020
  • In classrooms, teachers used to have a poster with the alphabet.
    — Jillian Kramer, Glamour, 6 Dec. 2022
  • The second half of the alphabet will start back on Thursday.
    — Olivia Krauth, The Courier-Journal, 4 Apr. 2021
  • There were so many storms that the Greek alphabet had to be used to name all of the storms for only the second time on record.
    — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 1 June 2021
  • In third grade, his teacher held a contest to see who in the class could say the alphabet backward the fastest.
    — Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2020
  • If there are more than 21 storms in a season, the names transition to the Greek alphabet.
    — Angela Fritz, CNN, 1 June 2023
  • Then Chris [Kenopic], the guy who plays our father, was the one who would teach us the whole alphabet and other signs.
    — Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 5 Mar. 2021
  • The Cyrillic script, like the Roman one, has its origins in the Greek alphabet.
    — The Economist, 8 May 2021
  • The Atlantic has burned through all its storm names this year and is now working through the Greek alphabet.
    — Leigh Morgan, al, 30 Sep. 2020
  • Nine letters of the Greek alphabet have been used to name storms this season.
    — Paola Pérez, orlandosentinel.com, 19 Nov. 2020
  • The only other time the Greek alphabet was used was the 2005 season.
    — Kyle Whitfield, NOLA.com, 28 Sep. 2020
  • Lam spent one year in Palawan, Philippines, learning the English alphabet in a refugee camp at the age of 20.
    — Tatiana Sanchez, SFChronicle.com, 27 Dec. 2019
  • If the 24 letters in the Greek alphabet have been used up, WHO will move to a new naming system.
    — Julie Mazziotta, PEOPLE.com, 2 June 2021
  • That includes 21 named storms in the standard list of names along with the now four named storms in the Greek alphabet, Javaheri said.
    — Madeline Holcombe, CNN, 6 Oct. 2020
  • Start typing each letter of the alphabet and see what pops up.
    — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 10 July 2020
  • The storm name list ends with Wilfred, and forecasters might be forced to go to the Greek alphabet for storm names.
    — Leigh Morgan, al, 11 Sep. 2020
  • One way to think about it is to picture peptides as the letters of an alphabet that are the building blocks of all the words in a book.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 23 Sep. 2023
  • This initial necklace is set in 14-karat gold and comes in all letters of the alphabet.
    — Ellen McAlpine, Good Housekeeping, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Sparing no details, Bell designed an album cover and wrote the lyrics to a track for each letter of the alphabet.
    — Megan Gambino, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Dec. 2024
  • She is credited with introducing the Phoenician alphabet to Greece.
    — Ryan Brennan, Kansas City Star, 20 Jan. 2025

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