How to Use bearing in a Sentence

bearing

noun
  • All of this will have a bearing on the elections of 2024.
    — Jeff Sommer, New York Times, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Did the weight of that whole event have a heavy bearing on you?
    — Matthew Glenesk, The Indianapolis Star, 27 Sep. 2021
  • The charge has no bearing on what Dr. X will be paid for the service.
    — Jeff Gorke, Forbes, 13 May 2021
  • The cars caught fire in the first place because a key wheel bearing failed and got too hot.
    — Melvin Backman, Quartz, 26 June 2024
  • Beware of Greeks bearing gifts, but don’t look a gift horse in the mouth.
    — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Sep. 2021
  • The outcome of England vs. Wales, though, will have no bearing on the U.S. cause.
    — Steven Goff, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Nov. 2022
  • Saenger Theatre is one of four across the South bearing that name.
    — Blake Pontchartrain, NOLA.com, 5 Oct. 2020
  • The next day, his whole front leg was engorged and non-weight bearing.
    — Kevin Farron, Outdoor Life, 21 Sep. 2023
  • The timing of which came first should have no bearing on the matter.
    — Star Tribune, 23 Sep. 2020
  • Neville said the contract dispute has no bearing on the 2023 game.
    — Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 July 2023
  • Shears' friends told deputies that wasn't true and that the car's wheel bearings were working well.
    — Laura Daniella Sepulveda, The Arizona Republic, 24 May 2023
  • The guest cylinder comes as one piece with the release bearing in this truck.
    — Ray Magliozzi, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Dec. 2021
  • The skates come stocked with freestyle wheels and slalom bearings, though the frames are removable.
    — Katherine Alex Beaven, Travel + Leisure, 26 Jan. 2024
  • On the right, next to the minutes, is a sapphire jewel bearing.
    — Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 23 Nov. 2022
  • While the outcome of the game has no bearing on the $150 bonus conveying, there is a chance that the bet could win.
    — Xl Media, cleveland, 16 Apr. 2022
  • Schenk told the jury that the rape claim had no bearing on the criminal case.
    — Joel Rosenblatt, Fortune, 18 Dec. 2021
  • Usher moves through the world with the bearing of a homecoming king.
    — Danielle Amir Jackson Malike Sidibe, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2023
  • That has a major bearing on our outlook for the next six months.
    — Dallas News, 6 Sep. 2020
  • The judge ruled her testimony, and the recording had no bearing on the case.
    — Jamie Yuccas, CBS News, 2 Dec. 2023
  • The oil lubricates a giant bearing that helps turn the carousel.
    — WSJ, 14 June 2023
  • But the outcome of that case has no bearing on the court's decision to block the debt relief plan.
    — Compiled Bydemocrat-Gazette Stafffrom Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 1 July 2023
  • The fact that the baseball teams play outside has no bearing on the mandate, the spokesperson said.
    — Dennis Young, courant.com, 15 Mar. 2022
  • This has no bearing on the future of the Christmas parade.
    — Janelle Jessen, Arkansas Online, 8 Dec. 2021
  • This meant Sunday’s matchup in Iowa City had no bearing on the standings.
    — Tyler Tachman, The Indianapolis Star, 26 Feb. 2023
  • The game between the Packers and the Bears has no bearing on seeding in this scenario.
    — Amie Just | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 2 Jan. 2021
  • Solve the puzzle to get your bearings—and to reveal the caption to the cartoon below.
    — Patrick Berry, The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2023
  • What happens against the Buckeyes often doesn’t have much bearing on the rest of the season.
    — Zach Osterman, The Indianapolis Star, 3 Sep. 2023
  • How many times the gambler has rolled that night has no bearing on whether the next roll will be a double six.
    — Philip Goff, Scientific American, 10 Jan. 2021
  • Many justified their compliance by insisting the oath had no bearing on their teaching or research.
    — Iveta Silova, The Conversation, 9 Apr. 2025
  • An entry in the agency’s Service Difficulty Reporting System shows the transmission assembly had metal in oil, a sign of wear, and a bearing in the transmission was found to be flaking.
    — Ted Shaffrey, Chicago Tribune, 11 Apr. 2025

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