How to Use reason in a Sentence

reason

1 of 2 noun
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  • There is a reason why they don't want to come.
  • For reasons of space, some of the charts and graphs have been omitted from the article.
  • I gave a reason for my absence.
  • I can't give you the report for the simple reason that it isn't yet finished.
  • He wanted to know the reason for their decision.
  • Is there a reason for your strange behavior?
  • For obvious reasons, we can't do that yet.
  • She explained her reasons for deciding to change jobs.
  • Give me one good reason why I should believe you.
  • She resigned for personal reasons.
  • If the brain can cure the body but chooses not to, then maybe there's a good reason for the pain.
    — Analisa Novak, CBS News, 19 Sep. 2023
  • But there are reasons to wonder whether the past year was a blip.
    — David Leonhardt, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2023
  • There are lots of reasons why people might trade the Baltic coast for the Mediterranean.
    — Christian Edwards, CNN, 13 Apr. 2024
  • The identities of the men in the footage and the reasons for their detention are unclear.
    — Yuliya Talmazan, NBC News, 8 Dec. 2023
  • That's part of the reason to do the trial, and that is part of the risk that participants take.
    — Ayana Byrd, Health, 7 Jan. 2024
  • Even so, there’s some reason to be skeptical of the threat.
    — Jacob Stern, The Atlantic, 31 Jan. 2024
  • And there is a good reason for the savings rate to be low: household wealth is near record highs.
    — Richard Torrenzano, Fortune, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Make sure you’re getting noticed for the right reasons!
    — USA TODAY, 10 July 2023
  • At the same time, there’s reason to believe that the bank simply had a bad quarter and is not on the brink of collapse.
    — Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 31 Jan. 2024
  • One major reason prices remain high is that there’s no rush to sell.
    — Jonathan Lansner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Jan. 2024
  • Is the high cost a key reason for why some of these technologies are not used more widely yet?
    — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Sep. 2023
  • One reason for spacing out spending is the price of school supplies.
    — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 21 July 2023
  • Another reason for a garden hose reel leak could be wear and tear of the hose itself.
    — Rennie Dyball, Peoplemag, 10 July 2023
  • Eight teams have won back-to-back Super Bowls and there’s little reason to think the Chiefs won’t have a good chance of becoming the ninth.
    — Brian Wacker, Baltimore Sun, 21 July 2023
  • If that wasn’t reason enough to get excited, the car also comes with some of its big-screen gadgets.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 21 July 2023
  • On Easter, there was reason to wonder whether the rain would ever stop.
    — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Apr. 2024
  • That was probably the only reason the Ukrainian snipers agreed to take me with them.
    — Thomas Gibbons-Neff, New York Times, 21 Oct. 2023
  • Which was apparently the main reason to show up at all.
    — Jackson Landers, Spin, 14 Aug. 2023
  • And with good reason—as Reuters notes, the market is red-hot, and Nvidia can’t satisfy all that demand.
    — David Meyer, Fortune, 2 Aug. 2023
  • In addition, a refund amount may differ if the IRS changes your return for other reasons, such as a math error.
    — The Arizona Republic, 13 Apr. 2024
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reason

2 of 2 verb
  • He lost the ability to reason.
  • He reasoned that both statements couldn't be true.
  • She reasoned that something must be wrong.
  • There was, his friends reasoned, still time left in the year.
    — Kelyn Soong, Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2024
  • That's because God gave us a brain to think and reason with.
    — Holly Yan, CNN, 19 July 2021
  • Kids should talk to their parents and try to reason with them.
    — Tara C. Smith, SELF, 12 Aug. 2021
  • Eden, then 16, screamed and tried to reason with her parents.
    — Adriana Gomez Licon, Sun Sentinel, 9 May 2022
  • In the final moments before the lynching, some tried to reason with the crowd.
    — Francine Uenuma, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 June 2020
  • Trying to reason with your daughter is a waste of time.
    — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 16 Apr. 2021
  • Greg doesn’t give Katie any room at all to reason with him or walk anything back.
    — Lia Beck, refinery29.com, 3 Aug. 2021
  • Huck tries to reason with Walter, who's holding a gun to Hope's head.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 16 Nov. 2020
  • All that was left for USC was to reason how a season that started with such high hopes had come to this.
    — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 12 Nov. 2023
  • Such new worlds also gave agents the chance to reason about changes in a new dimension: time.
    — Quanta Magazine, 24 June 2022
  • For an hour, as their children slept, Sabey and Perkins tried to reason with the officials at their door.
    — Caitlin Gibson, Washington Post, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Doctors and scientists have tried to reason with them, to no avail.
    — Robert Gehrke, The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 Sep. 2021
  • To reason with these would be a waste of words, just as much as would be the attempt to persuade a madman out of his delusion.
    — Dan Schlenoff, Scientific American, 11 Nov. 2020
  • Just don’t try to reason the Ship of Theseus conundrum with it.
    — Nina Huang, EW.com, 8 Mar. 2021
  • But pigs love truffles too much and are difficult to reason with.
    — Andrew Kornylak, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 May 2021
  • Newman said the group tried to reason with Abraham and management.
    — Jasmine Hilton, Washington Post, 30 Sep. 2022
  • Every sweet little thing deserves a sweet name, Moule reasoned, when the turtle was first brought in.
    — Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Mimi was trying to reason it out and think of reasons why that could be happening and why it was tied to race.
    — Shalwah Evans, Essence, 8 June 2020
  • And the agency reasoned that a ban would not stop bad actors from continuing to front-run.
    — Robert Faturechi, ProPublica, 21 Nov. 2023
  • Pevchikh tried to reason with the young hotel administrator to let them in room.
    — Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2020
  • She is exhausted by the constant attempts to reason with the void of an algorithm.
    — New York Times, 11 Feb. 2021
  • West African leaders tried to reason with him, but Jammeh wouldn’t listen.
    — Anthony Faiola, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2020
  • Which, of course, may not apply when people don't have enough time to reason carefully.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 15 Apr. 2022
  • Perhaps humans did not evolve from apes, White’s team begins to reason.
    — Stephanie Hanes, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Dec. 2020
  • Because of this, the Department reasoned, the judge couldn’t void the licensing of mifepristone in 2000.
    — Joshua Cohen, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2024
  • Robin, listening in, reasoned that someone had broken into Steve’s parents’ home to hold them up for a little cash.
    — Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2024
  • If developing a bomb was so hard for their own scientists, the Nazis appear to have reasoned, how could the degenerate Allies ever do it?
    — Claudia Roth Pierpont, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024

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