How to Use unit in a Sentence

unit

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  • Feet and meters are units of length.
  • Their army unit guarded the border.
  • The search party broke up into smaller units.
  • The family is the basic unit of society.
  • The dollar is the principal unit of American currency.
  • The Suns just brought in four players off the bench to join Devin Booker in the second unit.
    — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 16 Apr. 2023
  • Musk left the board of the start-up in 2018 before OpenAI launched a for-profit unit.
    — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Mar. 2024
  • As of December, about two-thirds of the units were preleased.
    — Rachel Wolfe and Veronica Dagher, WSJ, 23 Dec. 2023
  • The model number and date code are printed on a sticker on the back, front, or side of the unit.
    — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 18 Aug. 2023
  • The current requirement is for projects of four units or more.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Dec. 2023
  • Williams was found dead inside a unit of the Cedar Trace Apartments in August 2020.
    — Howard Koplowitz | Hkoplowitz@al.com, al, 11 Sep. 2023
  • That unit was blunt, pin-straight, and waist-length, unlike this multi-toned style.
    — Gabi Thorne, Allure, 25 July 2023
  • An Ikea Kallax shelf unit, laid on its side, happened to fit perfectly in the space.
    — Annie Midori Atherton, Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Most notably, the unit is topped with a Cape Cod-style shingled cottage.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 7 Feb. 2024
  • But the best linen shirts are not just your personal cooling unit.
    — Isaiah Freeman-Schub, Robb Report, 18 Apr. 2023
  • There's no out-of-pocket cost for the testing, which is available at the health unit at 614 E. Emma Ave.
    — Al Gaspeny, arkansasonline.com, 17 Feb. 2024
  • This move would bring more than 30 million housing units to the market.
    — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 26 Dec. 2023
  • This is a unit of measurement that describes the amount of light that falls on an area over a period of time.
    — Good Housekeeping, 28 Mar. 2023
  • The root of California’s rising rents and home prices is a long-term shortage in the number of units.
    — Coral Murphy Marcos, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2023
  • Because of the high cost of the rental units, the types of professions the clients had and the price of the services, authorities believe the brothels are high-end.
    — Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff, Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2023
  • The house, built in 1900, was split into two units, so the new owners lived in the side with four bedrooms and rented out the other, a three-bedroom unit.
    — Robyn A. Friedman, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Sep. 2023
  • As the car travels, the battery unit is powered directly.
    — Bret Baier, Fox News, 30 Dec. 2023
  • Once connected, signals are sent from the main unit to the peripheral, and voila -- let the music play!
    — Kelsey Chapman, ABC News, 5 Apr. 2024
  • Chief among the cogs in the machine of what could be a powerful unit, is Howell, who was named to the all-conference first team last season.
    — Shane Hoffmann | , oregonlive, 31 Aug. 2023
  • With James Campen no longer in charge of the unit, expect that change to happen, especially at guard.
    — Mike Kaye, Charlotte Observer, 6 Feb. 2024
  • But the campaign so far is most notable for the staggering losses its units have suffered.
    — Marc Santora Tyler Hicks, New York Times, 20 Nov. 2023
  • But the overall story is clear, with the Zenbook Duo performing at about half the level in this test that the Snapdragon units did.
    — John Burek, PCMAG, 6 Apr. 2024
  • Viewers watched the encounter unfold via cameras pointed at a sofa in a rental unit.
    — Olivia Balsamo, NBC News, 6 Oct. 2023
  • At one point, Reubens’s collections sprawled across 14 storage units.
    — Richard Barnes, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2023
  • Terry Magovern had us at a Marine Reserve unit since he was connected with the Navy.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 27 Mar. 2023

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