Example sentences for: keyed

How can you use “keyed” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • But the truth is that in the short run, markets can occasionally be pushed, especially when so many decisions to buy or sell are keyed off what everyone else in the market is doing.

  • At 8:41, the flight crew reported having "heard a suspicious transmission" from another aircraft shortly after takeoff,"like someone keyed the mike and said everyone stay in your seats."

  • The orchestra gathers around the soloist, rather than the soloist trying to ride the waves of the orchestra, and every move is keyed to Davis' sighing sensibility.

  • This month's Talk features a charming six-page travel section entitled "Chasing Mr. Ripley," a tour of Italy keyed to the locations used in The Talented Mr. Ripley , the movie everyone's talking about.

  • In each case, a word or phrase that provides a synonym appears in a box, followed by the pronunciation(s), followed by a part-of-speech label, followed by a symbol in brackets keyed to grammatical information given in the forematter ([T] being the symbol for “transitive verb, which has an object”), the definition and a series of collocational examples.


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