Sentence examples for mention from high-quality English sources.

• Did I mention the fireflies?

• Balanced reporting would merit at least a quick mention of these facts.

• LinkedIn found that job descriptions that mention responsibilities were shared 21% more.

• “He didn’t mention the far left, or, from what I saw, I don’t believe he mentioned the word ‘antifa.’

• "I meet clients in London and they mention it, and I meet regulators in Washington and they mention it."

• Use this at first mention, a simple title (Lord or Lady) at second mention, and thereafter surname only.

• But even more mention how they are perceived; “being looked at in a certain way”, “having to be ladylike”, “being told to smile”.

• Your link mentions the Lenovo SnapFish installations but it makes no mention of either Dell or Toshiba installing similar software.

Use mention in a sentence.

• Of the 59 GCSE history modules available from the three biggest exam boards, Edexcel, AQA and OCR, 12 explicitly mention black history.

• The only mention of the environment calls for “responsible stewardship of the environment”, but that refers only to keeping water and air clean.

• The vast majority of them mention hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine, while others mention Remdesivir, a potential coronavirus treatment still in early testing.

• Barbara Young, a former chief executive of the Environment Agency and Care Quality Commission (first mention), Lady Young of Old Scone (second mention), thereafter Young.

• Prominent figures can just be named, with their function at second mention: “David Cameron said last night” (first mention); “the prime minister said” (subsequent mentions).

• “He did not mention George Floyd, he did not mention the agony of people who have been subjected to this kind of horrific expression of racism and white supremacy for hundreds of years.”

• Ken Bensinger of BuzzFeed News tweeted that Carney's article didn't mention the pressure campaign Sanders waged to get Amazon to raise its minimum wage in the first place and said it was "funny" that Carney's piece also failed to mention Friday's letter.

• At the same time this week, the prime minister was in Tuvalu at the Pacific Island Forum, doing all he could to ensure the issue of climate change was being fobbed off – by reportedly trying (and failing) to remove mention of climate change “crisis” and also removing mention of coal in the forum communiqué.

mention sentence examples

• Everything from the curtains in the home cinema (oh, yes, forgot to mention, there were curtains) to the reclining mechanism on the seats in the spa (oh, yes, forgot to mention the spa) to the sliding door through to our dressing room (oh, yes, forgot to mention the dressing room) operated by buttons.

• Follow traditional Guardian style in leading articles (but not other comment pieces and columns on leader pages): use honorifics after first mention, unless writing about an artist, author, journalist, musician, criminal or dead person; use Ms for women on second mention unless they have expressed a preference for Miss or Mrs.

• So: David Cameron at first mention, thereafter Cameron; Harriet Harman at first mention, subsequently Harman; Sir Richard Branson at first mention, thereafter Branson; Sayeeda Warsi at first mention, then Lady Warsi, and subsequently Warsi (see entry on Peers); Prof John Wells at first mention, thereafter Wells; Dr Bill Bailey (there are some exceptions, see entry on Drs) at first mention, subsequently Bailey; the Rev George Herbert at first mention, thereafter Herbert, etc.

• ‘the’ in name of a country include ‘the’: the Bahamas, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, the Czech Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC, no “the”, on second mention), the Dominican Republic, the Gambia, the Marshall Islands, the Netherlands (but The Hague), the Northern Mariana Islands, the Philippines, the Solomon Islands, the United Arab Emirates (the UAE on second mention), the United Kingdom, the United States. no ‘the’ Central African Republic (CAR on second mention), Ivory Coast, Lebanon, Seychelles, Sudan, Ukraine, Vatican City (but the Vatican), Yemen