How do you use the word "line" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "line" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "line": You're giving me the same old line. Since you like to write letters, why don't you drop her a line?

Line Meaning

/laɪn/

Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounA path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen; any path, curved or straight.

nounA path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen; any path, curved or straight., An infinitely extending one-dimensional figure that has no curvature; one that has length but not breadth or thickness.

Sentence Examples

You're giving me the same old line.

Since you like to write letters, why don't you drop her a line?

Butter and line a 25 cm cake tin.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

draw describe trace

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

To create the border, she used a ruler to draw a straight ____ across the page.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

There was a very long ____ of people waiting outside the store for the release of the new video game tonight.

Word Origin & History

From Middle English line, lyne, from Old English līne (“line, cable, rope, hawser, series, row, rule, direction”), from Proto-West Germanic *līnā, from Proto-Germanic *līnǭ (“line, rope, flaxen cord, thread”), from Proto-Germanic *līną (“flax, linen”), from Proto-Indo-European *līno- (“flax”). Influenced in Middle English by Middle French ligne (“line”), from Latin linea. More at linen. The oldest sense of the word is “rope, cord, thread”; from this the senses “path”, “continuous mark” were derived.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"St Johnstone's Liam Craig had to clear off the line before Steven Anderson sent a looping header into his own net for the equaliser on 36 minutes." — 2011 October 1, Clive Lindsay, “Kilmarnock 1-2 St Johnstone”, in BBC Sport:

""I guess it's like race cars - if you get the right line you can come out at top speed."" — 2021 February 26, The Road Ahead, Brisbane, page 10, column 3:

"The line went dead. His eyes bright, The Whisper took up a fistful of plugs and started talking to the town." — 1954, Ian Fleming, “Nigger Heaven”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 45:

"She feels guilty for pampering him, and salves her conscience by bossily ordering him to go and fetch the clothes from the line[.]" — 1985, Joan Morrison, Share House Blues, Boolarong Publications, page 26:

"You don't mind giving me a line of introduction to your niece?" — 1914, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados:

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