How to Use alpha in a Sentence

alpha

1 of 2 noun

• Those will be in flux and might have changed from the alpha.
  — Kris Holt, Forbes, 25 Apr. 2022
• The alpha-gal gene is one of the genes that were knocked out in the transplant pig.
  — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022
• Wild Hunt, two games Google claimed work well with the alpha.
  — Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 22 Mar. 2022
• But in the rivers, lakes, and wetlands of Africa, hippos are still the alpha.
  — Paul Richards, Field & Stream, 15 Nov. 2023
• But these subs aren’t the undisputed alphas of the oceans.
  — Alex Hollings, Popular Mechanics, 5 Apr. 2023
• This felt a bit overpowered to me during the early stages of the alpha.
  — Kris Holt, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2022
• However, the alpha male of the group escaped a trap before the trapper could get to the coyote.
  — Evan Casey, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 17 Feb. 2022
• In those same time spans, the alpha acid content dropped between 0.5 and 1.9 percent.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Oct. 2023
• Corgis are very charming and spirited dogs, but the Queen was the alpha of her pack!
  — Erin Clack, Peoplemag, 4 Sep. 2023
• Will Ferrari’s gambit to hire two alpha drivers pay off or end in tears?
  — Sahil Kapur, NBC News, 25 Feb. 2024
• Gone are the days of identifying Covid by Greek letters, such as alpha and delta.
  — Erika Edwards, NBC News, 19 Oct. 2022
• The alpha male, the lead ranch hand Rip, establishes and maintains his stature by fighting.
  — Sridhar Pappu, The Atlantic, 10 Nov. 2022
• Once her rivals reach their reproductive age, the alpha meerkat either kills them, or they are run out of the group.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 12 June 2022
• Between these groups are alpha carbons, which are bonded to both the amino and carboxyl groups, as well as a carbon atom.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 16 Nov. 2022
• Droughts and extreme heat have already reduced yields, as well as the alpha acid content of hops grown in Europe.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 16 Oct. 2023
• But the series, with its head-thrashing soundtrack and video-game visuals, is all sound and alpha fury.
  — New York Times, 12 Apr. 2022
• The offensive plan was to get the ball to Mitchell, the team’s late-game alpha and one of the league’s most prolific fourth-quarter scorers, while forcing a switch.
  — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 25 Jan. 2023
• Researchers are also concerned about finding older strains of the virus, such as the alpha or delta variants, in deer.
  — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 8 Feb. 2022
• But the virus has evolved since then – through major variants called alpha, beta, delta and now versions of omicron.
  — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 28 June 2022
• Baker is the kind of guy who can scream at a room full of alphas, demanding and receiving their respect.
  — Greg Moore, The Arizona Republic, 15 Apr. 2023
• The study authors also predict that hop yields and alpha acid content will continue to drop in the region in the future.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Oct. 2023
• Tiafoe has always been the alpha of the group, always looking to rib his mates, especially Fritz.
  — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2022
• The alpha was a fantastic first showcase for Overwatch 2.
  — Kris Holt, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2022
• The cool thing is that studies have found that creativity is heightened during the alpha brain wave state.
  — Kristine Jepsen, Parents, 6 Nov. 2023
• The alpha wolf notion of challenging dad for dominance of the existing pack just isn’t in the wolf playbook.
  — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 28 Feb. 2023
• Kate might feel like the glue holding these two alpha male brothers together.
  — Dan Snierson, EW.com, 23 Mar. 2022
• However, if a member of their own species that is not part of their colony enters their home, the largest fish–or alpha fish–will chase and bite at the intruder.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 1 Feb. 2024
• Instead of taking a lesson—too expensive!—I asked an alpha male from New England to explain how skis worked the night before our big first day on the slopes.
  — The Editors, Outside Online, 30 May 2022
• The delta variant, which once usurped the alpha coronavirus strain as the most prevalent, now accounts for just under 5% of new cases in the United States.
  — Lawrence Richard, Fox News, 10 Jan. 2022
• She is separated from Brett (Ike Barinholtz, maybe the best of the bunch), an alpha-male jerk whose episode is made like an action movie.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 28 Jan. 2022

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alpha

2 of 2 adjective

• Hey, this is guy talk, these are two alpha males talkin’ to each other.
  — Chuck Barney, The Mercury News, 20 Sep. 2019
• Hey, this is guy talk, these are two alpha males talkin’ to each other.’ Was some bad s--- said?
  — Scooby Axson, SI.com, 25 Sep. 2019
• Hey, this is guy talk, these are two alpha males talkin’ to each other.’ Was some bad s— said?
  — Cindy Boren, The Denver Post, 25 Sep. 2019
• One of the next-closest stars to our sun is Alpha Centauri.
  — Mike Lynch / Sky Watch, Twin Cities, 18 Feb. 2017
• With all due respect to both, each would appear to be more of a beta than alpha star.
  — Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 10 Nov. 2019
• The Canyon Pack alpha female was one of just three known white wolves in Yellowstone.
  — Lyndsey Matthews, Country Living, 17 May 2017
• Graham, the Big 12 player of the year, has been the team’s alpha dog all season with his takeover abilities.
  — Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY, 29 Mar. 2018
• The scoop: Walnuts are one of the best sources of omega-3 fatty acids, specifically alpha-linolenic acid, an omega-3 found in plants.
  — SELF, 8 Aug. 2019
• The new game will likely arrive sometime next year, and is now in alpha testing.
  — Eric Adams, Wired, 15 Dec. 2019
• Bryant and O’Neal had an inevitable falling-out: not even L.A.’s sprawl could contain those two alpha egos.
  — Sean Gregory, Time, 30 Jan. 2020
• At a summit where both men sought to play the alpha role, the optics were inherently in Trump’s favor.
  — Laignee Barron, Time, 12 June 2018
• But females give non-alpha males a chance too, and some studies have found that these hookups happen more often when the alphas are out of sight.
  — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 4 Aug. 2015
• Overnight, the animals all turn into alpha predators overnight.
  — Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 16 Apr. 2018
• And alpha dogs don't stay on the porch licking themselves, or whatever dogs do, when their master has an assignment.
  — Armando Salguero, miamiherald, 16 Apr. 2018
• The attorney general of the United States serves as counsel to the most powerful alpha client on the planet, the president of United States.
  — Paul Callan, CNN, 7 June 2017
• So alpha Monocerotid takes its name from the alpha star and monoceros — or unicorn — constellation.
  — Morgan Greene, chicagotribune.com, 20 Nov. 2019
• Everything is still predicated on James Harden, but now the Nuggets will have two alpha dogs to stop along with Houston’s ever-present cast of 3-point gunners.
  — Mike Singer, The Denver Post, 12 Aug. 2019
• The first generation of these drugs were TNF-alpha agents that targeted the tumor necrosis factor to limit the immune response.
  — Sun Pharmaceuticals, WIRED, 30 Oct. 2019
• Definitely not the style of my alpha husband, who would enter purposefully with supplies or advice: That’s not the right tool.
  — Amy Doyle, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2020
• Her most memorable creation, perhaps, is the enigmatic Lakey, the ur-alpha girl, who disappears for most of the novel but looms large in the imaginations of the other women.
  — Megan Abbott, WSJ, 9 Aug. 2018
• The enormous clouds emit large amounts of ultraviolet light with a spectral line produced by hydrogen ions, known as a Lyman-alpha line.
  — Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 21 Sep. 2016
• He’s been surrounded all his life by alpha women — his late mother was a screaming, hard-drinking firecracker of a woman.
  — New York Times, 20 June 2018
• As the alpha brother, Romeo, wild, fun and charmingly manipulative, Pucci is transformed by a long, blond beard.
  — Katie Walsh, latimes.com, 12 July 2018
• Actress Sydelle Noel embodies a similar ethos by taking on brawny, brassy, alpha woman roles.
  — Abby Haglage, refinery29.com, 13 July 2018
• Most have stood apart from their football-playing peers for years, and their alpha personalities often make for an interesting mix in the locker room.
  — Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 18 Oct. 2019
• These changes give the Performante presentation a more shameless, alpha-male energy.
  — Dan Neil, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2023
• In 2015, Zasloff and his colleagues launched a company, Enterin, that is currently testing a compound that slows alpha-synuclein aggregation in the gut.
  — Diana Kwon, Scientific American, 8 May 2018
• For state officials, a particular source of concern was alpha contamination, which was also found in some of the dust collected in previous years for Kaltofen’s study.
  — Hal Bernton, The Seattle Times, 14 June 2018
• To combat those slips, the platform is adding visibility tools through a new feature, still in alpha testing, called Cloud Security Command Center.
  — Lily Hay Newman, WIRED, 21 Mar. 2018
• The chaos in governance that the President is fomenting and his alpha male brand of leadership may also help explain his plummet among white female voters, who can be crucial in suburban areas.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 15 Mar. 2018

Last Updated: 7 May 2024