Index

//ˈɪndɛks//

"Index" in a Sentence (21 examples)

The stock price index was off 200 points yesterday.

The stock price index soared to an all-time high.

It is an index of her character.

Is there an index to the book?

The index rose to a seasonally adjusted 120.5.

The index rose 4% from the preceding month.

The index advanced to 120.5, up 4% from the preceding month.

I use numbered index cards for each student.

The retail price index is a barometer of economic activity.

The consumer price index has been fluctuating wildly.

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The index of a book lists words or expressions and the pages of the book upon which they are to be found.

He isn't able to find the index of the book.

Tastes are the Indexes of the different Qualities of Plants.

His son's empty guffaws […] struck him with pain as the indices of a weak mind.

Their use of these words as epithets is an index of an appallingly low level of feminist awareness.

In other words, we predict that the index for a new pair of materials can be obtained from the indexes of the individual materials, both against air or against vacuum.

The index of 2ℤ in ℤ is 2.

Ay me, what act, that roars so loud and thunders in the index?

MySQL does not index short words and common words.

For thousands of years, human progress was indexed to the ease and speed of our mobility: our capacity to walk on two legs, and then to ride on animals, sail on boats, chug across the land and fly through the air, all to procure for ourselves the food and materials we wanted.

For example, the feature I indexes the current speaker in the speech event and you, the current addressee.

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