: the act or activity of sending text messages from one cell phone to another
When I moved to Chicago, I used a paper map that folded in your lap to navigate the city. There was no Internet, no e-mail, no texting … . A few people in the late eighties had giant cell phones that lived in tiny suitcases, and I saw some in movies.—
Amy Poehler
Amy PoehlerTexting freed a generation from the strictures and inconvenience (and awkwardness) of phone calls, while allowing people to be more loosely and constantly connected.—Jenna Wortham
Jenna WorthamExamples of texting in a Sentence
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The change means that instead of being restricted to using the Phone app for calls and Messages for texting, for the first time ever, users can choose third-party apps instead.
—David Phelan, Forbes.com, 9 July 2025
Compared to shows like The Voice or Dancing With the Stars, there’s no texting needed.
—Jason Pham, StyleCaster, 1 July 2025
But this age-old tradition is being disrupted by an aggressive push to sprinkle in a sampling of commercials between trailers and the regular parade of supplemental spots promoting concessions and rules of the road (as in, no texting!).
—Pamela McClintock, HollywoodReporter, 23 June 2025
Having grown up in an environment where texting (or rather, TikToking, Snapchatting and Instagramming) is the default.
—Brit Morse, Fortune, 6 July 2025
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David Phelan, Forbes.com, 9 July 2025
Compared to shows like The Voice or Dancing With the Stars, there’s no texting needed.
—Jason Pham, StyleCaster, 1 July 2025
But this age-old tradition is being disrupted by an aggressive push to sprinkle in a sampling of commercials between trailers and the regular parade of supplemental spots promoting concessions and rules of the road (as in, no texting!).
—Pamela McClintock, HollywoodReporter, 23 June 2025
Having grown up in an environment where texting (or rather, TikToking, Snapchatting and Instagramming) is the default.
—Brit Morse, Fortune, 6 July 2025
See All Example Sentences for texting
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“Texting.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/texting. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.
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