How to Use coordination in a Sentence

coordination

noun
  • The manager is in charge of project coordination.
  • The illness causes a loss of coordination.
  • The new agency will oversee the coordination of the various departments.
  • Playing sports improves strength and coordination.
  • There needs to be better coordination between departments.
  • The extent of the coordination between the county and the Coast Guard was not clear.
    — Ethan Wolin, Sacbee.com, 23 June 2025
  • Pitt gets bonus points for the coordination here: the shoes matched the yellow stitching on his suit.
    — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 2 Aug. 2022
  • Start with the flows in this workout, which challenges your strength, coordination, and mind in all the right ways.
    — Eric Leija, Men's Health, 6 May 2022
  • But none of these sanctions were done in full coordination with the EU.
    — Nate Dicamillo, Quartz, 28 Feb. 2022
  • If your child needs to work on fine motor coordination (and their nerves), this is the game!
    — Rachel Rothman, Good Housekeeping, 17 Oct. 2022
  • Managers there have seen some of the challenges to coordination up close in large and small ways.
    — Patricia Cohen, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2023
  • What did the stunt coordination look like on this movie?
    — Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 June 2024
  • When asked why the restoration has taken so long, the mayor said there needed to be more coordination on the part of the city.
    — Erin Edgemon, AL.com, 28 Mar. 2018
  • Potential: Has the hands and foot coordination to dazzle with the puck and could be a top-six winger.
    — Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press, 16 June 2019
  • Is this supposed to be one of many projects, in which case, where is the coordination to make sure that there is an impact.
    — Dileep Rao, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2021
  • Overall, the coordination has worked, and in all of the Israeli strikes, no Russians have been killed.
    — Alan Cullison, WSJ, 12 Nov. 2022
  • Four or five years ago there wasn’t this kind of coordination.
    — Kevin Fagan, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Feb. 2018
  • The two stars chose to match for their first appearance, though the coordination was hardly in your face.
    — Vogue, 14 Mar. 2019
  • Part of the delay has been the lack of coordination between city agencies.
    — Shwanika Narayan, SFChronicle.com, 25 Feb. 2020
  • The texts mostly concerned the coordination of phone calls and a meeting between the two.
    — Tess Riski, Miami Herald, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Despite its free entry, the show took a lot of coordination to fund.
    — Gabrielle Gillette, Oc Register, 9 May 2025
  • There had been no coordination of altitudes in briefings before the flight or while the planes were in the air, the NTSB said.
    — Jamie Stengle and Jake Bleiberg, USA TODAY, 2 Dec. 2022
  • As opposed to the painstaking coordination of film sets, these shots are often off the cuff.
    — Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 28 Dec. 2022
  • Young pandas pounce and play not just for fun, but to build skills like balance and coordination.
    — Corryn Wetzel, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Mar. 2022
  • The coordination of the response to the ongoing threat is now in question.
    — Ars Technica, 19 Mar. 2025
  • The City of Eustis Events Department led the restoration and coordination for the project.
    — Orlando Sentinel Staff, The Orlando Sentinel, 21 May 2025
  • Inhalants can cause a person to slur their speech and lose coordination of their body.
    — Kashmira Gander, Newsweek, 19 Feb. 2018
  • Staff said there had not been coordination in advance with MPS but the libraries were prepared to help.
    — Rory Linnane, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 17 Dec. 2021
  • Questions linger about level of coordination Questions remain, however, about the level of coordination and communication between NWS and local officials on the night of the disaster.
    — Preston Fore, Fortune, 7 July 2025
  • That included the warning coordination meteorologist at the San Antonio office, who left in April after taking a retirement package offered by the Trump administration as part of their efforts to cut the number of federal employees.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 7 July 2025

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