TAG in a Sentence

Learn TAG from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

20 example sentences for TAG, such as:

1. All the staff wore name tags.
2. A tag was attached to each article.
3. Please tag the label to your suitcase.
4. She peered at the tag to read the price.
5. They have tagged all the items in the store.

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 Meanings and Examples of TAG
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
tag
 v.  attach; append; provide with a name or nickname; label
Classic Sentence:
1  Swarms of children, black and white, ran yelling about the newly green lawn, playing hopscotch and tag and boasting how much they were going to eat.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
2  It was a crisp autumn evening, just cold enough to make one glad to quit playing tag in the yard, and retreat into the kitchen.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: IV
3  I lived at West Egg, the--well, the less fashionable of the two, though this is a most superficial tag to express the bizarre and not a little sinister contrast between them.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
4  I am a bit of dirty riff-raff, and a genuine scrap of tag, rag, and bobtail.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II
5  The count nodded affirmatively, and Natasha, at the rapid pace at which she used to run when playing at tag, ran through the ballroom to the anteroom and downstairs into the yard.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XVI
6  So then she started for the house, leading me by the hand, and the children tagging after.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII.
7  I can compare it to nothing but a large door mat, ornamented at the edges with little tinkling tags something like the stained porcupine quills round an Indian moccasin.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
Example Sentence:
1  A tag was attached to each article.
2  I've no idea how much the clothes cost because there was nothing so vulgar as a price tag in evidence.
3  She peered at the tag to read the price.
4  I let him tag along because he had not been too well recently.
5  The president made several jokes in an attempt to shake off his "humourless" tag.
6  Please tag the label to your suitcase.
7  It is also worth tagging on an extra day or two to see the capital.
8  Professor Orr has developed interesting ways of tagging chemical molecules using existing laboratory lasers.
9  He could hardly open his mouth without using one or other of his tags.
10  All the staff wore name tags.
11  He tagged his trunk with his name and address.
12  They have tagged all the items in the store.
13  The new design will give posts like places and third-party apps more prominence; people tagged in a video or those who share an post will have a thumbnail appear on the left side.