Thesaurus.com
Dictionary.com
Definitions

entail

[en-teyl, en-teyl, en-teyl] / ɛnˈteɪl, ɛnˈteɪl, ˈɛn teɪl /


Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

See Examples For:

She didn’t elaborate on what the upgrades would entail.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 20, 2026

Reforming the historic structure of multimember agencies will entail trade-offs but is worth considering as this new landscape takes shape.

From Slate Jul. 6, 2026

Who ultimately sits on the task forces will be revealing as to what their processes entail and how balanced and credible their conclusions will be, she added.

From MarketWatch Jun. 19, 2026

Essentially, such an economy would entail getting people and cargo to the moon and Mars, something that would need to be a regular occurrence for a true economy to develop around it.

From BBC Jun. 12, 2026

“New crimes will entail new punishments,” Grandma warned.

From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull

That investigation also entails examining the work of several individual firms involved in construction, including MetroLoft, Gace and Domani, according to a person familiar with the matter.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 10, 2026

They had grandparents for the kids to stay with, so they did not go—as tens of thousands do each year—into state custody, with the many attendant traumas that entails.

From Slate Jul. 7, 2026

The economists said that in their base case, a strong event entails losses of between $3 trillion and $5 trillion across five years, or about 2.7% to 3.2% of global gross domestic product.

From MarketWatch Jun. 26, 2026

It entails using both animals and machines to create fire breaks — a controversial solution in Southern California.

From Los Angeles Times May 30, 2026

It entails looking at neurochemicals triggered when people play video games or use the Internet.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel

But I didn’t buy the behavioral shifts some of these turns entailed.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 2026

That entailed frequent calls to a large language model.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 15, 2026

On Friday, the court's judges said the 2024 drone operation "entailed the use of South Korea's military capabilities for private purposes".

From Barron's Jun. 12, 2026

In the model, the “availability” phase entailed contact and small-scale movements across the frontier, with trading relationships and marriage alliances, for example, forming gradually.

From Science Daily May 30, 2026

But he’d also expected Ashmodai to smite him on the spot, whatever smiting entailed, once he realized what Boaz had done.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny

In recent years, a couple of local districts have rolled out pilot programs entailing the release of sterile male mosquitoes to drive the population down, a relatively new approach to tackling these mosquitoes.

From Los Angeles Times May 20, 2025

Xiong Lee’s path to shamanism has been arduous, entailing rigorous training with a shaman mentor to learn how to communicate with the spirit world.

From Seattle Times Nov. 25, 2023

So, the fuel needs a larger percentage of this isotope, entailing higher uranium-235 enrichment than the 4 percent enriched LEU typically used in nuclear power plants.

From Scientific American Oct. 20, 2023

Often presenting well after the initial infection, post-acute infection syndrome manifests as a complex and variable disorder, typically entailing severe fatigue, gastrointestinal issues, confused sensory perception, and neurocognitive abnormalities.

From Salon Apr. 24, 2023

There are videos about the importance and difference of treble and bass clefs; there is a list of music terms and what they mean, and the site even contains videos entailing the transposition of music.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin




Vocabulary lists containing entail


Vocabulary.com logo
by dictionary.com

Dictionary.com's Learning Companion

Go beyond just looking up words.
Remember them forever with VocabTrainer.

Start training