How to Use trifecta in a Sentence

trifecta

noun
  • Some of the biggest songs of the year were made by this pop trifecta.
    — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 14 Dec. 2024
  • As the light hit the dress, the trifecta of colors stood out on the red carpet.
    — Lauren Alexis Fisher, Harper's BAZAAR, 16 May 2018
  • The trifecta of calamities that hit him at the start, in their own strange way, save him in the end.
    — Michael James Rocha, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Aug. 2021
  • That's the kind of screwup-trifecta that can wake a person up to this fact.
    — Carolyn Hax, oregonlive, 18 Sep. 2019
  • That’s the kind of screwup-trifecta that can wake a person up to this fact.
    — Carolyn Hax, The Mercury News, 18 Sep. 2019
  • In fact, why not whip up a berry trifecta and make all three?
    — Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 12 May 2024
  • The Missoula rally was the first of a trifecta of Trumpathons this week.
    — Lynn Yaeger, Vogue, 21 Oct. 2018
  • That’s the trifecta of a good karaoke song as far as I’m concerned.
    — Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2022
  • Ivan Rodriguez, on the way to winning the MVP in 1999, turned that trifecta.
    — Dallas News, 22 Aug. 2022
  • The trifecta marked the first time for a Browns defensive back in a game.
    — cleveland, 7 Nov. 2021
  • The fries were plentiful, crunchy and salty, which is kind of the trifecta for fries.
    — Allyson Reedy, The Know, 15 Jan. 2020
  • The shared stories, the excitement and the support may very well be the trifecta for change.
    — Paige Francis, Forbes, 26 Mar. 2022
  • Utah hit the trifecta with its coaches this time around.
    — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 Dec. 2021
  • All that’s missing is a Kennedy and a sponge bath for a contest trifecta.
    — Devon Ivie, Vulture, 13 July 2021
  • The trifecta that sank them Monday night: No Michael Thomas.
    — Mark Craig, Star Tribune, 22 Sep. 2020
  • Is there a prize for those who hit the Broadrick trifecta during the weekend?
    — Andy O'Connor, SPIN, 27 June 2023
  • And that also brings the third issue that’s this trifecta.
    — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2022
  • Have the celebrity trifecta of Kim, Chrissy, and Tan made this cool?
    — Anna Moeslein, Glamour, 5 Sep. 2018
  • For a couple of tasters, the grocery chain’s sauce struck the right notes of the barbecue-sauce trifecta: sweet, tang and spice.
    — Emily Heil, Washington Post, 29 June 2022
  • The opening will mark a kind of trifecta for Harwood Heights.
    — Staff Report, chicagotribune.com, 25 Apr. 2018
  • Want your group to hit the trifecta of old-school Marvel Comics costumes?
    — Jill Gleeson, Country Living, 17 Aug. 2021
  • The official death toll is bound to get worse, thanks to a trifecta of factors.
    — Karen Kaplan Science and Medicine Editor, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2021
  • The menus, too, are informed by the trifecta of neighborhoods in the restaurant's name.
    — Mark Kurlyandchik, Detroit Free Press, 23 May 2018
  • Making them gasp, laugh, and then shake their heads is the perfect trifecta.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 19 July 2022
  • Which, judging by how many stories in that trifecta are out there now, is a lot of you!
    — refinery29.com, 1 July 2018
  • But to win, he's got to pull off not one, not two, but a near-miraculous trifecta.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 2 Nov. 2020
  • The last item in the trifecta is typically the hardest to shop.
    — Halie Lesavage, Harper's BAZAAR, 19 July 2021
  • There was no way Kathy was going to complete the trifecta.
    — Kyle Neddenriep, Indianapolis Star, 9 May 2020
  • With only six people left in the game, the Family trifecta was her only logical target — and David and Parv were both safe.
    — Laura Bradley, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2025
  • The western suburbs are getting a trifecta of restaurants.
    — Max Scheinblum, The Denver Post, 5 Mar. 2025

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