How to Use cooperative in a Sentence

cooperative

1 of 2 adjective

• The witness was very cooperative.
• At the center of the net is the IMF, which pools the resources of its membership and acts as a cooperative global lender of last resort.
  — Foreign Affairs, 22 Aug. 2023
• The officer talked to the ex, who was very cooperative.
  — John Benson, cleveland, 10 Jan. 2023
• The suspect came out of his home and was cooperative, Foster said.
  — Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Apr. 2023
• Just be sure to give your cat a treat as a reward for being cooperative once you’re finished.
  — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 24 Apr. 2023
• But cooperative talks on avoiding conflict and a couple of treaties led to the clock moving farther from midnight in the 1960s.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Jan. 2024
• The driver remained at the scene and was cooperative, police added.
  — Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 10 Mar. 2023
• The zoo’s director said the rhino involved was a female called Yeti and all the rhinos at the zoo are cooperative with their keepers.
  — Kirsty Hatcher, Peoplemag, 12 Sep. 2023
• Meantime, in the southern delta, members of the Cucapá fishing cooperative wait in the mudflats for rising tides to lift their boats to sea.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2023
• But hotel prices haven’t been as cooperative and are still 5% above their levels compared to this time last year.
  — Nate Dicamillo, Quartz, 12 July 2023
• The driver remained on scene and was cooperative with police, the release said.
  — Giacomo Bologna, Baltimore Sun, 17 Mar. 2023
• And again, the husband has been very cooperative, but our main focus today is trying to locate Ana.
  — John R. Ellement, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Jan. 2023
• Officers said the man was cooperative and found no grounds to take away his weapon, according to Mr. Meyer.
  — Pietro De Cristofaro and Geir Moulson, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Mar. 2023
• How much effort should the cooperative invest in efforts to avoid that scenario?
  — Nathaniel Herz, Northern Journal, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Apr. 2023
• Several new books and apps have been released in recent years, and upcoming projects include an art book, a board game, and a cooperative card game.
  — Geek's Guide To The Galaxy, WIRED, 11 Aug. 2023
• The timing and sequence of events that led to the evolution of our large brains is entangled with the ability to find and process more resources, through the use of tools and cooperative group work, for example.
  — Tesla Monson, The Conversation, 25 Jan. 2023
• That quiet entreaty last fall was one of many occasions when lawyers and advisers sought to get Trump to take a more cooperative stance in a bid to avoid what happened Friday.
  — Josh Dawsey and Jacqueline Alemany, Anchorage Daily News, 15 June 2023
• This naturally raises the question of who on the Biden staff is not being cooperative.
  — James Freeman, WSJ, 18 Jan. 2023
• Others sleeping outdoors in the cold were not so cooperative.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Jan. 2023
• If everything goes according to plan, a child becomes more cooperative in fits and starts throughout their young years, with a smoothing around age 7.
  — Meghan Leahy, Washington Post, 17 Jan. 2024
• One of the few students from her high school to go to college, Reichert was attracted to Antioch because of its cooperative work-study program.
  — J. Hoberman, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Dec. 2022
• The senators and governors from the two parties gushed about one another, hailing the cooperative spirit that got the new bridge funded.
  — Michael D. Shear, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2023
• One of the few students from her high school to go to college, Ms. Reichert was attracted to Antioch because of its cooperative work-study program.
  — J. Hoberman, New York Times, 2 Dec. 2022
• Miles was dismissed from the team shortly after his arrest, while Miller has been deemed cooperative and cleared of wrongdoing per Tuscaloosa police.
  — Nick Alvarez | [e-mail], al, 15 Mar. 2023
• This game, based on the Spanish Civil War, takes that tension and forges a game that’s halfway between competitive and cooperative.
  — James Palmer, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Dec. 2023
• But about a dozen countries are not terribly cooperative, and China is the worst offender.
  — Eileen Sullivan, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2023
• Bauer, sought to portray the president and his team as fully transparent and cooperative.
  — Eric Tucker and Colleen Long, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Feb. 2023
• In her pictorial world, fairies dance in the forest, toddlers swim naked, and older children are all tidy, cooperative and nicely dressed.
  — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 16 Nov. 2023
• Players take on the role of these spirits in a complex cooperative game of management and prevention to stop the invaders taking over entirely.
  — Eric Yurko, Popular Mechanics, 9 July 2023
• There should be more housing owned directly by the city, county, or state, as well as more land trust housing, cooperative housing, and other forms of social housing.
  — Letter Writers, Twin Cities, 26 Feb. 2024

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cooperative

2 of 2 noun

• End of carousel For 48 hours, this small cooperative was a war zone.
  — Baz Ratner, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2023
• One of the goals of the cooperative is to educate people about wind power.
  — Olivia Rudgard, Fortune, 18 Feb. 2023
• By the time Etienne Roberson stepped into the cooperative, the sun had painted the trees with honey.
  — New York Times, 20 May 2022
• The cooperative produces more than 400 pounds of harissa every day, which is sent to stores and restaurants in France, Switzerland, and along the Tunisian coast.
  — Catherine Garcia, The Week, 9 June 2022
• The hats hand-woven in the Andean highlands by women in a fair-trade cooperative.
  — Heidi Wachter, Treehugger, 26 May 2023
• Itto now leads a cooperative of women who weave high-quality rugs in the valley of Ait Hamza, which is known for its sheep and wool.
  — Laurel Dalrymple, NPR, 3 Mar. 2024
• The cooperative, called Errim, is in the Menzel Mehiri village in central Tunisia, and produces harissa, a hot chili pepper paste that is a staple in the country.
  — Catherine Garcia, The Week, 9 June 2022
• Around the edges were little cypress trees that resembled the tall cypress that stands outside the cooperative.
  — Raja Abdulrahim, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Sep. 2023
• In the eastern Chinese city of Tai’an, the manager of a 35-family cooperative that raises wheat and corn said fertilizer prices have jumped 40% since the start of the year.
  — Geoffrey Kaviti, Chinedu Asadu and Paul Wiseman, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Apr. 2022
• The south end of the property is granted easement to an electric cooperative.
  — Liliana Webb, Detroit Free Press, 2 July 2022
• Pascarella is the son of a founder, a grower himself, and one of the cooperative’s now 591 members, who together know the area best over recent centuries.
  — Susan H. Gordon, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2022
• The plant is a main source of power for rural electric cooperatives in and around Utah, and Deseret has been looking at options for trying to extend its life.
  — Tim Fitzpatrick, The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 Sep. 2023
• Sallee said a lot of state and federal business programs are not written with cooperatives in mind.
  — Helen Li, Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2023
• The firm has its roots in a former chicken coop in Bnai Zion, an agricultural cooperative just outside Tel Aviv.
  — New York Times, 28 Jan. 2022
• All are welcome at the art centers owned and operated by the cooperative.
  — Anthony Ham, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 May 2022
• Now 5% of its revenue comes from cruises, said Geoff Cox, the cooperative’s vice president of sales.
  — Dave Sebastian, WSJ, 22 Jan. 2022
• And through it all, the cooperative has maintained its role as a founder and ethical custodian of the painting traditions of the Western Desert.
  — Anthony Ham, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 May 2022
• Stock cooperatives were excluded from this law because their members have shares of stock, not deeds.
  — Kelly G. Richardson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 May 2023
• Bees work as a cooperative, of course, and the campsite is collectively owned by seven people.
  — Lisa Morrow, CNN, 31 Jan. 2023
• Her cooperative includes women from all corners of the island, some holding jobs by day and crocheting for Scott at night.
  — The Editors, ELLE, 24 July 2023
• One model should be the Amalgamated Houses in the Bronx, built as a housing cooperative for garment workers starting in the 1920s.
  — Curbed, 9 Jan. 2024
• The story of the Bbindauko Banakazi cooperative started off as the opportunity of a lifetime.
  — Farai Shawn Matiashe, CNN, 22 Apr. 2022
• Now, many of the cooperative’s pillowcases, place mats and stoles are dominated by the more popular blues and greens.
  — Raja Abdulrahim, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Sep. 2023
• Domaine Brusset sold its grapes to the cooperative until 1947.
  — Per and Britt Karlsson, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2022
• Then, the cooperative notified its customers via social media that the culprit was closer to home.
  — Leada Gore | [e-mail], al, 6 July 2023
• In operation for 76 years, the farm has sent berries to Ocean Spray for the last 50, now providing about a million pounds each year, a number that has grown throughout the farm’s history with the cooperative, said Lisa Rezin, an owner of the farm.
  — Ross Mantle Christina Morales, New York Times, 17 Nov. 2022
• Victor Rojas deposits milk from his farm at the cooperative.
  — Washington Post, 21 May 2022
• Gas industry is favored The biggest losers in this mess, besides consumers who get no rate relief, are the more than 60 electricity cooperatives in the state.
  — Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 31 Mar. 2023
• Coffman is part of the cooperative, which has hired a marketing company.
  — Jennifer Bjorhus, Chicago Tribune, 5 Sep. 2023
• And that led you to set up three companies and cooperatives, with increasingly broader goals.
  — Ashoka, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023

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