How to Use incentivize in a Sentence

incentivize

verb

• That’s helped incentivize many consumers to make the switch.
  — Michelle Toh, CNN, 22 Aug. 2023
• Sometimes people need to be incentivized to do things in the right ways.
  — Becky Lucas, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Sep. 2023
• The birds weren’t trained or incentivized in any way to produce the swinging style of movement.
  — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Jan. 2024
• This could be reasonably close, but with the playoffs in reach the Bills are incentivized.
  — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 28 Dec. 2023
• That's the whole point of these tax credits -- to incentivize bringing back that full supply chain in the United States.
  — Morgan Korn, ABC News, 29 Jan. 2024
• To train the crows to use the stones, the researchers started by making a cheese puff trail to the tube, incentivizing the crow’s curiosity.
  — Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Ars Technica, 14 Dec. 2023
• Officials in those districts say the move in meant to incentivize teachers to remain on the job and recruit new ones.
  — Bychris Morris, Fortune, 22 Aug. 2023
• The trust fund could help cities incentivize affordable rental housing, said Williams.
  — al, 11 Apr. 2023
• Google’s move to incentivize app developers to put in the extra work is overdue.
  — Wes Davis, The Verge, 26 July 2023
• The city should also look for ways to use tax credits to incentivize hotel owners to open rooms for shelter, Constant said.
  — Emily Goodykoontz, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Aug. 2023
• Dubón is a true spark plug atop the lineup, with speed and athleticism that is helped by baseball's rule changes incentivizing base stealing and contact at the plate.
  — Michael Shapiro, Chron, 27 Apr. 2023
• Many are incentivized by the prospect of permanent residence.
  — Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Mar. 2024
• The lack of structures set in place to support and incentivize the development of Black employees will continue to halt change.
  — Shelcy Joseph, Essence, 5 Dec. 2023
• But there’s reason to doubt whether the FDIC, as a government-run entity, is best positioned and incentivized to solve this problem.
  — Matheus Riolfi, Fortune, 4 Apr. 2023
• That, in turn, incentivizes the companies to slow their production.
  — Justin Worland, TIME, 19 Oct. 2023
• California has come up with a new way to fight methamphetamine addiction: incentivizing users to stay sober with gift cards.
  — Jamie Joseph, Fox News, 25 July 2023
• Our goal is to incentivize everyone to think and act with an enterprise perspective.
  — Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 22 Feb. 2024
• Essentially, this means investing in and incentivizing the use of clean tech over the status quo that emits more greenhouse gasses.
  — Renee Grogan, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023
• Even though not every creditor will want to use FTX 2.0, those that plan to continue trading crypto will be incentivized to stick around.
  — WIRED, 28 Sep. 2023
• That approach, in turn, led to the current play-in system, first put into place in 2021 as a means of incentivizing teams not to tank late-season games in favor of lottery position.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 9 Mar. 2023
• Airlines only pay taxes on airfares – not optional fees – which incentivizes some airlines to keep fares low and add more and more fees to boost revenue.
  — Susan Glaser, cleveland, 18 Aug. 2023
• This will require a shift in how states incentivize the energy transition.
  — Kassia Yanosek, Foreign Affairs, 29 Nov. 2023
• Additionally, sellers who want to wrap up deals may be incentivized to choose offers from bidders who don’t need loans.
  — Justin Ray, Robb Report, 7 July 2023
• The automatic cuts were put in place to incentivize Congress to approve the funding bills for federal agencies in a timely manner.
  — Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 6 Mar. 2024
• At least three other states have introduced legislation that would require or incentivize schools to go phone free.
  — Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2024
• But the administration is also hoping to incentivize water cuts by paying cities, tribes and farmers to reduce water use for the next few years.
  — Ella Nilsen, CNN, 10 Apr. 2023
• The administration is trying to incentivize zoning changes, but the major choices are outside the White House’s control.
  — Josh Boak, Fortune, 15 Mar. 2024
• The commission structure of Medigap plans also incentivizes the sale of plans charging higher premiums, the brokers and agents says.
  — Richard Eisenberg, Fortune Well, 11 Apr. 2023
• Some office owners have taken creative approaches to incentivize workers to work in the office.
  — Corina Vanek, The Arizona Republic, 11 Mar. 2024
• The members-only model seems designed to prevent one of the major problems with hype houses: renting spaces to people incentivized to trash them.
  — Curbed, 12 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024