How to Use simulate in a Sentence

simulate

verb
  • The model will be used to simulate the effects of an earthquake.
  • The pen with the multitude of voles simulates a boom year.
    Bathsheba Demuth, The Atlantic, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Its yuzu glaze and honey simulate 24K gold flakes, the menu reads.
    Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Mar. 2023
  • Overhead truss lighting fills the hangar with hues of red, green and blue, and lighting from above simulates snowflakes.
    Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Dec. 2023
  • Forecast models are simulating a very warm and quite wet first half of the month.
    Matt Rogers, Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Bruce was the name given to the three mechanical predators built to simulate the great white shark at the heart of the story.
    Jesse Green, New York Times, 10 Aug. 2023
  • That doesn’t mean the coaching staff wasn’t working to simulate game action.
    Christopher Price, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Aug. 2023
  • The board is designed for beginners, and the company says kids as young as 3 can use it to simulate spins, twists, and slides.
    Maya Polton, Parents, 24 Mar. 2024
  • Trouble was, the look Yamazaki craved was too big to simulate in CG.
    Bob Strauss, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Overhead truss lighting will fill the hangar with red, green and blue colors, and lighting from above will simulate snowflakes.
    Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Nov. 2023
  • In fact, The Scalp Shop uses a cream to simulate the process’ coverage to show clients how their final results will look.
    Desiree Browne, ELLE, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Make sure your heels are seated deep in the heel pocket and flex forward at the knees and ankles to simulate the feel during skiing.
    Douglas Schnitzspahn, Travel + Leisure, 21 Dec. 2023
  • Google also showcased changing the lighting of the scene to golden hour, to simulate warm sunset tones.
    WIRED, 4 Oct. 2023
  • His staff pumps in large amounts of seawater, adjusts the lights in the room to account for day and night, and tries to make the cephalopods’ tanks simulate their natural habitats.
    David Abel, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Jan. 2023
  • The device also breathes via a trailing tank, simulating how the exchange of hot air and moisture affects the body.
    Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 3 June 2023
  • In the past, one of the things the Patriots have done in practice to simulate the work of a speedster is to give scout-team receivers a head start of 5 to 10 yards and have the defensive backs play catchup.
    Christopher Price, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Sep. 2023
  • The celebrity contestants are sent to the Australian outback, which has been designed to simulate Mars.
    Lisa Boone, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2023
  • The container held up to impacts used to simulate hungry dogs knocking it over.
    Madison Yauger, Peoplemag, 7 Sep. 2023
  • At the lab’s direction, Betancourt stored the camera and film in his kitchen freezer, simulating how it had been entombed in the glacier for decades.
    John Branch, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2023
  • The World Bank report simulates three scenarios for the global oil supply in the event of a small, medium or large disruption.
    Fatima Hussein, Fortune, 30 Oct. 2023
  • In a video example, researchers used the device to simulate smelling flowers.
    Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune Crypto, 13 May 2023
  • Thanks to a free web app called calligrapher.ai, anyone can simulate handwriting with a neural network that runs in a browser via JavaScript.
    Benj Edwards, Ars Technica, 26 Jan. 2023
  • To reach its conclusions, the team simulated the DART crash and compared the results against what had been observed after the mission.
    Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Feb. 2024
  • And shoes like the Bearfoot Ursus simulate the feeling of being barefoot—without showing the world your dogs.
    Lindsay Berra, Men's Health, 18 Jan. 2023
  • The customers will attempt to win the sneakers at Pitch Soho, part of a chain of indoor golf clubs that lets patrons drive a ball into a screen to simulate a real shot.
    Ryan Hogg, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2023
  • This light-therapy lamp simulates daylight without harmful UV rays to help boost moods and kick the winter blues.
    Nykia Spradley, Glamour, 20 Sep. 2023
  • One of the suspects simulated a gun in his pocket to a security guard, police said.
    Kcal-News Staff, CBS News, 17 Aug. 2023
  • For weeks or months, small crews get locked inside a habitat, capsule or settlement to simulate a space mission.
    Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, 10 July 2023
  • Most use shading to simulate depth, so that the flat shapes appear to be either floating or stacked and interlocking, and all but one center on a circle.
    Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2023
  • So how to simulate light, shadows, and reflections on the virtual human face?
    IEEE Spectrum, 11 Feb. 2023

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