How to Use activate in a Sentence

activate

verb

• Touch the screen to activate the system.
• The bomb was activated by remote control.
• The camera is activated by pushing a button.
• Sunlight activates a chemical reaction in the plant's leaves.
• The President has activated the reserves.
• Group sales teams don’t have time to activate.
  — Shivaas Gulati, Sportico.com, 12 May 2026
• The team can activate him at any point within the next three weeks.
  — Nicki Jhabvala, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
• This offer is easy for new users to activate.
  — Tyler Everett, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Sep. 2025
• The hand levers activate the front drum brakes and the single rear disc brake.
  — Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 26 May 2022
• Buium is a strong skater who can activate off the blue line and create off the rush.
  — Corey Pronman, New York Times, 27 Aug. 2025
• Both of these offers are easy to activate.
  — Tyler Everett, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
• Both of these offers are easy to activate.
  — Tyler Everett, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Nov. 2025
• Change can be scary, which can activate the brain’s fight or flight response.
  — Tanvi Gautam, Harvard Business Review, 9 Oct. 2025
• Clicking on any of the links on this page will activate the offer(s) of your choice.
  — Xl Media, cleveland, 26 Aug. 2022
• How does that not activate a kind of delight at the back of the cortex?
  — Naaman Zhou, The New Yorker, 19 Apr. 2022
• Any $1 bet will be enough to activate this offer.
  — Tyler Everett, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Aug. 2025
• This is the perfect time to sign up and activate this offer.
  — Tyler Everett, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2025
• That chunk of my brain has already been activated and is whirring away.
  — Jeff Spry, Space.com, 11 Jan. 2026
• Will a franchise in its fifth decade be able to activate the box office?
  — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 8 Oct. 2025
• Wolff then heads to the race track up to six hours before the starting lights activate.
  — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 21 June 2024
• The heat from the rollers will activate this mousse and give the look a stronger memory.
  — ELLE, 17 Mar. 2022
• Both activate our body’s cold-sensing nerves.
  — Jacek Krywko, Scientific American, 25 Mar. 2026
• This loss is deep, but he’s still activated to find out what happened.
  — Selome Hailu, Variety, 1 June 2026
• The agency plans to deploy de-icer trains and activate heaters to clear track of snow and ice.
  — Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2022
• Pick out your new device and activate your line today!
  — Juhi Wadia, PC Magazine, 11 Mar. 2026
• Step your feet back and form a straight line from shoulders to heels—all while activating your abs.
  — Danielle Zickl, Health, 30 Oct. 2025
• But their loud wail, which can be activated via a mobile app, can be heard about half a mile away.
  — Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2026
• The missile would fly to the target zone then activate its own seeker to home in on a ship.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2022
• Claim welcome offers and activate them with a bet on any of the games today.
  — Tyler Everett, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Sep. 2025
• Pair them with a vintage graphic tee and a pair of fresh kicks and simp mode will be activated.
  — Yoora Kim, Seventeen, 28 Mar. 2023