How to Use augment in a Sentence

augment

1 of 2 verb

• Heavy rains augmented the water supply.
• The money augmented his fortune.
• And there were no video screens to augment the views, save one behind the band.
  — Chris Varias, The Enquirer, 30 July 2021
• For these readers, look for gifts that augment their bookshelves.
  — Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 23 Feb. 2026
• Some may also use it to augment care on the overnight shift, when staffing may be slimmer.
  — Jen Christensen, CNN Money, 9 Apr. 2026
• Posen said there will be a series of drops over time to augment the collection.
  — David Moin, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2025
• But to augment it with an over-the-air station is a perfect scenario.
  — Bruce Jenkins, SFChronicle.com, 31 July 2020
• More than ever, the armed forces are augmented by orbital eyes in the sky.
  — Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 6 Nov. 2017
• At certain times, the images will be augmented with words on the screen.
  — Pete Bigelow, Car and Driver, 31 Oct. 2017
• Let everyone augment their own scoops with their toppings of choice.
  — Casey Barber, CNN, 22 Dec. 2022
• Roles can augment as employees level-up in their skills.
  — Kate Wieczorek, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
• Those tracks have been newly augmented.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 21 Jan. 2026
• The idea was always to find a real-world location for the school and then augment it.
  — Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2023
• So the Rams could augment the position group in free agency or the draft.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2026
• Like many bookstores, the owners hope to augment their income with a coffee bar and food.
  — New York Times, 6 June 2021
• Focus is sharpened on players who can augment Emery’s squad in the here and now.
  — Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 27 Aug. 2025
• And women’s football still needs to be augmented.
  — Megan Feringa, New York Times, 1 June 2026
• The good news is that retailers will augment the state’s tax saving with great specials on their own.
  — Doreen Christensen, sun-sentinel.com, 29 July 2019
• The house Old Fashioned augments bourbon with garam masala syrup.
  — Rand Richards Cooper, courant.com, 26 Nov. 2019
• Brown said the troops will augment a current mission that fights transnational crime.
  — Cheri Mossburg and Steve Almasy, CNN, 11 Apr. 2018
• Note that the priests there had the conquistadors to augment their efforts.
  — Nicholas Frankovich, National Review, 21 Sep. 2017
• Eight new shows have been added to augment the 24 that were originally planned.
  — Jonathan Cohen, SPIN, 25 July 2022
• Three floors house classrooms and research labs for robots that fly, walk, roll and augment the human body.
  — Corey Williams, Star Tribune, 16 Mar. 2021
• Togiai’s push up the gut helped augment the Buckeyes’ pass rush and clogged up running lanes.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 19 Jan. 2021
• The offense and entire team were built around augmenting his greatness.
  — Paul Dehner Jr, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2025
• The nearly 14-year transit is augmenting the world and our lives.
  — Lisa Stardust, Refinery29, 23 Jan. 2026
• This is an example of a system that was used to augment workers, not replace them.
  — Bygeoff Colvin, Fortune, 26 Sep. 2023
• For teams who don’t trust their eyes, Jackson can augment his film by testing well in the agility drills.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 24 Feb. 2020
• These goals and hopes will set you on a journey that augments your current situation.
  — Lisa Stardust, Vogue, 2 Mar. 2026
• The infinity screen can put images of the artist up or just augment lighting.
  — August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2023

augment

2 of 2 noun

• In those cases, AI is there to assist or augment.
  — Adam Gale, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2025
• The design’s upright sides and tailgate augment cargo and kid space.
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 17 Apr. 2021
• The screen is augment by a rotary knob on the center console, which can also be used to control the screen.
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 11 Jan. 2020
• Humans and machines need to work in tandem and augment each other to put this problem behind us.
  — Samantha Walravens, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2021
• Panic and duress buttons can be added to augment intrusion detection along with sirens and strobe lights.
  — Scott Thomas, Rolling Stone, 17 June 2022
• According to Tomasello, sounds were then added to augment and expand this language of gestures.
  — Madelaine Böhme, Discover Magazine, 13 Nov. 2020
• Some systems replace your pedaling while some augment your pedaling.
  — Olivia Lipski, Good Housekeeping, 15 June 2022
• To augment strength, these panels were staggered vertically, like pieces of a puzzle, so that all their tops and bottoms did not align at the same floor level.
  — Donald Dusenberry, Scientific American, 8 Sep. 2021
• Often, the sweet spot of digital marketing is when all of the digital platforms support and augment each other.
  — John Brandon, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022
• Prioritize tools that are central to your daily operations, then look to augment as needed.
  — Roshni Wijayasinha, Forbes, 7 July 2022
• Its current application suite focuses on tools to augment reading and writing.
  — Rob Toews, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2022
• Rapid tests return results within a half hour and augment the PCR daily tests which were already taking place.
  — John Wawrow, ajc, 14 Feb. 2021
• Extend Herro now, and the moment possibly would be gone to augment that Butler-Lowry base.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 17 Sep. 2022
• Yeast is expected to help augment special teams and provide the Rams with depth at safety along with fellow draftee Quentin Lake.
  — Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2022
• And all these changes are rooted in data – deriving insights about the customer to augment business operations.
  — Forbes, 10 Mar. 2021
• But, in important areas of policy, his plans mirror or augment those of the EU, rather than undercut them.
  — Jason Douglas, WSJ, 28 Dec. 2020
• The purpose of decision-making technology is to augment humans, not replace them.
  — Guy Yehiav, Forbes, 9 Aug. 2022
• Contrary to popular belief, this suggests that the future of work will see technology augment workers, rather than replace them.
  — Bob Weinstein, Chron, 24 Oct. 2020
• These of course augment all other highly relevant leadership principles published through time.
  — Peter Weedfald, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2021
• But there is another path forward—one that treats AI not as a substitute for human capacity, but as an augment to it.
  — David Stout, Fortune, 19 Feb. 2026
• Use your existing staff to augment, not replace, other training and onboarding procedures.
  — Daisy Cabral, Forbes, 9 Apr. 2021
• Time will indeed tell if and how the company will be able to leverage this technology to augment healthcare in a safe, secure, and patient-centric manner.
  — Forbes, 31 Oct. 2021
• What therapeutic measures are likely to replace (or at least augment) vaccination?
  — Steve Brozak, Forbes, 18 Sep. 2021
• In all the tasks, the vast majority of study participants chose an augment versus a removal strategy to solve the problems presented to them.
  — Bryan Robinson, Forbes, 17 Apr. 2021
• And so to make sure that it was grounded, and always working with production design and what was there practically in order to augment and otherwise help tell the story.
  — Wilson Chapman, Variety, 10 June 2022
• Last year, researchers began a pioneering clinical trial, and more are on the way, bringing us closer to a world where blood factories augment supplies.
  — Anne Michaud, WSJ, 5 Sep. 2020
• This ability to enable, to augment, and to generate is technology’s real promise.
  — Rida Qadri, Wired, 20 Feb. 2022
• It is also known to augment depression, eating disorders, substance abuse and anti-social behavior.
  — Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2022
• There will be presentation elements added to augment the M-Factors effect on the game and situation.
  — Brian Mazique, Forbes, 17 June 2021
• Some companies, like FlightAware, augment government data with their own sources of real-time flight information.
  — Justin Ling, WIRED, 20 Dec. 2022