How to Use deposit in a Sentence

deposit

1 of 2 verb
  • The taxi deposited us at the train station.
  • Please deposit your things in your room and return to the hotel lobby.
  • Your paycheck will be automatically deposited into your account.
  • I deposited over $3,000 this afternoon.
  • Use a large spoon to scoop flour out of the bag and deposit it in a measuring cup.
    Zoe Denenberg, Southern Living, 11 Sep. 2023
  • The funds will be deposited on a Lone Star Card, which can then be used like a credit card.
    Brady Knox, Washington Examiner, 12 July 2023
  • The latest plan is for the spacecraft to deposit the samples from the surface of the asteroid in the Utah desert on Sept. 24.
    Misty Severi, Washington Examiner, 30 Aug. 2023
  • The algae is raked or scooped up with tractors and deposited in the sand farther up the beach.
    Dennis Pillion | Dpillion@al.com, al, 17 Mar. 2023
  • This is done by depositing color ink into the lips and along the lip line to improve the overall look.
    Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 28 Aug. 2023
  • One check was deposited into the erroneous account in the amount of $2,762.
    cleveland, 14 Sep. 2023
  • The waves are depositing large amounts of debris and causing road closures.
    Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 28 Dec. 2023
  • Trains and buses deposit hordes of tourists in hotel lobbies.
    Iris Samuels, Anchorage Daily News, 16 July 2023
  • Gathering as many nuggets as his rucksacks can hold, the man sets out for the nearest city to deposit his findings.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 4 May 2023
  • Tiny crabs that had been deposited downtown by the storm could be seen scuttling sideways across the slippery mess to get back to the safety of the seawall.
    Daniella Silva, NBC News, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Delgado deposited a free kick from about 14 yards out across the field and into the left side of the goal with five minutes left, forcing a 1-1 draw.
    Brian Haenchen, The Indianapolis Star, 4 Sep. 2023
  • These insects are sucking juices from the coontie leaves and depositing sap and excreta on the leaves.
    Tom MacCubbin, Orlando Sentinel, 29 Apr. 2023
  • Much of Iowa is under a blizzard warning on Friday, and the storm could deposit up to ten inches of snow in some areas.
    TIME, 12 Jan. 2024
  • His thief is deposited via helicopter onto the roof of the building, while a voice on the other end of a walkie-talkie guides him through the mechanics of the heist.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 16 Mar. 2023
  • The next step was to collect sand samples at different depths to find out when those sands were deposited.
    Mindy Weisberger, CNN, 4 Mar. 2024
  • In this way, carbon is slowly deposited onto the thin slice.
    Ana De Oliva, CNN, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Eighth grader Bella Bourque crushed a two-run homer in the sixth inning after Brooke Aldrich broke the game open with a grand slam deposited well over the left-field fence in the fifth.
    Cam Kerry, BostonGlobe.com, 10 June 2023
  • Within a few days, SNAP funds were deposited in her account.
    Annie Berman, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Feb. 2023
  • The second was deposited 450 feet with the wind blowing in for one of the most uplifting homers in Brewers history, a three-run bomb that tied the game.
    Jr Radcliffe, Journal Sentinel, 12 Apr. 2023
  • The guard deposits me in a conference room with a fancy bottle of water anyway.
    Lauren Larson, Men's Health, 7 Sep. 2023
  • On the island of Surtsey, researchers are forced to perch atop lava boulders to deposit theirs straight into the crashing ocean.
    Amy Brady, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2023
  • Similarly, weight loss in the face often has a sizable impact because of the way fat is deposited in the body.
    Julia Landwehr, Health, 5 June 2023
  • Second, new users need to deposit and wager at least $10 in cash to trigger this promotion.
    Ian Firstenberg, Chicago Tribune, 11 Apr. 2023
  • Many were lined up at a small hill, waiting their turn to ride down on inflated tubes that would deposit them into a forest of spindly maple trees.
    Rivka Galchen, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Mar. 2023
  • Journalists were not allowed to record or use the video presented, and our phones were deposited outside the room.
    Matt Gutman, ABC News, 16 Oct. 2023
  • As a result, SVB’s startup customers had far less money to deposit.
    Tori Otten, The New Republic, 10 Mar. 2023
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deposit

2 of 2 noun
  • Our records show that she made a large deposit to her account earlier in the month.
  • If you return that empty soda can, you'll get back the five-cent deposit you paid when you bought the soda.
  • He had surgery to remove calcium deposits from his knee.
  • Their company has discovered new oil deposits below the ocean floor.
  • The rental car company requires a deposit for drivers under the age of 25.
  • PacWest saw a sharp outflow of deposits in the first quarter.
    Telis Demos, WSJ, 26 July 2023
  • There's more than $17 trillion of deposits in U.S. banks.
    WSJ, 12 June 2023
  • The burden of proof is on the landlord; violating this law could mean paying the tenant up to twice the amount of the deposit.
    Jill Terreri Ramos, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2023
  • Its deposits were down 9% compared to the prior quarter.
    Carolyn Said, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 May 2023
  • Loans and deposits ended 2023 at record levels as well.
    Andrew Moreau, arkansasonline.com, 19 Jan. 2024
  • Did the deaths have to do with the rich deposits of oil that were recently discovered on the indigenous land?
    Eric Andersson, Peoplemag, 2 Sep. 2023
  • Mercury is not a chartered bank, and therefore can’t lend against deposits.
    Lucy Brewster, Fortune, 11 May 2023
  • McKinsey says that deposits doubled at the largest U.S. banks while the number of their branches fell.
    Erin Slater, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Her tapestry The Eighth Continent depicts the mining of ice deposits in craters on the moon.
    Smithsonianmag.com, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Aug. 2023
  • Without any deposits like seaweed, the recognizable high tide line would be the wet line on a sandy or rocky beach.
    Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 31 May 2023
  • Home buyers put down deposits and took out mortgages to buy the properties.
    Bloomberg, Fortune Asia, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Chinese banks have been slower to raise their market share in credit and deposits.
    Marton Eder, Bloomberg.com, 15 Dec. 2023
  • Keep in mind that Neteller and Skrill deposits do not qualify for this promotion.
    Sponsored Content, The Mercury News, 8 Mar. 2024
  • And the companies touted in August that the program had reached $10 billion in US deposits.
    Mark Gurman, Fortune, 29 Nov. 2023
  • If these are clogged with mineral deposits, give the bowl and rim a thorough scrubbing with an acidic cleaner.
    Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 25 July 2023
  • Celsius has drawn up a plan that returns 37% of crypto deposits to most customers.
    Soma Biswas, WSJ, 21 Sep. 2023
  • But police in Trumbull, Conn., say the 57-year-old man's good fortune in May came in the form of thousands of dollars of the town's tax money in a deposit bag marked with the bank's insignia.
    Timothy Bella, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Aug. 2023
  • But police in Trumbull, Conn., say the 57-year-old man’s good fortune in May came in the form of thousands of dollars of the town’s tax money in a deposit bag marked with the bank’s insignia.
    Timothy Bella, Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2023
  • And that deposit is truly a strategic asset for the United States of America.
    IEEE Spectrum, 7 Dec. 2023
  • How do banks get away with offering customers such low deposits when there are better rates out there?
    Mallika Mitra, wsj.com, 23 Oct. 2023
  • But some are still worried about the health of smaller banks, which face a particularly tough fight for deposits.
    Gina Heeb, WSJ, 18 July 2023
  • Wind and rain have eroded the original deposit into Seussian spires and box canyons, leaving what looks like a drip castle rising from the bush.
    Discover Magazine, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Over the course of tens of millions of years, the molten rock cooled to form deposits of exceptionally pure mica and quartz, which were then pushed back up toward the surface.
    Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023
  • Later, the wallet appears in the background as a safe deposit box for these digital assets.
    William Mougayar, Fortune Crypto, 28 May 2023
  • Not long after, the kingdom set aside $5 billion in deposits for Turkey’s central bank to help shore up its finances.
    Ben Hubbard, New York Times, 10 June 2023

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