How to Use donate in a Sentence

donate

verb

• You can donate at the blood bank every eight weeks.
• Please sign this form if you would like to donate your organs when you die.
• He donates some of his free time to volunteer work.
• We donated our old clothes to charity.
• People are encouraged to donate blood.
• The computers were donated by local companies.
• Everyone is encouraged to donate.
• Denmark and the Netherlands will donate the jets, the White House said.
  — Jacob Knutson, Axios, 10 July 2024
• Placards with the photo and a QR code to donate to the fund were on the bar and around tables.
  — Lee O. Sanderlin, Baltimore Sun, 10 Mar. 2023
• To donate to the fund, send checks or money orders to Help Them To Hope.
  — Chicago Tribune, 2 Dec. 2022
• To help the war effort, the U.S. is donating 31 M1A1 tanks and crew training.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 7 June 2023
• To bid on the painting, purchase a print or donate to the park fund, visit www.oconparksandtrails.org/.
  — Drew Dawson, Journal Sentinel, 9 Sep. 2022
• Clean out your basement and donate to the second-hand store.
  — Tracy Brower, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2022
• People like it, donate to it, and don't ask more of it, a rare find for free software.
  — Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 16 Sep. 2022
• The band has pledged to donate $1 from each pre-save to Pink Shirt Day, which aims to stop bullying.
  — Ilana Kaplan, SPIN, 29 July 2022
• The couple has pledged to donate a portion of proceeds from a shareable dish called the Hunger Board to the food bank.
  — Megha McSwain, Chron, 21 June 2022
• The owner of the home donated it to the university after the killings.
  — Phil Helsel, NBC News, 15 Dec. 2023
• The Gear Fix has local channels for donating items that can’t be sold in the shop.
  — Outside Online, 5 Aug. 2024
• Dawn grows her hair out, then chops it off to donate it to cancer patients.
  — David Sedaris, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2024
• In 2013, film star Johnny Depp announced a plan to buy the property and donate it to the Oglala Sioux tribe.
  — Stephen Groves, ajc, 10 Sep. 2022
• And as always, for ever purchase, TOMS donates a new pair of shoes to a child in need.
  — Annie O’Sullivan, Good Housekeeping, 31 July 2023
• Mayor Ernie Penn noted the land is the first donated to the city for a neighborhood park.
  — Lynn Kutter, arkansasonline.com, 28 Nov. 2023
• Do pet parents have to pay any money to allow their pets to donate blood?
  — Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 12 Jan. 2024
• The proceeds will be donated in full to the Tim Bergling Foundation.
  — Thania Garcia, Variety, 19 Aug. 2024
• He’s grown wealthy enough to donate textbooks, meals, and cows to families back in Kano.
  — Vince Beiser, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2024
• The time capsule was built and donated by Dave and Jenny Marrs of Bentonville.
  — Mike Jones, Arkansas Online, 11 Aug. 2023
• Tickets are $160 and Chef Santos will donate a portion of the proceeds to Ahivoy.
  — Michael Alberty | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 27 Aug. 2022
• Finders are encouraged to read the book, share it, or donate it to a local school.
  — Lauren Daley, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Sep. 2022
• Operated with the cooperation of law enforcement, the speed run also fast-tracks funding to local charities, as participants—who paid $3,450 for one run last year—are also expected to donate substantially to the philanthropic component.
  — Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 13 Apr. 2025
• In the last year, Johnson unsuccessfully resisted Martin’s effort to codify old rules banning lobbyists from donating to mayoral candidates.
  — Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 13 Apr. 2025