How to Use implement in a Sentence
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Stained with ochre, the stone implements were part of her last rites.
—Sarah Durn, Popular Science, 11 Sep. 2025
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Do not forget that old war implements can still kill.
—Michael Jerome Plunkett september 5, Literary Hub, 5 Sep. 2025
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Many of the birds thought of the tools as a set and carried both implements to the job site.
—Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Mar. 2023
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The bullhook is an implement made up of a long rod with a blunt or pointed hook at the end.
—Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 21 Aug. 2019
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Each one is either long or short and is wide enough to take up a single implement slot or more.
—New Atlas, 24 Feb. 2026
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There are no tears for the implements that build life’s memories.
—Bulletin Board, Twin Cities, 22 Sep. 2019
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Fashion the crust with the pince à tarte or other implement of your choosing.
—Bill Buford, The New Yorker, 19 Nov. 2020
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Charlie paused on a sidewalk, stared at us, then spun and raced into a farm implement lot.
—Rick Montgomery, kansascity, 17 Oct. 2017
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Show her where implements and glasses go and ask her to fold the napkins and place them under the fork.
—Amy Dickinson, chicagotribune.com, 16 June 2019
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So the moth strikes at night, using its barbed implement to peel back the bird's double eyelid.
—Discover Magazine, 29 June 2010
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Don't be tempted to put an implement into the hole and lever it off; this can take good plaster with it.
—The Editors Of House Beautiful, House Beautiful, 11 Feb. 2015
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And then airlines would need more time on top of that to bring planes out of storage and implement said training.
—Washington Post, 11 Nov. 2019
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We’ve been asked to be gentle and diligent with these giant, pronged implements.
—Hazlitt, 20 Sep. 2023
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Each piece is as much a work of art as a useful implement, whether in the kitchen, over the grill or out on the campsite.
—Amy Drew Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 26 Nov. 2021
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Use a broom or other implement to remove snow from shrubs by brushing upward.
—Alexandra Jones, The Spruce, 31 Jan. 2026
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The new tool also comes with a bottle/can opener that can be swapped in for one of those other implements.
—New Atlas, 2 Sep. 2025
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Super said to make sure things like knives and other kitchen implements were secured and out of reach of a toddler.
—oregonlive.com, 22 Aug. 2019
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Brown, a Cubs player whose pitching hand was mangled in a farm-implement mishap.
—Phil Vettel, chicagotribune.com, 8 June 2018
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Plucking implements were pretty much stuck in the Bronze Age.
—Abbie Kozolchyk, wsj.com, 17 Oct. 2023
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Despite his large fleet of implements, McCloskey does not farm.
—Mitchell Kirk, Post-Tribune, 6 July 2018
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Nearby, see a life-size ferry scene, farm implements and giant murals.
—Michael Barnes, Austin American Statesman, 6 Nov. 2025
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The skull has multiple lesions consistent with wounds from a blunt implement, such as a club.
—K. N. Smith, Discover Magazine, 30 Mar. 2016
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Then, use a sharp shovel, loppers, or other cutting implements to sever the roots around the tree.
—Daniel Scott, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Mar. 2026
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Sunday night a group worked late into the night to help a big bank implement Docusign’s product.
—Adam Lashinsky, Fortune, 24 Mar. 2020
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This smart lock implements palm vein recognition that activates in less than a second.
—Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 6 Feb. 2026
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Chances are the implement that comes to mind has a wooden handle—maybe rubber—leading to a metal head, with a claw in the back.
—Jenna Kunze, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Sep. 2022
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The museum will remove the pencil and ask guests to use their own writing implement or cellphone.
—Andrea Sachs, Washington Post, 25 June 2020
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The machine added water to the ingredients already in the cup, and a drop-down blender implement went to work.
—Scott Kirsner, BostonGlobe.com, 23 June 2019
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Bauman reports that school officials have confirmed the implement used in the attack was not a knife.
—Dan Carson, Chron, 27 Sep. 2022
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The war between rabbit and farmer is filled with pranks, implements of destruction and a fair measure of slapstick.
—Chris Foran, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8 Feb. 2018
- Due to high costs, the program was never fully implemented.
- I wondered how I might best implement his plan.
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Watch film from last night, learn from it, and implement those changes in this game?
—The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 Jan. 2023
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It's been up to states to decide when and how to implement them.
—Julia Hollingsworth, CNN, 30 Apr. 2021
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The restaurant will implement the changes with some new staff in its ranks.
—Rachel Bernhard, jsonline.com, 8 Oct. 2025
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That will direct more funds to projects that implement the broad goals of our plans.
—Anchorage Daily News, 17 Mar. 2022
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But nearly all would take years to implement.
—Fred P. Hochberg, Boston Herald, 21 Jan. 2026
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So many solutions to skin and hair woes are not easy to implement.
—ELLE, 18 Apr. 2022
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Was there any debate about using that or how to implement it?
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 19 Oct. 2021
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But there had been something of a stalemate over how to implement it.
—Jared Boyd, AL.com, 24 Oct. 2017
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Here's what to know about the system and why it was implemented.
—Alec Johnson, jsonline.com, 25 Sep. 2025
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Not one of them was implemented.
—Morgan Phillips, FOXNews.com, 25 Sep. 2025
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The goal is to conduct these reviews by the end of the year, or have a plan in place to implement them.
—Hanna Ziady, CNN, 23 Sep. 2020
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Yang, too, cautions that reforms take time to implement.
—Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 30 Oct. 2025
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Online platforms would then have at least a year to implement the new measures.
—Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 21 Apr. 2022
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The work will be implemented in three phases over four years at four buses per month.
—Lance Reynolds, Boston Herald, 24 Oct. 2025
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This gives the black some breathing room and implements a little bit of color with the navy blue.
—Halee Miller Van Ryswyk, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Jan. 2026
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Moore hopes to fully implement the program by the end of summer.
—David J. Kim, The Courier-Journal, 24 June 2020
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But if there are concrete steps to implement it, I am concerned.
—Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2025
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Read on to learn about the exciting changes to be implemented this year.
—Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Jan. 2026
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The first two precincts that got cameras each took a little more than a month to implement the cameras.
—Rocky Baier, azcentral, 20 June 2019
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Be open, receptive and willing to implement changes that will bring you to a safe and sound place.
—Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 20 Mar. 2024
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This group doesn't want the Ohio Supreme Court to implement its own plan.
—Jessie Balmert, The Enquirer, 9 Mar. 2022
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But then a small group of loud voices took those tools away and forced us to wait for a citywide vote to implement them.
—Wes Burdine, Twin Cities, 19 Oct. 2025
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In his first weeks, Williams has the chance to implement rapid policy shifts.
—Matt Sledge, NOLA.com, 12 Dec. 2020
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But new laws are slowly being implemented to stem the tide.
—Christian Allaire, Vogue, 28 Jan. 2026
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The city is now implementing some of these and other measures.
—Heather Gillers, WSJ, 29 Mar. 2018
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The first is to ensure that its statutes are fully implemented.
—The Economist, 12 Sep. 2019
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This can be a good time to start over again or implement new ideas and techniques that might improve your future.
—Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 25 Feb. 2021
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The next 13 months will be all about implementing your dreams into your day-to-day life.
—Aliza Kelly Faragher, Allure, 28 Oct. 2018
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