How to Use in place in a Sentence
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The magnets that hold the buds in place are a little too strong.
—Mark Knapp, PC Magazine, 7 Aug. 2026
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Put a simple change process in place for schema and features.
—Jagadish Gokavarapu, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
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Her makeup was on and her wig was in place, but her mind was in meltdown.
—ABC News, 23 July 2026
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Use it in place of syrup on pancakes, waffles or French toast.
—Monti Carlo, AJC.com, 10 July 2026
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Madeline Romious said the board hopes to have a new chief in place by the end of the year.
—Ben Wheeler, Kansas City Star, 31 July 2026
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For us, that is about a two- to three-month period to get people in place.
—Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 17 July 2026
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Zoox also added fluting to the wireless charging pad to help keep phones in place.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 3 July 2026
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Officials there are keeping a drought watch in place, even though the state has received some rain.
—Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 17 July 2026
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Once those are in place, scaling to the next site looks less like a reinvention and more like a rollout.
—Jagadish Gokavarapu, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
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Be ready to say plainly what the company is using, why and what controls are in place.
—Marc Blythe, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
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On Sunday morning there was a strong smell of smoke in the city, one said, and an air raid alert was still in place.
—Daria Tarasova-Markina, CNN Money, 19 July 2026
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The cushioned footbed helps prevent rubbing, while the secure straps keep your foot in place during long days out.
—Paris Wilson, Travel + Leisure, 31 July 2026
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All projects have secured 30% of their budget and have this financing in place.
—Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 3 July 2026
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Support straps Many lumbar pillows come with at least one or two straps to help hold the pillow in place.
—Bestreviews, Mercury News, 31 July 2026
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The Urrutias say such a system was in place but not functioning on the night their son was killed.
—Miami Herald, 24 July 2026
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And yet many organizations still haven’t put clear rules in place for how their systems are used or governed.
—Larry Bradley, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
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Galecki’s room features a vintage chrome-and-wood pool table in place of a television.
—Ryan Brennan, Charlotte Observer, 24 July 2026
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Her orders remain in place unless they are stayed or overturned by the Full Court.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 24 July 2026
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But that's the exact workaround to the system that the NBA has in place.
—Bryan Toporek, Forbes.com, 11 July 2026
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Iran's theocratic regime remains in place, the war still unresolved.
—Greg Myre, NPR, 18 July 2026
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On Saturday morning, those handmade signs were gone, some of the tape used to affix them still in place.
—Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 4 July 2026
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But those regulations — well, most of them — were in place when PIF bought the club.
—Oliver Kay, New York Times, 1 Aug. 2026
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Once your washer and drying setup are in place, the rest is about making use of space that would otherwise go unused.
—Ryan Brennan, Charlotte Observer, 14 Aug. 2026
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Installing a small flower frog in the base of the jars will hold stems in place and make flower arranging even easier.
—Lauren Landers, The Spruce, 31 Jan. 2026
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This allows the Cubs to make their picks with a development plan almost fully in place.
—Sahadev Sharma, New York Times, 17 July 2026
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The Baby Boomer generation is aging in place, and most of them want to stay put rather than move.
—Sergei Kaminskiy, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026
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Multiple structures are threatened by the fire, but there are protection measures in place.
—Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2026
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England’s top four divisions now have four different sets of financial rules in place.
—Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2026
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With the order in place, neighbors already notice a difference.
—Cyrus Farivar, ArsTechnica, 1 Aug. 2026
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There are regulations in place so that cabin crews aren’t overworked and exhausted.
—Joey Skladany, Travel + Leisure, 10 July 2026
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