How to Use infrastructure in a Sentence

infrastructure

noun
  • More money is needed to save the crumbling infrastructure of the nation's rural areas.
  • We need to spend more money on maintaining and repairing infrastructure.
  • But what about the cost of the infrastructure around the stadium?
    Dave Hyde, Sun-Sentinel.com, 13 July 2018
  • The infrastructure for the arts at the center of the true cost crunch is housing and studio space.
    Patrick Sisson, Curbed, 3 Apr. 2018
  • First comes the planning process for the infrastructure.
    Jim Riccioli, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 31 Oct. 2017
  • What is the infrastructure required to bring the function in-house?
    Leen Kawas, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2023
  • The question remains whether the infrastructure is ready to count them.
    Nina Strochlic, National Geographic, 14 Aug. 2020
  • The state could charge rent to defer cost of marking and infrastructure.
    Guest Voices, AL.com, 29 Dec. 2017
  • And one of the big issue was dealing with infrastructure.
    The Enquirer, 22 July 2021
  • The infrastructure streamlines the migration and attempts to keep the crabs off the roads and out of people’s way.
    Michael Yessis, Smithsonian, 10 Oct. 2017
  • Climate change is calling in the debt on our infrastructure.
    Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic, 29 Oct. 2019
  • This has rapidly become the basic infrastructure of the tech world.
    Larry Light, Fortune, 11 Mar. 2022
  • There are few places with the infrastructure and expertise needed to do this.
    Claudia Dreifus, Quanta Magazine, 12 Oct. 2022
  • These days, a lot of infrastructure is built with a mix of public and private money.
    Richard Webner, San Antonio Express-News, 11 Jan. 2023
  • Moderates want a stand-alone vote on the infrastructure bill.
    Todd Spangler, Detroit Free Press, 24 Aug. 2021
  • The money promised by the infrastructure plan would certainly help.
    Aarian Marshall, Wired, 2 Apr. 2021
  • Pogue said the state doesn’t have the infrastructure in place to expand coverage to more people.
    April Dembosky, Kqed and Ashley Lopez, Kaiser Health News, 22 Sep. 2017
  • Some of those lakes have docks, but no other infrastructure.
    Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 4 July 2018
  • But though the reporting infrastructure slows over weekends, the virus does not.
    Joanna Pearlstein, The Atlantic, 26 Nov. 2020
  • House Democrats have their own plan to fund at least some infrastructure spending.
    Annie White, Car and Driver, 4 June 2021
  • But rebuilding a care infrastructure in a state is not quite as simple.
    Claire Landsbaum, The Cut, 27 June 2017
  • Many towns are dabbling with the idea of building fiber optic infrastructure.
    Elissa Welle, Chicago Tribune, 25 Nov. 2022
  • Most simply do not have the infrastructure to support tourism, not even the basics like a trash can or a parking lot.
    Pauly Denetclaw, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 July 2021
  • The global public-health infrastructure has egg on its face.
    Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker, 28 Dec. 2020
  • There are no roads or infrastructure within the park boundary, so the only access is by boat.
    Samantha Gordon Published, Travel + Leisure, 10 Dec. 2023
  • But there is a shortage of safe charging and storage infrastructure for e-bikes.
    Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 5 May 2023
  • The infrastructure of 5G costs far more than that of its antecedents.
    The Economist, 28 Mar. 2018
  • Many mountain lions that try to get past all our infrastructure are killed by drivers.
    Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Lots more people are riding, which is good, but infrastructure has been slow to catch up.
    Peter Flax, Outside Online, 15 May 2018
  • Sato believes it’s there – the drive and focus inside himself, the infrastructure in the team around him.
    Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 24 Aug. 2020

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