How to Use operate in a Sentence

operate

verb

• The café is owned and operated by a young couple.
• The machine can operate at high speeds.
• It's the only casino operating in the state.
• They hope to have the windmill operating again tomorrow.
• The company operates from Chicago.
• The camera also operates underwater.
• The organization operates a recycling program.
• Has our time aloft taught us more about how to live and operate in space?
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 31 Oct. 2025
• That could be because rate hikes operate with a lag that is hard to parse.
  — Rachel Siegel, Washington Post, 5 Nov. 2022
• The brain’s stress network operates like a game of tug-of-war.
  — Haley Weiss, Time, 13 June 2023
• The pods would operate at and above ground level.
  — Skyler Swisher, The Orlando Sentinel, 15 Feb. 2026
• This means that these systems will be able to operate above the clouds, for instance.
  — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 22 Mar. 2026
• But many of those spacecraft are operating well past their prime.
  — Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 19 Sep. 2025
• Kids will love to take apart, build, and operate this bulldozer.
  — Kathleen Willcox, Popular Mechanics, 11 Jan. 2023
• Many firms already operate this way.
  — Dave Smith, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2025
• Wheaton operates as a streaming firm.
  — Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026
• The light turned green but the cars, which operate in the city without drivers, didn’t move.
  — Wired, 9 July 2022
• The device can also be set to operate as a fan that can push cooling air around a room.
  — Paige Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Apr. 2024
• The company has an agreement with the city to operate the venue for the next few years.
  — Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 26 Mar. 2024
• Rural states say some charging stations could operate at a loss for a decade or more.
  — Jennifer Hiller, WSJ, 29 Nov. 2022
• No pot farms or dispensaries have been allowed to operate in the state.
  — Ashley Okwuosa, The Examination; Amy Yurkanin, Al.com; John Diedrich, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, USA TODAY, 18 Apr. 2024
• While all of them do a good job cleaning, this one is by far the easiest to clean and operate.
  — Amy Schulman, Peoplemag, 5 Aug. 2022
• Panthalassa says its nodes would operate far from shore in wave-rich parts of the ocean.
  — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 15 May 2026
• Ryanair does not operate direct flights to or from South Africa.
  — Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN, 7 June 2022
• There are some signs of progress in the way Nigeria are now operating.
  — Jay Harris, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2026
• Questions about how much the system will cost to build and operate were not addressed.
  — Arkansas Online, 25 Sep. 2025
• As everyone knows by now, the Sox don’t operate like most teams.
  — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 23 Sep. 2022
• The system has an instant on/off switch, a longer lifespan, and costs much less to operate.
  — Kate Armanini, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Feb. 2023
• Franchisees operate more than 96% of the chain’s stores.
  — Amelia Lucas, CNBC, 1 May 2026
• Musk, on the other hand, operates with a far greater sense of urgency.
  — Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 12 Sep. 2025