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.
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The brain’s stress network operates like a game of tug-of-war.
—Haley Weiss, Time, 13 June 2023
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The trucks will operate on fixed routes around the clock, seven days a week.
—Arkansas Online, 9 June 2022
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The light turned green but the cars, which operate in the city without drivers, didn’t move.
—Wired, 9 July 2022
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The company has an agreement with the city to operate the venue for the next few years.
—Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 26 Mar. 2024
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That could be because rate hikes operate with a lag that is hard to parse.
—Rachel Siegel, Washington Post, 5 Nov. 2022
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Its operating hours will be 8 p.m. to 11 p.m., and it will be held rain or shine.
—Dewayne Bevil, Orlando Sentinel, 11 Apr. 2023
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In May of this year, the park district signed a 50-year lease agreement with the City of Wadsworth to operate the site as a county park.
—Mary Jane Brewer, cleveland, 22 Aug. 2022
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As has been the expectation, the Cavs will operate as an over-the-cap team.
—Chris Fedor, cleveland, 30 June 2022
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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
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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
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The restaurant opened in Staten Island in 2007 and still operates to this day.
—Lissete Lanuza Sáenz, StyleCaster, 9 May 2025
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Ryanair does not operate direct flights to or from South Africa.
—Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN, 7 June 2022
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The system has an instant on/off switch, a longer lifespan, and costs much less to operate.
—Kate Armanini, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Feb. 2023
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Zoom out: The Flow Trip operates as a stand-alone business within Flow.
—Sara Fischer, Axios, 11 Mar. 2025
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Once fully charged, the spin scrubber can operate for up to 90 minutes at a time.
—Amy Schulman, Peoplemag, 7 Feb. 2024
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As for the claim that Chinese soldiers are operating the canal?
—Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
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That ended a run of five years of Missouri operating at a deficit.
—The Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 19 Feb. 2024
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As everyone knows by now, the Sox don’t operate like most teams.
—Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 23 Sep. 2022
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Some objected to the fact that little is known about how Mesa Rock will operate.
—Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Mar. 2024
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Croyle said Big Oak needs donors to come alongside the nonprofit to help operate their homes.
—al, 4 Dec. 2022
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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
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Not a single customer browsed at A Accessory, a store in the alley Jim Hwang has operated for more than two decades.
—Kaitlyn Huamani, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2025
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Now that seeing is no longer believing, the flesh and blood pros operating in the material world can be switched out for pixels and greenscreen.
—Thomas Doherty, HollywoodReporter, 14 June 2025
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