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.
• The brain’s stress network operates like a game of tug-of-war.
  — Haley Weiss, Time, 13 June 2023
• The trucks will operate on fixed routes around the clock, seven days a week.
  — Arkansas Online, 9 June 2022
• The light turned green but the cars, which operate in the city without drivers, didn’t move.
  — Wired, 9 July 2022
• The company has an agreement with the city to operate the venue for the next few years.
  — Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 26 Mar. 2024
• That could be because rate hikes operate with a lag that is hard to parse.
  — Rachel Siegel, Washington Post, 5 Nov. 2022
• 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
• 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
• As has been the expectation, the Cavs will operate as an over-the-cap team.
  — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 30 June 2022
• 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
• 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 restaurant opened in Staten Island in 2007 and still operates to this day.
  — Lissete Lanuza Sáenz, StyleCaster, 9 May 2025
• Ryanair does not operate direct flights to or from South Africa.
  — Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN, 7 June 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
• Zoom out: The Flow Trip operates as a stand-alone business within Flow.
  — Sara Fischer, Axios, 11 Mar. 2025
• Once fully charged, the spin scrubber can operate for up to 90 minutes at a time.
  — Amy Schulman, Peoplemag, 7 Feb. 2024
• As for the claim that Chinese soldiers are operating the canal?
  — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
• That ended a run of five years of Missouri operating at a deficit.
  — The Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 19 Feb. 2024
• As everyone knows by now, the Sox don’t operate like most teams.
  — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 23 Sep. 2022
• Some objected to the fact that little is known about how Mesa Rock will operate.
  — Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Mar. 2024
• Croyle said Big Oak needs donors to come alongside the nonprofit to help operate their homes.
  — al, 4 Dec. 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
• The project is still in its early days, but the state plans to work with private companies to build and operate the facility.
  — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 27 June 2025
• That same year, he and his studio were sued for allegedly operating a hostile work environment.
  — Gary Baum, HollywoodReporter, 27 June 2025