How to Use operation in a Sentence

operation

noun
  • The family runs a small farming operation.
  • The company is a billion-dollar operation.
  • Same goes for the red zone operation on both sides of the ball.
    Kelsey Conway, The Enquirer, 25 Nov. 2022
  • The hours of operation for the business would be from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. seven days a week.
    Adrienne Davis, Journal Sentinel, 11 June 2024
  • Stick through the credits to see how the brains behind the operation fare.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 1 Aug. 2024
  • Chapman has worked on the farm since childhood and took over the operation in 2016.
    Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 6 Dec. 2024
  • And the last of the 130 bakeries in Gaza shut down operations because there is no fuel.
    NBC News, 16 Nov. 2023
  • The shape of a sinus, a filling, an operation from years ago.
    Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2023
  • The operation, which is the 20th since Bass took office, was carried out in Chatsworth.
    Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2023
  • As promised, the restaurant is a no-fuss, no-muss operation.
    Bahar Anooshahr, The Arizona Republic, 18 Jan. 2023
  • While there were a handful of players in the Bling Ring, the face of the operation in the media became Alexis Neiers.
    Ilana Kaplan, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2023
  • The intent is to buy a building to resume the slice operation, the owners said.
    Cheryl V. Jackson, The Indianapolis Star, 28 Feb. 2023
  • The girl was struck in the left shin and was undergoing a five-hour operation.
    Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 3 Jan. 2025
  • The newer Nord Stream 2 pipeline was not yet approved for operation; Germany froze the project in the lead-up to the war in Ukraine.
    Emily Rauhala and Ellen Francis, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Nov. 2022
  • More pools are needed, as well as more swim instructors, more days and hours of operation, and a way to get kids to the lessons.
    Michael Brunker, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 June 2022
  • For more on the operation, check out the full article here.
    Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2025
  • The area was once a dairy and cattle operation but is now a verdant habitat for birds and fish.
    Raymond Zhong Mira Rojanasakul, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Yet is is only a part of one force and our force is only one phase of the entire operation.
    Chicago Tribune, 2 June 2024
  • Green District is not the only salad operation with an eye on growth in the area.
    Cheryl V. Jackson, The Indianapolis Star, 19 July 2022
  • Needless to say, scaling the operation was an issue for the grade-school CEOs.
    Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 23 Nov. 2022
  • The area is covered in snow, and 30 feet of ice complicate things for Lewis' operation.
    Emily Strohm, Peoplemag, 7 Sep. 2022
  • There are also operations to change structures in the throat.
    Linda Carroll, NBC News, 6 Apr. 2023
  • In his role, Zito has to have a hand in every part of hockey operations.
    Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 21 May 2024
  • The Relay plant was Guinness’ first brewing operation in the United States since the 1950s.
    Lorraine Mirabella, Baltimore Sun, 3 Apr. 2023
  • The parishes already share a priest as well as some operations.
    Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 21 May 2024
  • Hours of operation vary between the two Louisville stores, although both are open seven days a week.
    Ana Rocío Álvarez Bríñez, The Courier-Journal, 22 June 2022
  • The leak could be an attempt to disrupt the Israeli operation.
    Barak Ravid, Axios, 19 Oct. 2024
  • On the morning of October 25, the Chavezes brought MJ to the hospital, where doctors walked them through the operation.
    Brenda Goodman, CNN, 13 Nov. 2022
  • The operation aimed to preempt any threat ahead of the singer's historic performance on Saturday night, which drew over two million fans to Rio's iconic beachfront.
    Aicha El Hammar Castano, ABC News, 4 May 2025
  • In criticizing Fox’s polling numbers, Trump has directed his ire not at Fox News as a body but merely at one of its arms: its polling operation, and more specifically, at one employee within it.
    Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 2 May 2025

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