How to Use operational in a Sentence

operational

adjective

• The new airport should be fully operational by next year.
• The computer network is now operational.
• The operational side is so key.
  — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 19 Oct. 2025
• Valerii’s first task each evening was to read the operational log.
  — Lizzie Johnson, New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2026
• This includes funds to make the house ready for move-in and operational costs for the first year.
  — Roxanne De La Rosa, The Arizona Republic, 25 Oct. 2021
• Six sites are running and the rest will be operational within the next few weeks.
  — Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com, 28 Oct. 2021
• But the rocket is still far from operational.
  — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 12 June 2026
• The fix isn’t to push harder but to adopt operational honesty.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
• And sometimes those are the hard jobs, sometimes those are operational jobs.
  — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2024
• Only three of 10 of their boats were operational, and none were high-speed.
  — Darcie Moran, Detroit Free Press, 14 Aug. 2024
• Arkansas does not have an operational wind turbine farm, but three are in the works.
  — Alex Golden, Axios, 6 Dec. 2024
• The wastewater treatment plant was wrecked and no longer operational.
  — Silvia Foster-Frau, Washington Post, 12 July 2023
• The program is expected to be operational by the end of this year.
  — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 26 June 2026
• Two of the five are fully operational, two are nearly done, and one is about halfway built.
  — ABC News, 23 Apr. 2026
• The Bowling Green box had been operational for less than two months.
  — CBS News, 11 Feb. 2023
• It’s set to become operational in the second quarter of this year.
  — Kai Nicol-Schwarz, CNBC, 30 Mar. 2026
• These tanks featured lighter armor and weaponry and had a greater operational range.
  — Matthew S Williams, Interesting Engineering, 1 May 2026
• The cameras have been operational for just over two weeks, Torres said.
  — Sarah Henry, AZCentral.com, 28 Mar. 2026
• The food crisis comes on top of the operational challenges that are waiting other on the side.
  — Mithil Aggarwal, NBC News, 11 Dec. 2023
• This helps reduce tilt and lowers the risk of operational shutdowns.
  — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2025
• The Army had operational control south of the Litani.
  — Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2026
• Those tools require more verbiage and operational time before the snap.
  — Ted Nguyen, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2025
• There will be TVs in the tent and the outdoor bar will be fully operational.
  — Detroit Free Press, 25 Nov. 2022
• The building did not have a sprinkler system but did have an operational fire alarm, the fire marshal said.
  — Riley Rourke, CBS News, 10 Jan. 2026
• Several pieces of equipment were non-operational and had food debris and residue on it.
  — Camila Pedrosa, Sacbee.com, 9 Jan. 2026
• Kids use the drill to build the recycling truck, which, when completed, has an operational lift arm.
  — Erica Puisis, Parents, 9 Mar. 2024
• That did not mean every operational problem had been resolved.
  — Jim Osman, Forbes.com, 5 July 2026
• The embassy is still operational and core staff remain in place, the official said.
  — Seyed Rahim Bathaei, CBS News, 23 Feb. 2026
• Besides the three on the Black Sea, three on the Danube are operational.
  — Ana Swanson, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2023
• It was shut down in 2021 due to operational issues.
  — Carolyn Stein, Chicago Tribune, 9 May 2026