How to Use simulate in a Sentence

simulate

verb

• The model will be used to simulate the effects of an earthquake.
• So, Allen wrote a program to simulate it on the PDP-10.
  — Emily Forlini, PC Magazine, 3 Apr. 2025
• The pen with the multitude of voles simulates a boom year.
  — Bathsheba Demuth, The Atlantic, 4 Jan. 2024
• The right-hander will throw one inning and simulate more in the bullpen.
  — Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 1 Mar. 2025
• The device goes on from the waist down and has motors at the knees and hips to simulate walking.
  — Dana Hunsinger Benbow, The Indianapolis Star, 21 June 2021
• Its yuzu glaze and honey simulate 24K gold flakes, the menu reads.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Mar. 2023
• The app can even simulate how a lamp would look in a darkened room at night compared to the middle of the day.
  — Andrew Liszewski, The Verge, 7 Oct. 2024
• Zoom-in on the image to see a ton of tiny lines drawn onto the screen to simulate an LCD-like effect.
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 13 Dec. 2021
• The offense then went into a two-minute period meant to simulate the end of the first half.
  — Jeff Miller, Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2022
• The team designed a computer game to simulate the idea.
  — Jason P. Dinh, Discover Magazine, 1 Aug. 2022
• The one thing India couldn’t simulate in pregame drills was doing things at true game speed.
  — Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer, 6 June 2022
• Overhead truss lighting fills the hangar with hues of red, green and blue, and lighting from above simulates snowflakes.
  — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Dec. 2023
• Then, footage was altered to simulate how a baby shark would process the shapes and movements.
  — Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 2 Nov. 2021
• The plants grown in lunar soil (right) aren't nearly as happy as those grown in a soil meant to simulate it (left).
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 12 May 2022
• Forecast models are simulating a very warm and quite wet first half of the month.
  — Matt Rogers, Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2024
• Blanks are used to simulate the firing of a live bullet with a muzzle flash, recoil and bang.
  — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 6 Nov. 2021
• Bruce was the name given to the three mechanical predators built to simulate the great white shark at the heart of the story.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 10 Aug. 2023
• This simulates a surge of salty water during a big storm.
  — Patrick Megonigal, The Conversation, 13 Jan. 2025
• The researchers used climate models to simulate the jet stream in a hotter world.
  — Chelsea Harvey, Scientific American, 21 Sep. 2021
• The play’s flaw is the use of over-obvious metaphors like a chess game and arm-wrestling to simulate the pros and cons of differing protest strategies.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Mar. 2021
• The idea was to simulate the sounds of a buck fight and hopefully entice the big deer to investigate.
  — Matt Williams, Dallas News, 2 Oct. 2021
• That doesn’t mean the coaching staff wasn’t working to simulate game action.
  — Christopher Price, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Aug. 2023
• The board is designed for beginners, and the company says kids as young as 3 can use it to simulate spins, twists, and slides.
  — Maya Polton, Parents, 24 Mar. 2024
• Trouble was, the look Yamazaki craved was too big to simulate in CG.
  — Bob Strauss, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2024
• Fisher then affixed a small, weighted chain on the steering wheel to simulate the weight of a driver's hand.
  — Matt Ott, Star Tribune, 22 Apr. 2021
• Fisher then affixed a small, weighted chain on the steering wheel to simulate the weight of a driver’s hand.
  — Matt Ott, Fortune, 22 Apr. 2021
• Models used to simulate the evolution of Mars can now be built on the foundations of these ground truths.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 23 July 2021
• Or the team can simulate the spectra of Martian light hitting objects on Mars.
  — Adam Rogers, Wired, 23 Feb. 2021
• Meant to simulate hunting, the sport takes place in forests and fields and involves walking from one station to another to shoot—imagine golf, but with guns.
  — Tyler Austin Harper, The Atlantic, 19 Apr. 2025
• And a third category were boxes outfitted with plastic plants, perhaps signaling absentee owners or landlords who seek to simulate care.
  — Sonja Dümpelmann, The Conversation, 24 Apr. 2025