How to Use augment in a Sentence

augment

1 of 2 verb

• Heavy rains augmented the water supply.
• The money augmented his fortune.
• And there were no video screens to augment the views, save one behind the band.
  — Chris Varias, The Enquirer, 30 July 2021
• At certain times, the images will be augmented with words on the screen.
  — Pete Bigelow, Car and Driver, 31 Oct. 2017
• Note that the priests there had the conquistadors to augment their efforts.
  — Nicholas Frankovich, National Review, 21 Sep. 2017
• More than ever, the armed forces are augmented by orbital eyes in the sky.
  — Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 6 Nov. 2017
• The idea was always to find a real-world location for the school and then augment it.
  — Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2023
• Your face is no longer just your face—it’s been augmented.
  — Sidney Fussell, The Atlantic, 28 June 2019
• Weapons can be augmented with pickups like scopes and grips.
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 12 Sep. 2018
• But to augment it with an over-the-air station is a perfect scenario.
  — Bruce Jenkins, SFChronicle.com, 31 July 2020
• The culprit is the numbers themselves, not the lies that augment them, nor the profits made in doing so.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 30 Jan. 2018
• Like many bookstores, the owners hope to augment their income with a coffee bar and food.
  — New York Times, 6 June 2021
• The infinity screen can put images of the artist up or just augment lighting.
  — August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2023
• There remains the buyout market to augment the Celtics.
  — Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Feb. 2023
• Let everyone augment their own scoops with their toppings of choice.
  — Casey Barber, CNN, 22 Dec. 2022
• The business has to start making money to augment the money being spent.
  — Chastity Heyward, Forbes, 17 June 2021
• The goal of grow lights is to augment where natural light is insufficient.
  — Carrie Honaker, Southern Living, 5 Jan. 2024
• The house Old Fashioned augments bourbon with garam masala syrup.
  — Rand Richards Cooper, courant.com, 26 Nov. 2019
• Brown said the troops will augment a current mission that fights transnational crime.
  — Cheri Mossburg and Steve Almasy, CNN, 11 Apr. 2018
• The good news is that retailers will augment the state’s tax saving with great specials on their own.
  — Doreen Christensen, sun-sentinel.com, 29 July 2019
• The World Games is a chance to augment that with more hands-on experience.
  — al, 10 Mar. 2022
• Clearly, there has long been a need for symbols to augment written language.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 1 Dec. 2019
• This is an example of a system that was used to augment workers, not replace them.
  — Bygeoff Colvin, Fortune, 26 Sep. 2023
• Twenty varieties of vodkas were served to augment the mood.
  — Sugar Rautbord, Town & Country, 1 Apr. 2013
• And indeed, the scene work augments the narrative nicely.
  — Jordan Hoffman, HWD, 13 Dec. 2017
• The devices would augment rubber barriers that are already in place.
  — Martine Powers, Washington Post, 25 June 2018
• At some point, the team will also explore whether the treatment can augment the abilities of healthy people.
  — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 23 Aug. 2022
• Sometimes additives are used to augment that flavor since the filtration process can strip that out as well.
  — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 1 Nov. 2023
• For teams who don’t trust their eyes, Jackson can augment his film by testing well in the agility drills.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 24 Feb. 2020
• Three floors house classrooms and research labs for robots that fly, walk, roll and augment the human body.
  — Corey Williams, Star Tribune, 16 Mar. 2021

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augment

2 of 2 noun

• The screen is augment by a rotary knob on the center console, which can also be used to control the screen.
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 11 Jan. 2020
• The design’s upright sides and tailgate augment cargo and kid space.
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 17 Apr. 2021
• Humans and machines need to work in tandem and augment each other to put this problem behind us.
  — Samantha Walravens, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2021
• Panic and duress buttons can be added to augment intrusion detection along with sirens and strobe lights.
  — Scott Thomas, Rolling Stone, 17 June 2022
• According to Tomasello, sounds were then added to augment and expand this language of gestures.
  — Madelaine Böhme, Discover Magazine, 13 Nov. 2020
• Often, the sweet spot of digital marketing is when all of the digital platforms support and augment each other.
  — John Brandon, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022
• To augment strength, these panels were staggered vertically, like pieces of a puzzle, so that all their tops and bottoms did not align at the same floor level.
  — Donald Dusenberry, Scientific American, 8 Sep. 2021
• In all the tasks, the vast majority of study participants chose an augment versus a removal strategy to solve the problems presented to them.
  — Bryan Robinson, Forbes, 17 Apr. 2021
• Yeast is expected to help augment special teams and provide the Rams with depth at safety along with fellow draftee Quentin Lake.
  — Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2022
• And all these changes are rooted in data – deriving insights about the customer to augment business operations.
  — Forbes, 10 Mar. 2021
• And so to make sure that it was grounded, and always working with production design and what was there practically in order to augment and otherwise help tell the story.
  — Wilson Chapman, Variety, 10 June 2022
• Its current application suite focuses on tools to augment reading and writing.
  — Rob Toews, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2022
• Rapid tests return results within a half hour and augment the PCR daily tests which were already taking place.
  — John Wawrow, ajc, 14 Feb. 2021
• Prioritize tools that are central to your daily operations, then look to augment as needed.
  — Roshni Wijayasinha, Forbes, 7 July 2022
• Some systems replace your pedaling while some augment your pedaling.
  — Olivia Lipski, Good Housekeeping, 15 June 2022
• Extend Herro now, and the moment possibly would be gone to augment that Butler-Lowry base.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 17 Sep. 2022
• Since the rollout of Twitter Blue appeared to augment uncertainty around the identity of users, the podcast hasn’t returned to the topic.
  — Sarah McBride, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Nov. 2022
• First up: a grant program to help restaurants augment sidewalks and off-street parking lots for service, like buying furniture, fans or sun shields.
  — Ian McNulty, NOLA.com, 7 Aug. 2020
• The purpose of decision-making technology is to augment humans, not replace them.
  — Guy Yehiav, Forbes, 9 Aug. 2022
• Individuals have entered the stock market to augment income lost due to the pandemic and to compensate for low interest rates on savings accounts.
  — Naeem Aslam, Forbes, 25 June 2021
• Time will indeed tell if and how the company will be able to leverage this technology to augment healthcare in a safe, secure, and patient-centric manner.
  — Forbes, 31 Oct. 2021
• Contrary to popular belief, this suggests that the future of work will see technology augment workers, rather than replace them.
  — Bob Weinstein, Chron, 24 Oct. 2020
• Functional images augment written text to help viewers understand a concept.
  — Olga V. MacK, Forbes, 6 May 2022
• But, in important areas of policy, his plans mirror or augment those of the EU, rather than undercut them.
  — Jason Douglas, WSJ, 28 Dec. 2020
• These of course augment all other highly relevant leadership principles published through time.
  — Peter Weedfald, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2021
• Last year, researchers began a pioneering clinical trial, and more are on the way, bringing us closer to a world where blood factories augment supplies.
  — Anne Michaud, WSJ, 5 Sep. 2020
• There will be presentation elements added to augment the M-Factors effect on the game and situation.
  — Brian Mazique, Forbes, 17 June 2021
• Use your existing staff to augment, not replace, other training and onboarding procedures.
  — Daisy Cabral, Forbes, 9 Apr. 2021
• Apple has increasingly relied on services to augment hardware sales in an environment in which device upgrades have become pricier and less frequent.
  — Arkansas Online, 25 Oct. 2022
• This ability to enable, to augment, and to generate is technology’s real promise.
  — Rida Qadri, Wired, 20 Feb. 2022

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024