How to Use divest in a Sentence

divest

verb

• We may have to divest assets to raise capital.
• The company is divesting 8 of its 20 stores.
• What’s the deal with straight men divesting from the discourse?
  — Hazlitt, 9 Aug. 2022
• Do their shifts make the time right to divest non-core businesses?
  — Kristen Groh, Quartz, 10 Nov. 2022
• Comcast is on track to divest its one-third stake in the latter, which is controlled by Disney, in 2024.
  — Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Aug. 2022
• The city bought the property when Gaston was in the process of divesting his business empire.
  — Joseph D. Bryant | [e-mail], al, 26 June 2023
• The suit seeks to break up Google's ad business, forcing the company to divest from key ad products.
  — Arkansas Online, 25 Jan. 2023
• The two of them had harbored vague desires since the beginning of Buy Nothing to divest themselves of Facebook.
  — WIRED, 23 Feb. 2023
• In 1986, the U.S. joined other of South Africa’s trade partners in passing sanctions, and the movement to divest and boycott the country’s goods and services spread.
  — Sheelah Kolhatkar, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2022
• The store was divested in 2015 by Albertsons in a merger with Safeway.
  — Samantha Gowen, Orange County Register, 1 Mar. 2024
• Heineken said such hurdles had delayed its efforts to divest.
  — Liz Alderman, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2023
• Barretts, which has two mines in Montana, was divested by Pfizer in 1992.
  — Becky Yerak, WSJ, 2 Oct. 2023
• Illumina will divest Grail by the end of this year’s second quarter.
  — Natallie Rocha, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Feb. 2024
• Both studios could fully divest the network over time, sources say.
  — Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Aug. 2022
• The companies’ haven’t said which 13 Idaho stores would be divested.
  — David Staats, Idaho Statesman, 22 Feb. 2024
• Griffin said the company has about two years to divest its stake in Arkansas land before the state will force a change in ownership.
  — Neal Earley, Arkansas Online, 18 Oct. 2023
• That law prompted Yee to divest about $143 million of state funds from a popular ice cream company.
  — Ryan Randazzo, The Arizona Republic, 2 Aug. 2022
• Advocates have pushed for the University of California system, one of the largest in the country, to divest from guns for years.
  — Bynadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 27 Jan. 2023
• Companies would have 165 days to divest their apps before being removed from US app stores.
  — Makena Kelly, WIRED, 13 Mar. 2024
• Divest When a practice is not paying off, successful leaders know when and how to divest from it, Alli said.
  — Carmela Chirinos, Fortune, 26 May 2022
• The deal would allow Kroger and Albertsons to divest as many as 650 stores if regulators wanted.
  — Alexander Coolidge, The Enquirer, 15 Jan. 2024
• And if the bill becomes law, the question remains whether an American buyer would step in to save the day (if ByteDance is willing to divest the popular platform).
  — Clare Duffy, CNN, 13 Mar. 2024
• To date, the government has not received any requests from Resorts World Sentosa to divest or change ownership, the spokesperson said.
  — Vinicy Chan, Bloomberg.com, 14 July 2022
• But his recent bets on oil companies are contrarian in a new way, doubling down on fossil fuels when the rest of the world is trying to divest from it.
  — Samanth Subramanian, Quartz, 11 July 2022
• House lawmakers voted overwhelmingly this month to force ByteDance to divest the app, but the Senate has yet to take up the legislation.
  — Tony Romm, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2024
• At Columbia on Friday, hundreds of students gathered around 1 p.m. to encourage the school to divest from Israel and speak out against the killings of Palestinians.
  — Maham Javaid, Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2024
• After some discussion, to the delight of the audience and against the recommendation of city staff, the council voted 4-3 to divest from the four companies.
  — Will McCarthy, The Mercury News, 2 Feb. 2024
• Many of them point to a larger trend: of Hollywood divesting from its own future, making dodgy decisions in the short term that whittle down its chances of long-term survival.
  — Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 30 July 2023
• At odds, thanks to the stockpiles of vibranium rival nations seek to divest them of, the royals disagree on geopolitics but share a sense of anxiety—and anger.
  — Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 11 Nov. 2022
• While these companies would not be forced to divest any expansions would require approval.
  — Katie Bernard, Kansas City Star, 7 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024