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.
• It’s expected to be operational before the end of the year.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune Europe, 20 Mar. 2024
• The food crisis comes on top of the operational challenges that are waiting other on the side.
  — Mithil Aggarwal, NBC News, 11 Dec. 2023
• The school was operational until 1971, when the school board decided to close it.
  — Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune, 11 Sep. 2023
• The company now has a limit of fifty operational A.V.s during the day, and a hundred and fifty at night.
  — Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2023
• Kids use the drill to build the recycling truck, which, when completed, has an operational lift arm.
  — Erica Puisis, Parents, 9 Mar. 2024
• The wastewater treatment plant was wrecked and no longer operational.
  — Silvia Foster-Frau, Washington Post, 12 July 2023
• The police department has been understaffed for two years but the city manager hopes the new hire will help keep the city’s jail open and operational.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 13 May 2023
• In 2024, this digital twin of the ocean will become operational.
  — Helen Czerski, WIRED, 10 Jan. 2024
• Many of the wastewater treatment plants are also not operational.
  — Carl Churchill, WSJ, 24 Oct. 2023
• To put it frankly, our president and VP could not care any less about operational minutiae.
  — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2024
• Others, such as Basquiat’s Ferris wheel, are expected to be operational but not fit for guests.
  — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2023
• In her housing area, there are four showers for 40 women, according to Hayes, and just two are operational.
  — Justin Wm. Moyer, Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2023
• The hack ultimately worked, and the spacecraft made it to the lunar surface in operational condition.
  — Jackie Wattles, CNN, 23 Feb. 2024
• Israel however has a total of six crossings into Gaza, some of which haven’t been operational for over a decade.
  — Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 18 Mar. 2024
• Half of the company’s fiber optic internet lines in Gaza weren’t operational, the update says.
  — WIRED, 27 Oct. 2023
• The delays have pushed back by a year a key flight test designed to demonstrate the radar is operational to sometime from July to Sept. 30 — or about when the system is supposed to be delivered.
  — Anthony Capaccio, Bloomberg.com, 18 May 2023
• The building had previously failed a fire inspection, but the district said that the alarm system was still operational.
  — Asia Fields, ProPublica, 15 Dec. 2023
• Plans to make the barge operational were delayed several weeks by fire-safety concerns.
  — Stephen Castle, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Aug. 2023
• Well, they will be dispersed as operational needs require.
  — CBS News, 7 May 2023
• NorthLink plans for the jumbo-jet parking spots to be operational by October 2024.
  — Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Aug. 2023
• But the border gate, until Wednesday, was not operational.
  — Joanna Slater, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2023
• The clinic plans to open a satellite clinic soon at the Civic Center in Lahaina, which will be fully operational, including X-rays and surgeries.
  — Itzel Luna, USA TODAY, 16 Aug. 2023
• The live feeds below were operational as of Tuesday afternoon.
  — Leigh Morgan, al, 29 Aug. 2023
• The top of the box will also remain open so that US Magnesium can continue to deposit waste in the lagoon so long as the company remains operational.
  — Emma Penrod, The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Aug. 2023
• If it is deployed and operational in Ukraine, chances are that Metinvest has either copied it, or is in the process of doing so, inside the small hangar that sits, tucked away, on the edge of a vast industrial site in central Ukraine.
  — Melissa Bell, CNN, 11 Sep. 2023
• In fact, the Orion plant, which is being refurbished for electric trucks, won’t be operational until 2025, as the company tries to figure out how to make them at a lower cost.
  — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 15 Dec. 2023
• The officials would not say where the drones are flying out of, citing operational security.
  — NBC News, 3 Nov. 2023
• The interesting thing about all three of these credits is that the dramatic fall in the value of their bonds was not driven by any major operational issues at any of the companies.
  — Steven Desmyter, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024