How to Use prioritize in a Sentence

prioritize

verb

• The town council hopes to prioritize the bridge construction project at the next meeting.
• If you want to do your job efficiently, you have to learn to prioritize.
• It's always difficult to prioritize work, school, and family.
• Make the choice that prioritizes your dog's comfort and health.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 24 May 2023
• The milk bank must prioritize who will be served, Virmani said.
  — Campbell Roper, arkansasonline.com, 18 Dec. 2023
• Here is one way to think about how to prioritize your payments: Take care of basic needs first.
  — Jeanne Sahadi, CNN, 6 June 2023
• For This is a very stylish couch and would be ideal for those who prioritize design.
  — Eden Lichterman, Peoplemag, 27 Sep. 2023
• The park gives out free ice water and prioritizes shade structures and mister fans.
  — Aaron Gettinger, Arkansas Online, 21 Oct. 2023
• Baseball fans point to the Texas Rangers as an example that prioritizing heart over data can lead to big wins – and more joy.
  — Camilo Fonseca, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Nov. 2023
• Twitter’s new owner, Elon Musk, bought the platform to prioritize free speech.
  — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 29 Aug. 2023
• No two fins are quite alike, as some prioritize comfort and agility while others are fine tuned for power and speed.
  — Chantae Reden, Popular Mechanics, 15 June 2023
• The truth is that Khan has few friends in the West after prioritizing relations with Russia and China.
  — Charlie Campbell, TIME, 17 Jan. 2024
• This time around, the mill has been tuned to prioritize drivability over power.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 15 Feb. 2024
• But preserving the past should not be prioritized over building the future, and those UDC students are our future.
  — Theresa Vargas, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2023
• School officials have identified and prioritized over $1 billion of repairs and upgrades needed in schools across the city, about half of which are in the newer part of the city.
  — East Bay Times Editorial, The Mercury News, 28 Feb. 2024
• The province will prioritize power to households at night.
  — Nguyen Xuan Quynh, Bloomberg.com, 6 June 2023
• But with skin streaming on the rise, prioritizing a bouncy, plumping serum that really works should be on your 2024 goals list.
  — India Espy-Jones, Essence, 10 Jan. 2024
• Instead, California has prioritized in-state wind and solar farms, bowing to the will of labor unions that want those jobs.
  — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2024
• The company is prioritizing stores that have a high volume of cold drink orders, therefore many stores will not implement the change this year.
  — Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 26 Oct. 2023
• One way to do this is by delegating tasks and prioritizing only the most important for your own list.
  — Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone, 21 June 2023
• For too long, these facilities have prioritized profits over the well-being of our children.
  — William Thornton | [e-mail], al, 31 Aug. 2023
• Go back to your coping mechanisms and prioritize your mental health.
  — Kells McPhillips, Fortune Well, 11 Sep. 2023
• The program prioritizes quality of shopping over quantity, according to the company, as more than 80% of Shipt’s shoppers choose to work less than 10 hours a week with the shopping app.
  — William Thornton | [e-mail], al, 27 July 2023
• Each of the resulting spaces, which opened between last fall and this spring, is distinct, but all of them prioritize organic materials such as wood and stone.
  — Austa Somvichian-Clausen, Robb Report, 9 July 2023
• When alerted, users can choose whether to enable Rest Mode or lower their daily activity goal to prioritize rest.
  — Victoria Song, The Verge, 3 Apr. 2024
• The Tennessee native had no shortage of stories to share through the genre, but lacked the agency to tell them: Husband Ike Turner steered her toward covers that didn’t prioritize her own narrative.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 14 Feb. 2024
• The robot includes features for user setups, like the ability to pause and then pick up a cleaning task and prioritize different areas to clean based on criteria like the time of day, Dalal told TechCrunch.
  — Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 3 Nov. 2023
• Know your plants, and prioritize Most perennial flowers can last a few weeks in a drought, especially those derived from native Kentucky plants, Durham said.
  — Connor Giffin, The Courier-Journal, 9 June 2023
• This prioritized using the main gun against enemy tanks, while trucks, infantry, and other unarmored targets would be engaged by the tank’s machine guns.
  — Popular Mechanics, 17 Aug. 2023
• For an inexpensive price, this towel is a great choice for those prioritizing softness and texture.
  — L.a. Hubilla, Peoplemag, 30 May 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024