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How to use facilitate in a sentence

40 example sentences · verb

Facilitate means to make easy or easier. Example: “The buyers attempted to corner the shares of the railroad stock, so as to facilitate their buyout.”

Examples of facilitate by meaning

verbTo make easy or easier.

  • The flatness of the landscape facilitates views right across the Firth of Forth to Fife, before the railway begins to pierce the Edinburgh suburbs.2022 November 30, Paul Bigland, “Destination Oban: a Sunday in Scotland”, in RAIL, number 971, page 75

More sentences with facilitate

  • The buyers attempted to corner the shares of the railroad stock, so as to facilitate their buyout.From the entry corner
  • Material with low excavatability may require blasting or the use of percussion hammers to facilitate excavation.From the entry excavatability
  • Magazines kept aristocrats on the payroll to facilitate access to jet-set playgrounds like Corfu and Mustique.2025 June 27, Michael M. Grynbaum, “The Concorde-and-Caviar Era of Condé Nast, When Magazines Ruled the Earth”, in The New York Times…. From the entry payroll
  • Participants emphasized the importance of their social network in facilitating their strength training experiences.2025 August 20, Ashlyn Barry, Justin A. Haegele, Daniel Schaefer, Kristen A. Pickett, Luis Columna, “Autistic Young Adults’ Experiences…. From the entry informal
  • Insects like grasshoppers use a specialized structure called the furca to facilitate jumping.2025 January 12, David Grimaldi, “Which Insects Move By Jumping?”, in Entomology Club, archived from the original on 06 Jun 2025. From the entry furca
  • The examiner should basculate the transducer caudally in approximately 45° to facilitate the bladder visualisation.2021, Mansoor Khan, David Nott, Fundamentals of Frontline Surgery. From the entry basculate
  • This pseudothumb receives attachments from muscles that facilitate abduction, adduction, and opposition, which together facilitate dexterity.2021, Jonathan Bard, Evolution: The Origins and Mechanisms of Diversity, page 257. From the entry pseudothumb
  • Therefore, arguably, the existence of NPEs helps facilitate and regulate supply and demand.2019, Ben Depoorter, Peter Menell, David Schwartz, editors, Research Handbook on the Economics of Intellectual Property Law, Edward Elgar…. From the entry NPE
  • Unionization (lipid solubility) facilitates absorption whereas ionization (water solubility) facilitates excretion of drug.2018, Ranjan Kumar Patel, Conceptual Review of Pharmacology: 3rd Edition, page 2. From the entry unionization
  • To have our grief colonized to facilitate a racist political agenda was beyond offensive.2017 June 13, One Year After Pulse, Don't You Dare Come for Any of Us (Lambda Legal). From the entry colonize
  • The Chatham House Rule is used to help facilitate free speech and confidentiality at meetings.2014, Louise Corti, Veerle Van den Eynden, Libby Bishop, Matthew Woollard, Managing and Sharing Research Data: A Guide to Good Practice…. From the entry Chatham House Rule
  • Nanojoining facilitates the assembly of nano-sized building blocks to form practical products.2014 March 13, Xiaoying Qi, Tey Ju Nie, Ho Xinning, “Process of Nanojoining”, in Handbook of Manufacturing Engineering and Technology…. From the entry nanojoining
  • Jacobi symbols can be used to facilitate the calculation of Legendre symbols.2013, Song Y. Yan, Number Theory for Computing, Springer, page 149. From the entry Legendre symbol
  • A stamped addressed envelope or a freepost number can be used to facilitate return.2013, Robin Flowerdew, David M. Martin, Methods in Human Geography. From the entry freepost
  • The main aim was to facilitate and effectivate information retrieval and update in all the institutions concerned.2013, R. R. O'Moore, B. Barber, P. L. Reichertz, Medical Informatics Europe 82. From the entry effectivate
  • "The link with the Internet disrupts the concentration that the paper book facilitates."2013, Joost Kircz et al., The Unbound Book. From the entry paper book
  • In addition to muck cars, various special cars must be provided to facilitate the work.2012, Thomas R. Kuesel, Elwyn H. King, John O. Bickel, Tunnel Engineering Handbook, page 236. From the entry man-haul
  • Producers recognize this phenomenon, and they facilitate it with crazier, more dramatic content.2011, Cole Stryker, Epic Win for Anonymous: How 4chan's Army Conquered the Web, New York, N.Y.; London: Overlook Duckworth, →ISBN, page 164. From the entry microceleb
  • A long-handled mopholder fitted with a coarse carriage sponge will facilitate the cleaning of the latter.2009, Various, The Complete Home, →ISBN. From the entry mopholder
  • Deglutition is facilitated by the secretion of saliva and mucus and involves the mouth, pharynx, and esophagus.2008, Gerard J. Tortora, Bryan Derrickson, “The Digestive System”, in Principles of Anatomy and Physiology, 12th edition, Hoboken, N.J.…. From the entry deglutition
  • A gauze pad taped to the upper lip facilitates management of small amounts of mucosanguineous rhinorrhea.2008, Eugene N. Myers, Operative Otolaryngology: Head and Neck Surgery, second edition, volume I. From the entry mucosanguineous
  • For example, a company may want to study the shopping preferences of each customer to facilitate upsales.2007, Ting Yu, Sushil Jajodia, Secure Data Management in Decentralized Systems, page 354. From the entry upsale
  • The overlapping governance networks of panarchy have facilitated a context conducive to the above competing multilateralisms.2006, W.A. Knight, “Plurilateral Multilateralism: Canada's Emerging International Policy?”, in Andrew F. Cooper, Dane Rowlands, editors…. From the entry panarchy
  • Three semesters can be fitted into one academic year and thereby facilitate two-year degree programmes.2006, Dorothy Moss, Gender, Space and Time: Women and Higher Education, Lexington, →ISBN, page 158. From the entry semesterisation
  • This putative SC phenotype may facilitate the identification and isolation of limbal epithelial SCs.2004 May, Zhuo Chen, Cintia S. de Paiva, Lihui Luo, Francis L. Kretzer, Stephen C. Pflugfelder, “Characterization of Putative Stem Cell…. From the entry sc
  • This process facilitates the construction of a more comprehensive and coherent account of the client's self-story.2004, Hubert J.M. Hermans, Giancarlo Dimaggio, The Dialogical Self in Psychotherapy, page 79. From the entry self-story
  • Caissons were enclosed dry chambers built on river beds to facilitate the construction of bridge piers.2003, Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, BCA, page 213. From the entry caisson
  • The scale and lack of focused content doesn't facilitate this grouping as well as some other games.2003, George, “Finding groups to mission/hunt/other experience with”, in alt.games.starwarsgalaxies (Usenet). From the entry zerg
  • The resulting concentrated fermentation broth facilitates the isolation and purification of erythritol.2001, Milda E. Embuscado, Sakharam K. Patil, “13: Erythritol”, in Lyn O'Brien-Nabors, editor, Alternative Sweeteners, 3rd edition, Marcel…. From the entry erythritol
  • The candler also offers his knowledge of various frictives and lotions that enhance and facilitate successful fornication.2000, Robert Brunner, Letters from Martin: Summer, 1252 A.D. From the entry frictive
  • In addition to facilitating identification, status symbols have two other functions.1995, Larry C. Ingram, “What’s in a Name? The Significance of Position”, in The Study of Organizations: Positions, Persons, and Patterns…. From the entry status symbol
  • Modern technology greatly facilitates the recall and display of material held centrally.1992 November 26, Lord Griffiths [Hugh Griffiths, Baron Griffiths] (judge of the House of Lords), “Pepper (Inspector of Taxes) ……. From the entry Hansard
  • To facilitate the process of the suction of the fetus, the "humanicides" invented a new technique.1992, The Womb Becomes a Tomb: Are We Sacrificing to Moloch?, page 17. From the entry humanicide
  • Production of heterogeneous sclerotia may facilitate hybridization of strains during subsequent ascogeny.1992, Microbiology Abstracts, page 43. From the entry ascogeny
  • Later called "pods," these groups of eight to ten people are facilitated by two convenors.1988 February 7, Marea Murray, “Battles Joined: Oddysey of a Lesbian AIDS Activist”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 29, page 9. From the entry convenor
  • Warm-water eddies are downwells and cold-water eddies facilitate vertical mixing rather than induce upwelling.1986, Sea Frontiers, Sea Secrets - Volume 32, page 309. From the entry downwell
  • The construction of plasmids which facilitate the study of interplasmidic and intraplasmidic recombination is described.1981, A Laban, “Interplasmidic and intraplasmidic recombination in Escherichia coli K-12”, in Molecular and General Genetics. From the entry interplasmidic
  • Second, the short distance between the county seat and enterprise location facilitates transportation.1977, Jon Sigurdson, “Notes”, in Rural Industrialization in China, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 242. From the entry Chiating
  • This facilitates measuring repetitive pulse waveforms where a portion of the signal is overrange.1972, United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Technology Utilization Division, NASA Tech Brief - Issues 10600-10756…. From the entry overrange

Meaning of facilitate

  1. verb To make easy or easier.
  2. verb To help bring about.
  3. verb To preside over (a meeting, a seminar).

Full definition of facilitate

Questions about facilitate in a sentence

How do you use facilitate in a sentence?
Facilitate is used as a verb. For example: “The buyers attempted to corner the shares of the railroad stock, so as to facilitate their buyout.”
What is a short sentence with facilitate?
“In addition to facilitating identification, status symbols have two other functions.”
What does facilitate mean?
Facilitate means to make easy or easier.

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