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How to use participate in a sentence

40 example sentences · verb, adjective

Participate means to join in, to take part, to involve oneself (in something). Example: “Her harsh words might turn them off from participating any further.”

Examples of participate by meaning

verbTo join in, to take part, to involve oneself (in something).

  • For the second year, foreign amateur runners were allowed to participate in a 10-kilometer race, a half-marathon or a full marathon in Pyongyang, the capital.2015 April 16, Jeré Longman, “At Marathon in North Korea, Curiosity Goes a Long Way”, in The New York Times

More sentences with participate

  • Her harsh words might turn them off from participating any further.From the entry turn off
  • This is to acknowledge your kind invitation to participate in the upcoming debate.From the entry acknowledge
  • I tried to participate in a sports tournament, but got steamrolled by the better players there.From the entry steamroll
  • They drew in the quiet boy who hadn't wanted to participate.From the entry draw in
  • Following months of conversation on the Internet, the man was ready to participate in active radicalization.From the entry active radicalization
  • Alex participated in cheer all four years of college.From the entry cheer
  • She's too quarrelsome to participate in a civil conversation.From the entry quarrelsome
  • The school has announced that it will take disciplinary measures against the students who participated in the protest activities.From the entry disciplinary
  • Maturely, she simply declined to participate in the ceremony.From the entry maturely
  • They decided to stop arguing over which spelling was correct after she began glaring murderously at each person who participated.From the entry murderously
  • Nonvoting members of the association, in addition to not having their vote counted, also cannot participate in debates on motions.From the entry nonvoting
  • Sani Araby said the vessels participating in the GSF 2.0 mission began being intercepted at 3 pm Malaysian time.From the entry GSF
  • As for Singos, Steup thinks that Thucydides' description of the anoikism prevents one from assuming that this town participated in it.From the entry anoikism
  • Many Eastern countries experience auto-Orientalism, by which their people participate in existing Western exaggerations and fantasies concerning their culture and customs.From the entry auto-Orientalism
  • They claim that a party has the right to participate fully in political life even if it is avowedly and openly liberticidal.From the entry liberticidal
  • The new language reads: “The USOPC is committed to protecting opportunities for athletes participating in sport.2025 July 22, Kevin Dotson, “US Olympic and Paralympic Committee says it will comply with Trump’s order banning transgender athletes from…. From the entry IPC
  • Last spring I organised a race for birdwatchers in Jenin, and we had 21 Palestinians participating.2024 June 6, Marta Vidal, quoting Saed Shomaly, “‘Sometimes I wonder if I’ll come back’: Palestinian birdwatchers defy danger to scan the…. From the entry galilee
  • Participating pooches must be between 12-20 weeks old at the time of taping.2023 January 27, Patrick Connolly, “Meet the Orlando rescue dogs playing in Puppy Bowl XIX”, in Orlando Sentinel. From the entry corgi
  • Another is a Bloomberg project we're participating in that looks beyond petrochemicals.2023 September 19, Yessenia Funes, “The Father of Environmental Justice Exposes the Geography of Inequity”, in Scientific American. From the entry petrochemical
  • The principle of civil procedure means that only two parties can participate in the process.2023, Jacek Gordon, English in Law. From the entry assession
  • Young people who had actively participated in the October Revolution had rejected past ideologies and opinions.2023, Alberto Angelini, Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Sergei M. Eisenstein's Work. From the entry opinability
  • As we continue to participate with our ritual, our stories are renewed.2022, Dori S. Koehler, “I Am Disney Bound: Costuming as Psycho-Spiritual Practice”, in Priscilla Hobbs, editor, Interpreting and…. From the entry Disneybound
  • SigEps like junior Richard Lock are excited to participate in this annual tradition to help the community.2022 December 9, Maria Heath, “Sigma Phi Epsilon plans annual "Miracle on 34th Street" event”, in The Times-Delphic, archived from the…. From the entry SigEp
  • Camping is what everybody can participate in regardless of their abilities to survive.2021, Zach Parham, Bushcraft Survival Guide […] , page 9. From the entry bushcraft
  • I was thinking about why so many in the radical left participate in "speedrunning"2021 October 16, Conrad Golden, “I was thinking about why so many in the radical left participate in ‘speedrunning’ […] ”, in Twitter…. From the entry Petersonian
  • While No Nut November was intended for men, there are no rules that bar women from participating.2021 November 1, Kelly Corbett, “No Nut November Is Here! Here's How This Bizarre Abstinence Challenge Started”, in Distractify. From the entry No Nut November
  • Despite their good intentions, family members who participate in OCD rituals help reinforce the problem.2017, Christine Honders, OCD: The Struggle with Obsessions and Compulsions, page 44. From the entry ritual
  • A prolific writer and reccer in Harry Potter fandom, she participates in many communities and fic-festivals.2017 March 2, Francesca Coppa, The Fanfiction Reader: Folk Tales for the Digital Age, University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, page 285. From the entry reccer
  • It is associated with neuroinflammation-related events that participate in pain generation and chronicization.2016 January 6, “Antagonism of the Prokineticin System Prevents and Reverses Allodynia and Inflammation in a Mouse Model of Diabetes”, in…. From the entry chronicization
  • It participates in the regulation of SCF complex deactivation by the deneddylation of cullin.2016 January 30, “Characterization of SCF-Complex during Bovine Preimplantation Development”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry deneddylation
  • In contrast, people participating onymously are willing to share their real identity (full name, occupation, e-mail, etc.).2016, Serkan Şendağ, Sacip Toker, “Factors Affecting Participation of Preservice Teachers in E-Democracy”, in Journal of Educational…. From the entry onymously
  • People who buy the tails and participate in the culture aren’t just fascinated by mermaids.2016 September 1, Taylor Prewitt, Sarah Teveldal, “One Nation, Under Water: Mermaids of Texas”, in Tribeza. From the entry mermaidism
  • Anyone found participating in, or even attending, flapping races is liable to be warned off.2016, Gerald Hammond, The Language of Horse Racing, page 81. From the entry warn off
  • Petersburg International Forum and will participate via its most senior Russian executives,” Orbe said.2014 May 2, Mark Thompson and Aaron Smith, “U.S. presses CEOs to skip Russia’s Davos”, in CNN Business. From the entry St. Petersburg
  • Rube Mathis and Jack Wells, both admitted to participating, and Mathis identified his brother.2013, Bruce Crow, A Land of Strangers: Cane Creek Tennessee's Mormon Massacre and its Tragic Effects on the People Who Lived There. From the entry secondhand
  • The well-actually crowd wants as much as everyone else to participate in the conversation.2011 February 7, Miguel de Icaza, “Well, Actually”, in tirania.org. From the entry well actually
  • Though it was difficult to determine how many people participated, clearly geocaching was exploding in popularity.2010, Doug Ohman, Chris Niskanen, Prairie, Lake, Forest: Minnesota's State Parks, page 104. From the entry geocaching
  • She had also participated with the derivement of certain laws to make the world a safer place.2010, Pastor Edwards, Beef Up My What?, page 42. From the entry derivement
  • You can participate as a crowdsourcer or use them to improve your own practice.2010, David E. Marcinko, Hope Rachel Hetico, The Business of Medical Practice, page 313. From the entry crowdsourcer

Meaning of participate

  1. verb To join in, to take part, to involve oneself (in something).
  2. verb To share, to take part in (something).
  3. verb To share (something) with others; to transfer (something) to or unto others.

Full definition of participate

Questions about participate in a sentence

How do you use participate in a sentence?
Participate is used as a verb and adjective. For example: “Her harsh words might turn them off from participating any further.”
What is a short sentence with participate?
“Alex participated in cheer all four years of college.”
What does participate mean?
Participate means to join in, to take part, to involve oneself (in something).

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Adapted from Wiktionary: participate (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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