How to Use decommission in a Sentence

decommission

verb

• The government is decommissioning the nuclear power plant.
• Several military bases are scheduled to be decommissioned.
• More:After Wisconsin dams failed in a massive storm, 23 could be decommissioned.
  — Madeline Heim, Journal Sentinel, 10 Oct. 2024
• Rather than being decommissioned, these vehicles are finding a new life with the Ukrainian military, who will use them to strengthen their defenses.
  — Vikram Mittal, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
• Once the Cold War thawed in the early 1990s, most of the bunkers were decommissioned.
  — Adam Williams, New Atlas, 24 July 2024
• The Barnegat light ship was decommissioned in March 1967.
  — Kate King, WSJ, 17 May 2018
• The Ohio fleet will be decommissioned at a rate of one vessel per year from 2027.
  — David Brennan, Newsweek, 13 Mar. 2018
• This isn’t the first time a space station has been decommissioned.
  — Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 July 2024
• But, in 1943, the band was decommissioned for the first of many times, only to be re-organized again.
  — Steve Smith, courant.com, 3 July 2019
• Plans to decommission the third ship of the class, the Fort Worth, and the fourth, the Coronado, were nixed by Congress in this year’s budget.
  — Andrew Dyer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 May 2021
• The first two would be submarines to be decommissioned from U.S. Navy service and third would be new.
  — Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 26 May 2024
• Both steamships were decommissioned in 1991, two years before the park closed.
  — Elissa Robinson, Detroit Free Press, 15 Aug. 2024
• Its main foothold is as an enabling partner on the ISS, which is set to be decommissioned by 2031.
  — Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 13 June 2024
• But 19 boats will be decommissioned in the coming years.
  — Lisa Hagen, Hartford Courant, 18 June 2024
• The bridge was decommissioned and deeded to Hammond in 1987.
  — Craig Lyons, Post-Tribune, 3 Nov. 2017
• The platform was recently decommissioned and the deck and topside were brought back to shore.
  — Sara Sneath, NOLA.com, 15 Feb. 2018
• That’s because the equipment would need to be decommissioned and re-certified in the span of just a couple months.
  — Jakob Rodgers, The Mercury News, 14 May 2024
• The company has promised to decommission the site in eight years, well ahead of the 60 years allowed by federal rules.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 27 Sep. 2019
• As that ship was decommissioned in 1997, the strategy has since changed.
  — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 4 Feb. 2019
• The issue took on added urgency over the last year as the equipment used to count votes was planned to be decommissioned after 2018.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 May 2018
• There are 8.4 million people living with a 50-mile radius of the plant, which is in the process of being decommissioned.
  — Rob Nikolewski, sandiegouniontribune.com, 28 June 2017
• Eleven coal power plants in the state are set to be decommissioned or converted to natural gas in the next 15 years.
  — Kirk Siegler, NPR, 28 Mar. 2024
• Decades after it was decommissioned, no one is threatening to tear down the crane.
  — Peter Hartlaub, SFChronicle.com, 8 Jan. 2020
• The cruiser Philadelphia was decommissioned in 1951, and the brothers did their best to move on with their lives.
  — John Ismay, New York Times, 16 June 2023
• This led to the NSF making the decision to decommission the telescope after 57 years.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 1 Dec. 2020
• The problem is, in the past couple years, the department has only decommissioned 25 or so hoses.
  — Karina Bland, azcentral, 23 May 2018
• The 35 employees will stay to help start decommissioning the plant.
  — Judith Kohler, The Denver Post, 21 Sep. 2019
• Roberts was back in action until decommissioned in 2015 (though that could change).
  — David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 21 June 2017
• As Moore notes, the U.S. Navy tends to decommission warships that go on to serve in foreign navies for up to another twenty years.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 22 June 2018
• The service, which has pledged to increase the size of the fleet for years, will decommission a total of 39 ships next year, including 23 from the battle fleet roster.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 22 Aug. 2022

Last Updated: 11 Dec 2024