How to Use divest in a Sentence

divest

verb

• We may have to divest assets to raise capital.
• The company is divesting 8 of its 20 stores.
• The Gatorland board and McHugh divested from the farm in 1998.
  — Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 18 Aug. 2024
• What’s the deal with straight men divesting from the discourse?
  — Hazlitt, 9 Aug. 2022
• Back in 2006, one attendee at the AGM called on the company to divest the club.
  — Tim Loh / Bloomberg, TIME, 17 May 2024
• Why would Kroger buy and then divest so many stores in Arizona?
  — Russ Wiles, The Arizona Republic, 12 July 2024
• Do their shifts make the time right to divest non-core businesses?
  — Kristen Groh, Quartz, 10 Nov. 2022
• At one point, the state tried to divest the park in 1992 to save on rent, and Wilfert ended up leasing the land and running it himself.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 6 Sep. 2021
• Comcast is on track to divest its one-third stake in the latter, which is controlled by Disney, in 2024.
  — Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Aug. 2022
• Under the law, TikTok has roughly nine months to divest from ByteDance.
  — Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 May 2024
• The city bought the property when Gaston was in the process of divesting his business empire.
  — Joseph D. Bryant | [e-mail], al, 26 June 2023
• The suit seeks to break up Google's ad business, forcing the company to divest from key ad products.
  — Arkansas Online, 25 Jan. 2023
• In June, 7-Eleven and Marathon reached an agreement with the commission to divest hundreds of stores as part of a settlement.
  — Dom Difurio, Dallas News, 28 Sep. 2021
• The protesters asked the university to divest from Israel and call for a cease-fire.
  — Ahmed Ali Akbar, Chicago Tribune, 5 May 2024
• The two of them had harbored vague desires since the beginning of Buy Nothing to divest themselves of Facebook.
  — WIRED, 23 Feb. 2023
• Mind you, this is the same company that is being pushed by the US government to divest or risk getting kicked out of the country.
  — Mia Sato, The Verge, 1 Aug. 2024
• In 1986, the U.S. joined other of South Africa’s trade partners in passing sanctions, and the movement to divest and boycott the country’s goods and services spread.
  — Sheelah Kolhatkar, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2022
• But divesting from the World’s Factory comes with concessions that many aren’t yet willing to make, the group has learned.
  — Kate Nishimura, Sourcing Journal, 4 Sep. 2024
• Pension funds would have to divest from fossil fuels by 2035.
  — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 1 Sep. 2021
• The store was divested in 2015 by Albertsons in a merger with Safeway.
  — Samantha Gowen, Orange County Register, 1 Mar. 2024
• Heineken said such hurdles had delayed its efforts to divest.
  — Liz Alderman, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2023
• Forcing TikTok to divest from its Chinese owner is a good first step.
  — Chris Roemer, Baltimore Sun, 29 June 2024
• Beane would have to divest his share of A’s ownership but the trade off would be working for an owner with a willingness to spend money.
  — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Oct. 2021
• Barretts, which has two mines in Montana, was divested by Pfizer in 1992.
  — Becky Yerak, WSJ, 2 Oct. 2023
• Illumina will divest Grail by the end of this year’s second quarter.
  — Natallie Rocha, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Feb. 2024
• About 74% of investors surveyed are now more likely to divest from companies with poor ESG track records.
  — Lee Clifford, Fortune, 4 Nov. 2021
• Both studios could fully divest the network over time, sources say.
  — Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Aug. 2022
• The companies’ haven’t said which 13 Idaho stores would be divested.
  — David Staats, Idaho Statesman, 22 Feb. 2024
• In June, for instance, Klarna agreed to divest its Checkout payments business for about $520 million.
  — Michael Del Castillo, Fortune Europe, 11 Oct. 2024
• Pressure had been mounting on the consumer giant, parent of brands including Dove, Vaseline and Hellmann’s, to pull out of the region entirely, but Unilever always argued that any move to divest its interests would be complicated.
  — Samantha Conti, WWD, 10 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024