How to Use impacted in a Sentence

impacted

adjective
  • But the impacted trade area could be wider in the event of conflict.
    Bloomberg.com, 11 Aug. 2017
  • But, as with police forces all over the impacted areas, the one in her area was deluged with calls.
    Paul P. Murphy, CNN, 11 Sep. 2017
  • The bulk of the oil was sucked up with a vacuum truck, Langley said, and the impacted soil was removed.
    Sara Sneath, NOLA.com, 27 Mar. 2018
  • Just for giggles, take a white piece of paper, hold it under an impacted branch and shake it — the branch, not the paper.
    Jeff Lowenfels, Alaska Dispatch News, 22 Sep. 2017
  • The map shows the impacted area of Balboa Street running from about 4th Avenue through 10th Avenue.
    Lauren Hernández, SFChronicle.com, 8 Oct. 2019
  • The impacted track returned to full, normal service at 4:27 p.m., Trost said.
    Lauren Hernández, SFChronicle.com, 26 Sep. 2019
  • Conred spokesman David de Leon said Wednesday that rescuers are headed back into the impacted area.
    Fox News, 13 June 2018
  • Plans for the raids in June drew widespread scorn among immigration rights advocates and mayors in the impacted cities.
    Loyd Brumfield, Dallas News, 11 July 2019
  • Keellings said the group is looking in particular at the size of the heat events, and how large the impacted area is, as well as the geographic factors that contribute to heat waves.
    Dennis Pillion | Dpillion@al.com, al, 26 Aug. 2019
  • The weather impacted events throughout the Kansas City region.
    Bryan Lowry, kansascity, 5 Aug. 2017
  • Wells plans to pay out an additional $7 million in refunds to the impacted customers.
    Ken Sweet, The Seattle Times, 31 Aug. 2017
  • China far and away is the most impacted market, but the disease is rapidly spreading to neighboring countries.
    Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 22 Aug. 2019
  • Over the years, however, NASA cut the small and extra-small suits, and because women tend to be smaller than men, the change mostly impacted women astronauts.
    National Geographic, 18 Oct. 2019
  • The air tests are planned for this week and mobile classrooms will be used until repairs on the impacted areas are completely finished, Bennett said.
    Emily K. Coleman, Lake County News-Sun, 30 July 2017
  • Friday's snowfall, which blanketed the area with more than a foot of snow, not only closed schools but also impacted area businesses.
    David Sharos, Aurora Beacon-News, 10 Feb. 2018
  • At least Microsoft can afford to pay off its impacted customers.
    Brian Barrett, WIRED, 30 June 2019
  • His work has fundamentally impacted peoples’ lives for the last 40 years.
    Lisa Deaderick, sandiegouniontribune.com, 14 June 2018
  • The collision, which occurred Friday morning around 8:50 a.m. on the Winchester line, impacted service for about an hour.
    Emily Deruy, The Mercury News, 19 July 2019
  • That’s particularly apparent at the shorter end of the curve, with two- and five-year rates more impacted than 10-year securities.
    Fortune, 9 Sep. 2019
  • As Arizona's #RedForEd teacher walkout enters its fourth day, more than two-thirds of the state's public-school students remain impacted by school closures.
    Ricardo Cano, azcentral, 1 May 2018
  • In North Carolina, for example, a plan to put power lines underground was dropped because utility rates in the impacted area would have risen by 125 percent.
    Kendra Atleework, The Atlantic, 25 May 2018
  • American Airlines has also added reduced, last-minute fares for impacted cities.
    Sara M Moniuszko, USA TODAY, 30 Aug. 2019
  • Just seeing their family members, the ones that are protective and strong for them, becoming weak and impacted and not being able to come up with any solutions or help the family.
    Rochelle Riley, Freep.com, 13 Dec. 2019
  • Most notable for travelers is how these closures are translating to capitals of the impacted regions, Milan and Venice.
    Megan Spurrell, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Mar. 2020
  • At a hazardous materials spills, a drone could be sent up to survey the situation prior to any firefighters being sent into the impacted area, Schmidt said.
    Mike Danahey, Elgin Courier-News, 2 June 2017
  • As a result, Google is informing all affected clients to change impacted passwords and will reset any that aren’t manually changed.
    Michael Simon, PCWorld, 22 May 2019
  • New chemical analysis of animal-fat residue in broken pottery has now given us a clearer look at how changes in the North Atlantic impacted life at Çatalhöyük.
    Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 13 Aug. 2018
  • Friday is a good day to consider public transportation, particularly for those coming from north of the impacted area on I-85.
    Ajc Homepage, ajc, 27 Apr. 2017
  • Reith said ammunition stored inside the impacted apartment did ignite and rounds began to fire as crews worked inside.
    Justin L. MacK, Indianapolis Star, 30 Apr. 2017
  • The Smithsonian will notify ticket holders and those registered for the impacted events of the cancelations, rescheduling opportunities and the refund process.
    Nadine Daher, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Mar. 2020

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