How to Use invest in a Sentence

invest

verb
  • That led to me wanting to invest and buy for the last five years.
    Curbed, 23 Jan. 2024
  • Keep your costs low, invest broadly — and stick with it.
    Jeff Sommer, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2023
  • What are the companies investing and what is the money for?
    Laura Johnston, cleveland, 29 Aug. 2023
  • But in 2024, HR leaders seem keen to invest further into AI.
    Paige McGlauflin, Fortune, 15 Dec. 2023
  • Expect to invest between $5 and $15 per package, depending on your location, the store, and the number of bags in the box.
    Karla Walsh, Southern Living, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Over the course of the rest of the 2023 season, star quarterbacks that franchises had invested fortunes in continued to go down and to not get back up again.
    Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 1 Jan. 2024
  • The Corps is investing almost $45 million in the project, with the government of Puerto Rico providing the rest.
    Danica Coto, Fortune, 4 Apr. 2024
  • And so many people have invested money in their restaurants.
    Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2023
  • All this makes employees’ work more valuable, which means Costco can invest more in its people.
    Anna Oakes, Quartz, 6 June 2023
  • While college students may be on a budget, there are certain items worth investing a little more in!
    Isiah Magsino, Town & Country, 3 Aug. 2023
  • The town, located just 30 miles west of Denver, was just named as one of the top 10 best places to invest by property management company Evolve.
    Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 22 Nov. 2023
  • The financial incentives the state gives out to companies to invest here are performance-based.
    Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Disney plans to invest $60 billion in the growth of its parks and experiences over the next 10 years, and surely a chunk of that cash will be needed for new gadgets from Imagineers.
    Marah Eakin, WIRED, 28 Feb. 2024
  • The fund owns roughly 1% of the company and invested $1.2 million into Broadwind.
    Ricardo Torres, Journal Sentinel, 14 June 2023
  • This means identifying the changes farmer partners would make if given the resources and investing support there.
    Danielle Nierenberg, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Granted, maybe investing so much of his power into the One Ring wasn't the best tactical maneuver.
    Marc Bernardin, EW.com, 11 Mar. 2024
  • The rational thing was to invest because the money was available and inexpensive.
    Fortune Editors, Fortune, 7 Feb. 2024
  • Still, amid the sacrifices many are making to ensure there’s a social safety net in the country, there are those with disposable income who can invest.
    Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 5 Apr. 2024
  • The Pistons, coming off a 20-52 season, already had invested heavily in two young guards.
    Andrew Birkle, Detroit Free Press, 20 July 2023
  • The South Carolina senator's campaign has invested heavily in ads in the state.
    Gabriella Abdul-Hakim, ABC News, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Microsoft has invested at least $13 billion into OpenAI, and owns a 49% stake in the company.
    Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 26 Jan. 2024
  • According to Omdia, the major groups in the U.S. still invest more in legacy linear channels than in online programming.
    Liza Foreman, Variety, 22 Oct. 2023
  • However, potentially due to the stakes of the race or the aftermath of Zabel's scandal, Democrats and Republicans both invested big dollars over the seat.
    Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 16 May 2023
  • Among other things, Kit invested his fortune back into his hometown of San Antonio with the development of the Pearl.
    Marlise Kast-Myers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Dec. 2023
  • The revenue won by these players will scale with the popularity of the ETFs; the more money invested and the more frenetic the trading activity, the more there is to be made below deck.
    Joel Khalili, WIRED, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Because the account can be invested and balances rolled over from year to year, many people treat their HSAs as an additional way to save for retirement.
    Liz Pulliam, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Dec. 2023
  • The state has invested millions of dollars to direct more water into the aquifer, especially during wet years.
    Christopher Flavelle, New York Times, 25 Dec. 2023
  • TikTok is investing more than $1.5 billion to take control of an e-commerce business in Indonesia.
    Dave Sebastian, WSJ, 11 Dec. 2023
  • As a result, like many other at-risk places, Japan has invested heavily in disaster-proof buildings and earthquake warning systems over the last few decades.
    Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Jan. 2024
  • And Indonesia’s president has hit the road to encourage companies to invest.
    Lionel Lim, Fortune Asia, 15 Dec. 2023

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