How to Use operation in a Sentence
operation
noun- The family runs a small farming operation.
- The company is a billion-dollar operation.
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Same goes for the red zone operation on both sides of the ball.
— Kelsey Conway, The Enquirer, 25 Nov. 2022 -
The hours of operation for the business would be from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. seven days a week.
— Adrienne Davis, Journal Sentinel, 11 June 2024 -
Stick through the credits to see how the brains behind the operation fare.
— Peter Debruge, Variety, 1 Aug. 2024 -
Chapman has worked on the farm since childhood and took over the operation in 2016.
— Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 6 Dec. 2024 -
And the last of the 130 bakeries in Gaza shut down operations because there is no fuel.
— NBC News, 16 Nov. 2023 -
The shape of a sinus, a filling, an operation from years ago.
— Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2023 -
The operation, which is the 20th since Bass took office, was carried out in Chatsworth.
— Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2023 -
As promised, the restaurant is a no-fuss, no-muss operation.
— Bahar Anooshahr, The Arizona Republic, 18 Jan. 2023 -
While there were a handful of players in the Bling Ring, the face of the operation in the media became Alexis Neiers.
— Ilana Kaplan, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2023 -
The intent is to buy a building to resume the slice operation, the owners said.
— Cheryl V. Jackson, The Indianapolis Star, 28 Feb. 2023 -
The girl was struck in the left shin and was undergoing a five-hour operation.
— Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 3 Jan. 2025 -
The newer Nord Stream 2 pipeline was not yet approved for operation; Germany froze the project in the lead-up to the war in Ukraine.
— Emily Rauhala and Ellen Francis, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Nov. 2022 -
The area was once a dairy and cattle operation but is now a verdant habitat for birds and fish.
— Raymond Zhong Mira Rojanasakul, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2023 -
Yet is is only a part of one force and our force is only one phase of the entire operation.
— Chicago Tribune, 2 June 2024 -
Needless to say, scaling the operation was an issue for the grade-school CEOs.
— Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 23 Nov. 2022 -
There are also operations to change structures in the throat.
— Linda Carroll, NBC News, 6 Apr. 2023 -
In his role, Zito has to have a hand in every part of hockey operations.
— Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 21 May 2024 -
The Relay plant was Guinness’ first brewing operation in the United States since the 1950s.
— Lorraine Mirabella, Baltimore Sun, 3 Apr. 2023 -
The parishes already share a priest as well as some operations.
— Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 21 May 2024 -
The leak could be an attempt to disrupt the Israeli operation.
— Barak Ravid, Axios, 19 Oct. 2024 -
On the morning of October 25, the Chavezes brought MJ to the hospital, where doctors walked them through the operation.
— Brenda Goodman, CNN, 13 Nov. 2022 -
The all-cash operation brought in millions of dollars per year for the company.
— Graham Kates, CBS News, 14 Nov. 2022 -
His warriors are able to stop the operation and kill the officers in charge, along with everyone on board.
— Time, 11 Nov. 2022 -
While the tours are free, the farm does accept cash donations to keep their operation running.
— Symiah Dorsey, Southern Living, 6 Dec. 2024 -
Now the e-commerce operation has scaled to 90 people and has raised a total of $31 million in funding.
— Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 15 Feb. 2023 -
Now in its fourth year of operation, the doorbell usually runs between March and late June.
— Aaron Boorstein, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Apr. 2024 -
It had been trailed by two Soviet ships, with one of them hanging around through most of the recovery operation.
— David Szondy, New Atlas, 4 Jan. 2025 -
Ukrainian and Russian officials confirmed the offensive, but the sides offered varying accounts of the scale and efficiency of the new operation.
— Brad Dress, The Hill, 5 Jan. 2025
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