How to Use participatory in a Sentence

participatory

adjective
  • Part of it was the puzzle and the pleasure of the participatory eating process.
    Michael A. Gardiner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Oct. 2022
  • The participatory piece is meant to look like a confession booth like those used by the Catholic Church.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Sep. 2021
  • With this kind of participatory approach the risk is that the output could not be as attractive for the eyes.
    Rica Cerbarano, Vogue, 12 Apr. 2022
  • The state of Ohio has issued a new order about participatory sports and the safeguards that should be in place to combat the spread of coronavirus.
    Matt Goul, cleveland, 25 Sep. 2020
  • Photograph by Steven Pisano And there is dance—and not just the participatory kind that goes on under the disco ball.
    The New Yorker, 28 June 2024
  • Townshend finished the participatory song with an aerial split and a handsome flourish on the guitar, one of his few of the evening.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Aug. 2019
  • This isn’t the first time Tarantino has used his films to take a participatory with history.
    Richard Newby, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 July 2019
  • The participatory-labor model, which has kept prices low, is strictly enforced and anyone who missed a shift had to serve two.
    Anne Quito, Quartz, 15 Apr. 2020
  • The project aims to show city leaders participatory budgeting is a viable option for the city.
    La Risa R. Lynch, Journal Sentinel, 11 July 2024
  • It’s hard to maintain a sense of participatory unity when there are tens of thousands of people posting.
    Nancy Baym, WIRED, 10 July 2018
  • Are there proteges out there to carry the torch for a more participatory democracy?
    Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune, 23 Sep. 2022
  • In time, Portlanders would come to love him for such nutty attempts at participatory journalism -- and for much more.
    oregonlive, 10 Jan. 2022
  • But engaging with the website or clicking through to a chatbot — all those things are participatory and real-time.
    Bryan Bishop, The Verge, 24 May 2018
  • The social media companies that have profited most have done so by selling back to us the promises of the web and participatory culture.
    Tarleton Gillespie, WIRED, 26 June 2018
  • But those who study leadership give high marks to the democratic and more participatory style of many women leaders.
    Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Aug. 2020
  • In this same participatory spirit, Scovel insisted on joining in the solemn ceremony to lower the Spanish flag at the end of the war.
    John Maxwell Hamilton, National Geographic, 16 Apr. 2019
  • The company’s desires are the same ones shared by so many platforms: to snag eyeballs and turn the world into a participatory reality show.
    New York Times, 8 Dec. 2021
  • Karaoke is supposed to be this fun, participatory thing.
    Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 23 Sep. 2021
  • The classic’s participatory races along the race route will be much more accessible.
    Dylan Owens, The Know, 1 Mar. 2017
  • It’s also one of Knowles’s most famous — and vivid — participatory artworks in a long history of making them.
    New York Times, 18 July 2022
  • With only a thin line of water running through most of its course, the river seemed more suited to the filming of drag races or crime dramas than to the re-envisioning of participatory public space.
    Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 21 May 2018
  • Here's what to know about participatory budgeting and what's next.
    La Risa R. Lynch, Journal Sentinel, 10 Mar. 2023
  • The immersive theater concept, which involves the audience and can even be participatory, is a growing one in the theater world.
    Steve Lord, chicagotribune.com, 5 Apr. 2021
  • Alford, who specializes in participatory journalism, was asked to take Zumba classes and write about the then-burgeoning craze for the New York Times in 2011.
    Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 June 2018
  • Join in the participatory dance along the Ohio River to acknowledge the significance of water to the 400+ year trek into and beyond enslavement.
    Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 2 June 2024
  • This form, which came to be called immersive theater, has its origins in the Happenings of the ’60s art world (or even further back, in participatory rituals and street theater).
    New York Times, 9 Feb. 2022
  • But for me, the play would be a participatory experience.
    Giovanni René Rodriguez, Forbes, 28 June 2021
  • The show, however, evolved to be something much more participatory than what that pilot entailed.
    Jim McLauchlin, WIRED, 15 July 2019
  • To Vogt, whose experience is in participatory philanthropy, the process in Salzburg seemed rushed.
    Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2024
  • That participatory knowingness is imbued into the cinematography itself, executed by Paul Faltz on 35mm with a look that alternates between shadowy fear and gauzy fantasy.
    Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2024

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