How to Use validate in a Sentence

validate

verb

• A judge still needs to validate the election.
• The court validated the contract.
• The decline in sales only validated our concerns.
• Customs officers validated our passports.
• Scan your ticket to validate at the kiosk on the first floor near the book checkout counter.
  — Carlos Rico, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Mar. 2023
• But please, please, from the bottom of my heart — do not validate Ryan Reynolds in this way.
  — Benjamin Vanhoose, Peoplemag, 11 Jan. 2023
• What else validates the price of gold and the original CPI method?
  — Bob Haber, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
• The task is not to beat back the anxious feelings but to feel and validate them and then work them into the world.
  — Heather Hansman, Outside Online, 18 June 2022
• But some states go a step further and use their own labs to validate the results.
  — Ryan Randazzo, AZCentral.com, 18 Apr. 2022
• Still, Miller doesn’t need the season-ending award to validate his first year as a pro.
  — Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 7 May 2024
• That’s probably been one of the most validating parts of it for me.
  — Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 28 Oct. 2024
• Sowers, 25, the lacrosse star, seemed to validate this concern.
  — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2022
• Nikki’s kind of a terror and wants to be a rock star so bad to validate him as a human being, right?
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 13 July 2022
• So what’s been validating to me is to see the work come together over that number of years.
  — Seth Combs, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Sep. 2023
• However, Bronny impressed enough in his pre-draft workouts to validate his place in the league in the eyes of some scouts.
  — C.j. Holmes, New York Daily News, 27 June 2024
• One of the threads for me for all those years of listening was that all humans are looking to be validated.
  — Kate Tuttle, Peoplemag, 6 Sep. 2023
• There were so many moments that were really validating in terms of how much the cast loved it.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 20 Nov. 2023
• The 388 names were compiled by the FBI and deemed validated with first and last names, county officials said.
  — Deon J. Hampton, NBC News, 25 Aug. 2023
• For the Chargers, a win would validate the team’s early success in Year 1 of Jim Harbaugh’s tenure.
  — Bennett Conlin, Baltimore Sun, 21 Nov. 2024
• Experts said the killing of al-Zawahri doesn't validate Biden's pullout from Afghanistan.
  — Josh Meyer, USA TODAY, 5 Aug. 2022
• In a way, that instinct was always there—it’s just been validated deeply.
  — Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 21 Oct. 2024
• This was a validating triumph for the Ravens’ front office almost as much as for the players and coaches.
  — Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 1 Jan. 2024
• And now there’s proof, or at least an academic study — from UCLA, no less — that validates what wide receivers have said all along.
  — Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2023
• How, without validating George Orwell’s axiom that the quickest way to end a war is to lose it?
  — George F. Will, Washington Post, 14 June 2024
• But the hope of some immigration activists is that Democrats start to respond in ways that don't validate the attacks.
  — Rick Klein, ABC News, 28 Apr. 2022
• The Riddler would kill Gotham, would kill his god, for a chance to validate his existence and see his beliefs confirmed.
  — Richard Newby, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Mar. 2022
• The study should be validated in other countries, the researchers write.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 July 2024
• There are no news media reports that validate the claim either.
  — Molly Stellino, USA TODAY, 14 July 2022
• To validate the Shibumi hype even more, assembly and teardown were quick and easy, and the sound of the canopy flapping in the wind made our beach days even more relaxing.
  — Lydia Price, Travel + Leisure, 4 May 2023
• The border patrol uses it to screen cargo at ports of entry, validate identities in its CBP One app and help officers understand any threats at the border.
  — Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024