How to Use operation in a Sentence

operation

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  • The family runs a small farming operation.
  • The company is a billion-dollar operation.
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Fred has been the face of the distillery and overseen operations there for many years, and is a respected and familiar face in the world of Kentucky bourbon.
    — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 16 May 2023
  • Israel’s special forces are considered some of the best in the world and are capable of pulling off high-risk operations.
    — Dan De Luce, NBC News, 13 Oct. 2023
  • The brand cycled through designers and was acquired multiple times, but no one was able to restore the soul that Lang had brought to the operation.
    — Tara Gonzalez, Harper's BAZAAR, 11 May 2023
  • The operation was kicked off after the discovery of three Mediterranean fruit flies, or medflies, last month.
    — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2023
  • That three-hour operation included an hemicolectomy, which is the removal of part of the colon.
    — Phoebe Natanson, ABC News, 7 June 2023
  • Her husband used his programming skills to build a local outreach and get-out-the-vote operation.
    — Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2023
  • The agents and prosecutors got word of the SARC decision days later — the operation was being shut down.
    — Tim Golden, ProPublica, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Though Lowe stepped away from daily operations in 2018, Project Row Houses still thrives.
    — Adam Bradley, New York Times, 7 June 2023
  • The logistics firm plans to use the new D-FW operation as a hub for distribution to and from Mexico.
    — Dallas News, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Ground raid: An Israeli soldier died in an operation in Gaza.
    — WSJ, 23 Oct. 2023
  • Resolving the strike would provide a boost to Ortberg, who joined Boeing in August with a mandate to revamp operations.
    — Vivek Wadhwa, Fortune, 19 Oct. 2024

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