How to Use simulate in a Sentence

simulate

verb
Definition of simulatenext
Synonyms for simulatenext
  • The model will be used to simulate the effects of an earthquake.
  • The pen with the multitude of voles simulates a boom year.
    — Bathsheba Demuth, The Atlantic, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Its yuzu glaze and honey simulate 24K gold flakes, the menu reads.
    — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Mar. 2023
  • The app can even simulate how a lamp would look in a darkened room at night compared to the middle of the day.
    — Andrew Liszewski, The Verge, 7 Oct. 2024
  • Zoom-in on the image to see a ton of tiny lines drawn onto the screen to simulate an LCD-like effect.
    — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 13 Dec. 2021
  • The offense then went into a two-minute period meant to simulate the end of the first half.
    — Jeff Miller, Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2022
  • The team designed a computer game to simulate the idea.
    — Jason P. Dinh, Discover Magazine, 1 Aug. 2022
  • The one thing India couldn’t simulate in pregame drills was doing things at true game speed.
    — Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer, 6 June 2022
  • Overhead truss lighting fills the hangar with hues of red, green and blue, and lighting from above simulates snowflakes.
    — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Dec. 2023
  • Then, footage was altered to simulate how a baby shark would process the shapes and movements.
    — Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 2 Nov. 2021
  • The plants grown in lunar soil (right) aren't nearly as happy as those grown in a soil meant to simulate it (left).
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 12 May 2022
  • Forecast models are simulating a very warm and quite wet first half of the month.
    — Matt Rogers, Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Blanks are used to simulate the firing of a live bullet with a muzzle flash, recoil and bang.
    — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 6 Nov. 2021
  • Bruce was the name given to the three mechanical predators built to simulate the great white shark at the heart of the story.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 10 Aug. 2023
  • That doesn’t mean the coaching staff wasn’t working to simulate game action.
    — Christopher Price, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Aug. 2023
  • The board is designed for beginners, and the company says kids as young as 3 can use it to simulate spins, twists, and slides.
    — Maya Polton, Parents, 24 Mar. 2024
  • Trouble was, the look Yamazaki craved was too big to simulate in CG.
    — Bob Strauss, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Overhead truss lighting will fill the hangar with red, green and blue colors, and lighting from above will simulate snowflakes.
    — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Nov. 2023
  • To learn how to best do this, scientists on Earth must simulate the unique conditions on the Red Planet here.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 1 May 2024
  • Inside, heavy boxes sit in rail car aisles meant to simulate the weight of passengers.
    — Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2021
  • The bear costume, with brown fur, a head shaped like a bear’s, paws and metal hand tools to simulate claw marks, was found in the suspects’ home, officials said.
    — Phil Helsel, NBC News, 14 Nov. 2024
  • Weighted blankets simulate the feeling of being held and help some of us relax and sleep.
    — Medea Giordano, Wired, 29 Nov. 2021
  • But nothing can simulate the experience of being at the field or in the arena.
    — Erick Smith, USA TODAY, 20 May 2022
  • In fact, The Scalp Shop uses a cream to simulate the process’ coverage to show clients how their final results will look.
    — Desiree Browne, ELLE, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Make sure your heels are seated deep in the heel pocket and flex forward at the knees and ankles to simulate the feel during skiing.
    — Douglas Schnitzspahn, Travel + Leisure, 21 Dec. 2023
  • Google also showcased changing the lighting of the scene to golden hour, to simulate warm sunset tones.
    — WIRED, 4 Oct. 2023
  • His staff pumps in large amounts of seawater, adjusts the lights in the room to account for day and night, and tries to make the cephalopods’ tanks simulate their natural habitats.
    — David Abel, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Jan. 2023
  • Both had been plunged into ice water to simulate the onset of winter.
    — Elizabeth Landau, quantamagazine.org, 11 Oct. 2024
  • New Glenn will carry the Blue Ring Pathfinder, a 20-ton dummy payload that simulates future customer payloads.
    — Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 6 Jan. 2025
  • When simulating tea preparation, scientists found that the polymers used in the teabags release millions and billions of various microscopic pieces of plastic.
    — Cara Lynn Shultz, People.com, 23 Dec. 2024

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