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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Maybe a quantum chemist could simulate this and make a prediction.
    — Quanta Magazine, 20 June 2024
  • Players hit in groups against a pitching machine set close enough to home plate to simulate 90-plus miles per hour fastballs.
    — Jerry McDonald, The Mercury News, 8 Apr. 2024
  • This is because of the fact that the soundbar is designed to simulate surround sound by bouncing audio off the walls and ceiling.
    — Christian De Looper, BGR, 7 June 2022
  • The device also breathes via a trailing tank, simulating how the exchange of hot air and moisture affects the body.
    — Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 3 June 2023
  • In the past, one of the things the Patriots have done in practice to simulate the work of a speedster is to give scout-team receivers a head start of 5 to 10 yards and have the defensive backs play catchup.
    — Christopher Price, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Sep. 2023
  • The celebrity contestants are sent to the Australian outback, which has been designed to simulate Mars.
    — Lisa Boone, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2023
  • The second part of the experiment was to control the growth of the chickpeas, to simulate growth in a scarce environment.
    — Shoshanna Solomon, Fortune, 13 June 2022
  • China’s latest war games around the island, carried out last week, included simulating blockading key ports and areas, and assaulting maritime and ground targets, Beijing said.
    — Reuters, CNN, 23 Oct. 2024

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