activate

In a sentence

Six example sentences with activate, each labelled with its topic.

• Glute bridges activate the muscles that most desk workers have stopped using, which is why the coach programs them first.

  Fitness

• Tap the card twice to activate the new chip, and the old one stops working within the hour.

  Technology

• Standing on the third plate activates a bridge across the chasm, but only while a crate holds down the first.

  Gaming

• A small dose of the vaccine activates immune cells, which then remember the intruder for decades.

  Medicine

• The chief executive activated the recall plan within an hour, and trucks were collecting the faulty batch by evening.

  Business

• The campaign activates thousands of volunteers on the final weekend, sending each one a list of doors to knock.

  Politics

Found in these word lists

Each source is a published word list that contains activate. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.

More Academic words

• environment
• removed
• inclined
• prohibit
• valid
• subjective
• outcome
• compute
• coherent
• version
• repertoire
• rigorous