How to Use deactivate in a Sentence

deactivate

verb

• To deactivate the cling, swipe a dryer sheet on the problem surface areas.
  — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 25 Oct. 2024
• For some unknown reason @Uber deactivates my account without any warning about 2 yrs ago.
  — Angel Guerrero, sacbee, 8 June 2018
• Visitors pay $5 at the door and the coin slots on the arcade cabinets and pinball machines are deactivated.
  — Eder Campuzano, OregonLive.com, 7 June 2018
• Peter Malek has since deactivated his Facebook account, but screenshots from earlier in the day showed dozens of comments condemning him for the post.
  — Grace Wong, chicagotribune.com, 26 June 2018
• On May 15, the ticket seller deactivated the event page and advised every buyer whose email address had been logged to ask Fanoomies for their money back.
  — Benjy Egel, sacbee, 31 May 2018
• That’s why the Left feels the need to deactivate the feeling of unity that is born of tragic times.
  — Itxu Díaz, National Review, 2 Apr. 2020
• The electric field deactivates, and the stack cools down; the pump pushes the oil back through the stack to the other, cold end, and the PST absorbs some of its heat.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 29 Nov. 2023
• Lift your foot off the throttle and all the cylinders deactivate.
  — Matthew Jancer, Popular Mechanics, 7 Aug. 2018
• The new address was released to the public, but nobody thought to deactivate the old one.
  — New York Times, 15 July 2019
• And then if you do get stung, getting in hot water, like a hot tub can deactivate it.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 1 July 2024
• The initial plan was to deactivate three fire engines for six days at a time in an effort to save $5 million.
  — Sarah Ravani, SFChronicle.com, 22 Jan. 2021
• But cancer cells have many strategies to hide from T cells, fend them off, or deactivate them.
  — Caroline Seydel, Forbes, 5 Apr. 2021
• Guests must be informed and given the option to deactivate them.
  — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 23 June 2022
• On the last jump, players must grab a plug while midair in a leap of faith to successfully deactivate the satellite.
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 21 Oct. 2021
• The tweet has since been deleted and her account has been deactivated.
  — Lynzy Billing, ELLE, 24 Mar. 2023
• This smart water bottle claims to deactivate up to 99% of bacteria and to self-clean via a UV function.
  — Good Housekeeping, 6 Mar. 2023
• Instead, the research shows the statues were defaced to deactivate the life form believed to be within them.
  — Dima Amro, USA TODAY, 29 Sep. 2020
• Tap or click here to see how to deactivate your social media profiles for good.
  — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 14 Nov. 2020
• The late addition of hops to cold wort during the dry-hopping process means those key enzymes aren't deactivated by the high heat of the boiling stage.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 5 Oct. 2018
• Concrete bunkers were built there to store munitions, but the depot was deactivated in the 1960s.
  — Madeline Bilis, Travel + Leisure, 10 Aug. 2023
• To deactivate the cling, swipe a dryer sheet on the problem surface areas.
  — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 5 Sep. 2023
• After trading for him, he was deactivated for the final 2½ months of the season.
  — Mike Bianchi, orlandosentinel.com, 25 Sep. 2019
• In 2016, the city began deactivating accounts that had been dormant for two years.
  — Nanette Asimov, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Feb. 2023
• So the first step is to remove or deactivate those caps by washing a solution over the nascent microarray.
  — Phillip W. Barth, IEEE Spectrum, 25 Mar. 2024
• Even so, Levine said Ballad would not deactivate the five-letter search.
  — Brett Kelman, CNN, 28 Apr. 2022
• Though the stars showed support for DeBose, criticism about the rap led the Oscar winner to deactivate her X account.
  — Taijuan Moorman, USA TODAY, 16 Jan. 2024
• But there is only one reason for this Peter Parker to take off or deactivate the mask in battle.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 25 Oct. 2021
• The company is using a form of gene therapy to deactivate the transthyretin gene in the livers of ATTR patients.
  — Amber Dance, Discover Magazine, 13 Apr. 2023
• The devices were deactivated and removed from the premises, the Seminole Police Department said in a statement.
  — Elias Lopez, CBS News, 30 Sep. 2024
• The chlorine and cocoa butter paste is more easily biodegradable and the chlorine’s potency naturally deactivates within 24 hours.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 14 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 11 Dec 2024