How to Use divest in a Sentence

divest

verb

• We may have to divest assets to raise capital.
• The company is divesting 8 of its 20 stores.
• Fed officials said that some board officials will likely have to divest some of their investments to comply with the new rules.
  — Rachel Siegel, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Oct. 2021
• Calls for large investors to divest from fossil-fuel producers crescendoed.
  — Amrith Ramkumar, WSJ, 24 Oct. 2021
• Beane would have to divest his share of A’s ownership but the trade off would be working for an owner with a willingness to spend money.
  — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Oct. 2021
• The two groups planned to discuss the foundation taking steps to divest from fossil fuels in the context of the growing climate crisis.
  — Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 29 Oct. 2021
• Most often, these clauses seek to divest the client of ownership in some entity in case a significant creditor shows up.
  — Jay Adkisson, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2021
• The latest action, which may be more durable, gave ByteDance nine months to divest, although that could be extended by lawmakers.
  — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 8 Oct. 2024
• What’s more, the rush to divest from fossil fuel companies may be having harsh unintended consequences.
  — Elizabeth Bauer, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2021
• In June, 7-Eleven and Marathon reached an agreement with the commission to divest hundreds of stores as part of a settlement.
  — Dom Difurio, Dallas News, 28 Sep. 2021
• Slowly, public pressure—and the threat of depreciating returns—has prompted private companies to divest from oil projects.
  — Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2021
• Fresh off the 2016 election, federal ethics officials were pushing Trump to divest his real estate assets.
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 5 Oct. 2021
• As for the companies’ pledge to divest enough stores in enough communities to preserve competition, the FTC is right to be skeptical.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2024
• The Gatorland board and McHugh divested from the farm in 1998.
  — Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 18 Aug. 2024
• What’s the deal with straight men divesting from the discourse?
  — Hazlitt, 9 Aug. 2022
• Back in 2006, one attendee at the AGM called on the company to divest the club.
  — Tim Loh / Bloomberg, TIME, 17 May 2024
• Why would Kroger buy and then divest so many stores in Arizona?
  — Russ Wiles, The Arizona Republic, 12 July 2024
• Do their shifts make the time right to divest non-core businesses?
  — Kristen Groh, Quartz, 10 Nov. 2022
• Comcast is on track to divest its one-third stake in the latter, which is controlled by Disney, in 2024.
  — Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Aug. 2022
• Under the law, TikTok has roughly nine months to divest from ByteDance.
  — Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 May 2024
• The city bought the property when Gaston was in the process of divesting his business empire.
  — Joseph D. Bryant | [e-mail], al, 26 June 2023
• The suit seeks to break up Google's ad business, forcing the company to divest from key ad products.
  — Arkansas Online, 25 Jan. 2023
• The protesters asked the university to divest from Israel and call for a cease-fire.
  — Ahmed Ali Akbar, Chicago Tribune, 5 May 2024
• The two of them had harbored vague desires since the beginning of Buy Nothing to divest themselves of Facebook.
  — WIRED, 23 Feb. 2023
• Mind you, this is the same company that is being pushed by the US government to divest or risk getting kicked out of the country.
  — Mia Sato, The Verge, 1 Aug. 2024
• In 1986, the U.S. joined other of South Africa’s trade partners in passing sanctions, and the movement to divest and boycott the country’s goods and services spread.
  — Sheelah Kolhatkar, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2022
• But divesting from the World’s Factory comes with concessions that many aren’t yet willing to make, the group has learned.
  — Kate Nishimura, Sourcing Journal, 4 Sep. 2024
• The store was divested in 2015 by Albertsons in a merger with Safeway.
  — Samantha Gowen, Orange County Register, 1 Mar. 2024
• Heineken said such hurdles had delayed its efforts to divest.
  — Liz Alderman, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2023
• Under a new federal mandate, the company must divest from its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, by January or risk a nationwide ban.
  — Lars Daniel, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Nov 2024