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.
• In the 1980s, the council directed the city to divest from South Africa due to the apartheid regime.
  — Emily Opilo, baltimoresun.com, 26 May 2021
• 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
• The bill would also direct the state to divest from projects that are not carbon neutral.
  — Dustin Gardiner, SFChronicle.com, 7 Dec. 2020
• At one point, the state tried to divest the park in 1992 to save on rent, and Wilfert ended up leasing the land and running it himself.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 6 Sep. 2021
• 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
• Zients has pledged to divest from Cranemere, as well as from $1 million worth of Facebook shares.
  — Katherine Doyle, Washington Examiner, 23 Mar. 2021
• Dearborn moves to divest from Israel amid conflict in Gaza and Lebanon.
  — Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press, 10 Oct. 2024
• The suit seeks to break up Google's ad business, forcing the company to divest from key ad products.
  — Arkansas Online, 25 Jan. 2023
• 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
• 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
• Pension funds would have to divest from fossil fuels by 2035.
  — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 1 Sep. 2021
• 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
• Forcing TikTok to divest from its Chinese owner is a good first step.
  — Chris Roemer, Baltimore Sun, 29 June 2024
• 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
• Barretts, which has two mines in Montana, was divested by Pfizer in 1992.
  — Becky Yerak, WSJ, 2 Oct. 2023
• The bill would force those companies to divest from pharmacy businesses within three years.
  — Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 11 Dec. 2024
• Ethics laws require office holders to either divest investments that pose a conflict of interest or recuse themselves from making decisions related to those investments.
  — Anne Flaherty, ABC News, 6 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 22 Jan 2025