How to Use implement in a Sentence

implement

1 of 2 noun
  • Many of the birds thought of the tools as a set and carried both implements to the job site.
    Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Mar. 2023
  • This is why the trusty #2 is the required writing implement for the SAT.
    Jonathan Schifman, Popular Mechanics, 16 Aug. 2016
  • The bullhook is an implement made up of a long rod with a blunt or pointed hook at the end.
    Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 21 Aug. 2019
  • Each piece is as much a work of art as a useful implement, whether in the kitchen, over the grill or out on the campsite.
    Amy Drew Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 26 Nov. 2021
  • Switch your implement and shift the weight to your sides for a more natural way to hone that hinge.
    Andrew Heffernan, Men's Health, 4 May 2023
  • Show her where implements and glasses go and ask her to fold the napkins and place them under the fork.
    Amy Dickinson, chicagotribune.com, 16 June 2019
  • And then airlines would need more time on top of that to bring planes out of storage and implement said training.
    Washington Post, 11 Nov. 2019
  • Fashion the crust with the pince à tarte or other implement of your choosing.
    Bill Buford, The New Yorker, 19 Nov. 2020
  • Don't be tempted to put an implement into the hole and lever it off; this can take good plaster with it.
    The Editors Of House Beautiful, House Beautiful, 11 Feb. 2015
  • There are no tears for the implements that build life’s memories.
    Bulletin Board, Twin Cities, 22 Sep. 2019
  • At the same time, my grandmother could see that a lot of the old logging implements like the sleds that horses used to get the logs to the rivers were being lost.
    Brian E. Clark, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 1 Sep. 2017
  • The cranium was split in half, the left temple was stabbed possibly with a knife, and the implement was used to pry open the head and remove the brain.
    Lisa Raffensperger, Discover Magazine, 1 May 2013
  • So the moth strikes at night, using its barbed implement to peel back the bird's double eyelid.
    Discover Magazine, 29 June 2010
  • Plucking implements were pretty much stuck in the Bronze Age.
    Abbie Kozolchyk, wsj.com, 17 Oct. 2023
  • The machine added water to the ingredients already in the cup, and a drop-down blender implement went to work.
    Scott Kirsner, BostonGlobe.com, 23 June 2019
  • Chances are the implement that comes to mind has a wooden handle—maybe rubber—leading to a metal head, with a claw in the back.
    Jenna Kunze, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Sep. 2022
  • Super said to make sure things like knives and other kitchen implements were secured and out of reach of a toddler.
    oregonlive.com, 22 Aug. 2019
  • Charlie paused on a sidewalk, stared at us, then spun and raced into a farm implement lot.
    Rick Montgomery, kansascity, 17 Oct. 2017
  • Sunday night a group worked late into the night to help a big bank implement Docusign’s product.
    Adam Lashinsky, Fortune, 24 Mar. 2020
  • Brown, a Cubs player whose pitching hand was mangled in a farm-implement mishap.
    Phil Vettel, chicagotribune.com, 8 June 2018
  • The result is science-lab function and organic warmth with the heft in the hand of a luxe lighter or high-end writing implement.
    Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2022
  • Having the precise implement for any occasion, and the skill to use it, was a display not just of wealth but of culture, Fowler said.
    al, 27 Jan. 2023
  • Another uncle, Brian, holds the UO record in the old implement javelin.
    Ken Goe, OregonLive.com, 26 May 2018
  • We’ve been asked to be gentle and diligent with these giant, pronged implements.
    Hazlitt, 20 Sep. 2023
  • Using the straining implement, drain the rice from the liquid, but also capture the liquid.
    Bill St. John, The Denver Post, 11 Mar. 2020
  • Despite his large fleet of implements, McCloskey does not farm.
    Mitchell Kirk, Post-Tribune, 6 July 2018
  • Or grab a giant monument like Bunker Hill and use it as a deadly implement?
    Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 31 May 2019
  • His Fiat implement from the early 1960s came from a junkyard in Illinois.
    Mitchell Kirk, Post-Tribune, 6 July 2018
  • The team believes that the ancient hominids used these properties to craft the perfect glue: just adhesive enough to bind a stone implement to a wooden handle but not too sticky to prevent one from easily putting it down.
    Max Bennett, Discover Magazine, 22 Feb. 2024
  • The first graders each grabbed a piece of paper and a drawing implement (one student embarked on a mission to fish out all the pink markers until Bloom persuaded her to leave some for her classmates) and began sketching their imaginary pets.
    Christi Carras, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2024
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implement

2 of 2 verb
  • Due to high costs, the program was never fully implemented.
  • I wondered how I might best implement his plan.
  • Now there will be help from the state to implement the plan.
    Steve Sadin, chicagotribune.com, 12 Apr. 2022
  • This group doesn't want the Ohio Supreme Court to implement its own plan.
    Jessie Balmert, The Enquirer, 9 Mar. 2022
  • The goal is to conduct these reviews by the end of the year, or have a plan in place to implement them.
    Hanna Ziady, CNN, 23 Sep. 2020
  • It's been up to states to decide when and how to implement them.
    Julia Hollingsworth, CNN, 30 Apr. 2021
  • Watch film from last night, learn from it, and implement those changes in this game?
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 Jan. 2023
  • The items in the self-care kit can help them implement coping strategies.
    al, 14 Aug. 2019
  • Because that’s the beauty of the lessons and the show: People in their 20s and 30s can take them and implement them at any stage of their life.
    Katherine Singh, refinery29.com, 23 June 2023
  • That will direct more funds to projects that implement the broad goals of our plans.
    Anchorage Daily News, 17 Mar. 2022
  • In his first weeks, Williams has the chance to implement rapid policy shifts.
    Matt Sledge, NOLA.com, 12 Dec. 2020
  • But the team with the worst record got the top pick only once and that led the league to implementing a weighted system.
    Brian Mahoney, Chron, 13 May 2023
  • But there had been something of a stalemate over how to implement it.
    Jared Boyd, AL.com, 24 Oct. 2017
  • This has brought a ripple effect on the skillset needed to build, implement, and adapt to the metaverse.
    Faustine Ngila, Quartz, 24 Aug. 2022
  • The next 13 months will be all about implementing your dreams into your day-to-day life.
    Aliza Kelly Faragher, Allure, 28 Oct. 2018
  • Be open, receptive and willing to implement changes that will bring you to a safe and sound place.
    Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 20 Mar. 2024
  • So many solutions to skin and hair woes are not easy to implement.
    ELLE, 18 Apr. 2022
  • The first two precincts that got cameras each took a little more than a month to implement the cameras.
    Rocky Baier, azcentral, 20 June 2019
  • Here's what to know about the changes being implemented.
    The Arizona Republic, 11 Apr. 2024
  • There were mistakes on the part of the local police in implementing the law.
    Mujib Mashal and Dharisha Bastians, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2018
  • There are still measures the club wants to implement, but staffing appears to be the biggest roadblock.
    Alex Vejar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 12 Apr. 2021
  • The city is now implementing some of these and other measures.
    Heather Gillers, WSJ, 29 Mar. 2018
  • Moore hopes to fully implement the program by the end of summer.
    David J. Kim, The Courier-Journal, 24 June 2020
  • While the letter is scant on details on how Schultz plans to implement these changes, it can't be dismissed.
    Sophie Mellor, Fortune, 13 July 2022
  • A few months ago, Oregon became the first state to implement statewide rent control.
    New York Times, 21 June 2019
  • The company expects to implement more hikes in the coming months too.
    Tiffany Ap, Quartz, 13 Apr. 2022
  • There's no one fix, and the available options will take a long time to implement in a meaningful way.
    Brian Barrett, Wired, 11 Dec. 2021
  • While there are plenty of ways to implement recharge time in your day-to-day, nothing beats an escape from it all.
    Nicola Fumo, Town & Country, 23 Nov. 2019
  • But traders and some analysts now see it as more likely that the Fed will implement a half-point hike.
    Christopher Rugaber, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Mar. 2023
  • The objective testing protocol has since been implemented in other hospitals across the nation, including as part of Mass General Brigham’s new policies.
    Mira Cheng, CNN, 11 Apr. 2024

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