How to Use operational in a Sentence

operational

adjective

• The new airport should be fully operational by next year.
• The computer network is now operational.
• Besides the three on the Black Sea, three on the Danube are operational.
  — Ana Swanson, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2023
• It’s expected to be operational before the end of the year.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune Europe, 20 Mar. 2024
• Only three of 10 of their boats were operational, and none were high-speed.
  — Darcie Moran, Detroit Free Press, 14 Aug. 2024
• The food crisis comes on top of the operational challenges that are waiting other on the side.
  — Mithil Aggarwal, NBC News, 11 Dec. 2023
• The Bowling Green box had been operational for less than two months.
  — CBS News, 11 Feb. 2023
• The school was operational until 1971, when the school board decided to close it.
  — Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune, 11 Sep. 2023
• The company now has a limit of fifty operational A.V.s during the day, and a hundred and fifty at night.
  — Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2023
• And sometimes those are the hard jobs, sometimes those are operational jobs.
  — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2024
• One year into the war, against all the odds, Ukraine’s helicopter brigades are still operational.
  — Carlotta Gall Daniel Berehulak, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2023
• Kids use the drill to build the recycling truck, which, when completed, has an operational lift arm.
  — Erica Puisis, Parents, 9 Mar. 2024
• The Tata takeover hasn’t fixed the operational issues either.
  — Niharika Sharma, Quartz, 15 Feb. 2023
• The wastewater treatment plant was wrecked and no longer operational.
  — Silvia Foster-Frau, Washington Post, 12 July 2023
• This was the first collapse of a wind turbine on a Wisconsin wind farm since the first one became operational in 1999.
  — Karl Ebert, Journal Sentinel, 9 Mar. 2023
• This was the third flight of the expendable H3 rocket, and the first launch that Japan's space agency considered to be operational.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 5 July 2024
• The production version will have Wi-Fi, but the router wasn't operational in the prototype.
  — Caleb Miller, Car and Driver, 22 Apr. 2023
• Elk Groves sees $249 million overall benefit in the first five years the zoo is operational.
  — Joe Rubin, Sacramento Bee, 8 May 2024
• The ports said the operational solutions have already helped decrease both wait times and the number of ships waiting.
  — Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 2 July 2024
• The police department has been understaffed for two years but the city manager hopes the new hire will help keep the city’s jail open and operational.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 13 May 2023
• In 2024, this digital twin of the ocean will become operational.
  — Helen Czerski, WIRED, 10 Jan. 2024
• The full constellation of—most likely—four satellites would be operational by the end of 2030.
  — WIRED, 28 Mar. 2023
• The operational side of the project is reportedly led by Zachary Folkman and Chase Herro.
  — Vinamrata Chaturvedi, Quartz, 5 Sep. 2024
• But the Biden agenda and basic governance are both at risk if half of the legislative branch is not operational.
  — Rick Klein, ABC News, 6 Jan. 2023
• Many of the wastewater treatment plants are also not operational.
  — Carl Churchill, WSJ, 24 Oct. 2023
• To put it frankly, our president and VP could not care any less about operational minutiae.
  — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2024
• Two of the current three buildings will remain open and operational until the new building is done, Napleton said.
  — Caroline Kubzansky, Chicago Tribune, 20 Jan. 2023
• Others, such as Basquiat’s Ferris wheel, are expected to be operational but not fit for guests.
  — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2023
• Make sure your security cameras are operational and recording even after the trick-or-treating is done.
  — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2024
• The digital revolution was in its earliest phases, and there weren’t many women in operational roles.
  — Jenny B. Fine, WWD, 18 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024