How to Use participant in a Sentence

participant

noun
  • The goal in the future is to have tens of thousands of participants.
    Deborah Balthazar, STAT, 1 Aug. 2023
  • The two were in the first cohort of 20 participants in Lynden’s Be the Change!
    Jane Park, Journal Sentinel, 15 July 2024
  • What to watch: More than half of the first-time participants are 24 years old or younger.
    Shawna Chen, Axios, 29 July 2024
  • What’s more, the participants were fed up with the reporters from KBS.
    Max Kim, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2024
  • About 57% or the participants were female and 63% were Black.
    Alander Rocha, al, 14 June 2023
  • The woman paused, then awarded a medal to the next participant, skipping the girl, who was the only Black child in line.
    Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 26 Sep. 2023
  • Does that mean that Hurts will be a full participant this week as the Eagles prepare for the Giants?
    Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al, 3 Jan. 2023
  • Lopez was a frequent participant in the demonstrations at the time.
    The Courier-Journal, 8 Jan. 2024
  • The median age of participants at the beginning of the study was 53.
    Sara Moniuszko, CBS News, 12 June 2024
  • Others noted that the full study hasn’t been released yet — and the type of food the participants were eating is a crucial piece.
    Cara Lynn Shultz, Peoplemag, 19 Mar. 2024
  • Past participants Hamann and Boller couldn’t agree more.
    Terry Wagner, Dallas News, 5 June 2023
  • The program is free, and participants are not allowed to have jobs while enrolled.
    Remington Miller, Arkansas Online, 22 Oct. 2023
  • The vast majority of the participants in the killing were never brought to justice.
    Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Most of the participants, sworn to an oath of secrecy, took their identities as Tea Partiers to their graves.
    The Editors, National Review, 16 Dec. 2023
  • All but one of the participants achieved the main goal of the study — freedom from severe pain episodes for at least one year following treatment.
    Adam Feuerstein, STAT, 8 Dec. 2023
  • Researchers instructed half of the participants to ride a bike for 30 minutes twice a week for 16 weeks.
    Kristen Fischer, Health, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Wyoming, a two-time participant in the Arizona Bowl, ended the season with a three-game losing streak and finished 7-6.
    Michael Lev, The Arizona Republic, 1 Jan. 2023
  • The meetings start with a prayer and a Pledge of Allegiance and then the participants elect a caucus chair to run the meeting, as well as a secretary to record the results.
    Catherine Lucey, WSJ, 16 Jan. 2024
  • This was the study where, on average, participants read 35 percent faster in their fastest font than in their slowest one.
    Leslie Shapiro, Washington Post, 26 June 2023
  • The first patient was treated just six months ago, and researchers are still following all of the participants.
    WIRED, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Though Sober October spans the month, some participants may rethink their drinking habits even when the 31 days are over.
    Vanessa Etienne, People.com, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Consider how movies feed the game industry so that a movie viewer is now able to enter the world of the movie and become a participant.
    IEEE Spectrum, 14 Jan. 2023
  • Pritchett, as has been the case ever since practices before the Cal game, was a full participant in practice.
    Matt Cohen | McOhen@al.com, al, 19 Sep. 2023
  • The race will start in Land Park, where competitive participants will run two loops, eat four doughnuts, and then run two more loops.
    Chris Biderman, Sacramento Bee, 23 Feb. 2024
  • An instructor quieted the room, asked for the beeping heart monitors to be shut off and turned to the participants.
    Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 9 Feb. 2024
  • If a 90-minute window seems like a tight squeeze for all the action that’s been promised — not to mention the participants who haven’t been publicly revealed yet — Collins vows the run of show is crisp and tight.
    Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 10 June 2024
  • Therapy, in his language, is not a practice that tries to fix any one thing, but one that aspires to help its participants build the most out of the challenges that face them.
    Susan Dominus, New York Times, 16 May 2023
  • The participant uses his thoughts to select which tiles to press on the interface and perform actions via Alexa.
    New Atlas, 17 Sep. 2024
  • Serrano and other scheme participants then called back the man and Serrano posed as a member of Gemini’s support team, prosecutors said.
    Dan Mangan, CNBC, 17 Oct. 2024
  • Additionally, knowing the identities of all participants in advance or adapting the course content to meet the customer’s needs does not disqualify the activity from being classified as an event.
    Aleksandra Bal, Forbes, 6 Oct. 2024

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