OPERATIVE in a Sentence
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343 example sentences for OPERATIVE, such as:
1. I want to operate, but not as you think.
2. This machine is too difficult to operate.
3. The ability to initiate and operate independently.
4. Drug traffickers operate across national boundaries.
5. External causes become operative through internal causes.
2. This machine is too difficult to operate.
3. The ability to initiate and operate independently.
4. Drug traffickers operate across national boundaries.
5. External causes become operative through internal causes.
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Meanings and Examples of OPERATIVE
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operative
n. someone who can be employed as a detective to collect information
a. effective; producing a desired effect
Classic Sentence: (133 in 9 pages)
1 Adams had been a cotton operative in Fall River, and the continued depression in the industry had worn him and his family out, and he had emigrated to South Carolina.
2 I thought that adoring him, watching him operate, would be enough.
3 Remember, also, that the surgeon must operate from above, some eight or ten feet intervening between him and his subject, and that subject almost hidden in a discoloured, rolling, and oftentimes tumultuous and bursting sea.
4 But leaving this hint to operate as it may with the phrenologists, I would merely assume the spinal theory for a moment, in reference to the Sperm Whale's hump.
5 After surveying the ground, Snowball declared that this was just the place for a windmill, which could be made to operate a dynamo and supply the farm with electrical power.
6 Electricity, he said, could operate threshing machines, ploughs, harrows, rollers, and reapers and binders, besides supplying every stall with its own electric light, hot and cold water, and an electric heater.
7 It reminded him that unforeseen factors operate in the evolution of immortality.
8 I want to operate, but not as you think.
9 Oh, but I must not forget, my dear friend John, that you loved her; and I have not forgotten it, for it is I that shall operate, and you must only help.
10 You had better go your round, and Dr. Van Helsing will operate.
11 It was indeed but a passing trance, that only made me feel with renewed acuteness so soon as, the unnatural stimulus ceasing to operate, I had returned to my old habits.
12 It is also to be said that their position enables them to operate changes with less effort and greater efficacy.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V.
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V.
13 And once, alter such an operation, Scarlett found her in the linen closet vomiting quietly into a towel.
14 But with the operation of what came to be known as the governor's "slander mill," the North saw only a rebellious state that needed a heavy hand, and a heavy hand was laid upon it.
15 Kennicott had taken a patient to Rochester for an operation.
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 External causes become operative through internal causes.
2 The commercial telephone service was no longer operative.
3 Two major tendencies are operative in the American political system.
4 The spy is believed to be the first operative from the country to blow his cover in five years.
5 Consumption of alcohol impairs your ability to drive a car or operate machinery.
6 The ability to initiate and operate independently.
7 Drug traffickers operate across national boundaries.
8 The unit is comparatively easy to install and cheap to operate.
9 The shutdown had no effect on Calvert Cliffs Unit One, which continues to operate at full capacity.
10 The video provides instruction on how to operate the computer.
11 The worker oils the machine to operate it more efficiently.
12 Prices are higher than they would be if market forces were allowed to operate freely.
13 This machine is too difficult to operate.
14 These thieves operate with terrifying stealth - they can easily steal from the pockets of unsuspecting travellers.
15 You examine a patient and then you decide whether or not to operate.