How to Use applied in a Sentence

applied

adjective
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  • The applied pressure Stammen talked about led to a win.
    — Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 June 2022
  • How long a scent stays on the skin after its applied matters.
    — Dallas News, 30 Nov. 2022
  • On the other hand, there is a use for all that cash that doesn’t get applied to economic growth.
    — Steve Butler, The Mercury News, 10 Mar. 2017
  • One responds to an applied force, the other to pressure.
    — Quanta Magazine, 24 Aug. 2020
  • At the time, Russell was 17 and studying applied physics at Stanford.
    — Kate Santich, orlandosentinel.com, 28 Dec. 2021
  • That sample, plus a little applied math, can tell us whether the machines picked the right winner.
    — Cindy Cohn, The Atlantic, 23 May 2017
  • Any applied water than quickly runs out the bottom but misses the root ball.
    — oregonlive, 23 Aug. 2020
  • The applied strain sets other atoms in motion, straining them.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 20 Sep. 2018
  • The chicken was chopped and tender, while the fish was well-fried, although the tarter sauce draped overtop was slightly sweet and applied with too heavy a hand.
    — Lindsey McClave, The Courier-Journal, 3 July 2019
  • Apply the glaze in an overlapping X-pattern, then go over the applied glaze to blend as desired.
    — Alicia Chilton, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Dec. 2021
  • In his opinion, the Establishment Clause shouldn’t even be applied to states.
    — Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 20 June 2019
  • The makeup pro applied shade Motha Luva – a light pink nude – to the outside of the 33-year-old mom-to-be's lips to define her iconic cupid's bow.
    — Alex Apatoff, PEOPLE.com, 7 Feb. 2022
  • The Flores agreement has been in effect since 1997 but mostly was applied to children who came to the country alone.
    — Amy Taxin, The Denver Post, 21 Aug. 2019
  • The Supreme Court has said the law can’t be applied to states, but is valid at the federal level, prompting many states to enact their own versions.
    — Maureen Groppe, USA TODAY, 3 May 2017
  • And the three justices said that, at the end of the day, the Trump administration is likely to succeed in the case as applied to all non-citizens.
    — CNN, 26 June 2017
  • Everything bends and squishes a little bit when there is an applied force.
    — Rhett Allain, Wired, 21 Feb. 2020
  • Some stay for two years and earn an associate degree in applied science.
    — John Reinan, Star Tribune, 4 Oct. 2020
  • Of course, applied psychology cannot solve all the problems.
    — Mark Sirkin, Forbes, 11 July 2022
  • John Briscoe, 63, was an engineer and worked at an applied physics lab for more than 25 years until his health started to decline.
    — Becky Perlow, ABC News, 20 Mar. 2021
  • Hi Winnie, Your great matte pottery has an applied slip to the original base.
    — Brenda Yenke, cleveland, 17 Nov. 2022
  • The dial is white with applied gold numerals that are coated with lume—a must feature on sports watches.
    — Carol Besler, Robb Report, 27 May 2021
  • In applied economics and business, the gift will go toward two areas.
    — Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes, 22 Sep. 2021
  • The police were called, and in their efforts to apprehend him, Chauvin, who is white, applied pressure to the back of Floyd's neck with his knee for nearly nine minutes.
    — Mike Brest, Washington Examiner, 3 June 2020
  • Within the blue frame is a smaller circle with an applied golden sun and moon for a day/night indication.
    — Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 15 Apr. 2021
  • And that pure math was helpful to parts of applied math, and applied math is useful to engineering, science.
    — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Principles of applied robotics and engineering is one of the courses that will utilize the lab the most.
    — Steve Smith, Hartford Courant, 7 Oct. 2022
  • Business to a degree works as the applied science brother of economics.
    — Abdo Riani, Forbes, 6 July 2021
  • So Anderson and his team of researchers started to consider what that rule would look like applied to Bitcoin's blockchain.
    — Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 5 Apr. 2018
  • So there’s also an applied element to trying to understand this.
    — Quanta Magazine, 28 Mar. 2024
  • But in 1995, the applied mathematician Peter Shor discovered a clever way to store quantum information.
    — Ben Brubaker, WIRED, 17 Mar. 2024

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