How to Use infrastructure in a Sentence

infrastructure

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Definition of infrastructurenext
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  • More money is needed to save the crumbling infrastructure of the nation's rural areas.
  • We need to spend more money on maintaining and repairing infrastructure.
  • But what about the cost of the infrastructure around the stadium?
    — Dave Hyde, Sun-Sentinel.com, 13 July 2018
  • The infrastructure for the arts at the center of the true cost crunch is housing and studio space.
    — Patrick Sisson, Curbed, 3 Apr. 2018
  • What is the infrastructure required to bring the function in-house?
    — Leen Kawas, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2023
  • Our infrastructure in the U.S. was built for the climate of the 20th century.
    — Stephanie Hanes, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Jan. 2024
  • First comes the planning process for the infrastructure.
    — Jim Riccioli, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 31 Oct. 2017
  • The infrastructure of 5G costs far more than that of its antecedents.
    — The Economist, 28 Mar. 2018
  • The infrastructure streamlines the migration and attempts to keep the crabs off the roads and out of people’s way.
    — Michael Yessis, Smithsonian, 10 Oct. 2017
  • The question remains whether the infrastructure is ready to count them.
    — Nina Strochlic, National Geographic, 14 Aug. 2020
  • What Jin says is clear is that the infrastructure of 20 years ago will no longer cut it today.
    — Time, 19 Feb. 2021
  • The state could charge rent to defer cost of marking and infrastructure.
    — Guest Voices, AL.com, 29 Dec. 2017
  • Sato believes it’s there – the drive and focus inside himself, the infrastructure in the team around him.
    — Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 24 Aug. 2020
  • And one of the big issue was dealing with infrastructure.
    — The Enquirer, 22 July 2021
  • House Democrats have their own plan to fund at least some infrastructure spending.
    — Annie White, Car and Driver, 4 June 2021
  • These days, a lot of infrastructure is built with a mix of public and private money.
    — Richard Webner, San Antonio Express-News, 11 Jan. 2023
  • Pogue said the state doesn’t have the infrastructure in place to expand coverage to more people.
    — April Dembosky, Kqed and Ashley Lopez, Kaiser Health News, 22 Sep. 2017
  • Most simply do not have the infrastructure to support tourism, not even the basics like a trash can or a parking lot.
    — Pauly Denetclaw, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 July 2021
  • But there’s a Great American subset — where the adventure rocks the infrastructure and the life leaves a gash.
    — Wesley Morris, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2024
  • Lots more people are riding, which is good, but infrastructure has been slow to catch up.
    — Peter Flax, Outside Online, 15 May 2018
  • Moderates want a stand-alone vote on the infrastructure bill.
    — Todd Spangler, Detroit Free Press, 24 Aug. 2021
  • But though the reporting infrastructure slows over weekends, the virus does not.
    — Joanna Pearlstein, The Atlantic, 26 Nov. 2020
  • Or that Sanders, surprised by his own success, didn't have the infrastructure to win a long campaign.
    — Z. Byron Wolf, CNN, 4 Nov. 2017
  • Lyman says money from Biden’s infrastructure bill could pay for the bridge.
    — Zak Podmore, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Feb. 2022
  • Some of those lakes have docks, but no other infrastructure.
    — Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 4 July 2018
  • This has rapidly become the basic infrastructure of the tech world.
    — Larry Light, Fortune, 11 Mar. 2022
  • Climate change is calling in the debt on our infrastructure.
    — Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic, 29 Oct. 2019
  • There are few places with the infrastructure and expertise needed to do this.
    — Claudia Dreifus, Quanta Magazine, 12 Oct. 2022
  • What exactly is this incident, and what are some other recent attacks on US infrastructure?
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Benson hopes to listen to his constituents, support the police and prioritize infrastructure.
    — Eleanor McCrary, The Courier-Journal, 6 Nov. 2024

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