How to Use decommission in a Sentence

decommission

verb
Definition of decommissionnext
  • The government is decommissioning the nuclear power plant.
  • Several military bases are scheduled to be decommissioned.
  • This isn’t the first time a space station has been decommissioned.
    — Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 July 2024
  • As that ship was decommissioned in 1997, the strategy has since changed.
    — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 4 Feb. 2019
  • There is a constant churn of new servers being compromised while others are being cleaned up or decommissioned.
    — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 15 May 2024
  • But, in 1943, the band was decommissioned for the first of many times, only to be re-organized again.
    — Steve Smith, courant.com, 3 July 2019
  • Lime says that those models will be decommissioned, but did not tell the Post how many units are affected, or in which cities they’re being used in.
    — Andrew Liptak, The Verge, 10 Nov. 2018
  • Often referred to as the last royal yacht, the Britannia was decommissioned in 1997, and despite some efforts, there are no signs of a new one in the near future.
    — Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country, 30 Sep. 2018
  • Plans to decommission the third ship of the class, the Fort Worth, and the fourth, the Coronado, were nixed by Congress in this year’s budget.
    — Andrew Dyer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 May 2021
  • The first two would be submarines to be decommissioned from U.S. Navy service and third would be new.
    — Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 26 May 2024
  • Its main foothold is as an enabling partner on the ISS, which is set to be decommissioned by 2031.
    — Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 13 June 2024
  • But 19 boats will be decommissioned in the coming years.
    — Lisa Hagen, Hartford Courant, 18 June 2024
  • That’s because the equipment would need to be decommissioned and re-certified in the span of just a couple months.
    — Jakob Rodgers, The Mercury News, 14 May 2024
  • The company has promised to decommission the site in eight years, well ahead of the 60 years allowed by federal rules.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 27 Sep. 2019
  • Eleven coal power plants in the state are set to be decommissioned or converted to natural gas in the next 15 years.
    — Kirk Siegler, NPR, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Decades after it was decommissioned, no one is threatening to tear down the crane.
    — Peter Hartlaub, SFChronicle.com, 8 Jan. 2020
  • The cruiser Philadelphia was decommissioned in 1951, and the brothers did their best to move on with their lives.
    — John Ismay, New York Times, 16 June 2023
  • This led to the NSF making the decision to decommission the telescope after 57 years.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 1 Dec. 2020
  • The 35 employees will stay to help start decommissioning the plant.
    — Judith Kohler, The Denver Post, 21 Sep. 2019
  • The service, which has pledged to increase the size of the fleet for years, will decommission a total of 39 ships next year, including 23 from the battle fleet roster.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 22 Aug. 2022
  • That, combined with new restrictions on how many older ships the fleet can decommission, is enough to keep the fleet growing ... for now.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2021
  • The Navy’s latest estimate is that the ships will all be decommissioned by fiscal year 2023.
    — Robert Faturechi, ProPublica, 9 Aug. 2019
  • The platform for Peru is still up and running but will be decommissioned when the India project launches—by the end of this year, Parcak hopes.
    — National Geographic, 10 July 2019
  • The Navy has submitted plans to decommission nearly three-dozen ships in 2023.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 22 Aug. 2022
  • No one was injured, but the $212 million ship had to be decommissioned, and the U.S. ambassador was forced to apologize for the damage to the World Heritage site.
    — Robert Faturechi, ProPublica, 9 Aug. 2019
  • However, that all stopped when the vessel was decommissioned in 1997—a date often cited as one of the only times the Queen has shed a tear in public.
    — Victoria Murphy, Town & Country, 10 Aug. 2019
  • But since it was grazed by the warhead during its fall the Minuteman I, it was likely decommissioned.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 5 Dec. 2019
  • Still, Germany is going ahead with plans to decommission its remaining plants — at a cost to the climate.
    — NBC News, 21 Apr. 2022
  • The plant is now being decommissioned and is in the fourth year of a $4.5 billion dismantlement project that will take roughly eight years to complete.
    — Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Oct. 2023
  • The rise in tourism has breathed new life into a town that has faced an identity crisis since the Ignalina plant was decommissioned in 2009.
    — Madeline Roache/visaginas, Time, 27 Dec. 2019

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