actuate

Example Sentences

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Another, called a McKibben actuator, is pneumatically driven and requires an air compressor to actuate.

From Science Daily • Oct. 26, 2023

For starters, you can adjust the point at which its switches actuate and register a keypress.

From The Verge • Jun. 22, 2022

"My task was to design the means of allowing a customer, and only a genuine customer, to actuate the dispenser mechanism," he said.

From BBC • Oct. 7, 2016

Screens were mostly resistive, that is, hard to actuate with a tap. 

From Forbes • Apr. 25, 2011

Tennyson has said that every man attributes to another the motives which would actuate himself'—and that was all!

From Critical Studies by Ouida