- present tense form of distribute (3rd person singular).
distributes
Example Sentences
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He also makes children’s toys that he distributes to any children on the block or that he encounters out and about.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
Soccer takes a 20% cut, and then distributes all World Cup prize money equally among 52 players — 26 players on the roster of each team.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026
The stuntmen are presumably here because their parent company, Thrill Sports, also distributes Power Slap, Dana White’s passion project.
From Slate ● Jun. 16, 2026
Netflix, Gabriel’s management team, and Universal Music Group, a label that distributes his music, don’t know who was behind the clipping campaign, according to people close to those groups.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026
He handed something to me—handed it to me as impersonally as the average waiter distributes menus.
From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger
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