actuate

How To Use actuate In A Sentence

• The pump is actuated by a belt driven by an electric motor.
• The guns are actuated by a three-way switch on the spade grip of the stick.
• They were actuated by desire.
• Additional components comprise an extra electro-hydraulic control valve to actuate fourth-to-fifth and fifth-to-fourth shifts and the extra gear set itself.
• In such a case, the only women who will interfere and warn the intended victim will be his own relatives – a mother or a sister; others, while under no delusions as to the interested nature of the motives by which the pursuer is actuated, will hold their tongues, and even go so far as to offer facilities for the chase. Marriage as a Trade
• Here I want to clear one thing, that it is not vanity that has actuated me to adopt the doctrines of atheism.
• Note 48: Mazari tribespeople, whom preyed on vessels moving through the territory they inhabited on both banks of the Indus, also were identified as obstacles necessary to surmount in order to actuate the Mithenkote plan. Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier
• Within the device, a diaphragm is actuated pneumatically, electrically, or magnetically, and it pumps blood into the aorta or pulmonary artery.
• She was as alien as a far-journeyer from some other star, and no hint could she nor all the countryside give me of what forms of living, what heats of feeling, or rules of philosophic contemplation actuated her in all that she had been and was. SAMUEL
• Our early single-seater tractors were fitted with a Lewis gun fixed so as to fire over or at the side of the airscrew and actuated by a bowden wire, the most efficient, though not the most numerous, fighting machines at the end of 1915 being the Bristol Scouts. Aviation in Peace and War