How to Use decommission in a Sentence

decommission

verb
  • The government is decommissioning the nuclear power plant.
  • Several military bases are scheduled to be decommissioned.
  • By the end of this decade, most of them will likely be decommissioned.
    — Ingmar Rentzhog, Forbes.com, 11 July 2025
  • This isn’t the first time a space station has been decommissioned.
    — Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 July 2024
  • Wednesday night's vote would decommission the park as an off-leash park area by the end of the year.
    — Frankie McLister, CBS News, 18 June 2026
  • Epstein had just sold it, and the plan was to decommission the craft and prep the airplane for sale.
    — Aj Willingham, AJC.com, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Decades after it was decommissioned, no one is threatening to tear down the crane.
    — Peter Hartlaub, SFChronicle.com, 8 Jan. 2020
  • The trains are set to be removed sometime next year, and while there is no rush, they have been decommissioned and will not roll again.
    — John Shumway, CBS News, 10 Dec. 2025
  • Since then, the long process of decommissioning the plant has been underway.
    — Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Mar. 2025
  • The Israelis will want to decommission that.
    — ABC News, 5 Oct. 2025
  • Both were eventually decommissioned and have since been returned to the wildlife that once made their home there.
    — Mindy Sink, The Denver Post, 9 Jan. 2025
  • The platform was recently decommissioned and the deck and topside were brought back to shore.
    — Sara Sneath, NOLA.com, 15 Feb. 2018
  • Both steamships were decommissioned in 1991, two years before the park closed.
    — Elissa Robinson, Detroit Free Press, 15 Aug. 2024
  • The road will become decommissioned as a state highway and turned over to the city upon completion of the work.
    — Ron Wood, arkansasonline.com, 27 Nov. 2024
  • The Ohio fleet will be decommissioned at a rate of one vessel per year from 2027.
    — David Brennan, Newsweek, 13 Mar. 2018
  • 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 existing jail will then be decommissioned.
    — Christa Swanson, CBS News, 8 May 2026
  • The city’s final contract with Flock expires this month, and its cameras are then set to be decommissioned.
    — Elliott Wenzler, Denver Post, 11 Mar. 2026
  • As that ship was decommissioned in 1997, the strategy has since changed.
    — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 4 Feb. 2019
  • Roberts was back in action until decommissioned in 2015 (though that could change).
    — David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 21 June 2017
  • With the space station set to be decommissioned in 2030, the race is on to test its successors.
    — Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 22 Jan. 2026
  • The 35 employees will stay to help start decommissioning the plant.
    — Judith Kohler, The Denver Post, 21 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Once the Cold War thawed in the early 1990s, most of the bunkers were decommissioned.
    — Adam Williams, New Atlas, 24 July 2024
  • The problem is, in the past couple years, the department has only decommissioned 25 or so hoses.
    — Karina Bland, azcentral, 23 May 2018
  • When the new plant opens, Fiveash will eventually be decommissioned and demolished, but not right away.
    — Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 21 June 2026
  • The developer will restore the land as a natural area if the project is ever decommissioned.
    — Keith Matheny, Freep.com, 7 Nov. 2025
  • These identities aren’t provisioned, reviewed or decommissioned in the same way as human users.
    — Syed Ali, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026

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