How to Use in place in a Sentence

in place

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  • Zoox also added fluting to the wireless charging pad to help keep phones in place.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 3 July 2026
  • All projects have secured 30% of their budget and have this financing in place.
    — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 3 July 2026
  • On Saturday morning, those handmade signs were gone, some of the tape used to affix them still in place.
    — Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 4 July 2026
  • One commenter suggested using fish stock in place of chicken stock to make the seafood flavor even more prominent.
    — Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 July 2026
  • Dragonflies are the fastest fliers among insects and can change direction instantly or hover in place.
    — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 July 2026
  • Almost always, their teams will pay for the collarbone to undergo surgery — having pins or a plate inserted to lock it in place.
    — Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 4 July 2026
  • The Charlotte facility includes a testing lab that will remain in place.
    — John Marks, Charlotte Observer, 2 July 2026
  • During the final two minutes of the fourth quarter and overtime, however, standard free throw rules will remain in place.
    — Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 2 July 2026
  • Already, an agreement with Panasonic is in place to tackle battery-grade graphite in Canada.
    — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 4 July 2026
  • Aura monitors all three major credit bureaus and can alert you within minutes of a new account or hard inquiry reported to your file, whether a freeze is in place.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 4 July 2026
  • The red carpet always presents itself as an opportunity to show off big, bold, beautiful hair—and behind every look is a product hard at work keeping it in place.
    — Gina Vaynshteyn, StyleCaster, 2 July 2026
  • Burnout, by contrast, is a harder reason for many owners to say out loud, especially when the business is still healthy, and the outward signs of success remain firmly in place.
    — Scott Hanson, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
  • Most of those restrictions were repealed in 1985, but the weekend sale restriction for car dealerships remained in place.
    — Tiffani Jackson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 July 2026
  • San Luis Obispo and the coast High temps on Thursday rise into the upper 60s with a strong marine layer still in place.
    — Sean MacAday, Sacbee.com, 2 July 2026
  • For those with an eye on the future and a mindset of settlement and creating homes for others, planning and consents are in place for 400 new beachfront properties.
    — Nielsen Dinwoodie, Forbes.com, 4 July 2026
  • For both events, a strict no-phone policy was in place for everyone inside the venue, including guests, vendors and security personnel, according to sources.
    — ABC News, 3 July 2026
  • Under the thunderstorm protocol in place in the States, a match must be suspended if lightning or electrical discharge is detected within an eight-mile radius of the stadium involved.
    — Aaron Mentkowski, New York Times, 2 July 2026
  • The museum building has both air conditioning and air purification systems in place to protect the flag and more than 270,000 other historical items in its care.
    — Rebekah Riess, CNN Money, 4 July 2026
  • Thousands of people are still under evacuation orders in Pueblo and Custer counties, and pre-evacuation warnings are in place in Fremont and Huerfano counties.
    — Katie Langford, Denver Post, 4 July 2026
  • The National Mall seems to be wrapped in a variety of fencing, some of it in place for construction reasons, some of it to create a security gantlet for the July 4 celebration.
    — Matt Viser, The Atlantic, 2 July 2026
  • Thomson Reuters recently found that while 71% of organizations have AI ethics policies in place, only 41% have operationalized them.
    — Greg Pavlik, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
  • Companies with clear policies, accountability structures and oversight mechanisms in place are often more effective at scaling new technology adoption because stakeholders have trust in how the technology is being managed.
    — Serenity Gibbons, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
  • The respected 13th-century Spanish rabbi Nachmanides (Ramban) chastises Lot for the atrocity of offering his daughters in place of the angels.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 July 2026
  • Opening the batting in place of Sanju Samson, Sooryavanshi walked out in front of a majority Indian crowd in Manchester and a primetime evening television audience in Mumbai.
    — ABC News, 4 July 2026
  • The state also has goals, including some that have been in place since 2012, that set declining limits on smog-causing pollutants and required automakers to sell increasing percentages of electric and hybrid vehicles through 2025.
    — Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2026
  • To that, law enforcement sources on June 24 confirmed to Deadline that NYPD and Penn Station Amtrak officers have been assigned to put extra bodies and resources in place for Swift and Kelce’s shindig.
    — Dominic Patten, Deadline, 2 July 2026

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