How to Use incentive in a Sentence

incentive

noun
  • The company is offering a special low price as an added incentive for new customers.
  • The rising cost of electricity provides a strong incentive to conserve energy.
  • The government offers special tax incentives for entrepreneurs.
  • So there’s no incentive to speak out alone.
    — Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 13 Jan. 2026
  • And with state incentives, the math can work.
    — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 16 June 2026
  • Scott signed a one-year incentive-laden deal this month.
    — Mike Kaye march 26, Charlotte Observer, 26 Mar. 2026
  • But there’s still some incentive to do it.
    — Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2025
  • So, in my view, this tax incentive to give is not very strong.
    — Benjamin A. Priday, The Conversation, 22 May 2020
  • At the most, men wouldn’t have an incentive to leave their homes.
    — New York Times, 15 May 2021
  • The incentive would start next year.
    — Kate Duffy, Bloomberg, 25 Mar. 2026
  • What are some of the incentives?
    — Kathleen Wong, USA Today, 10 Oct. 2025
  • So if the play-in is no incentive not to tank, then what can be done?
    — Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 8 Apr. 2026
  • This stems from one thing—incentives.
    — Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The incentive to cheat is based on the fear of losing their jobs.
    — Bethany McLean, The Hive, 19 June 2017
  • News outlets have no incentive to do such a thing.
    — Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 16 Mar. 2026
  • That’s a nice incentive to try to get this passed on the ballot.
    — John Benson, cleveland, 8 Dec. 2021
  • That is a big incentive for providers to be careful.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 17 May 2026
  • Pretty soon, fans will have even more of an incentive to make the trip.
    — Taylor Mead, House Beautiful, 23 Jan. 2019
  • The structural incentive to try it again has not changed.
    — Jason Snyder, Forbes.com, 17 May 2026
  • So far, that hasn’t been enough of an incentive to break the impasse.
    — Karen Kaplanscience and Medicine Editor, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2022
  • With less than a month to prepare, there’s more incentive to start now.
    — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 July 2025
  • Is there an incentive to back stand-alone stories that are no longer safe bets?
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 12 June 2025
  • Both of these projects will include some form of tax incentives from the city.
    — Taylor O'Connor, Kansas City Star, 1 June 2026
  • But there’s an incentive to stick to his hard-charging ways.
    — ABC News, 8 June 2026
  • So builders have leaned on incentives for more than a year just to keep homes selling.
    — Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 1 June 2026
  • Here too was the ideal sales incentive.
    — Literary Hub, 28 Apr. 2026
  • The short answer is to avoid any incentive for a team to finish last.
    — Brian Mahoney, Chron, 13 May 2023
  • So that takes away the incentive to bribe people or to put pressure on them.
    — WIRED, 18 Oct. 2023
  • The Pacers have more incentive to lose than any team in the league.
    — Jason Anderson, Sacbee.com, 11 Mar. 2026
  • There’s no one-size-fits-all incentive structure.
    — Marty Dauer, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026

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