How to Use notate in a Sentence

notate

verb
  • The alert doesn't notate where the affected treats were sold at.
    — Andy Meek, BGR, 14 Jan. 2022
  • Check jewelry for a stamp or hallmark notating the carat.
    — Ashley Poskin, Martha Stewart, 18 Apr. 2026
  • Unlike music, it isn’t written down (though dance steps can be notated after the fact).
    — Terry Teachout, WSJ, 18 Oct. 2017
  • The town will notate any reductions in water loss over the next six months and decide whether to expand the contract.
    — John Aguilar, The Denver Post, 17 Feb. 2025
  • Williams said the payments notated in that system are not part of the city's accounting or payment process.
    — Eric Heisig, cleveland.com, 20 Dec. 2017
  • Then prepare meal plans scoping out the weekly ads from your go-to markets and notating the recurring deals on specific days of the week.
    — Catharine Kaufman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The performance artist Glenda Léon notates music and dance scores with images of raindrops.
    — Holland Cotter, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2017
  • Average math and reading scores are notated as compared to the district average.
    — Kristi Nix, Houston Chronicle, 1 July 2019
  • Dances that are completely choreographed, designed, notated in many, many ways in different media.
    — Belinda Luscombe, Time, 19 Dec. 2019
  • For something free, check out Musescore, which has tons of free sheet music for various instruments and can even be used to notate and print your own music.
    — Parker Hall, Wired, 17 June 2020
  • Rather than notating a shift in consumer behavior and adapting their business models to meet customer needs, these brands remained stagnant.
    — Sharon Harris, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2023
  • That’s because choreography is carefully notated as part of the Broadway process and rarely is redone for tours.
    — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 29 Aug. 2019
  • Williams, too, draws with pencil and paper, composing at the piano in his living room and notating every instrument in the orchestra.
    — Tim Greiving, latimes.com, 3 Sep. 2017
  • If possible and practical, the current COO can set aside or notate where the funds will come from to pay the upcoming large expense.
    — Next Avenue, Forbes, 15 Apr. 2022
  • Like the winter count, Kite records events in her scores for an insider audience, notates them, and returns to them repeatedly, like the cyclical turn of the seasons.
    — Christopher T. Green, Artforum, 1 Mar. 2025
  • There were some short-answer sections, and a section about notating music, for which Kevin consulted an app from the online course provider Apex on his iPhone.
    — Stephen Smiley, Slate Magazine, 23 May 2017
  • Old school string quartets play the rhythms and pitches strictly notated on the page, never deviating from composers’ indications of tempo, dynamics.
    — Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Mar. 2023
  • The Jazz and Blues Art Box comes thoroughly notated, with separate liner notes devoted to each performer.
    — Giovanni Russonello, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2018
  • Include the last four digits of account numbers, approximate value and amount of money owed, and also notate whether the item is separate or community property.
    — Dallas News, 13 May 2021
  • That’s because Lawres extensively organized, catalogued and notated his work.
    — Mike Danahey, Chicago Tribune, 7 Mar. 2026
  • Sound recording transformed the evanescent into the permanent, capturing fleeting improvisations and aural qualities of jazz that cannot be notated.
    — John Edward Hasse, Smithsonian, 24 Feb. 2017
  • There is a precision and care taken by this uncredited map maker to exactly notate where the invasion was happening while also putting it in context with England and the rest of France.
    — Todd Stewart, OrlandoSentinel.com, 5 June 2018
  • Aside from the waterpark, which includes six huge slides all notated with height requirements for safety, there is a surf simulator, carousel, zipline, mini golf, laser tag, a rock climbing wall, sports court, and walking track, as well as kid and teen clubs.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Apr. 2026
  • What's more, because crypto is decentralized and uses a public ledger to notate payments, there is an opportunity for a level of transparency government assistance programs do not provide.
    — Catherine Coley, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2020
  • The composer responded in part by transposing the eight-by-eight chessboard onto the keyboard, with eight octaves on the piano, and devised an experimental score that notates the movement of various chess pieces to given squares on the board.
    — Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 29 Mar. 2025
  • Even more beguiling is Harris’s use of enharmonic tones — exploiting how the same pitch can be notated as, say, G-flat or F-sharp, with different harmonic implications for each.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 3 May 2018
  • The story is that the overture was notated from memory by Alexander Glazunov after hearing Borodin play the work on a piano at a gathering not long before Borodin, the great composer/chemist, died.
    — Jeffrey Johnson, courant.com, 13 May 2017
  • Those two very different events show just how divided Memphis was in the 1960s and how the blues, developed and notated down on Beale Street, would continue to be a lightning rod, as would the festival itself.
    — Stephen Deusner, SPIN, 9 July 2024
  • Narloch will perform the 1981 masterpiece Triadic Memories, a meditative excursion that’s meticulously notated but centered on the way its chords and note patterns hang in the air and decay.
    — Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader, 12 July 2018
  • Things were different in 1971 when Hans Haacke made two elaborate photo-and-text grids that notated the holdings and shell companies of two Manhattan real-estate developers.
    — Richard B. Woodward, WSJ, 24 Sep. 2018

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