How to Use participatory in a Sentence

participatory

adjective
  • That’s not all This is a participatory sport for fans.
    — Kevin Modesti, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Part of it was the puzzle and the pleasure of the participatory eating process.
    — Michael A. Gardiner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Oct. 2022
  • With this kind of participatory approach the risk is that the output could not be as attractive for the eyes.
    — Rica Cerbarano, Vogue, 12 Apr. 2022
  • This isn’t the first time Tarantino has used his films to take a participatory with history.
    — Richard Newby, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 July 2019
  • Here's what to know about participatory budgeting and what's next.
    — La Risa R. Lynch, Journal Sentinel, 10 Mar. 2023
  • The participatory piece is meant to look like a confession booth like those used by the Catholic Church.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Sep. 2021
  • Are there proteges out there to carry the torch for a more participatory democracy?
    — Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune, 23 Sep. 2022
  • The participatory-labor model, which has kept prices low, is strictly enforced and anyone who missed a shift had to serve two.
    — Anne Quito, Quartz, 15 Apr. 2020
  • The project aims to show city leaders participatory budgeting is a viable option for the city.
    — La Risa R. Lynch, Journal Sentinel, 11 July 2024
  • As is to be expected, much is participatory, as democracy itself is meant to be.
    — Lori Waxman, Chicago Tribune, 20 Sep. 2022
  • The classic’s participatory races along the race route will be much more accessible.
    — Dylan Owens, The Know, 1 Mar. 2017
  • Townshend finished the participatory song with an aerial split and a handsome flourish on the guitar, one of his few of the evening.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Aug. 2019
  • Consciousness isn’t confined to the brain, but a process, a movement, a participatory field.
    — Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes.com, 17 June 2025
  • This gives the campaign a participatory edge.
    — Noel Burgess, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
  • Those of us who have been youth researchers in a participatory action research group project have seen strong evidence of these problems.
    — Daquan Ford, Chicago Tribune, 15 May 2025
  • But those who study leadership give high marks to the democratic and more participatory style of many women leaders.
    — Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Aug. 2020
  • But engaging with the website or clicking through to a chatbot — all those things are participatory and real-time.
    — Bryan Bishop, The Verge, 24 May 2018
  • The show, however, evolved to be something much more participatory than what that pilot entailed.
    — Jim McLauchlin, WIRED, 15 July 2019
  • In time, Portlanders would come to love him for such nutty attempts at participatory journalism -- and for much more.
    — oregonlive, 10 Jan. 2022
  • The state of Ohio has issued a new order about participatory sports and the safeguards that should be in place to combat the spread of coronavirus.
    — Matt Goul, cleveland, 25 Sep. 2020
  • The 23-year-old Coello is from Spain, where padel and soccer are the top two participatory sports in the country.
    — Kurt Badenhausen, Sportico.com, 15 Jan. 2026
  • The social media companies that have profited most have done so by selling back to us the promises of the web and participatory culture.
    — Tarleton Gillespie, WIRED, 26 June 2018
  • In this way, every post is an entry point into an evolving, participatory storyworld.
    — Charlie Fink, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2025
  • In this way, every post is an entry point into an evolving, participatory storyworld.
    — Charlie Fink, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Photograph by Steven Pisano And there is dance—and not just the participatory kind that goes on under the disco ball.
    — The New Yorker, 28 June 2024
  • The approach is known as participatory design, a method of gathering input from all stakeholders to make sure that the final outcome meets their needs.
    — Thomas E. Weber, Time, 6 June 2025
  • Basketball is the fastest growing participatory sport in both markets.
    — Jason Beede, The Orlando Sentinel, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Audiences for new media are more active and participatory than before.
    — Kirstin Pellizzaro, Encyclopedia Britannica, 27 Apr. 2026
  • The immersive theater concept, which involves the audience and can even be participatory, is a growing one in the theater world.
    — Steve Lord, chicagotribune.com, 5 Apr. 2021
  • The Roadless Rule is a case study in participatory democracy.
    — Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Twin Cities, 11 Sep. 2025

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