How to Use resource in a Sentence

resource

noun
Definition of resourcenext
Synonyms for resourcenext
  • Oil is essentially their only resource.
  • The computer laboratory is an essential resource for students.
  • Sharing resources in friendship could be the news of the day.
    — USA TODAY, 17 May 2023
  • The campaign against the head tax had far more resources than the campaign for it.
    — Alana Semuels, The Atlantic, 13 June 2018
  • If the world needed oil, that would be a large resource area to go to.
    — CBS News, 21 July 2021
  • This despite living in one of the most resource-rich places in the world.
    — Benjamin Maiangwa, Quartz Africa, 21 Oct. 2020
  • Mitchell said the main struggle was the limited amount of resources at the time.
    — Kaila Contreras, Houston Chronicle, 1 Sep. 2019
  • These allow a task to have the exclusive use of a resource.
    — Jacek Krywko, Ars Technica, 2 Oct. 2020
  • The right group needs to come up with the right solution and find the right resources to make this happen.
    — Patrick Sisson, Curbed, 12 Dec. 2018
  • Directing them to this resource would be a great start.
    — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 5 Oct. 2022
  • But their resources have been greatly reduced over the years.
    — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 1 May 2018
  • Now is the time to take advantage of all the resources available to get rid of malaria for good.
    — Erin M. Stuckey, Time, 25 Apr. 2018
  • Labour, like data, is a resource that is hard to pin down.
    — The Economist, 7 July 2018
  • The campaign is aimed at bringing more resources to the families who need it the most.
    — Terri Huggins Hart, Parents, 12 Oct. 2023
  • Yet the states don't have the resources to pick up that slack, either, the report said.
    — Sarah Bowman, Indianapolis Star, 20 Apr. 2020
  • Because of the size of the building, the fire went to a third alarm, which summoned more resources to help.
    — Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Jan. 2024
  • More than half of that went for school resource officers.
    — Annysa Johnson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 18 June 2020
  • At the same time, the memo does not call for additional resources.
    — Jeffrey Mervis, Science | AAAS, 4 Sep. 2019
  • Our resources are not equipped to be able to handle that number of people.
    — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 10 Dec. 2023
  • Stover said Meek was a great resource for him during the season.
    — al, 1 Dec. 2021
  • But what humans can deploy our public health resources across the world to fight it.
    — Jeffery Delviscio, Scientific American, 20 Mar. 2020
  • Perhaps no Burmese resource has both blessed and cursed the nation more than jade.
    — Tom Nagorski, WSJ, 4 June 2021
  • Health is an essential resource and most people want to take charge of it.
    — Summer Knight, STAT, 14 May 2021
  • So, one of our goals is to send a lot of resources up front to minimize the size of any incident.
    — Jessica York, The Mercury News, 5 Sep. 2019
  • One key reason is that gold is a scarce, finite resource.
    — Robert Samuels | For Iron Monk Solutions, The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 Apr. 2022
  • Castet’s team also didn’t want to make any resource too hard to find.
    — WIRED, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Few people see where the resources that make their life possible come from.
    — Edward Burtynsky, National Geographic, 25 Mar. 2020
  • Your time is the only non-renewable resource on the planet.
    — Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Nov. 2021
  • Some states have the resources to conduct statewide contact tracing.
    — Jaewon Ryu, STAT, 24 Apr. 2020
  • And some people simply do not have the financial resources to move.
    — National Geographic, 8 May 2018

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