How to Use incentive in a Sentence

incentive

noun
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  • 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.
  • The incentive to cheat is based on the fear of losing their jobs.
    — Bethany McLean, The Hive, 19 June 2017
  • That’s a nice incentive to try to get this passed on the ballot.
    — John Benson, cleveland, 8 Dec. 2021
  • This is a step in the right direction, but the incentive is flawed.
    — Puja Ohlhaver, Wired, 1 Sep. 2020
  • The short answer is to avoid any incentive for a team to finish last.
    — Brian Mahoney, Chron, 13 May 2023
  • At the most, men wouldn’t have an incentive to leave their homes.
    — New York Times, 15 May 2021
  • The incentives in my contract are much more to sell to the streamers than to broadcast.
    — Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Mar. 2023
  • So once again, the lesson is that the presence of incentives is not enough.
    — The Economist, 12 Dec. 2019
  • Pretty soon, fans will have even more of an incentive to make the trip.
    — Taylor Mead, House Beautiful, 23 Jan. 2019
  • This would be the third part of an incentive for the development.
    — Steve Lord, chicagotribune.com, 15 Oct. 2021
  • 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
  • So that takes away the incentive to bribe people or to put pressure on them.
    — WIRED, 18 Oct. 2023
  • So, in my view, this tax incentive to give is not very strong.
    — Benjamin A. Priday, The Conversation, 22 May 2020
  • Playing time will now be the incentive for Walz to get the most out of his players.
    — Alexis Cubit, The Courier-Journal, 23 Nov. 2022
  • The lenders almost have an incentive for contracts to fail.
    — Jessica Lussenhop, ProPublica, 21 Nov. 2022
  • The upgrades were done thanks, in part, to an incentive program the city is rolling out.
    — David Hernandez, sandiegouniontribune.com, 19 Apr. 2018
  • Another incentive for the project is a sales tax break.
    — Judy Pochel, chicagotribune.com, 17 Dec. 2020
  • Why should the incentive to be green vary with the economic cycle?
    — The Economist, 14 Dec. 2019
  • This was an incentive for those who are bonus club members.
    — Christopher Brito, CBS News, 12 July 2018
  • And there’s a great incentive to break multiverse rules to do it.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 25 Sep. 2021
  • The real problem is a lack of incentive for schools to meet students’ needs.
    — Corey Deangelis, National Review, 6 Apr. 2021
  • If prizes for the top three teams and best dressed aren't enough incentive, maybe the butterbeer will be.
    — Rachel Yang, Chicago Reader, 5 Mar. 2018
  • Maybe this gives Dwyane Wade some added incentive to come back and play with a friend.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun-Sentinel.com, 30 Apr. 2018
  • When it wasn’t broken, there was no incentive to fix it.
    — Greg Petro, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2022
  • Often, lack of trust in the government is an incentive to act.
    — The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2021
  • Governments with enough incentive have been able to hack phones en masse.
    — NBC News, 14 Oct. 2020
  • Their incentive to spend that much on a crumbling structure?
    — Bill Laitner, Detroit Free Press, 19 Mar. 2021
  • In a stable like this, skaters have less of an incentive to take care of their own well-being.
    — Sarah Hughes, Rolling Stone, 19 Feb. 2022

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