How to Use amend in a Sentence

amend

verb

• He tried to amend the situation by apologizing to me.
• The country's constitution was amended to allow women to vote.
• They voted to amend the law in 1920.
• But the list has been amended and scaled back over the years.
  — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2024
• Their request for leave to amend was denied, and the case was closed.
  — Evan Minsker, Pitchfork, 22 Nov. 2023
• Avoid heavy clay soils, and amend with grit or peat if needed.
  — Quincy Bulin, Southern Living, 7 June 2023
• If needed, amend your soil based on the results of your soil test.
  — Lynn Coulter, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Jan. 2023
• With French hydrangeas, gardeners can amend the soil to change the color of the blooms.
  — Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 22 Mar. 2024
• Instead, the judge granted her 20 days to amend her filing.
  — Esther Kang, Peoplemag, 24 May 2024
• Some functions have been amended, but the concept remains much the same.
  — James Raia, The Mercury News, 8 Apr. 2024
• Again, the Frank founder could amend her complaint to add a claim for entitlement.
  — Luisa Beltran, Fortune, 16 Feb. 2024
• The Council cannot amend laws passed by the Duma, but can approve or reject them.
  — Christian Edwards, CNN, 23 July 2024
• The guilt and amends you mentioned are all tied to your scenes with Malcom-Jamal Warner's Amir.
  — Patrick Gomez, EW.com, 31 May 2024
• McBride has 20 days to amend her initial filings, per the court document.
  — Escher Walcott, Peoplemag, 11 July 2023
• In 1950, the state amended the constitution to remove burglary from the list of crimes.
  — John Fritze, USA TODAY, 30 June 2023
• Originally the bill sought to increase the length of notice to 90 days but was amended.
  — Suhauna Hussain, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2023
• In 1968 the state amended the provision again to include murder and rape.
  — John Fritze, USA TODAY, 30 June 2023
• If the bill manages to become law this tax season, filers may have to amend their returns.
  — Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 29 Jan. 2024
• And nobody—not even Putin—can bypass or amend or cancel the logic and the laws of history.
  — Yasmeen Serhan, TIME, 15 Aug. 2024
• This is the biggest issue raised among several others, all of which the village will try to amend.
  — Jesse Wright, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2023
• Footprint Center reserves the right to amend the above list without notice.
  — Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 22 June 2024
• The law, however, was later amended to delete such sales.
  — Joan Oleck, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2024
• The bill was amended on the floor to adjust where the casinos can be located and the number of casinos allowed.
  — Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 May 2024
• The judge amended the gag order to cover his and Mr. Bragg’s families.
  — Ben Protess, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2024
• The Senate version of the bill, which Lam plans to amend to conform with the House version, has not been voted out of committee.
  — Nicole Asbury, Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2023
• But now O’Connor saw that her colleagues were ready to make laws gender neutral, and a bill to amend more than 400 of them passed easily.
  — John Jeremiah Sullivan, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2023
• The threat of such a move could also draw opposition from Congress, which could seek to repeal or amend the law.
  — Max Zahn, ABC News, 25 Sep. 2024
• Install your new plants about a foot beyond the tree’s canopy, amending the soil with compost to further strengthen the plants against the reach of the tree’s root system.
  — Karen Hugg, Washington Post, 8 June 2023
• The lawsuit was initially filed in June 2023 with anonymity for both parties, but was amended a month later to include Polanski's name.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 23 Oct. 2024
• But over the past several decades, financial-industry groups in the U.S. have pushed legislators to amend the bankruptcy system in a way that prioritizes creditors over debtors.
  — Michael Waters, The Atlantic, 30 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Nov 2024