How to Use amendment in a Sentence

amendment

noun

• The amendment to the defense bill failed in a 22-to-36 vote.
  — Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2022
• In 2020, the amendment failed to pass the statehouse by four votes.
  — Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Nov. 2021
• The entire text of the amendment is on the ballot this year.
  — Andrew Wolfson, The Courier-Journal, 29 Oct. 2020
• People don’t know about the last half of the amendment.
  — Roger Valdez, Forbes, 2 May 2022
• Canavan warned, but the amendment squeaked through on a 5-4 vote.
  — Allan Vought, The Aegis, 12 June 2018
• The bill may end up being watered down in the amendment process.
  — David McKenzie and Nimi Princewill, CNN, 8 Oct. 2021
• An amendment could be made to lengthen the time down the line, if needed.
  — Erik S. Hanley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 June 2018
• But the amendment might yet make it into the final bill.
  — Grace Segers, CBS News, 12 July 2019
• But a recent amendment takes the treaty a step further.
  — Chelsea Harvey, Scientific American, 20 Aug. 2021
• Three-quarters of states would then have to vote in favor for the amendment to pass.
  — Virginia Chamlee, Peoplemag, 8 June 2023
• Lisa, the amendment process could have been your friend on this one—it’d be way more poignant to write the name of your newest lover.
  — Ginny Hogan, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2021
• The bill, which already passed the House, will be sent back with minor amendments.
  — Cameron McWhirter, WSJ, 13 Mar. 2019
• The second amendment is about the right to defend yourself.
  — Mark Medina, The Mercury News, 5 Aug. 2019
• In his eyes, Thursday's amendment made a bad bill worse.
  — Binghui Huang, The Indianapolis Star, 6 Jan. 2022
• In the Senate there are calls for specific amendments to the deal.
  — James Pindell, BostonGlobe.com, 30 May 2023
• Opponents said the amendment would have opened the door to new fees and costs to rooftop solar users.
  — Lois K. Solomon, Sun-Sentinel.com, 13 July 2018
• The bill was not going to pass without those last-minute amendments.
  — Wilborn P. Nobles Iii, baltimoresun.com, 27 Aug. 2019
• But others were against the amendment, wary of its effect on the city budget.
  — Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 4 May 2021
• That’s one of the bases on which the Supreme Court can, in theory, strike down amendments to a Basic Law.
  — Hadas Gold, CNN, 27 Sep. 2023
• But there is a way to enact term limits short of amendment.
  — Artemus Ward, The Conversation, 28 July 2022
• The Wolf amendment, as it was later coined, has held for seven years.
  — Alex Stuckey, Houston Chronicle, 22 Feb. 2018
• The Senate has passed their own version of the act without such an amendment.
  — Story Hinckley, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 July 2018
• The law is an amendment to the village’s firearm ordinance already on the books.
  — Natalie Dreier, ajc, 5 Apr. 2018
• The amendment was supported by the bill's main sponsors.
  — Erin Kelly, USA TODAY, 26 Apr. 2018
• The point of having the amendment, or the report that Sanders proposed, was to help answer that question.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2024
• Changing that would require a repeal or amendment of the law setting up the tax.
  — Mike Cason | [e-mail], al, 14 June 2020
• The amendment also says the City Council is aware of the relationship and that the contract is in the best interest of the city.
  — Stacy Ryburn, arkansasonline.com, 20 Dec. 2023
• No amendments, no anything else, only the author can amend it and then green-light it.
  — Jasper Scherer, San Antonio Express-News, 13 May 2018
• His speech would not result in passage that year, but the amendment would pass the following year.
  — Cameron Knight, The Enquirer, 26 Dec. 2022
• The language in that amendment said felons must complete their sentences.
  — CBS News, 28 June 2019

Last Updated: 30 Apr 2024