How to Use comport with in a Sentence

comport with

phrasal verb
  • Or the time he was asked to check his overcoat to comport with a restaurant’s dress code.
    Sam Roberts, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2024
  • Would that even comport with their own perspective of their lives?
    Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, 25 July 2023
  • The three Colorado dissenters, including the chief justice, thought that their court should not reach the issue, and that the five-day trial did not comport with due process of law.
    The Editors, National Review, 20 Dec. 2023
  • There were large inheritance tax payments and loans against their LG shares that didn’t comport with their understanding that Kwang-mo alone would shoulder the tax.
    Victoria Kim, New York Times, 18 Dec. 2023
  • But this ruling does not comport with U.S. obligations under human rights law.
    Laura Pitter, Foreign Affairs, 23 Aug. 2016
  • Realities of our politics — realities of life — do not comport with the Rules of Golf.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 5 Aug. 2024
  • Separating the two cases would seem to comport with Boulware’s wishes.
    Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 31 July 2024
  • Trump appears to believe that his support for a tariff on Chinese goods comports with his hopes for improved relations with Beijing.
    Mira Rapp-Hooper, Foreign Affairs, 22 Nov. 2016
  • If that doesn’t comport with your recollection of the pandemic, don’t worry about your memory.
    The Editors, National Review, 1 June 2023
  • That may comport with macro data saying inflation is slowing, but price increases are still felt by consumers.
    Anthony Salvanto, Fred Backus, Jennifer De Pinto, CBS News, 30 July 2023
  • The Supreme Court will also weigh whether a 30-year-old law that bars people subject to domestic violence protection orders from having guns comports with the Second Amendment.
    Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 7 July 2023
  • That doesn’t comport with our expectations of how humans work versus how AI automaton works.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2023
  • To put it in terms each candidate for chief justice understands, her dark fate does not comport with contemporary standards of decency.
    Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 15 June 2024
  • The committee’s job is only to make sure that regulations comport with the legislation that authorized them.
    Yash Roy, Hartford Courant, 17 Jan. 2024
  • And if Chair Khan believes that trial losses will move Congress to change the law to comport with her vision of antitrust, litigation certainly isn’t the right tool for communicating a policy idea to Congress.
    Martha Coakley, Fortune, 13 Dec. 2023
  • This comports with my understanding, even as a latecomer to technology.
    Will Stephenson, Harper's Magazine, 16 Aug. 2023
  • In response, California and other liberal states scrambled to devise new gun laws that comported with Bruen enough to survive new legal challenges.
    Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 2 Jan. 2024
  • But otherwise, Washington must give partner governments the space to define their relationships with China in ways that comport with their interests and local realities.
    Jude Blanchette, Foreign Affairs, 24 July 2023
  • The high court is tasked with weighing two questions: whether the laws' content-moderation restrictions comply with the First Amendment and whether their individualized-explanation requirements comport with the constitution.
    Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 29 Sep. 2023
  • JetBlue would also revamp the Spirit jetliners’ interiors to comport with JetBlue’s seating arrangements.
    David Lyons, Sun Sentinel, 16 Jan. 2024

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