How to Use excise in a Sentence

excise

1 of 2 noun

• The cuts in petrol and diesel excise duties are the first in three years.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 4 Nov. 2021
• There are also state and local excise taxes, and a sales tax.
  — Mary Jane Gibson, Rolling Stone, 21 Feb. 2022
• State excise taxes on fuel can send prices up or down, too.
  — Mallika Mitra, wsj.com, 18 Oct. 2023
• For example, in late March 1954 the Senate passed a bill to reduce excise taxes.
  — Christian Grose, The Conversation, 14 Oct. 2020
• This came up as part of a series of issues in an excise violation which was nearly 15 pages long.
  — Claire Rafford, The Indianapolis Star, 8 Mar. 2022
• But as a share of their incomes, the burden on the ultra-rich from all taxes — on income, property, excise and sales taxes and other levies — was 6.7%.
  — Stephen Singer, courant.com, 5 Apr. 2022
• The Justices will soon decide whether to hear Quinn v. Washington, a taxpayer challenge to the state’s excise shenanigan.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 19 Oct. 2023
• Most of the rest comes from corporate income taxes and excise taxes on goods such as gasoline and alcohol.
  — Linda Chong, Washington Post, 7 July 2023
• New York and Connecticut levy excise taxes on cannabis that increase with potency, just as liquor is taxed at higher rates than beer.
  — Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Jan. 2024
• New York City imposes additional excise taxes of $1.50 a pack.
  — Michael Lafaive, WSJ, 10 Mar. 2023
• The sticks also have lower excise taxes than regular cigarettes in most countries.
  — NBC News, 2 Aug. 2021
• Based on data from the state Taxation and Revenue Department, the number of cannabis retailers filing their taxes grew by 15%, while the revenue collected in excise taxes grew by just 2%.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 14 Sep. 2022
• One goal of excise tariffs is to curb the harmful use of tobacco and alcohol, but airport shopping is explicitly designed to circumvent them.
  — The Economist, 27 Feb. 2021
• Shared revenue is made up of sales, income and excise taxes paid in communities by residents, workers and visitors, and then distributed — or shared — back to those communities by the state.
  — Vanessa Swales, Journal Sentinel, 20 Sep. 2022
• Biden didn't call for this tax increase, but the proposal from the House Ways and Means Committee would raise the excise taxes on cigars, cigarettes, smokeless tobacco and other nicotine products and then tie the rate to inflation going forward.
  — Katie Lobosco, CNN, 24 Sep. 2021
• Movies have long been chopped up to excise explicit scenes, sometimes including kissing, or on political or religious grounds.
  — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2023
• The money is generated through excise taxes and fees on firearms, ammunition, certain fishing and archery gear and motorboat fuel.
  — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 12 Mar. 2023
• Clemmons said excise police could shut down a party and the township could be held liable for any incident involving an individual who attended the event if no permit is issued.
  — Karen Caffarini, chicagotribune.com, 21 Sep. 2021
• Congress’ 1 percent buyback excise is a good start to removing tax advantages for foreign investors in US corporations.
  — Steve Rosenthal, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2022
• Management of game species has traditionally received solid funding through hunting and fishing license sales and the federal wildlife and fish restoration programs, each backed by excise taxes on gear.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 Apr. 2022
• Tax extenders: Extends a variety of expiring tax breaks, including lower excise taxes of craft brewers and distillers.
  — Associated Press Staff, chicagotribune.com, 21 Dec. 2020
• Participants would be exempt from capital gains, conveyance and general excise taxes under this two-year program.
  — Audrey McAvoy, Fortune, 23 Jan. 2024
• Savings bonds are not exempt from any applicable estate, inheritance, gift or other excise taxes, whether federal or state.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 15 Feb. 2023
• Extraordinarily high energy prices have also put intense pressure on governments to cut excise taxes or approve subsidies to ease the burden on families that can’t afford to heat every room in their home or fill their car’s gas tank.
  — New York Times, 29 Mar. 2022
• First, the tax authorities targeted soda, plastics, and hazardous chemicals with excise taxes.
  — Nana Ama Sarfo, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
• Examples of regressive taxes include state sales taxes, excise taxes, user fees, payroll taxes and to some degree, property taxes.
  — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 27 Mar. 2023
• Martin said Carson, as a former Indiana state excise police officer, also wants to seek police reform in safety and accountability.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 31 Oct. 2022
• With the country’s finances shaken first by the pandemic, then a war in Europe, and finally its own disastrous mini-budget in September, the new government’s treasury chancellor elected to raise the excise duties on all alcoholic beverages.
  — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 20 June 2023
• Indiana lawmakers, governor reluctant to make changes IMPD is pushing the state to give local authorities more autonomy or equip excise police with resources to tackle the problem.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 1 Feb. 2023
• Apportionment of direct taxes is so impractical that Congress did not generally levy them, relying instead on tariffs, excise taxes, and the like to fund the early federal government.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 20 Sep. 2023

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excise

2 of 2 verb

• In surgery, doctors had to remove a portion of a rib to excise the clot.
  — Christian Clark | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 22 Aug. 2020
• Search engines such as Google have free request forms to excise them from a name search, but what about a face search?
  — WIRED, 20 Sep. 2023
• Overnight, the spiders excised her fixes, dropped them to the ground, and carried out their own fixes.
  — Vulture, 26 May 2023
• Ingram's surgery was a success, but to excise the clot, doctors had to remove a portion of one of his ribs.
  — Christian Clark | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 23 Dec. 2020
• Now, the album's getting a new release that excises one of its most beloved songs.
  — Dustin Nelson, EW.com, 21 Aug. 2023
• Redstone excised Holland from his will and banished her from his home.
  — Jordan Riefe, Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2023
• Maybe a shorter run would have allowed the writers to excise some of the duller material.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2023
• All that remained was a massive pit of rubble mixed with skeletal remains excised from the blasts.
  — Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 29 Jan. 2024
• The campaign to excise Kelly's body of work still raises thorny questions about where streaming services draw the line.
  — NBC News, 28 Sep. 2021
• Care needs to be exercised at every step in the process to check for the introduction of biases and to excise them.
  — Lee Hutchinson, Ars Technica, 19 May 2022
• The move to excise those planks from the platform is both pragmatic and philosophical.
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Sep. 2023
• For the People Act to excise the more controversial portions.
  — Grace Segers, CBS News, 8 June 2021
• Beyond that, there are many reasons Bonta and others being asked to excise Trump from the ballot should refuse.
  — Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2023
• The Colts still don’t know for sure how many games, if any, starter Carson Wentz will miss after undergoing surgery on his foot to excise a bone fragment.
  — Jim Ayello, The Indianapolis Star, 15 Aug. 2021
• At the time, Pompeo’s team was busy ramping up its campaign to excise Huawei from Western telecom networks.
  — Jimmy Quinn, National Review, 11 Aug. 2021
• There’s a soullessness in our society that must be excised.
  — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 5 May 2023
• In Mao’s day, a purge within the Party required skilled technicians to excise a comrade from photos.
  — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023
• After Spacey was fired from the series over the allegations, two episodes had to be scrapped as the season was rewritten to excise his character.
  — Brendan Morrow, The Week, 22 Nov. 2021
• The cast has changed considerably, especially since Greta Gerwig co-wrote the movie and excised the Prince Charming from the script.
  — Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 16 July 2023
• The point is that the user can usually easily excise the product placement.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2023
• The film’s darker moments have been either lightened or excised in the stage musical version.
  — David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Sep. 2023
• The move to excise the scene comes as several notable TV series are reappraising past uses of blackface.
  — Omar Sanchez, EW.com, 26 June 2020
• In between are genes for making proteins that recognize those boundaries and either excise them out in the case of transposons, leaving a gap.
  — Megan Molteni, Wired, 7 July 2020
• Once the tissues have been broken down or reduced, the remaining tissues can be debrided (scraped) or excised (cut out).
  — Heather L. Brannon, Md, Verywell Health, 7 Sep. 2023
• President Richard Nixon was undone by his attempts to conceal and excise the official record.
  — Errol Morris, Star Tribune, 6 July 2021
• The approach helped trim the five-hour play to two hours and 45 minutes, excising the military and royal aspects to focus on the family dynamics.
  — Juan A. Ramírez, New York Times, 26 July 2023
• Then, of course, there are the right-wing campaigns to excise passages from instructional texts or simply remove books from public schools and libraries.
  — Niela Orr, New York Times, 6 July 2023
• What his story drove home to me was that the most sinister crimes and worse racial injustices have been largely excised from the American consciousness.
  — Sean Woods, Rolling Stone, 16 Apr. 2023
• The proprietors of the Friars Club, which occupies a 1908 mansion in Midtown Manhattan, are doing the most to excise stuffiness.
  — Christopher Cameron, WSJ, 25 Aug. 2020
• The government has excised textbook chapters on India’s past Muslim rulers and silenced researchers who questioned pseudoscience being promoted by right-wing officials.
  — Sameer Yasir, New York Times, 10 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024