How to Use invalid in a Sentence

invalid

adjective

• The judge shut her down, saying that the document was invalid.
  — Leif Wenar, WIRED, 2 Apr. 2024
• The creators are asking for the court to declare the new law invalid and to stop it from being enforced.
  — Wendy Lee, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2024
• The winners, with twenty-four per cent, were blank and invalid ballots.
  — Graciela Mochkofsky, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2023
• The Bureau of Elections report breaks down the types of invalid signatures.
  — Leah Vredenbregt, ABC News, 9 Mar. 2023
• Their indictments had been deemed invalid by a panel of Michigan Supreme Court judges in June.
  — CNN, 9 Dec. 2022
• Two judges ruled the investigative tool invalid in a Chicago case.
  — Sidney Fussell, Wired, 4 Sep. 2020
• The application to declare the trademark invalid was filed in 2018.
  — Tyson Mitman, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2023
• Now, both sides are appealing a judge’s ruling, which deemed two of the three petitions invalid.
  — Sarah Ritter, Kansas City Star, 22 Mar. 2024
• In 2015, the Missouri Supreme Court ruled in separate rulings that two cities’ red light camera laws were invalid.
  — Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 29 May 2024
• Most of the claims the lawmakers are referring to are invalid, and some are fraudulent, Butler said.
  — Nyamekye Daniel, Washington Examiner, 20 Oct. 2020
• Yes, Supreme Court opinions routinely say that this type of balancing is one way that a state law can be deemed invalid.
  — Brian Frazelle, The New Republic, 7 Dec. 2022
• And more recent ones, like the one involving PrEP drugs, are wholly new and thus invalid in their entirety.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 30 Mar. 2023
• Nothing can ruin a trip quite like showing up at the airport only to find out your passport is invalid.
  — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 9 Sep. 2022
• In other words, even if your passport expires in six months' time, another country might deem it invalid and not let you in.
  — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 5 Apr. 2023
• The agents arrested Jichan and hauled him away, leaving his children and invalid wife alone to face a frightening future.
  — Teresa Watanabe, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2023
• State regulators had warned the city that its vote on the tax rate with only four commissioners would be invalid.
  — Joey Flechas, Miami Herald, 11 Apr. 2024
• Myrah added that although the threat was deemed invalid, the school, in conjunction with the Sheriff's Department, will increase security for the event.
  — Drew Dawson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 May 2022
• The lawsuit claims that the failure to outline these initiatives renders the petition invalid, and thus cannot be placed on the ballot in November.
  — Zachary Smith, cleveland, 29 July 2023
• The Mendenhall Law Group, representing the residents, filed the lawsuit, contending that the vote was invalid.
  — Staff Reports, cleveland, 25 Jan. 2023
• The supreme Court will have to decide if an impeached president's pardons of witnesses against him are invalid under this clause.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 8 Dec. 2023
• Of course, the failures of clinical trials don’t necessarily mean that the science they are based on is invalid.
  — Quanta Magazine, 8 Dec. 2022
• Karamo and her allies have been adamant that her removal and Hoekstra's election were invalid and that the RNC has no authority to decide otherwise.
  — Todd Spangler, Detroit Free Press, 18 Feb. 2024
• Fulton County’s elections board is now set to meet Tuesday following an invalid closed-door vote last week to fire the elections director.
  — Ben Brasch, ajc, 15 Feb. 2021
• Amgen argued that most of AbbVie’s patents were invalid, but the two sides reached a settlement in which Amgen agreed not to begin selling its drug until 2023.
  — Rebecca Robbins, New York Times, 28 Jan. 2023
• Because of these allegations, Utahns suing have asked the US district court in Utah to declare the social media law invalid and block its enforcement.
  — Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 17 Jan. 2024
• Because the sole purpose of the new rule is to amend specific provisions of the previous rule that were rendered invalid by the high court, the new rule will take effect immediately, the EPA said.
  — Michael Phillis, Matthew Daly and John Flesher, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Aug. 2023
• But Priscilla’s lawyers argued that the amendment was invalid, saying that it had never been delivered to her during Lisa Marie’s lifetime as required under the language of the trust.
  — Matt Stevens, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2023
• The groups argued in part that the rule is invalid because the bureau's funding mechanism violates the Constitution.
  — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 2 Oct. 2023
• The prosecutor countered that those objections are invalid, and that the indictment proceeded by the book.
  — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 8 Apr. 2024
• Gutierrez Reed’s lawyer, Jason Bowles, has argued that the case is invalid in part because it was brought by two prosecutors who should not have been working together.
  — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 14 June 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024