How to Use legal in a Sentence

legal

1 of 2 adjective

• What you did was not legal.
• Do you know your legal rights?
• She has a lot of legal problems.
• The referee said it was a legal play.
• The amount of alcohol in his blood exceeded the legal limit.
• For starters, polygamy is not legal in the state of Arizona.
  — The Editors, Good Housekeeping, 14 Apr. 2019
• Some have backed down from their claims in the face of threats of legal action.
  — Olivia Rubin, ABC News, 26 Mar. 2021
• The new rule also opens the door for a fresh round of legal challenges.
  — Anne Flaherty, ABC News, 3 Jan. 2023
• So far no one has been able to show me how this is legal.
  — James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News, 12 May 2020
• But for now, the procedure still is legal in the state.
  — Rachel Fradette, USA TODAY, 2 July 2022
• To be honest with you, a lot of it with the rule changes is not legal anymore.
  — Dave Clark, Cincinnati.com, 14 May 2020
• Though the loophole is legal, it’s mostly used by the rich.
  — Quartz, 24 Oct. 2022
• With lots of cash on hand, Google is digging in for a long legal fight.
  — The Economist, 22 Oct. 2020
• As of now, there are no plans to take legal action to stop it, sources say.
  — Dan Rys, Billboard, 5 Aug. 2021
• Last fall, the Supreme Court refused to hear a legal challenge to the 2020 state law that raised the threshold.
  — Geoffrey Skelley, ABC News, 21 Mar. 2024
• Congress should ensure that the same is true of cannabis in states where the drug is legal.
  — Ilya Shapiro, National Review, 10 July 2019
• Some of it has to do with betting on games now legal in many states.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Sep. 2019
• If the changes are adopted, cannabis will be legal in the state by July 1st.
  — Ryan Bort, Rolling Stone, 1 Apr. 2021
• Trump’s legal team will then get 24 hours as well, parceled out in the same manner.
  — Brian Barrett, Wired, 21 Jan. 2020
• For the past few years, Johna has been fighting a legal battle of her own.
  — Longreads, 7 Feb. 2023
• The squatters, of course, possess no legal rights at all.
  — Elliott Abrams, National Review, 11 May 2021
• The legal world has taken note of Melody's foster case.
  — Arizona Republic, 25 May 2020
• Physicians may not know what is legal, or for how long.
  — Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 2 July 2022
• The fate of those funds now depends on a complex legal process that will take months to unfold.
  — New York Times, 18 Aug. 2022
• The gap raises red flags for Bryant, the Title IX legal expert.
  — oregonlive, 22 July 2023
• Among cost-saving moves, the district cut down on legal fees.
  — David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 July 2019
• That’s good news for an outlaw distiller who’d like to be legal one day.
  — Kathy Stephenson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 Apr. 2021
• But there no longer would be the legal hammer requiring them to do so.
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Dec. 2023
• That's a legal term that means, in part, any reasonable person in his position would have felt compelled to resign.
  — The Enquirer, 15 Apr. 2024
• The lyrical lambasting was not lost on one of Diddy’s chief hip-hop mogul antagonists, 50 Cent, who has been relentlessly trolling the former Revolt boss over his legal issues in his signature snarky social posts.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 15 Apr. 2024

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legal

2 of 2 noun

• At the very end of the show, rapper Rico Nasty strutted out with a should-be-legal rolled piece of paper between her fingers.
  — Nicole Phelps, Vogue, 12 Mar. 2019
• An extravagant legal row this week suggests there may be little time left for complacency.
  — The Economist, 7 June 2018
• The number of people facing federal drug charges for marijuana violations in the 29 states that have made medical marijuana legal is not thought to be large.
  — Joel Rubin, latimes.com, 14 Aug. 2017
• The state of Ohio, which made medical marijuana legal last September, is in the process of setting guidelines for the issuance of licenses for cultivation, processing and dispensing.
  — Jeff Piorkowski/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 16 May 2017
• Barrett has asked Columbia to refund her spring term rent and tuition, and originally turned to Equip for Equality, a disability legal and advocacy organization, for help.
  — Deanna Isaacs, Chicago Reader, 8 Apr. 2018
• At the very end of the show, rapper Rico Nasty strutted out with a should-be-legal rolled piece of paper between her fingers.
  — Nicole Phelps, Vogue, 12 Mar. 2019
• An extravagant legal row this week suggests there may be little time left for complacency.
  — The Economist, 7 June 2018
• The number of people facing federal drug charges for marijuana violations in the 29 states that have made medical marijuana legal is not thought to be large.
  — Joel Rubin, latimes.com, 14 Aug. 2017
• The state of Ohio, which made medical marijuana legal last September, is in the process of setting guidelines for the issuance of licenses for cultivation, processing and dispensing.
  — Jeff Piorkowski/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 16 May 2017
• Barrett has asked Columbia to refund her spring term rent and tuition, and originally turned to Equip for Equality, a disability legal and advocacy organization, for help.
  — Deanna Isaacs, Chicago Reader, 8 Apr. 2018

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024