How to Use legal holiday in a Sentence

legal holiday

noun

• But if these dates fall on a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday, the deadline moves to the next business day.
  — Tom Herman, WSJ, 11 Dec. 2017
• Oregon becomes the first state to make Labor Day a legal holiday.
  — CNN, 20 Aug. 2021
• Alabama is the last state to have a legal holiday set aside solely to commemorate the birth of Davis.
  — Leada Gore | [e-mail], al, 5 June 2023
• Emancipation Day is a legal holiday in D.C. with city workers off the job.
  — Leada Gore, AL.com, 16 Apr. 2018
• Under the tax law, legal holidays in the District of Columbia affect the filing deadline across the nation.
  — Leada Gore, AL.com, 9 Jan. 2018
• West Virginia observe Election Day as a legal holiday with most state offices closed.
  — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 6 Nov. 2022
• Families took advantage of the rare non-religious legal holiday to vote and then shop.
  — Michele Chabin and Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 2 Mar. 2020
• Jackson also has filed bills that would make June 19th – Juneteenth – a state legal holiday and make election days state holidays.
  — Vivian Jones, Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2021
• City of Chicago offices, for instance, will be closed, but Delaware doesn’t recognize this as a legal holiday.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2021
• There are nine legal holidays across the country, but only one, the Day of German Unity (Oct. 3), is federally mandated.
  — Volker Wagener, USA TODAY, 14 Oct. 2017
• With the encouragement of his constituents, Crighton joined Williams to cosponsor the amendment making Juneteenth a legal holiday in Massachusetts.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 15 June 2021
• Senate Bill 350 called for marking Juneteenth Independence Day as a legal holiday to commemorate the day when slaves finally learned that they had been freed.
  — Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 5 May 2022
• Confederate Memorial Day is still a legal holiday in five states.
  — Kyle Wood, sun-sentinel.com, 9 Mar. 2021
• Flag Day is not considered to be a federal holiday, but Pennsylvania is the only state that recognizes it as a legal holiday.
  — Deanna Watson, USA TODAY, 14 June 2021
• But the prison released her before the weekend, following a standard federal prison policy for all inmates whose release date falls on a Saturday, Sunday or a legal holiday.
  — Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 5 Sep. 2019
• Under state law, a legal holiday that falls on a Saturday is still observed on Saturday, while Sunday holidays are observed the following Monday.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 17 June 2021
• Dallas prohibits major construction near residential neighborhoods from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. on weekdays and 7 p.m. to 8 a.m. on Saturdays and legal holidays.
  — Diego Mendoza-Moyers, ExpressNews.com, 21 Sep. 2019
• The state of Florida also considers Confederate Memorial Day a legal holiday.
  — Reis Thebaul, oregonlive, 6 Apr. 2019

Last Updated: 19 Oct 2024