How to Use legislate in a Sentence

legislate

verb

• They are attempting to legislate morality.
• The time to legislate is not next week, next year, next decade.
  — Kate Graham-Shaw, Scientific American, 9 July 2024
• The court’s job is to enforce the law as written, not legislate from the bench.
  — Christina Avery, The Arizona Republic, 10 July 2024
• The Supreme Court has always said that states have a right to legislate in this area.
  — Fox News Staff, Fox News, 8 Sep. 2021
• Fast food may be a tough habit to legislate away, though.
  — Brian Gallagher, New York Times, 12 May 2024
• This needs to be hashed out and proved to be tricky to legislate, Calhoun said.
  — Brent Schrotenboer, USA TODAY, 14 Oct. 2020
• New York is one of the leading states in the U.S. to legislate to ban its commercial ivory trade.
  — Kate Brooks, National Geographic, 2 Aug. 2017
• New York is one of the leading states in the U.S. to legislate to ban its commercial ivory trade.
  — Kate Brooks, National Geographic, 2 Aug. 2017
• The last thing the game needs is another rule that legislates action on the field.
  — Patrick Saunders, The Denver Post, 22 June 2019
• The best judges administer the law fairly and The best judges do not legislate from the bench.
  — Cincinnati.com, 28 June 2017
• Thus, the bone-rattling hits of yore are being legislated out of the game.
  — Bob Ryan, BostonGlobe.com, 19 May 2018
• New York City has even tried to legislate against the practice, though any law would be hard to enforce.
  — Emma Grey Ellis, WIRED, 14 Aug. 2019
• What’s bizarre is that the NFL has been trying to legislate the kickoff out of the league for years, tinkering with the distance of the kicks and the yardage of the touchback.
  — Chris Chase, For The Win, 3 May 2018
• McGlynn hopes that the more people talk about the issue and legislate around it, the better things will get.
  — Molly Longman, refinery29.com, 27 Oct. 2022
• This is not an attempt to get an outcome or to legislate.
  — Allison Pecorin, ABC News, 17 Sep. 2024
• The Warriors are proof that no one can legislate how much talent a team should be allowed to have.
  — Bob Ford, Philly.com, 13 June 2017
• For more than a decade, Congress has struggled to legislate on a range of issues.
  — Gregory Koger, Vox, 12 Nov. 2018
• And that's what happened, there's this trope that Congress can't legislate.
  — NBC News, 3 Oct. 2021
• What is the Mexican state going to legislate in this area?
  — WIRED, 14 Sep. 2023
• Neither of us has ever been inclined to legislate that on others, but held it to be true in our own hearts.
  — Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2020
• Then the Democrats had to legislate, with zero margin for error.
  — Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2022
• The move to monitor and legislate drones could go local.
  — Don Reisinger, Fortune, 28 June 2017
• Unable to legislate changes to its mission, some lawmakers have figured out a way to try to do an end-run around the body.
  — Robert Faturechi, ProPublica, 10 Mar. 2020
• The British government plans to legislate to require it.
  — Amie Tsang, New York Times, 15 June 2018
• But the state should not be involved in legislating your oblivion.
  — Fox News, 30 Aug. 2018
• Democrats may now be on the verge of controlling the state Senate, but in fact Albany has all but finished legislating for the year.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 5 Apr. 2018
• Are there any states that have really figured out how to legislate against this?
  — Leah Feiger, WIRED, 6 Sep. 2024
• The colonies and England came to blows when the assemblies at last denied that Parliament had any right to legislate for them at all.
  — Thomas Wendel, National Review, 4 July 2019
• Their suit is an invitation to legislate from the bench, or perhaps from the jury room.
  — Edward Fitzpatrick, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Aug. 2019
• The first six years of my career in radio seem to have been driven by the foolishness that was legislated into the Clean Air Act of 1990.
  — star-telegram, 20 Oct. 2017

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024