How to Use litigate in a Sentence

litigate

verb

• They agree to litigate all disputes in this court.
• The company's unwillingness to make a deal increased her desire to litigate.
• The city has retained a private law firm to litigate the case.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Oct. 2020
• This thing went up to court and it got litigated for a long time.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 28 June 2023
• All these things need to be re-litigated in a world in which there are no givens.
  — Sara Delgado, Teen Vogue, 9 July 2019
• The issue of the deed for the fire station will then be litigated, Mecham said.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Sep. 2019
• In fact, the club could stay open for months while the case is litigated, Shurtleff said.
  — Kolbie Peterson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 21 Aug. 2023
• Don’t try to show him stuff or re-litigate his refusal to look.
  — Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2020
• That status allows the lawyers to litigate on behalf of the state.
  — Ivana Hrynkiw | [e-mail], al, 13 Apr. 2023
• Trump has made moves to litigate the results — both in the courts and via social media.
  — NBC News, 5 Nov. 2020
• If litigated, the matter would likely go to the Supreme Court, Kalt and Crouch said.
  — Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 18 June 2023
• Laws in at least two states are on hold as they’re litigated.
  — Lauren McGaughy, Dallas News, 14 May 2023
• The county is gearing up to litigate the cases, bringing on 11 law firms to work through the claims.
  — Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2023
• In two years litigating the case, the county has hired dozens of lawyers who have billed them $6.7 million.
  — Gabrielle Banks, Houston Chronicle, 29 June 2018
• But Sutton takes this moment to, once again, re-litigate the point.
  — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 23 June 2021
• Moments later, Flint walked from the dugout to litigate the issue with the umpire.
  — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 31 May 2023
• The only way for the court to determine the falsity of that claim would be to litigate the teachings of the Temple.
  — Jack Greiner, The Enquirer, 28 Apr. 2022
• Is this an issue that just gets litigated again and again and again?
  — CBS News, 21 Jan. 2024
• In most instances, the two parties will litigate for a while and then settle, Ealey said.
  — Shari Rudavsky, Indianapolis Star, 8 Jan. 2020
• That is a question likely to be litigated in the courts.
  — Author: Mike Debonis, Rachael Bade, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Sep. 2019
• If the judge does not accept the guilty plea, the judge can rule that the case be litigated in a contested court-martial.
  — Luis Martinez, ABC News, 20 Sep. 2024
• That book was part of an effort to publicly litigate what is taught in the classroom and who is teaching it.
  — Nicole Hemmer, CNN, 20 May 2021
• The last 36 hours provided a preview too of the issues that will likely be litigated in the run-up to the first-in-the-West contest.
  — Rick Klein and, ABC News, 14 Feb. 2020
• More than 150 years after the end of the Civil War, some people are still attempting to litigate the past.
  — Essence.com, 20 June 2018
• But the efforts to re-litigate the 2020 election in Wisconsin are not over.
  — Lauren Dezenski, CNN, 10 Aug. 2021
• In any class action, the parties first litigate over whether the case may proceed as a class action.
  — Jack Greiner, Cincinnati.com, 10 June 2020
• Union attorney Joseph Diemert has said the issue is well litigated and the law is on their side.
  — Robert Higgs, cleveland.com, 13 Aug. 2019
• And that’s a direct result of their being able to litigate.
  — Sammy Rothstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2023
• Rising competition both in China and globally makes firms more willing to litigate who owns what IP, Preston said.
  — Johanna Costigan, Forbes, 22 Sep. 2024
• For a public unsure how to properly litigate Parker, the industry’s hypocrisy around Affleck was far more comfortable territory.
  — Nate Jones, Vulture, 20 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Dec 2024