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.
• Do you guys have to litigate that and crack down on it?
  — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 2 Dec. 2024
• 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
• 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
• The Microsoft case is the only one to have been litigated far enough to have reached the Supreme Court.
  — David Kravets, Ars Technica, 24 June 2017
• 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
• City spokesman Tony Dodero noted that the city was within its rights to litigate the case.
  — Bradley Zint, Daily Pilot, 20 May 2017
• But Sutton takes this moment to, once again, re-litigate the point.
  — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 23 June 2021
• But others are tired of re-litigating the 2016 election and just want Hillary to go away.
  — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 20 Sep. 2017
• 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
• Loy agreed that at one time the ACLU was seeking $7 million, but declined to say how much the group spent litigating the case.
  — J. Harry Jones, sandiegouniontribune.com, 25 May 2017
• 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
• Hunter Biden requested Wednesday that a federal judge dismiss his lawsuit against a former Trump aide, saying financial troubles barred him from continuing to litigate the case.
  — Ivana Saric, Axios, 6 Mar. 2025
• McDonough was obligated to arbitrate his claims, as opposed to litigating them.
  — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 14 Feb. 2025