How to Use reinstate in a Sentence

reinstate

verb
  • The school board voted to reinstate the school's uniform policy.
  • After his name was cleared, he was reinstated as committee chairperson.
  • Before the end of the month, they were reinstated to their jobs.
    Davey Alba, Anchorage Daily News, 17 July 2023
  • Smith has asked the appeals court to reinstate those charges.
    Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 5 Sep. 2024
  • But even if he is reinstated, questions remain about why the board fired him in the first place.
    Bysteve Mollman, Fortune, 19 Nov. 2023
  • The judge directed the company to reinstate the worker and award back pay.
    Suhauna Hussain, Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Based on these laws, the Court of Appeals reinstated Killary’s suit.
    Rachel Smith, The Courier-Journal, 23 Feb. 2024
  • What happens if the Supreme Court doesn't reinstate the injunction?
    Morgan Watkins, The Courier-Journal, 16 Nov. 2022
  • To restore shine, try a gloss treatment to reinstate that vinyl effect.
    Georgia Day, Vogue, 2 Nov. 2023
  • But the judge added the court did not have the authority to reinstate Warren as state attorney.
    Tim Craig, Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2023
  • All four have fought to get their jobs back, and as of August state regulators had ordered the city to reinstate two of them, with back pay.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 22 Oct. 2023
  • The most controversial, though, was his pledge to reinstate the accounts of a number of people who had been kicked off the platform.
    Justin Klawans, The Week, 2 Nov. 2022
  • He was dealt to the Jacksonville Jaguars at last year's trade deadline, and the league officially reinstated him in March.
    Michael Middlehurst-Schwartz, USA TODAY, 29 June 2023
  • The agreement opens the door for the school to reinstate other club activities in the interim.
    Melissa Korn, WSJ, 22 Sep. 2022
  • The Supreme Court is set to decide in 2023 whether the Biden administration can reinstate the policies.
    CBS News, 30 Dec. 2022
  • After missing 12 games for his latest fracas, Green was reinstated by the league over the weekend, and returned to the team.
    Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 8 Jan. 2024
  • On Saturday, the account of Kanye West was again reinstated on X, though ads won’t appear next to his posts.
    Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 July 2023
  • He was soon reinstated, and the board was restructured.
    Diane Brady, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2024
  • He was reinstated last Sunday and has since been around the team, but was getting back into playing shape.
    Michael Nowels, The Mercury News, 14 Jan. 2024
  • The Delaware judge will still need to decide whether the vote is sufficient to reinstate his pay, and the ruling is likely to be appealed.
    Jack Ewing, New York Times, 31 May 2024
  • The 26-year-old needs to complete four or five rehab starts before the Tigers contemplate reinstating him from the injured list.
    Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 30 May 2023
  • That was a reference to a recent decision by the Arizona Supreme Court to reinstate a law from 1864 that bans nearly all abortions in the state.
    Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Apr. 2024
  • The dance was reinstated but moved from the school grounds to a country club and only seven people attended.
    Randy McMullen, The Mercury News, 5 Sep. 2024
  • Raymond James reinstates Uber as strong buy Raymond James said the ride-sharing company is a top idea.
    Michael Bloom, CNBC, 24 Sep. 2024
  • Whether car owners can even reinstate their loans by getting the balance current depends on what’s in their loan agreement, and their right to do so varies from state to state.
    Patrick George, The Verge, 3 Mar. 2023
  • The settlement with the city of Atlanta comes after the two officers who were fired were reinstated, and the six officers involved in the case were cleared of any charges.
    Kizzy Cox, Essence, 3 July 2024
  • Protests began earlier this month when the High Court ordered the government to reinstate the 30% job quota.
    Reuters, CNN, 16 July 2024
  • The issue exploded this month when the Arizona Supreme Court reinstated a near total ban on abortions that was passed in 1864.
    USA TODAY, 23 Apr. 2024
  • While abortions up to 15 weeks are legal in Arizona, the courts could reinstate a 19th century near-total ban.
    Stephanie Innes, The Arizona Republic, 18 Oct. 2022
  • Musk reinstated accounts belonging to Alex Jones and Andrew Tate, both of which were banned years before the 2020 election cycle even began.
    Makena Kelly, WIRED, 31 Oct. 2024

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