How to Use retroactive in a Sentence

retroactive

adjective

• They all received a retroactive pay raise.
• The new tax will be retroactive to January 1.
• The raises, if approved, would be retroactive to the start of the school year.
  — Leslie Postal, orlandosentinel.com, 16 Oct. 2020
• The approval of these salary changes are retroactive to Jan. 11.
  — Michael R. Wickline, Arkansas Online, 24 Jan. 2023
• He was placed on the 60-day IL on Wednesday retroactive to Aug. 17.
  — Joe Harris, The Denver Post, 22 Aug. 2019
• The order, which lasts for 60 days, is retroactive to March 19.
  — Mallory Moench, SFChronicle.com, 5 June 2020
• At issue is whether the bill is retroactive and what that means.
  — oregonlive.com, 24 Aug. 2019
• The law is not retroactive to those already on death row.
  — Cnn Editorial Research, CNN, 20 May 2021
• The new law is retroactive to Jan. 20, the day Biden was sworn in as president.
  — Keith Ridler, Star Tribune, 11 May 2021
• He will be placed on the 10-day IL, retroactive to Monday.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 29 Mar. 2023
• The ban is retroactive and will end next year, but the 2022 gold medal will now go to the USA, which placed second.
  — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 30 Jan. 2024
• The state says those checks will be retroactive to Aug. 1, but may only last a few weeks.
  — Laura Hancock, cleveland, 28 Aug. 2020
• Crawford will miss at least10 days on the IL; the move was retroactive to Sunday.
  — Susan Slusser, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 May 2023
• The law is not retroactive, so renters could still be charged up to three months rent until June 30.
  — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Jan. 2024
• Senate Bill 95 went into effect March 29 and is retroactive to the first of the year.
  — Kristina Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Apr. 2021
• Brieske's move to the injury list is retroactive to Monday.
  — Chandler Engelbrecht, Detroit Free Press, 21 July 2022
• Anderson went on the IL retroactive to May 30 with a strained right groin.
  — Lamond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 20 June 2022
• Both O’Farrell and Martinez want their motions to be retroactive to Oct. 8, the date the governor signed the bill.
  — Andrew Khouri, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2019
• Finally, though the tax was made law this year, it was made retroactive back to 2022.
  — Trevor Wagener, Orlando Sentinel, 2 Dec. 2024
• Irvin was placed on the IL retroactive to May 2 with left shoulder soreness.
  — Matt Kawahara, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 May 2022
• Kudlow said the checks should start going out in a couple of weeks and will be retroactive to Aug. 1.
  — Michael Collins, USA TODAY, 11 Aug. 2020
• Like the income tax cut in Montana, the tax relief in Idaho is made retroactive to the first day of 2021.
  — Patrick Gleason, Forbes, 4 July 2021
• Gott, who was placed on the 15-day IL retroactive to June 6 with a right groin strain, is playing catch and running.
  — Curt Hogg, Journal Sentinel, 15 June 2022
• Bevin's bill would be retroactive to July 1 and delay the higher rates for a year.
  — Tom Loftus, The Courier-Journal, 22 July 2019
• The higher payments are retroactive to the week of July 25 but won’t begin for six weeks.
  — James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Aug. 2020
• But that didn’t require a major retroactive overhaul of the Key Bridge.
  — Peter Hermann, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2024
• The bill that passed the state House this weekend and now goes to the Governor’s desk cuts income-tax rates across the board by about 21%, retroactive to Jan. 1.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 6 Mar. 2023
• The Braves placed Hamels on the 10-day injured list, retroactive to Sept. 18, but that was a mere formality.
  — Paul Newberry, orlandosentinel.com, 22 Sep. 2020
• That's because, as it is written, the order is not retroactive.
  — Joedy McCreary, USA TODAY, 21 Jan. 2025
• Most eligible retirees will receive a one-time lump sum for the retroactive amount by the end of March​, deposited directly into their bank accounts.
  — Shahar Ziv, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025