How to Use statute in a Sentence

statute

noun

• The state legislature passed the statute by an overwhelming margin.
• Forty-eight states now have some version of the statute.
  — Sarah Stillman, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023
• Those types of recusals are spelled out by the statute as well.
  — Tierney Sneed, CNN, 29 Mar. 2022
• Prosecutions have soared in the 30 states with the statutes on the books.
  — Lizzie Presser, ProPublica, 28 Sep. 2024
• That vote then triggers a statute that makes the board's files open to the public.
  — Stephen Groves, ajc, 20 Sep. 2022
• Well, first, these are types of statutes that exist in state law.
  — CBS News, 18 Aug. 2024
• Washington is not party to the statute that set up the ICC.
  — Miriam Berger, Washington Post, 27 July 2023
• The statute was at the heart of Trump's strategy to overturn the 2020 election.
  — Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 6 June 2022
• Lee quickly signed off on the statute and it was set to take effect April 1.
  — Kimberlee Kruesi, Anchorage Daily News, 3 June 2023
• The Arkansas statute is on hold as it has been challenged in the courts.
  — Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 Oct. 2022
• The other five AMAs in the state were established by statute.
  — Clara Migoya, The Arizona Republic, 24 Oct. 2024
• Idaho became the first state to adopt a similar law to the Texas statute.
  — Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN, 25 Mar. 2022
• With the Rome Statute, Ukraine and Russia are not currently parties to the statute.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2022
• It has since been strengthened by state lawmakers, spurred by the attack to add teeth to the statute.
  — Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Aug. 2023
• The statute is named for Josef Neumann, who was stabbed to death at a rabbi’s home during Hanukkah of 2020.
  — Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 22 Nov. 2022
• The assistant chief told him to read the state’s assault statute and decide from there.
  — Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 8 Aug. 2022
• All of these statutes were dead by the Roaring ’20s, if not earlier.
  — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 26 June 2024
• The rest must be spent as directed by statute, according to the DHS.
  — Ryan Randazzo, AZCentral.com, 18 Apr. 2022
• The case was tried as such under a brand-new post-9/11 federal hate crime statute.
  — Outside Online, 13 May 2022
• There is no statute of limitation on rape in the state of Maryland.
  — Darcy Costello, Baltimore Sun, 13 July 2022
• West Virginia doesn’t have a trigger law, but does have an old statute on the books that had been shelved while Roe was in place.
  — Kimberlee Kruesi and Leah Willingham, Anchorage Daily News, 27 June 2022
• The judge said the statute is the only one in Arkansas that deals with forensic retesting.
  — Lara Farrar, Arkansas Online, 24 June 2022
• Willis’s case makes use of a state version of the federal RICO statute.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Aug. 2023
• Violators of the statute face up to a $2,000 fine per offense.
  — Dan Carson, Chron, 29 Mar. 2022
• Countries such as Japan, Canada and Turkey are member states of the statute.
  — Peter Aitken, Fox News, 17 Mar. 2023
• Whether that statute applies to lawyers in other agencies is not clear.
  — Alan Judd, ajc, 30 June 2022
• At the time of Arbery’s death, Georgia was one of only a handful of states without a hate crimes statute on the books.
  — Tamar Hallerman, ajc, 23 Feb. 2022
• Four states have passed personhood statutes, though one, in Arizona, was blocked by a court.
  — Rachel Hatzipanagos, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2024
• The amendment would also shift some existing tax laws, like some property tax exemptions, from the constitution into statutes, which are easier to edit in the future.
  — Chelsea Brasted, Axios, 20 Mar. 2025
• The library provided communications law books and resources so staff could have an accurate reading of the agency's authorities and statutes.
  — Maria Curi, Axios, 6 Mar. 2025