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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Willis’s case makes use of a state version of the federal RICO statute.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Aug. 2023
• 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
• Four states have passed personhood statutes, though one, in Arizona, was blocked by a court.
  — Rachel Hatzipanagos, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2024
• The statute carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison.
  — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 13 Nov. 2022
• But common sense doesn’t always win in a courtroom, where statutes reign supreme.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 2 Oct. 2023
• Divorce was outlawed, not just by statute but in the text of the Irish constitution.
  — Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 3 Aug. 2022
• Could Jacob advise on how a specific word in the statute should be spelled?
  — Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
• The decades-old statute was invoked by the Trump administration in March 2020 at the start of the pandemic.
  — Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2023
• The statute allows whistleblowers to receive awards of between 10% to 30% of any fines levied by the SEC as a result of a tip.
  — Dylan Tokar, WSJ, 26 Aug. 2022
• The statute the letter cites, though, is not among the three that the search warrant lists as being part of the investigation.
  — Eric Tucker, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Aug. 2022
• Arizona's property tax statutes are some of the most complex in the country.
  — Catherine Reagor, The Arizona Republic, 23 Sep. 2024
• But the board's draft minutes, posted two days later, make no mention of that statute.
  — Stephen Groves, ajc, 16 Sep. 2022
• The Secretary does not have the authority to read such a drastic course of action into the governing statutes.
  — Shamim Chowdhury, Newsweek, 20 Dec. 2024
• Federal statutes are created by Congress through legislation that must be approved by the House and the Senate, and then signed by the president.
  — Adam S. Minsky, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Jan 2025