How to Use legislate in a Sentence

legislate

verb
Definition of legislatenext
Synonyms for legislatenext
  • They are attempting to legislate morality.
  • This is an area where Congress has already legislated, though.
    — Rich Lowry, National Review, 3 Oct. 2017
  • Or is this another case of government trying to legislate safety where common sense would do?
    — Lauren Ritchie, OrlandoSentinel.com, 28 Sep. 2017
  • Congress needs to stop repealing and start legislating.
    — Alaska Dispatch News, 23 Aug. 2017
  • There may also be attempts to legislate net neutrality rules, which the telecom industry supports.
    — CBS News, 14 Dec. 2017
  • Some argue that the government simply does not have the right to legislate how parents handle their children’s DNA.
    — Alex Salkever, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2017
  • Both the hypothetical presence of voter fraud and the hypothetical lack of voter fraud in analyses would be taken as signals to dig deeper and legislate more.
    — Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2017
  • And other countries have no federal limits, but legislate at the state or provincial level, similar to the United States.
    — Michelle Ye Hee Lee, Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2017
  • The time to legislate is not next week, next year, next decade.
    — Kate Graham-Shaw, Scientific American, 9 July 2024
  • The court’s job is to enforce the law as written, not legislate from the bench.
    — Christina Avery, The Arizona Republic, 10 July 2024
  • The Supreme Court has always said that states have a right to legislate in this area.
    — Fox News Staff, Fox News, 8 Sep. 2021
  • Fast food may be a tough habit to legislate away, though.
    — Brian Gallagher, New York Times, 12 May 2024
  • This needs to be hashed out and proved to be tricky to legislate, Calhoun said.
    — Brent Schrotenboer, USA TODAY, 14 Oct. 2020
  • The last thing the game needs is another rule that legislates action on the field.
    — Patrick Saunders, The Denver Post, 22 June 2019
  • Thus, the bone-rattling hits of yore are being legislated out of the game.
    — Bob Ryan, BostonGlobe.com, 19 May 2018
  • New York City has even tried to legislate against the practice, though any law would be hard to enforce.
    — Emma Grey Ellis, WIRED, 14 Aug. 2019
  • What’s bizarre is that the NFL has been trying to legislate the kickoff out of the league for years, tinkering with the distance of the kicks and the yardage of the touchback.
    — Chris Chase, For The Win, 3 May 2018
  • McGlynn hopes that the more people talk about the issue and legislate around it, the better things will get.
    — Molly Longman, refinery29.com, 27 Oct. 2022
  • For more than a decade, Congress has struggled to legislate on a range of issues.
    — Gregory Koger, Vox, 12 Nov. 2018
  • And that's what happened, there's this trope that Congress can't legislate.
    — NBC News, 3 Oct. 2021
  • What is the Mexican state going to legislate in this area?
    — WIRED, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Neither of us has ever been inclined to legislate that on others, but held it to be true in our own hearts.
    — Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2020
  • Then the Democrats had to legislate, with zero margin for error.
    — Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2022
  • Unable to legislate changes to its mission, some lawmakers have figured out a way to try to do an end-run around the body.
    — Robert Faturechi, ProPublica, 10 Mar. 2020
  • The British government plans to legislate to require it.
    — Amie Tsang, New York Times, 15 June 2018
  • But the state should not be involved in legislating your oblivion.
    — Fox News, 30 Aug. 2018
  • Democrats may now be on the verge of controlling the state Senate, but in fact Albany has all but finished legislating for the year.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 5 Apr. 2018
  • The colonies and England came to blows when the assemblies at last denied that Parliament had any right to legislate for them at all.
    — Thomas Wendel, National Review, 4 July 2019
  • Flashback: Several attempts to legislate against lying by politicians have been struck down by the courts.
    — Melissa Santos, Axios, 24 Sep. 2024
  • Australia has previously legislated in ways that the platforms disliked.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 10 Sep. 2024

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