How to Use petition in a Sentence

petition

1 of 2 noun
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  • Would you like to sign our petition?
  • We ask you to hear our petition.
  • We presented a petition to the legislature to change the law.
  • She filed a petition for divorce.
  • They collected 2,000 signatures on a petition demanding that women be allowed to join the club.
  • The court on Thursday asked the Campaign to respond to the petition.
    — Jess Bravin, WSJ, 21 Oct. 2023
  • So far, the court has not yet acted on the petition and has relisted it for the past four weeks.
    — Catherine Caruso, The New Republic, 30 Oct. 2023
  • If these petitions make it to the ballot, the people will decide.
    — Breccan F. Thies, Washington Examiner, 21 Nov. 2023
  • Fans have been launching online petitions for the return of the Snack Wrap for years.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Raise your voice, march in the streets, sign petitions, make calls, and knock on doors to get your neighbors involved.
    — Elizabeth Warren, Glamour, 22 Jan. 2024
  • In May, a petition was launched on Change.org demanding the lake be drained, cleaned and restored.
    — Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 31 July 2023
  • By denying the petition as moot and ending the case, the court found that the band turned over all the documents to Mars and there is nothing more to do.
    — Bill Donahue, Billboard, 17 Jan. 2024
  • There were 70 scientists in all that signed the petition.
    — Erica Huang, Scientific American, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Now, there is an online petition calling for guns to be banned on sets.
    — Clifford S. Asness, WSJ, 12 Dec. 2023
  • But in the seven years since the petition first emerged, the voices of support have drowned out detractors.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Aug. 2023
  • There’s even a Change.org petition to add it to our emoji roster!
    — Jennifer Jolly, USA TODAY, 17 July 2023
  • Stingley has known all along that the odds were against him, so turning to a longshot petition didn’t daunt him.
    — Megan O’Matz, ProPublica, 25 May 2023
  • Israeli rights groups submitted a Supreme Court petition to the same end on Feb 24.
    — Souad Mekhennet, arkansasonline.com, 28 Mar. 2024
  • The petition, filed on behalf of 19 voters in Wisconsin, sought to have new maps drawn by March.
    — Julie Bosman, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2023
  • And, if employers are found guilty of union busting, the petition will be dismissed and the employer will have to bargain with the union.
    — Paige McGlauflin, Fortune, 28 Aug. 2023
  • This could take the form of emails, petitions, and messages on social media platforms.
    — Edward Segal, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
  • The candidate could get each resident to sign both petitions, but there's a caveat.
    — Taylor Seely, The Arizona Republic, 19 Mar. 2024
  • The petition came after a probe into the judge’s phone use by the Council on Judicial Complaints.
    — Macie Goldfarb, CNN, 12 Oct. 2023
  • According to the petition, Zen, who was 22 months at the time, approached her parents and began crying.
    — Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Dartmouth College’s men’s basketball team filed a petition with the board in September to organize a union, which would be one of the first of its kind in the nation.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 24 Oct. 2023
  • Last month, Newsom, Atkins and others filed an emergency petition with the state Supreme Court in an effort to keep the proposal off the ballot.
    — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Oct. 2023
  • Tuberville has also said that 5,000 veterans have signed their support of his holds in a petition.
    — Paul Gattis | [email protected], al, 17 Aug. 2023
  • According to Deadline, more than 25 cast members have signed a petition asking for regime change at Days.
    — Vulture, 4 Aug. 2023
  • In court filings, Rosen cited the irreversible nature of the death penalty, and thus the inability to guarantee due process, as grounds for the petition.
    — Robert Salonga, The Mercury News, 4 Apr. 2024
  • The climate impact of using that much of the pesticide, the petition said, was equivalent to the carbon dioxide released from about 1 million vehicles a year.
    — Melody Petersen, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2024
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petition

2 of 2 verb
  • All people had the right to petition the king for help.
  • She petitioned to join their club.
  • The organization petitioned the government to investigate the issue.
  • If the city doesn’t do so in 20 days, the tenants can petition the court on their own.
    — Talis Shelbourne, Journal Sentinel, 17 Mar. 2023
  • In 2013, campaign group Common Cause petitioned the Supreme Court to end the ban.
    — Adil Rashid, WIRED, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Even families must petition a judge to get a copy of video.
    — Umar Farooq, ProPublica, 18 Dec. 2023
  • The pair petitioned a judge to put the trust’s 29 buildings under a receivership led by Mark Adams.
    — Liam Dillon, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2023
  • To get paid the full damages, the family will need to petition the state Legislature for a claims bill and fight to get paid.
    — Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 16 Aug. 2023
  • The unborn do not appear to be moaning at us from the void, petitioning to be let into life.
    — Elizabeth Barber, Harper's Magazine, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Other groups could petition to be included in the list.
    — Julian Mark, Washington Post, 18 Dec. 2023
  • Both petitioned the high court after the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals restricted access to the drug last April.
    — Cailey Gleeson, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Among the new approaches: family members can petition to get a loved one in the program.
    — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Oct. 2023
  • The villagers had gone to court to fight efforts to evict them for years, including petitioning Israel's Supreme Court.
    — Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 19 Dec. 2023
  • Gooden petitioned to get his gun rights restored in 2020.
    — Mara H. Gottfried, Twin Cities, 27 Feb. 2024
  • But in 2022, a state social worker petitioned for VanWormer to be placed back into a guardianship.
    — Amanda Morris, Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Ryan’s attorney Angela D’Williams petitioned the court last week to be removed from the case, citing low pay.
    — George Chidi, Rolling Stone, 20 Apr. 2023
  • In the 1980s, school boards around the country petitioned to ban many of her books, including Deenie, Blubber and Forever.
    — Michelle Mehrtens, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Apr. 2023
  • The only way someone convicted of a felony in Virginia can win back their rights is to petition the governor.
    — Laura Vozzella, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Iowa, pushed into a defensive spot, continues to petition for some role in the early process.
    — Michael Scherer, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Nov. 2022
  • A lot of times, the case can be transferred to tribal court if a child is domiciled on the reservation, or if the tribe or the Indian parents petition the state courts and move the case to tribal court.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Dec. 2022
  • Last week, the petitioners filed an appeal of the ruling to allow the parents, school and church to intervene in the case and petitioned Myles to pause the proceeding pending the outcome of the appeal.
    — Alta Spells, CNN, 20 June 2023
  • During senior year of high school, Samuels petitioned the district administration and then the school board to unblock these sites—and won.
    — Tara García Mathewson and Maria Puertas, USA TODAY, 13 Apr. 2024
  • Eight days later, prosecutors petitioned the judge in Bankman-Fried’s case to revoke his bail.
    — Tracy Wang, Rolling Stone, 28 Oct. 2023
  • This would present First Amendment concerns since citizens have the right to petition their government.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 25 Nov. 2022
  • Among the changes being considered is expanding who can petition a judge under the law, Polis said.
    — Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 27 Nov. 2022
  • Given that there were no Japanese cannabis experts, Fukui’s lawyer petitioned the court for permission to call me as a witness.
    — Andrew Weil, Harper's Magazine, 13 Dec. 2023
  • The jailhouse lawyers set about alerting the prisoners who had petitioned the 5th Circuit during the relevant years.
    — Anat Rubin, ProPublica, 4 Nov. 2023
  • Mills also petitioned to have a street in Middletown, Conn., renamed to honor an enslaved man named Prince Mortimer, who lived there.
    — Sydney Page, Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Three weeks after the program was introduced, a group representing taxi and ride-hail workers in the city petitioned the court to intervene.
    — Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 21 Nov. 2023
  • Those without the lifetime sentence can petition the court after 10 years to terminate their registration.
    — Jeff A. Chamer, Charlotte Observer, 29 Mar. 2024

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