How to Use annul in a Sentence

annul

verb
  • God’s law annulled these dark views of life and opened our eyes to solutions.
    — Monica Passaglia, Christian Science Monitor, 8 July 2025
  • If such trades are then annulled, the party that won the market bet feels cheated.
    — Andy Mukherjee | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 26 Nov. 2019
  • All of the miles collected during his time in the program will be annulled.
    — Anna Schaverien, New York Times, 13 Nov. 2019
  • By the time the Crosby trade was annulled, that money had been dished out elsewhere.
    — Nick Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 31 Mar. 2026
  • So blatant were some of these acts that the results from several of these stations were annulled.
    — Matthew Bodner, Washington Post, 19 Mar. 2018
  • Friday's ruling was the first time any court in Africa has annulled election results.
    — Stephanie Busari, CNN, 3 Sep. 2017
  • If the high court rules in the favor of the comptroller general who filed the suit, the port sale would be annulled.
    — Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Bucharest annulled the results of the first round of the election, opted for a rerun, and ordered a recount.
    — Faisal Kutty, Newsweek, 10 Mar. 2025
  • The remaining three judges annulled the order to release Nasheed.
    — Washington Post, 1 June 2018
  • Dre's lawyers wanted the Drai trademark, which was first filed in 2011, to be annulled.
    — Cyrus Farivar, Ars Technica, 10 May 2018
  • Others have had their Venezuelan passports annulled trying to leave the country.
    — Jorge Rueda and Regina Garcia Cano, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2024
  • The initial election in August, the result of which was annulled, had a turnout of about 80%.
    — Matina Stevis-Gridneff, WSJ, 27 Oct. 2017
  • Supreme Court to order his release in 2019 and later annul the charges against him.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2022
  • So, with the goal annulled, Croatia’s time at the tournament has ended.
    — Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 3 July 2026
  • One of the precincts that saw its results annulled was in Lyubertsy, in the Moscow region.
    — Matthew Bodner, Washington Post, 19 Mar. 2018
  • But they are thwarted when their parents annul the union and the young girl stays home in Iowa to help her family, while the young man moves to the city.
    — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 27 Oct. 2023
  • John appealed to the pope, however, who annulled the charter shortly after its issue.
    — Joëlle Rollo-Koster, Fortune, 15 Apr. 2026
  • But the Court of Appeals annulled the decision and ordered the lower court to repeat the process.
    — Predrag Milic, Quartz, 7 Mar. 2024
  • And if teams were not, at heart, businesses reliant on prize money, perhaps the consequences of annulling the season would not be quite so stark.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2020
  • By breaking down the wall between that night and the next day, Jeremy had annulled the child’s resolution to dissolve life.
    — Yiyun Li, New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2026
  • On Friday, the court postponed a decision until Monday on whether to annul the vote.
    — Stephen McGrath, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2024
  • But Miami pressed hard and had an 18-16 edge in shots, even having a goal annulled on a tight offside call.
    — Julian Cardillo, Boston Herald, 26 Apr. 2026
  • The Constitutional Court annulled the entire first round just days before the runoff.
    — Dan Perry, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Sep. 2025
  • The court also postponed on Friday a decision until Monday on whether to annul the vote.
    — Stephen McGrath, Los Angeles Times, 2 Dec. 2024
  • If these efforts fail, and Tehran annuls its commitments and abrogates the deal, the blame is on the Iranians.
    — Dmitry Adamsky, Foreign Affairs, 26 Jan. 2014
  • He was released from jail in 2019 and the Supreme Court later annulled his conviction.
    — James D. Long, The Conversation, 30 May 2024
  • Chakwera only won after an unprecedented election rerun as the first polls were annulled by the country’s top court.
    — Charles Pensulo, semafor.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Nearly 83 percent of faculty who voted agreed the degree should be annulled, and now the decision goes to the school's board of trustees.
    — Emma Baty, Cosmopolitan, 28 Feb. 2018
  • Upon annulling the presidential vote, the Supreme Court ruled that a new election must be held within 60 days.
    — CNN, 21 Sep. 2017
  • Turnout was low at less than 40%, around half of that in the poll held in August, which was annulled by the supreme court because of irregularities.
    — The Economist, 2 Nov. 2017

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