How to Use enshrine in a Sentence

enshrine

verb
  • Up to three of those five could have been enshrined.
    — Kansas City Star, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The results of this vote will not enshrine the four-day week.
    — The Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 5 Nov. 2025
  • The contract was enshrined in state law.
    — Jim Saunders, Sun Sentinel, 5 Jan. 2026
  • All of this to say, a system of morals isn’t enshrined in the game’s code.
    — WIRED, 20 Sep. 2023
  • Now, it is enshrined as a cornerstone of the tax code.
    — David Rae, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
  • In response, the open web ought to be enshrined as a matter of law.
    — Tim Hwang, WIRED, 11 July 2023
  • No other country in the world enshrines such a right.
    — Maggie Labranch Guzman, Mercury News, 27 Sep. 2025
  • What’s really on the line is a chance to be enshrined in one that doesn’t exist yet.
    — Sam Walker, WSJ, 20 Oct. 2018
  • Then, once they are formally enshrined, all eyes will once again look ahead to who could be next in line.
    — Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 25 Jan. 2026
  • If there is a pantheon of great roast chickens, this bird deserves to be enshrined there.
    — Carol Deptolla, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 Mar. 2018
  • That idea is enshrined in Erin’s Law, which has passed in 38 states.
    — Liz McNeil, PEOPLE, 9 Nov. 2025
  • He has not been enshrined by the Naismith Hall of Fame.
    — Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 17 Feb. 2026
  • Trump signed the bill, enshrining their orders into law.
    — Anna Maria Barry-Jester, ProPublica, 22 June 2026
  • The right to keep and bear arms is enshrined in our Constitution.
    — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 8 May 2025
  • But keep in mind, the right to bear arms is enshrined in the Constitution.
    — Pat Lenhoff, chicagotribune.com, 15 Mar. 2018
  • The struggle to preserve such ideals is helped by protecting the sites that enshrine them.
    — Mindy Belz, WSJ, 23 Nov. 2022
  • And he’s now forever enshrined in the team’s Hall of Fame.
    — Gabriel Burns, AJC.com, 26 Apr. 2026
  • Yet, Jones is the eighth member of those Braves to be enshrined in the Hall.
    — Barry M. Bloom, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026
  • For the 1%, couture fashion is a chance to indulge, to splurge, to flex, to enshrine, even.
    — Fiona Sinclair Scott, CNN, 8 July 2022
  • Risk aversion has been enshrined in policy.
    — London Business School, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Now, the earliest he could be enshrined is in 2031.
    — Devon Henderson, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2026
  • Many of the rights women in Britain have today are enshrined in EU law.
    — Vicky Spratt, refinery29.com, 2 Feb. 2020
  • That line is not enshrined in law but is identical to one that was struck from an earlier version of the bill.
    — Samantha Ketterer, Houston Chronicle, 7 Mar. 2026
  • Hamels has a fringy case as a starting pitcher and could conceivably be enshrined someday, but not this year.
    — Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 23 Nov. 2025
  • The Coronation Oath has stood for centuries and is enshrined in law.
    — Town & Country, 7 May 2023
  • The rules are already enshrined in European law.
    — Tim McDonnell, semafor.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • In fact, that is enshrined in the charter of our city, which is our Constitution.
    — ABC News, 18 Jan. 2026
  • The bill would also enshrine the apology at the state Capitol.
    — Darrell Smith, Sacramento Bee, 23 May 2024
  • Some of the names of past crawler support personnel who have passed away are enshrined on the side of the crawler as a memorial.
    — Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 18 Mar. 2026
  • California was the first state in the country to enshrine a legal right to water.
    — Jack Rodriquez-Vars august 9, Sacbee.com, 9 Aug. 2025

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