How to Use gag rule in a Sentence

gag rule

noun
  • But that was not the end of the gag rule.
    — Time, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Adams’ tactics rendered the gag rule toothless and useless, prompting even six southern Congressmen to vote in favor of overturning it.
    — Time, 24 Sep. 2025
  • These resolutions violated a House gag rule prohibiting bills that address slavery.
    — Ryan Mancini, The Hill, 20 Nov. 2025
  • Advertisement In this new era of gag rule politics, some on the right have claimed that uncomfortable discussions about the history of slavery in the United States are meant to make white people feel bad about themselves—that whites today are somehow to blame.
    — Time, 24 Sep. 2025
  • The gag rule was rescinded in 1844 after former President John Quincy Adams, then a former House member from Massachusetts, made a motion to end it, according to the National Archives.
    — Ryan Mancini, The Hill, 20 Nov. 2025

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