How to Use indemnify in a Sentence

indemnify

verb
  • The foundation asked for damages and for the city to indemnify it in the case brought by tenants.
    — Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2023
  • Studios will also indemnify workers in the event of a lawsuit.
    — Brian Welk, IndieWire, 18 July 2024
  • A lot of those agreements contain limitations on how much the provider agrees to indemnify.
    — Terdawn Deboe, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
  • Still, non-DU-using states have repeatedly sought to ban or indemnify their use.
    — Popular Mechanics, 29 Mar. 2023
  • If a challenger happens to win an infringement case against a patent, the tribe says, it will be fully indemnified by the original patent holders.
    — Michael Hiltzik, latimes.com, 19 Oct. 2017
  • The City Council could vote to indemnify the officers and thus pay their punitive damages.
    — Mike Carter, The Seattle Times, 16 Sep. 2017
  • Even if the Russians were to indemnify them, they would not be allowed free passage and safe harbor to deliver to most customers.
    — Steven Tian, Fortune, 5 Dec. 2022
  • They are indemnified as city employees, which means should there be a civil judgment or settlement agreement against them, damages would be paid by the city.
    — Sara Jean Green, The Seattle Times, 8 Sep. 2017
  • According to the lawsuit, Twitter agreed to indemnify the execs but failed to uphold those agreements.
    — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 11 Apr. 2023
  • Another asked if employees can carry firearms in states with strict gun control laws and if the government would indemnify them for using deadly force.
    — Elliot Spagat, The Denver Post, 4 Apr. 2017
  • Trump has used his powers to attempt to punish rivals, indemnify supporters and enrich his family.
    — Matt Fleming, Oc Register, 21 Dec. 2025
  • The service stopped in September when it was discovered the village was no longer insured or indemnified by Pace.
    — Elizabeth Owens-Schiele, Chicago Tribune, 26 Jan. 2026
  • In some instances, the contractors have to indemnify the government, which puts the contractors on the hook for any royalty demands.
    — Susan Decker, Bloomberg.com, 10 May 2020
  • The state Senate agreed to indemnify the county against financial losses resulting from the audit.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 21 May 2021
  • Aearo placed $1 billion in a trust to settle them and agreed to indemnify 3M for all liability related to the earplugs.
    — Fox News, 3 Feb. 2023
  • Convinced that a massive pandemic was on the way, Congress indemnified the vaccine industry.
    — Laurie Garrett, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2015
  • Becker said the government’s case was an overreach and that future witnesses will be lying or exaggerating to indemnify the singer.
    — Jem Aswad, Variety, 18 Aug. 2021
  • Besides indemnifying homes and property against fire damage, people can take a number of steps to protect their residences and increase their chances of surviving a large blaze.
    — Joshua Emerson Smith, sandiegouniontribune.com, 7 July 2017
  • The fear is there because the city has sought to avoid indemnifying police officers following at least one jury trial in which an officer was found liable for misconduct.
    — Eric Heisig, cleveland.com, 6 June 2017
  • Gutierrez countered that the developers would indemnify the city and future residents and said Phoenix has routinely tried to bully its neighbor.
    — Sam Kmack, The Arizona Republic, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Logan said the company was never fully paid for the audit, nor did the Senate indemnify the company as was required by the company's contract.
    — Derek Gilliam, The Arizona Republic, 8 Jan. 2022
  • Furthermore, any costs associated with the platform trying to defend itself should be borne by the user (recall that users agree to indemnify the platform maker).
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
  • All the while, Novell successfully claimed ownership of the allegedly infringing code and agreed to indemnify Linux users.
    — Cyrus Farivar, Ars Technica, 30 Oct. 2017
  • The state agreed to indemnify the corrections officer for both compensatory and punitive damages, meaning the state would pay the entire amount, even though by law the state is not obligated to pay punitive damages.
    — Edmund H. Mahony, courant.com, 14 Mar. 2018
  • Nor did Yastrzemski’s status indemnify him from failing in the ninth inning of Thursday’s 5-4 loss to the Red Sox.
    — Henry Schulman, SFChronicle.com, 19 Sep. 2019
  • Such authorizations can’t be obtained unless a renter has liability insurance and agrees both to indemnify the city against litigation damages and to give users safety training.
    — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Dec. 2025
  • The city attorney also advised the council that settling the case would mean the city could not recover its legal costs to date and would wrongly indemnify the two defendants from ongoing and future litigation.
    — Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 July 2022
  • As the scope of the project became obvious, the landowners’ fear of liability grew, despite the fact that the city would have fully indemnified them against any liability, Fletcher said.
    — Andy Rathbun, Twin Cities, 20 Apr. 2017
  • The city is asking a judge to enforce the provision in the operating agreements that calls for the companies to indemnify the city against any damages and to pay the city’s costs to defend any lawsuits generated by the scooters.
    — Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Nov. 2021
  • Maryland law and the city’s labor agreement with the police union require the city to indemnify officers — cover their legal fees and any judgments — for actions within their employment scope, but not for actions that go beyond it.
    — Kevin Rector, baltimoresun.com, 4 Oct. 2019

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