How to Use omnibus in a Sentence

omnibus

1 of 2 noun
  • Then the sides worked side-by-side to forge the March omnibus bill.
    — Chad Pergram, Fox News, 2 Oct. 2018
  • Within just a few minutes, Risch agreed to move ahead with a change to the omnibus.
    — Phil Mattingly, CNN, 23 Mar. 2018
  • Congress showed its disdain for climate programs elsewhere in the omnibus, too.
    — Jean Chemnick, Scientific American, 9 Apr. 2018
  • One novel, one omnibus of nonfiction.
    — Philip Martin, Arkansas Online, 6 Apr. 2026
  • At some point there's probably also going to be an omnibus for many, if not all, the 12 spending bills.
    — Tax Notes Staff, Forbes, 31 Aug. 2021
  • An omnibus of short stories, focusing on characters during a crucial day of their lives.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 28 Nov. 2023
  • The 2017 omnibus became law in early May, with less than five months of the fiscal year left.
    — Lazaro Gamio, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The House passed its own elections omnibus bill, HB 531, on March 1.
    — Quinn Scanlan, ABC News, 8 Mar. 2021
  • Democrats support the bill, but had hoped that the legislation would be coupled with more robust gun control measures rather than just tucked in the omnibus.
    — Deirdre Walsh, CNN, 21 Mar. 2018
  • That ensured services continue until Biden could sign the full-year measure, called an omnibus, into law.
    — Kevin Freking, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Dec. 2022
  • There was an opportunity to add protections for Dreamers in the omnibus, too, but they were also left out.
    — Z. Byron Wolf, CNN, 22 Mar. 2018
  • Maybe all that was missing, until this newest movie, was the one-volume omnibus, the career retrospective packed into two hours.
    — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 1 Apr. 2022
  • Republicans avoided a massive, catchall funding bill known as an omnibus as part of this year’s appropriations process.
    — Kevin Freking, Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2026
  • Anyone who votes for the omnibus is voting for the deportation of Dreamers and other immigrants.
    — Essence.com, 23 Mar. 2018
  • The current House education omnibus bill limits the situations in which this loophole can be used.
    — Caroline Maguire and Laura Mogelson, Star Tribune, 6 May 2021
  • Congressional conservatives, most of whom opposed the omnibus, and the outside groups that align with them, are already ramping up in support of the idea as well.
    — Cnn's Capitol Hill Team, CNN, 9 Apr. 2018
  • At the heart of the dispute is the unwillingness of conservatives to be jammed with a massive Christmas omnibus spending bill.
    — Al Weaver, The Hill, 5 Nov. 2025
  • The hope, conservatives behind the push say, is to avoid a sprawling end-of-year government omnibus funding deal that increases spending.
    — Aris Folley, The Hill, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Spielberg only directed one segment of this omnibus film, but his chapter fits perfectly into both his résumé and his obsessions.
    — Chris Nashawaty, Entertainment Weekly, 13 June 2026
  • All 100 senators must reach an agreement to limit debate time and amendment votes in order to pass the omnibus by this Friday.
    — Siobhan Hughes, WSJ, 21 Dec. 2022
  • Whether the film is a narrative movie or an omnibus of connected music videos remains to be explained, too, although the long list of directors would point toward the latter.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 25 July 2023
  • The amendment came in the final days before Congress must pass the 4,155-page omnibus to avert a government shutdown.
    — The Arizona Republic, 22 Dec. 2022
  • The omnibus will provide funding through fiscal year 2022, which started in October.
    — Maegan Vazquez, CNN, 15 Mar. 2022
  • Senate and House appropriators have been working to write the omnibus over the past several weeks, but there are still policy hang-ups that are running down the clock.
    — Tara Golshan, Vox, 19 Mar. 2018
  • Some hard-line conservatives have voiced concerns in recent months about a short-term CR setting up the runway for an end-of-year omnibus funding package.
    — Aris Folley, The Hill, 16 Sep. 2025
  • The March omnibus spending deal follows through on an agreement to spend significantly more over the next two years than any Obama-era spending cap increase.
    — Adam N. Michel, star-telegram, 22 Mar. 2018
  • At the end of this past session, lawmakers also passed a Medicaid omnibus bill putting guardrails around some of the financial support hospitals receive from the state.
    — Lisa Schencker, Chicago Tribune, 21 June 2026
  • Republicans also celebrated the avoidance of a massive, catchall funding bill known as an omnibus as part of this year’s appropriations process.
    — Lisa Mascaro, Chicago Tribune, 23 Jan. 2026
  • In fact, opposition to the omnibus by group members and other conservatives is why Republicans had to turn to Democrats to pass the measure in the first place.
    — Chad Pergram, Fox News, 7 Apr. 2018
  • Draheim took pride in his work in the mental health space, having authored a 2022 omnibus package that secured nearly $93 million in funding.
    — Wcco Staff, CBS News, 17 Nov. 2025

omnibus

2 of 2 adjective
  • There were three major votes on the omnibus bill in the House.
    — Bill Glauber, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 14 Mar. 2022
  • Congress passed one of them just last week, two weeks ago, in the omnibus bill and raised our funding for police.
    — ABC News, 3 Apr. 2022
  • But the omnibus package aside, it’s been a year of U-turns for Brussels.
    — Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 24 Oct. 2025
  • But at the last minute, RAWA got left out of the omnibus spending bill.
    — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 1 Feb. 2023
  • The omnibus bill would also consolidate more power in his hands.
    — Lucía Cholakian Herrera Sarah Pabst, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2024
  • The tax change is part of an omnibus spending bill that Democrats hope to enact by May 22.
    — The Editorial Board, wsj.com, 4 May 2023
  • The bill was laid over in committee for potential inclusion in an omnibus bill.
    — Mary Murphy, Twin Cities, 26 Mar. 2026
  • An omnibus spending package would fund the government for the entire fiscal year.
    — Jenna Sundel, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Oct. 2025
  • No one is saying rank-and-file House Republicans must like the lame-duck omnibus deal.
    — Patrick T. Brown, CNN, 21 Dec. 2022
  • The narrative glue holding the four episodes together is far looser than in other omnibus films.
    — Alissa Simon, Variety, 21 Dec. 2021
  • Then Senate leadership stepped in and got the bill into the state’s omnibus transportation bill.
    — Ted Reed, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2021
  • The company worked on the two omnibus bills, offering to return to greater oversight and reviews every two years.
    — Gregory S. Schneider, Washington Post, 25 Feb. 2023
  • One vehicle might be an omnibus spending bill that reauthorizes health programs on the verge of expiring.
    — WIRED, 14 Nov. 2022
  • Then there’s the legislature’s omnibus liquor bill, which is still being worked over by legislators as the session winds down.
    — Stefene Russell, The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 Feb. 2022
  • Biden signed it to ensure services would continue until Congress sent him the full-year measure, called an omnibus bill.
    — Darlene Superville, Fortune, 30 Dec. 2022
  • Also in the omnibus bill was an amendment to require public hearings on data center proposals.
    — Mary Murphy, Twin Cities, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Since the omnibus effort, the Commanders official said, the team has been on standby while waiting for city leaders to act.
    — Michael Brice-Saddler, Washington Post, 31 May 2022
  • In short, this omnibus state security bill addresses the full spectrum of threats — both covert and overt — from foreign adversaries.
    — Joe Gebbia Sr, Chicago Tribune, 28 Apr. 2026
  • This is the first step in the lengthy budget process and comes just weeks after Congress passed the omnibus spending bill for the rest of 2022.
    — Sarah Ewall-Wice, CBS News, 28 Mar. 2022
  • The Senate, meanwhile, has been passing larger omnibus bills instead of single-subject bills like the House.
    — Mary Murphy, Twin Cities, 25 Apr. 2026
  • Murkowski and Young both voted last week in favor of an omnibus bill that included $14 billion in aid for Ukraine.
    — Iris Samuels, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Mar. 2022
  • The election police force is one of the few provisions of a much larger omnibus election bill that Republicans had hoped to pass this session.
    — Kelly Mena, CNN, 5 Apr. 2022
  • The finance committee approved the omnibus 4-1.
    — Vanessa Swales, jsonline.com, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Then the matter came to the full City Council for a vote, and both were approved as part of the omnibus agenda at its meeting on Monday.
    — Molly Morrow, Chicago Tribune, 20 Aug. 2025
  • For those who have decried the omnibus package as deregulation by another name, the regulations come too little, too late.
    — Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 12 Dec. 2025
  • The omnibus spending package passed earlier this month included the largest increase of the agency's budget in two decades – a 10% raise.
    — Sarah Ewall-Wice, CBS News, 23 Mar. 2022
  • The move would buy Congress an extra three weeks to complete work on an overdue omnibus package for the fiscal year that began last October.
    — al, 7 Feb. 2022
  • That labeling requirement was repealed with the passage of the 2016 omnibus spending bill.
    — Washington Post, 29 Apr. 2022
  • Though Congress is set to pass another $44 billion in Ukraine aid through the omnibus spending bill expected to pass this week.
    — Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 22 Dec. 2022
  • The latter approach worked once in the omnibus fight, allowing Democrats to set spending levels prior to losing control of the House.
    — W. James Antle Iii, Washington Examiner, 24 Mar. 2023

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