How to Use plenary in a Sentence

plenary

adjective
  • A plenary meeting of the 500 members was held last summer.
  • The exact time and date of the plenary session will be announced later.
    — Atlanta Life, ajc, 2 May 2017
  • But activists in the plenary hall could be heard coughing over his speech in an attempt to disrupt it.
    — Seth Borenstein, Sibi Arasu, Los Angeles Times, 23 Nov. 2024
  • The move isn’t final but is a key sign before an official decision at its plenary this week.
    — Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2019
  • The states have plenary police power to regulate health and safety.
    — David B. Rivkin Jr. and Robert Alt, WSJ, 28 Sep. 2021
  • The parliament agreed to pass the omnibus bill on jobs in a plenary meeting on Monday.
    — Grace Sihombing, Bloomberg.com, 5 Oct. 2020
  • Bellow said the teens have a full schedule this week of plenary sessions, workshops and volunteer work.
    — Marc Lester, Alaska Dispatch News, 24 June 2017
  • But activists in the plenary hall could be heard coughing over Hoekstra's speech in an attempt to disrupt it.
    — Seth Borenstein, Sibi Arasu, TIME, 24 Nov. 2024
  • In between those gatherings, the party holds seven plenums, or plenary sessions, each with its own theme.
    — NBC News, 11 Nov. 2021
  • The move isn’t final but is a key sign before an official decision at its plenary this coming week.
    — Maria Cheng and Jamey Keaten, USA TODAY, 25 Aug. 2019
  • All plenary sessions, and several breakouts, will be live streamed and archived for later viewing.
    — Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic, 11 Oct. 2017
  • In both instances, the law of the land gives white men on horseback plenary power over Black people in flight for survival.
    — Alicia Schmidt Camacho, The New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2022
  • Its plenary hall, the scene of stormy debates on legislation, sat eerily empty.
    — Ruth Eglash, Washington Post, 27 Dec. 2019
  • Bolsonaro was in the country’s capital of Brasilia that day for two plenary votes, the report said.
    — Teo Armus, Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2019
  • North Korea’s plenary session was organized to check the progress of the nation’s key policies.
    — Andrew Jeong, WSJ, 16 June 2021
  • Guardianships will be plenary, which is for personal care and financial, or general, which will be for one or the other.
    — Annie Lane, oregonlive, 4 Jan. 2023
  • The parliament’s plenary would then vote on the issue in early October.
    — Frank Jordans, The Seattle Times, 4 Sep. 2018
  • The conference's plenary sessions are being livestreamed on YouTube.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 4 Oct. 2023
  • The conduct of foreign relations is a near-plenary power of the chief executive.
    — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 5 Oct. 2019
  • Such an election was last held at a PNC plenary session in 1996 in Gaza.
    — Washington Post, 29 Apr. 2018
  • Bolsonaro was in the country’s capital of Brasilia that day for two plenary votes, the program reported.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 31 Oct. 2019
  • But only three of them showed up for the vote Saturday, with the remaining 105 leaving the plenary hall in protest.
    — Max Kim, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2024
  • Cobb was invited to be the plenary speaker wrapping up a major ocean sciences conference next year in San Diego.
    — Seth Borenstein, chicagotribune.com, 9 Dec. 2019
  • The plenary power doctrine has no basis in the text or original meaning of the Constitution.
    — Ilya Somin, Washington Post, 30 Apr. 2017
  • At the time of the March 8 plenary session, GaaSyy was out of the country, according to local media.
    — Tara Subramaniam, CNN, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Congress will hold a plenary session on March 22 to hear the president’s defense, debate the motion and hold a final vote.
    — John Quigley, Bloomberg.com, 15 Mar. 2018
  • The new commission for the protection of minors — whose members have not been announced — is expected to hold its first plenary session in April.
    — Elisabetta Povoledo, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2018
  • The Supreme Court justices had just ended a plenary session and were quickly evacuated safely, the court said in a statement.
    — Fox News, 14 Nov. 2024
  • And no Congress should be made to wait while the Executive intrudes on its plenary power over appropriations.
    — Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Aug. 2025
  • The Supreme Court justices had just ended a plenary session when the blasts happened and were quickly evacuated safely, the court said in a statement.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 14 Nov. 2024

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