How to Use redress in a Sentence

redress

1 of 2 verb
  • It is time to redress the injustices of the past.
  • Admitting to the sins of the past does not redress those sins.
    — Mark Lamster, Dallas News, 12 June 2020
  • Courts can award monetary damages to redress any harm that flows from the speech.
    — Jack Greiner, The Enquirer, 25 Nov. 2020
  • Trump has spent the past few years claiming to redress that imbalance.
    — Washington Post, 7 Oct. 2020
  • You’ll be redressed and out of the security line faster than all of your travel mates.
    — Carin Ryan, Travel + Leisure, 3 June 2026
  • The move comes amid a district-wide push to redress racial disparities.
    — Emily Donaldson, Dallas News, 25 June 2021
  • The only thing worthy of debate is about the right way to redress the imbalance.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 26 June 2019
  • The new government is also under pressure to redress the wrongs of the past.
    — New York Times, 22 Dec. 2019
  • Should it be used to get the economy back on track, or to redress longstanding health inequities?
    — Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2020
  • Now is the time to name, acknowledge and redress the harm done by Louis Agassiz.
    — Fox News, 21 June 2019
  • When nurses redressed Joyce’s bandages, her children saw her tendons and bones.
    — AZCentral.com, 28 Aug. 2023
  • His statement added that his team was working with galleries as well as his book publisher to find a way to redress the issue.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 27 Nov. 2022
  • Six years on, there are more politicians pledging to redress the skewed distribution of income and wealth.
    — Fortune, 12 Sep. 2019
  • To me, there’s something going on here that should be redressed, this shocking inequality in the system.
    — Nicole Goodkind, Fortune, 14 Nov. 2019
  • Now, lawsuits filed on both sides of the Atlantic are seeking to redress the situation.
    — Vivienne Walt, Time, 22 Dec. 2020
  • This comes amide a wider push among states to redress Congressional maps ahead of the 2026 midterms.
    — Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Roberts has long criticized policies that attempted to redress past racial wrongs with present race-conscious policies.
    — Mike Damiano, BostonGlobe.com, 29 June 2023
  • The Build Back Better Act would start to redress the imbalance.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2021
  • Across the country, cities are grappling with the effects of urban renewal and, in some cases, trying to redress the harm done.
    — Noah Robertson, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Sep. 2021
  • Courts first need to be convinced that plaintiffs have suffered an injury, that the injury could be traced back to the defendant, and that the court can redress it.
    — The Economist, 12 Dec. 2019
  • Advocates say the draft of their latest plan doesn’t set goals that are ambitious or specific enough to redress the imbalance.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 12 June 2021
  • June is a month filled with potential blockbusters that could go some way towards redressing the box office gap with 2022.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 2 June 2023
  • This feeling is based on their desire to redress their past humiliations and to regain the past glories by becoming a world power.
    — Manyin Li, National Review, 7 Mar. 2021
  • For Conway, the event points to a way that society can redress historical wrongs without sweeping them under the rug.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 23 Nov. 2020
  • The South African screen industries have made important strides in the past three decades to redress the inequalities of the apartheid era.
    — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 5 Feb. 2023
  • Then there is the drive to use that context to bring to light fashion stories and designers that have been overlooked, largely because of race or gender, and to redress those wrongs.
    — New York Times, 6 May 2022
  • The good news is that EU policymakers are trying to redress the imbalance.
    — The Economist, 20 June 2020
  • The money is intended to help redress the ravages of the war on drugs, especially in communities of color.
    — Bobby Caina Calvan, Fortune, 25 Jan. 2023
  • The tree-equity portion of the Build Back Better Act aims to redress some of those decades-old policies.
    — James Ross Gardner, The New Yorker, 29 Nov. 2021
  • And not just to redress the fact that there have been other movies about passing that have centered White women who do not hold the entirety of that experience.
    — Washington Post, 14 Oct. 2021

redress

2 of 2 noun
  • Nor, for that matter, are there clear ways for a patient to seek redress.
    — Maia Szalavitz, Wired, 11 Aug. 2021
  • But how to work out what price is too high, and what redress is appropriate?
    — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 29 Oct. 2020
  • Many seek redress in court and run up against numerous hurdles.
    — al, 15 Oct. 2020
  • First, protests are dispersed with a mixture of threats and promises of redress.
    — Christian Shepherd, Washington Post, 28 Nov. 2022
  • Rather than her thinking about revenge, the program helps her to seek redress through the courts.
    — New York Times, 19 Dec. 2021
  • At best, though, success expedites their access to tools for redress.
    — G'ra Asim, The New Republic, 29 Aug. 2020
  • The couples who sought redress in the courts have not been deprived of a pet or a motorcycle, but of a child.
    — The Editors, National Review, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Those carve-outs are needed to allow victims to seek redress, the department has said.
    — Ryan Tracy, WSJ, 23 Sep. 2020
  • With a new silver-screen adaption coming to theaters this fall, now is the time redress that oversight.
    — Scientific American, 22 Oct. 2021
  • Beyond the protests and social-media campaigns, landlord groups have sought redress through the courts.
    — Molly Osberg, Curbed, 15 Nov. 2022
  • Israel, of course, represents a global redress for the wrongs done in that year and the following decade.
    — Ben Sales, sun-sentinel.com, 1 Oct. 2020
  • But advocates say abuses are still widespread and that workers have few avenues for redress.
    — Graham Dunbar, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Nov. 2022
  • We were issued redress control numbers and instructed to wait.
    — Ashlea Halpern, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Jan. 2022
  • The task force could also recommend other forms of redress besides money.
    — Fox News, 30 Aug. 2020
  • The business of the midterms is the redress of old grievances and the introduction of new characters.
    — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2026
  • The Tronkas are well connected, and Kohlhaas’s attempts to seek legal redress fail.
    — Christine Smallwood, Harper's Magazine, 30 Mar. 2020
  • First Amendment rights to petition government for a redress of grievances cannot be abridged.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 17 Mar. 2022
  • Ukraine, meanwhile, would remain deeply wounded and likely determined to seek redress.
    — Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 18 June 2026
  • The release didn’t even mention the $2 billion in redress and restitution to customers.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 28 Dec. 2022
  • Harlem, once a hotbed of drug arrests, is pinpointed in the mapping tool as a leading candidate for redress.
    — Ashley Southall, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2023
  • In all, the redress payments of $2 billion are destined to reach 16 million customers.
    — Emily Flitter, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2022
  • Lewellen did not advocate violence against the state or its leaders, but sought redress and to halt the drift toward popish government.
    — Brendan McConville, Time, 28 Sep. 2021
  • The task force has recommended more than 100 programs or policies as redress for the harms of slavery.
    — Curtis Bunn, NBC News, 13 June 2023
  • And your responding to your son’s behavior as a matter of disrespect and seeking redress for that is not working.
    — Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2020
  • Black people and Black women have been written in the historical record in a specific way that needs its own kind of redress.
    — Keyaira Boone, Essence, 21 Apr. 2021
  • In other words, Shinar said, groups without much of a lobby in the Knesset, whose only redress is through the court system.
    — Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2023
  • The class-action suits, if permitted to go forward in court, will allow others whose posts have been banned by the platforms to join him in pursuing legal redress.
    — Kara Alaimo, CNN, 7 July 2021
  • Which is to say that its power as a mode of redress in the first sense—as agent for proclaiming and correcting injustices—is being appealed to constantly.
    — Nick Laird, The New York Review of Books, 25 Apr. 2026
  • The government has been compensating tribes across the country since the late 1980s as redress for colonial wrongs.
    — Rachel Pannett, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2023
  • The law sat dormant for nearly 200 years, but in recent decades has resurfaced as a tool of human rights activists seeking redress for victims abroad.
    — Kristen Leigh Painter, Star Tribune, 1 Dec. 2020

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