How to Use reform in a Sentence

reform

1 of 3 verb
  • The laws need to be reformed.
  • The program is designed to help former gang members who are trying to reform.
  • They want to reform campaign spending.
  • The program is designed to reform prisoners.
  • That the system needs to be reformed.
    — ABC News, 21 Dec. 2025
  • What needed to be reformed, in your view?
    — Stephania Taladrid, New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2026
  • Maybe reformed the sausage into meatballs and sauteed them?
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Past efforts to reform the lottery have failed.
    — Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Lay off the middle managers and reform the pension plan.
    — U T Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Apr. 2026
  • What is the best way to reform property taxes?
    — Amanda Nothaft, The Conversation, 22 May 2026
  • The real work lies in reforming the systems that shape classrooms in the first place.
    — Dana Stangel-Plowe, Boston Herald, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Weigel warned that such support might bode ill for pushes to reform the state tax code at the ballot box this year.
    — Nick Coltrain, Denver Post, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Steyer frames the attacks as proof of his plans to reform the utilities.
    — Kevinisha Walker, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2026
  • Newsom is pushing his own plan to reform the state’s mental health system.
    — Tran Nguyen, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2023
  • Beshear also stated that the agency needs to be reformed and its agents retrained.
    — Marina Johnson, Louisville Courier Journal, 12 Feb. 2026
  • Since then, the band has gone on hiatus so the members could pursue other projects and then reformed.
    — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2025
  • Nithya Raman’s platform does include a plan to reform those.
    — Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 22 May 2026
  • Towns and cities in the same metro areas that did not reform zoning laws generally saw faster rent growth.
    — Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 5 Aug. 2023
  • For a time, immigration law allowed people who had reformed their lives to seek such waivers.
    — Maryclaire Dale, Fortune, 29 Oct. 2025
  • The NextGen paper is the first concrete step in plans to reform the college game.
    — Luke Cyphers, Sportico.com, 16 Oct. 2025
  • This new electric reforming system could create jet fuel right on the farm.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 19 Aug. 2025
  • The former can help stop ice from reforming, while the latter creates traction.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 23 Jan. 2026
  • There is still plenty left to do to reform higher education.
    — David Williams, Baltimore Sun, 18 Feb. 2026
  • But to do so, the group will need to reform not only its structures but also its ideology.
    — Mkhaimar Abusada, The Conversation, 5 Oct. 2025
  • My goal is to reform our broken government system and policies.
    — Steve Scauzillo, Daily News, 4 May 2026
  • There are fairer ways to reform property taxes.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 17 June 2026
  • Org charts are flattening and reforming.
    — Maria Ross, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
  • How did the 2006 reunion come about where the full original band reformed?
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 24 May 2026
  • Silberman agreed the fund program needs to be reformed, but said workers are not gaming the system.
    — Tony Saavedra, Oc Register, 4 Apr. 2026
  • His parents for years have pushed lawmakers and the Navy to reform the selection course.
    — Dave Philipps, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2023

reform

2 of 3 noun
  • A group of senators are calling for reform of the nation's health-care system.
  • He has proposed a list of political reforms.
  • Some will say these reforms are anti-union.
    — Anastasios Kamoutsas, The Orlando Sentinel, 1 Mar. 2026
  • This isn’t about tax reform, or even tax relief.
    — Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board, The Orlando Sentinel, 14 Mar. 2026
  • In many respects, those reforms have worked.
    — Shane Harris, The Atlantic, 5 Apr. 2026
  • But talks over those reforms failed in the Senate.
    — Stefan Becket, CBS News, 30 Apr. 2026
  • And that was one of the last great periods of that kind of reform.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 1 July 2026
  • Reforms came fast, as though a levee had been broken.
    — E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026
  • But Texas’ reforms stopped at its borders.
    — Kavitha Surana, CNN Money, 28 May 2026
  • But reform in the industry has been slow.
    — Nino Paoli, Fortune, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Hope springs eternal, and there’s a compelling new call for reform.
    — James Freeman, WSJ, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Reform took twenty-four of the twenty-five seats.
    — Sam Knight, New Yorker, 14 May 2026
  • The health reform was not approved by congress.
    — Roberto Andrés, The Dial, 28 May 2026
  • The question now is what reforms are needed.
    — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Reform the program where needed, by all means.
    — Kelly Sloan, The Orlando Sentinel, 9 Apr. 2026
  • But that doesn’t mean reform will come easily.
    — Jason Ma, Fortune, 6 June 2026
  • So a deep dive into tanking reform in a matter of days.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 21 Feb. 2026
  • The city made a number of reforms over the summer to combat crime.
    — Matthew Cupelli, Cincinnati Enquirer, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Keeping his foot on the gas also means pushing ahead with reforms.
    — Monroe Trombly, Louisville Courier Journal, 2 Oct. 2025
  • This is a terrible blow against reform and the Dems should be ashamed.
    — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 2 Apr. 2026
  • This is the right start, although the reforms are still going too slowly.
    — Patrick Wolff, Oc Register, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Maine is the 50th and final state to commit to the reform.
    — Denise Petski, Deadline, 1 May 2026
  • No one will dare sign anything off, try to solve social problems, or launch reforms.
    — The Week Uk, TheWeek, 7 Feb. 2026
  • The safety argument against this reform is thin at best.
    — Brendan Hellweg, Baltimore Sun, 9 Mar. 2026
  • But the Wilshire subway saga, some argue, points to the need for reforms.
    — National Correspondent, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2026
  • These are not simply workforce reforms.
    — Luis Contreras, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 June 2026
  • The lights are finally back on, thanks to market reforms.
    — Editorial Board, Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2026
  • This vision aligns with broader calls for college reform.
    — Bruno V. Manno, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Yang, too, cautions that reforms take time to implement.
    — Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 30 Oct. 2025
  • The creamy duo smooths down cuticles and reforms split ends with squalane — the very lipid that routine abuse strips away.
    — Liana Schaffner, Allure, 21 Sep. 2023

reform

3 of 3 adjective
  • The pugilistic rhetoric sheds light on where the post-reform coalition education debate will lead.
    — Kathryn Joyce, The New Republic, 30 Sep. 2021
  • Sources inside the prison told pro-reform outlet IranWire that guards fired tear gas all night after the fire broke out.
    — Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN, 17 Oct. 2022
  • Skeptics say this basically brings back the pre-reform welfare system.
    — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 13 Mar. 2021
  • Auto glass repair lawsuits, a key driver of the pre-reform crisis, drop 89% in a single year.
    — David Wilson, The Orlando Sentinel, 11 Apr. 2026
  • More board members in line with the district's pro-reform policies could ensure momentum continues for years to come.
    — Arika Herron, The Indianapolis Star, 4 Nov. 2020
  • The issue has been a point of contention for Conservative and Reform Jews for decades.
    — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 26 June 2017
  • Her anti-reform message plays well to a base of very reliable voters — older, whiter, more conservative.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 3 Sep. 2021
  • But just days before the decision, López Obrador and his supporters came back with their counter-reform bill to the Legislature.
    — Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Mar. 2021
  • March marks nine years since Ahmed Ismail Hassan, a Bahraini videographer, was shot after filming a pro-reform protest.
    — Wired Staff, Wired, 1 Feb. 2021
  • Four days after the January 1 protest, the government buried his body and disclosed its location to his family afterwards, according to the pro-reform outlet.
    — Caitlin Danaher, CNN Money, 11 Jan. 2026
  • But the outcome — the controversial firing of a command staff member who raised questions about how to keep the department well-trained — sends what is essentially an anti-reform message down through the ranks, one policing expert said.
    — Annie Sweeney, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2022
  • But there was a period during China's reform era that some pro-reform intellectuals admired the fact that America's ruling class was proficient in procedures.
    — Vincent Ni, NPR, 20 Sep. 2025
  • Under Mullins’ nearly two decades of leadership, the union has fought for better pay – with contracts resulting in pay increases of 40% – and staked a prominent position in the anti-reform movement.
    — Michael R. Sisak, USA TODAY, 5 Oct. 2021
  • Under Mullins’ nearly two decades of leadership, the union has fought for better pay — with contracts resulting in pay increases of 40% — and staked a prominent position in the anti-reform movement.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 6 Oct. 2021
  • Still, the post-reform Globes voting body remains relatively small, especially compared to the Oscars, which draw from several guilds’ worth of Hollywood workers.
    — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 25 Nov. 2025
  • Ghazali, armed with a rifle, allegedly rammed a vehicle into Temple Israel, one of the nation’s largest Reform Jewish synagogues.
    — Andrew Stanton, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Iranian medical personnel and witnesses described other harrowing scenes to pro-reform outlet IranWire.
    — Billy Stockwell, CNN Money, 10 Jan. 2026
  • Teachers attribute momentum from the strike for November’s changing of the guard on the Denver school board, shifting control from members backed by pro-reform organizations to candidates supported by the teachers union.
    — Elizabeth Hernandez, The Denver Post, 9 Feb. 2020
  • Farzin’s successor, Abdolnasser Hemmati, a pro-reform economist and Pezeshkian’s former finance minister, has promised economic stability.
    — Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 1 Jan. 2026
  • The former Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commander – who was involved in crushing pro-reform student protests – has emerged as one of Iran’s few politicians capable of dealing with both suit-wearing diplomats and soldiers in battle fatigues.
    — Mostafa Salem, CNN Money, 21 Apr. 2026
  • Builders succeeding in 2026 will prioritize cost discipline, engage pro-reform jurisdictions, invest selectively, build workforce resilience, and monitor regulatory developments closely.
    — Brad Hunter, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026

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