How to Use repeal in a Sentence

repeal

verb
  • Trump has vowed to repeal that law.
    — Howard Gleckman, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
  • It must be struck down or repealed.
    — Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Oct. 2025
  • The time change was repealed just months later.
    — Chad De Guzman, Time, 22 May 2026
  • Maryland was the first to enact such a law and is the first to repeal it.
    — Washington Post, 19 Apr. 2021
  • Both bills would repeal that section of the law to lower costs.
    — Zach Halaschak, The Washington Examiner, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Some people think it’s repealed.
    — Lily Kepner, Austin American Statesman, 1 Feb. 2026
  • Of course, none of this involves repealing the laws of physics.
    — David Szondy may 31, New Atlas, 31 May 2026
  • That may be the last chance for at least two years to repeal the debt ceiling, once and for all.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2022
  • Meanwhile, Sánchez promised to repeal those laws.
    — Arkansas Online, 16 May 2026
  • His budget-busting tax cuts can be repealed.
    — William Pesek, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • The spending bill, which was passed by the House last week, would repeal that law.
    — Mary Clare Jalonick, Fortune, 31 Jan. 2026
  • The spending bill, which was passed by the House last week, would repeal that law.
    — Mary Clare Jalonick, Arkansas Online, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Democrats, meanwhile, have pushed for years to repeal the state's tax on groceries.
    — Stephen Groves, ajc, 6 Dec. 2022
  • That means those rules would not be repealed for this school year, which has already begun.
    — Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The decree was repealed when Teodoro came to power in a coup.
    — ABC News, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Trump has ordered that two rules be repealed for every new one imposed.
    — Editorial, Boston Herald, 18 Apr. 2026
  • Some have since been repealed while others are being challenged in court.
    — Christine Fernando, Fortune, 15 Apr. 2024
  • But this was repealed by an amendment in 1984.
    — Chad De Guzman, Time, 26 Aug. 2025
  • That was repealed 11 years later.
    — Victoria Moorwood, Cincinnati Enquirer, 14 Dec. 2025
  • Arizona's governor has since signed a bill that repeals the ban.
    — Brieanna J. Frank, USA TODAY, 3 May 2024
  • Not amend it, not retool it, not further twist it and contort it, but repeal it.
    — Sean Camacho, Denver Post, 4 Mar. 2026
  • That law, however, was repealed and is no longer on the books, Davis added.
    — Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Congress should repeal the Jones Act.
    — Katelyn Bledsoe, Boston Herald, 8 May 2026
  • But the current state school aid budget repealed that option.
    — Terell Bailey, CBS News, 23 Jan. 2026
  • That 3% tax was repealed earlier this year.
    — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 26 June 2026
  • The new provisions were repealed in a landslide vote.
    — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 24 Apr. 2026
  • The act was not repealed until 1943.
    — Everett Eaton, jsonline.com, 15 Oct. 2025
  • The two men have been pushing to repeal the measures for several years.
    — Mary Clare Jalonick, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Colorado was the first of eight states to repeal its penal exception clause.
    — Julia Bowling, The Conversation, 29 May 2026
  • The ban was repealed on May 14, 2008.
    — Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 26 Apr. 2026

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