How to Use strike down in a Sentence

strike down

verb
  • It must be struck down or repealed.
    — Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Oct. 2025
  • The goal of the effort was to strike down the map.
    — Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 12 June 2026
  • The order was struck down by lower courts.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Apr. 2026
  • One of the drones was struck down and another drone hit near the port.
    — Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 25 Sep. 2024
  • Friedman did not strike down those portions.
    — CBS News, 23 Mar. 2026
  • Some of those tariffs have been struck down by the Supreme Court.
    — Arkansas Online, 14 Mar. 2026
  • If yes, the justices could strike down the law in its entirety.
    — Taylor Seely, AZCentral.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Voters in both states struck down those measures at the ballot box.
    — Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 13 Feb. 2024
  • The Senate has struck down the same budget bills more than half a dozen times.
    — Zachary Schermele, USA Today, 15 Oct. 2025
  • The law was struck down, but the state filed an appeal that has yet to be decided.
    — Hadley Hitson, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
  • That order was struck down in multiple courts.
    — Jacob Rosen, CBS News, 2 Apr. 2026
  • This June, a judge struck down the $100,000 fee.
    — Ignacio Calderon, USA Today, 23 June 2026
  • Both things struck down by the Supreme Court along similar lines.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 11 July 2023
  • How is this plan different from the one struck down by the Supreme Court?
    — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 9 Apr. 2024
  • Self then struck down his gavel and abruptly ended the meeting.
    — Muri Assunção, New York Daily News, 12 Mar. 2025
  • Of those, 125 drones and seven missiles were struck down, the air force said.
    — ABC News, 28 June 2026
  • There are several more landmark precedents that could be struck down in the months ahead.
    — Devin Dwyer, ABC News, 5 Oct. 2025
  • Inside the lawsuit that seeks to strike down the city’s new ordinance.
    — Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 27 May 2026
  • Courts have struck down some school district-level bathroom bans across the country.
    — Sarah Raza, Twin Cities, 22 Mar. 2025
  • The Wednesday ruling marks the third time such a state mandate has been struck down in court.
    — Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Aug. 2025
  • If struck down, the duties would impact just roughly 16%.
    — Erin Doherty, CNBC, 7 Sep. 2025
  • If struck down, the duties would impact just roughly 16%.
    — Erin Doherty, CNBC, 30 Aug. 2025
  • The Supreme Court struck down the new income tax in 1895.
    — Joseph Thorndike, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • But if the original act is struck down, what becomes of its successor?
    — Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 24 Apr. 2026
  • If Edney failed to comply, the entire vaccine law would be struck down.
    — Brandy Zadrozny, NBC News, 16 Dec. 2023
  • The Israeli Supreme Court could still review or strike down the law.
    — Brendan Cole, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Mar. 2026
  • The court has frequently struck down laws that regulate the content of speech.
    — Timothy R. Holbrook, The Conversation, 2 Oct. 2025
  • The state Supreme Court struck down the 2021 amendment this week.
    — Minnah Arshad, USA TODAY, 30 Jan. 2025
  • The justices struck down the tariffs and set the stage for companies who paid them to seek refunds.
    — Paul Wiseman, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2026
  • Some of the president’s efforts to restrict asylum in his first term were struck down by the courts.
    — Francesca Paris, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025

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