How to Use decree in a Sentence

decree

1 of 2 noun

• Their marriage was annulled by judicial decree.
• The President issued a decree making the day a national holiday.
• The decree ordered the armed forces to neutralize the groups.
  — Julia Symmes Cobb and Rosalba O'Brien, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Jan. 2024
• Both decrees said the three churches would merge to form a single parish.
  — Ted Slowik, Daily Southtown, 12 June 2019
• The decree said nothing about women’s right to study and work.
  — Margherita Stancati, WSJ, 15 Dec. 2021
• The decree is to keep his eyes below the offensive lineman.
  — John Shinn Diehards, ajc, 15 Nov. 2017
• Plants do best in the conditions that nature decrees for them.
  — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Apr. 2023
• The birthplace of the Arab revolts, it is now ruled by one-man decree.
  — New York Times, 10 Oct. 2021
• Sanalla rejected the decree at the time and called on the council to revoke it.
  — Salma El Wardany, Bloomberg.com, 10 May 2017
• The few Black businesses near the water were forced out by city decree.
  — Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2021
• Abbas, who has ruled by decree for over a decade, denies this.
  — NBC News, 11 Dec. 2021
• The rules, the sainted Laws, decree that once a game has restarted, it cannot be stopped.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2023
• Women who work in government offices and do not follow the new decree will be fired.
  — Ehsan Popalzai, CNN, 7 May 2022
• The stone, according to the Greek inscription, was a decree.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 29 Dec. 2022
• This, though, was a death decree, and Rushdie became a hunted man.
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2022
• At least one artist felt forced to respond to Ben Gvir’s decree.
  — Abeer Salman, CNN, 25 Jan. 2023
• Outside the capital, most women seem to be obeying the decree.
  — David Zucchino, BostonGlobe.com, 21 May 2022
• This decree also eliminates a key tool in the fight against corruption.
  — Lindsay Mayka, Vox, 8 July 2019
• The decree will remain in effect for an undetermined length of time, the statement said.
  — Todd Richmond, Star Tribune, 9 July 2021
• Under terms of its sewer decree, the city is fined for each overflow that reaches one of those waters.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 18 May 2022
• Now, their divorce decree has come through, and Gail is filled with regret.
  — David Wiegand, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Jan. 2018
• There was no trial, just a decree, signed in the judge’s shaky cursive, on the grounds of abandonment.
  — April White, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 May 2022
• Federal education laws and a lot of state decrees were aimed at kids and schools with low rates of success.
  — Alan J. Borsuk, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 Sep. 2017
• Since early last year, Moïse had been ruling by decree.
  — Tamanisha John, The Conversation, 7 July 2021
• Quaintly state to yourself, as if to God, a formal decree.
  — Joyce Carol Oates, The New Yorker, 30 July 2020
• And yet scholars have been unable to track down either an original version or a copy of this decree.
  — Lobsang Sangay, Foreign Affairs, 6 Nov. 2023
• But officials there and elsewhere caution that decrees are just one tool not, not a cure-all.
  — Andrew Wolfson, The Courier-Journal, 9 Mar. 2023
• The quilombos would be cleared, officials said in a decree, and their people removed.
  — Washington Post, 26 Mar. 2021
• Which visa categories are barred by Trump's new decree?
  — Nick Miroff, Anchorage Daily News, 23 June 2020
• And many will embrace this newfound freedom, issued by decree, and based on hope.
  — Chris Westfall, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2021

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decree

2 of 2 verb

• The change was decreed by the President.
• The City Council has decreed that all dogs must be kept on a leash.
• The government decreed a national holiday.
• The act decreed that whites were not allowed to buy land from Natives, and vice versa.
  — oregonlive, 26 Apr. 2020
• Correct form decreed that they were never worn at hotels.
  — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 25 Jan. 2018
• Then the king abruptly decreed that women would be allowed to drive next year, ending a decades-long ban.
  — The Economist, 5 Nov. 2017
• Ballard’s decrees about this team not being about one man, about Luck, will be put to the test now and in the future.
  — Jim Ayello, Indianapolis Star, 25 Aug. 2019
• Our laws of physics clearly decree that the big bang ought to have created equal parts matter and antimatter.
  — Rahul Rao, Popular Science, 27 Sep. 2023
• The Academy liked the no-pressure results and decreed no need for an official host for the second year in a row.
  — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 7 Feb. 2020
• Labels must be fixed, or so decree the TV debate shows.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 25 Nov. 2020
• In breaking up the parade the police were acting under city council orders which had decreed there would be no parade.
  — sandiegouniontribune.com, 31 May 2018
• Snow's set was filled with the kind of moves that once made TV censors decree that Elvis be shown only from the waist up.
  — Christopher Spata Tampa Bay Times (tns), Arkansas Online, 17 July 2023
• Early Roman laws decreed that no tombs could exist within the city walls, so the highways leading up to the city were lined with tombs.
  — Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 June 2023
• The demographics of the mentee pool are shaped by the fact that NIH has decreed the program must be open to all comers.
  — Jeffrey Mervis, Science | AAAS, 24 Oct. 2017
• The country’s ruler has decreed that women don’t need their guardian’s approval to get their licenses.
  — Margaret Coker, New York Times, 23 June 2018
• The laughs take a back seat when invaders threaten, forcing the emperor to decree that a male from every family must suit up for battle.
  — Neal Justin, Star Tribune, 3 Sep. 2020
• In another change to church law this year, Francis decreed that victims cannot be silenced, and have the right to learn the outcomes of their cases.
  — Nicole Winfield, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Dec. 2019
• The same cult of authenticity which decrees that good tacos only come from trucks posits that the best Chinese food is found in humble settings.
  — The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
• Finally, the bill would clarify that the vice president has no power to decree whether electors will be counted.
  — Damon Linker, The Week, 11 Jan. 2022
• So far, Taliban mullahs have yet to decree what shape and form art and culture will be permitted to exist in the new Afghanistan.
  — Washington Post, 3 Sep. 2021
• The assembly has decreed that only parties that took part in the previous election will be eligible.
  — Patricia Mazzei, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2018
• The assembly decreed that local councils could not swear-in any governor who had not first pledged allegiance to the assembly.
  — Laignee Barron, Time, 25 Oct. 2017
• Lycurgus, the founder of the Spartan regime, is said to have decreed that only iron bars would be accepted as currency.
  — Nick Burns, The New Republic, 7 Aug. 2019
• Also, our industry is literally being decreed by the government that we can or can’t be open and in what form.
  — Claire Ballor, Dallas News, 21 Apr. 2020
• Current rules decree that Brunellos must age in barrel for two years and at least four months in bottle, which is quite a short minimum.
  — John Mariani, Forbes, 7 May 2021
• As the final chords faded, officers in drab olive jumpsuits and riot helmets streamed in and decreed that the crowds had breached disease-control orders.
  — Suzanne Sataline, The Atlantic, 21 May 2020
• English law decrees that the author of a letter retains ownership of its content, regardless of who possesses the piece of paper.
  — The Economist, 3 Oct. 2019
• Parliament announced a new measure, decreeing that her child—regardless of gender—was the next heir to the British throne.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 23 Apr. 2018
• As Chekhov decreed, if a cruise ship is introduced in act one, half of its passengers must be sick from a gruesome intestinal virus by act five.
  — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 5 July 2018
• If the Fed could actually decree credit costless there quite simply wouldn’t be any credit to access.
  — John Tamny, Forbes, 6 July 2022

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