How to Use exempt in a Sentence

exempt

1 of 2 adjective
  • But the company’s top brass isn’t exempt from the demands of IRL work.
    Paige McGlauflin, Fortune, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Such students have been exempt from the draft since the country's founding in 1948.
    John Bacon, USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Works-made-for-hire are exempt from being clawed back under the U.S.
    Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Sales tax is still exempt if the final bill exceeds $2,500.
    Talia Lissauer, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Aug. 2023
  • The law says bakeries are exempt from being required to pay the higher wages.
    Taryn Luna, Los Angeles Times, 29 Feb. 2024
  • That means the videos are exempt from the disclosure requirements of the state public records law.
    Mike Cason | McAson@al.com, al, 22 June 2023
  • Second, customers who make it to the bathroom should be exempt.
    Li Goldstein, Bon Appétit, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Travelers under 14 will still need to register, but are exempt from the cost of the fee.
    Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 27 Nov. 2023
  • These usually make other parts of your body itchy, and the feet aren’t exempt from feeling it.
    Marty Munson, Men's Health, 22 June 2023
  • Keep in mind that pop-in shops for forgotten items can be exempt from this practice.
    Karla Walsh, CNN, 13 Mar. 2024
  • Matt Corral, whom the team claimed off waivers earlier this month, remains on the exempt/left squad list.
    Nicole Yang, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Sep. 2023
  • In one listing marked as exempt, the host asks for guests to avoid interacting with the building’s concierge.
    Amanda Hoover, WIRED, 9 Oct. 2023
  • In the fall, it was announced that Girl Scout Cookies were not exempt from inflation.
    Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Anyone born in the city is also exempt, as are minors under 14.
    Elisabetta Povoledo, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2024
  • Stack said to be exempt from the minimum wage law as a bakery, restaurants must produce bread for sale on site.
    Adam Beam, Fortune, 1 Mar. 2024
  • The government notes that some incandescent bulbs, such as anti-bug lights and those that go in ovens, are exempt from the rules.
    Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 13 Sep. 2023
  • In the fall, it was announced that Girl Scout Cookies were not exempt from grocery price inflation.
    Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Currently, any income above that amount is exempt from the payroll tax.
    Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 5 May 2023
  • Qualifying purchases will be exempt from sales and use tax in the state.
    Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 28 July 2023
  • That means Madrid-Barajas Airport, which has formed much of the basis of much analysis, will likely be exempt from any bans.
    Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Community banks would be exempt, and the rule wouldn’t kick in until July 2028—the last year of the next presidential term.
    Philip Elliott, TIME, 18 Mar. 2024
  • While the impacts of climate events land most unevenly, no one is truly exempt.
    Ginny Whitelaw, Forbes, 1 Apr. 2023
  • Corral is no longer an active member of the Patriots but is not able to sign with another team while on the exempt/left squad list.
    Nicole Yang, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Sep. 2023
  • According to 9to5Google, accounts with YouTube videos attached to them will also be exempt from the deletions.
    Michael Kan, PCMAG, 16 May 2023
  • The items exempt from taxation, and the dates when holidays are in effect, can be quite arbitrary.
    Russ Wiles, The Arizona Republic, 7 Aug. 2023
  • First, units leased to voucher holders are exempt from the rent stabilization law.
    Steve Thompson, Washington Post, 8 Aug. 2023
  • The executives and employees who come along would be exempt from income tax for at least five years.
    Daphné Anglès, New York Times, 12 Dec. 2023
  • No one is exempt from the wild extremes created or worsened by climate change.
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 13 Jan. 2024
  • This only applies to employer plans so IRAs are not exempt.
    Medora Lee, USA TODAY, 13 Mar. 2024
  • However, there are some cases that are exempt from the refund guidelines.
    Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 July 2023
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exempt

2 of 2 verb
  • The law also exempts people who inherit guns that are subject to the ban.
    Jim Brunner, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Apr. 2023
  • The latter is an attempt to exempt contracts between, say, parents and an adult child.
    Jessica Lussenhop, ProPublica, 1 Feb. 2024
  • There is no amount of rest that exempts you from that biological fact.
    Josh Gondelman, SELF, 21 Dec. 2023
  • This would exempt the grandparent from filing the gift tax return.
    Liz Weston, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Oct. 2023
  • In June, Texas became the latest state to exempt period products from sales tax according to the group.
    Dale Ellis, Arkansas Online, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Under the act, states can exempt themselves from daylight saving time.
    Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 9 Mar. 2024
  • Besides residences, the law exempts parks, sports fields and playgrounds from the ban, as that grass serves a recreational purpose.
    Elise Schmelzer, The Denver Post, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Once the time’s up, the device must shut down applications that aren’t exempted by parents.
    Time, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Tax revenue exempted at the current amount is about $3.3 million.
    Haeven Gibbons, Dallas News, 22 June 2023
  • Publicly run ambulances in Colorado were exempted from the law that paid 325% of Medicare.
    Bob Herman and Tara Bannow, STAT, 9 Nov. 2023
  • The bill exempts from public disclosure any records obtained from state police or the FBI during a background check and the state database on gun permits.
    oregonlive, 27 Mar. 2023
  • While the law is supposed to exempt academics and admissions, many are concerned it could be broadly applied — chilling free speech in the classroom.
    Acacia Coronado, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Malaysia exempted both Tesla and SpaceX from its decades-old rules on local ownership.
    Bynicholas Gordon, Fortune, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Migrants who show up to a port of entry with an appointment are exempted from the asylum restriction.
    Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News, 1 June 2023
  • So yes, there's no question in my mind that the Supreme Court has exempted itself from the standards that apply to the executive and legislative branch, and even to other judges.
    Nbc Universal, NBC News, 23 Apr. 2023
  • Our laws and policies exempt VC investors from many of the rules and regulations that apply to other money managers.
    WIRED, 18 Mar. 2023
  • Some states already exempt homeless people or veterans from the work requirements, but the bill would allow more people to avoid them.
    Mary Clare Jalonick, Anchorage Daily News, 31 May 2023
  • End a carveout that exempted the company from state inspections on its theme parks rides.
    Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Daniels’ bill originally exempted all overtime pay from the state income tax, which carries a 5% rate.
    Mike Cason | McAson@al.com, al, 1 June 2023
  • Chief among them is raising the amount of income that is exempted from the calculation of a borrower’s monthly payment.
    Danielle Douglas-Gabriel, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Still another claimed that no Jewish soldiers were on the ship because they had all been exempted from overseas duty.
    Greg Daugherty, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Mar. 2024
  • In Mexico, lawmakers decided to do away with clock changes after 2022 (though its law exempted some cities along the northern border that may still change to sync with the US).
    WIRED, 11 Mar. 2023
  • Frustrated, Scanlon tried for a third time and introduced the amendment to exempt infants under age 1 from not being able to seek asylum, but the motion failed.
    Anna Giaritelli, Washington Examiner, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Daniels – who serves as minority leader – sponsored a bill that would exempt overtime pay from state taxes.
    Scott Turner | , al, 14 June 2023
  • The rest of the fake electors are being investigated by a special grand jury, but a judge exempted Jones from being questioned by the district attorney in charge of the case.
    Margaret Coker, ProPublica, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Teaching a test with the prospect of exempting a student from college coursework is more likely to weaken, if not deaden, an interest in any subject.
    Aaron R. Hanlon, The New Republic, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Any effort to also exempt market-rate units from site plan review would require council approval.
    David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 11 Nov. 2023
  • And Charles won’t have to pay a shilling of inheritance tax, thanks to a 1993 agreement with the British government that exempts transfers of property from one sovereign to another.
    Giacomo Tognini, Forbes, 4 May 2023
  • In Southern California, where three more deaths were confirmed late Tuesday, the vast geography can exempt whole stretches from the worst of an extreme storm.
    Corina Knoll, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2024
  • But given that the enormous baby boomer generation is now at retirement age, exempting them from cuts would still leave the program in crisis.
    Jeff Stein, Anchorage Daily News, 23 July 2023

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