How to Use codify in a Sentence

codify

verb

• The convention codified the rules of war.
• The author tries to codify important ideas about language.
• For new hires, most of the expert part of the job is codified.
  — Wilborn P. Nobles Iii, Dallas Morning News, 5 Mar. 2026
• Part of my job was just to be able to sort of like codify those and explain them.
  — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2024
• If passed, the bill would codify those changes into law.
  — Caroline Foreback, CBS News, 26 Feb. 2026
• Scalzitti has an even longer form than her talks to groups to codify her approach.
  — George Castle, Chicago Tribune, 26 Aug. 2022
• It's codified in the text that governs the state, lawyers and state politicians say.
  — Author: Margaret Newkirk, Erik Larson, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Aug. 2019
• At first, term limits were a precedent, but they weren't codified.
  — John W. Dean, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Apr. 2025
• Reverse the burden of proof and then codify it.
  — Robin Reichhardt, Denver Post, 25 Nov. 2025
• Democrats want this codified into law.
  — Barbara Sprunt, NPR, 10 Feb. 2026
• Existing rules of the road haven’t been codified in a formal rule.
  — Andrew Ackerman, WSJ, 30 Jan. 2020
• Palau has gone furthest in codifying it.
  — Christopher Elliott, Forbes.com, 17 May 2026
• And so figuring out how to codify that and ensure that all of our kids get that is paramount for me.
  — Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2020
• These bans codify private rules into law.
  — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 4 May 2026
• Virginia was among the last states to codify this protection.
  — Michael Alison Chandler, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2017
• Those who firmly believed in a right to wade, and those who wanted to codify a right to float into law.
  — Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 1 July 2026
• Carême was the first to codify mayonnaise as a sauce and is a father of what are now known as the mother sauces.
  — Amelia Nierenberg, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2025
• Note that the law does not just constitute and codify claims to property.
  — Adam Tooze, The New York Review of Books, 28 Jan. 2020
• Over the past decade, the job description of a big-league manager has been wiped away and codified anew.
  — Alex Putterman, The Atlantic, 3 Nov. 2017
• Students at Rugby School were the first to codify the game.
  — Thomas Adam, The Conversation, 29 May 2026
• But the Court itself does not codify those laws—that’s the job of the legislative branch.
  — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 4 May 2022
• But Congress hasn’t codified these rules into law.
  — Caitlin Dickerson, The Atlantic, 15 May 2026
• Congress codified it into law in what’s called the Jencks Act.
  — Elaine Ayala, ExpressNews.com, 1 Oct. 2019
• Without codifying how your team works, you’ll be left competing on speed and price.
  — Jeff Berkowitz, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
• And this was two decades after the 40-hour workweek was codified into law.
  — Taylor Telford, Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2023
• The bill would not have extended the state of emergency and did not codify her stay at home order.
  — Jack Turman, CBS News, 1 May 2020
• When the new rules are codified and take effect, the company would be in position to do more.
  — oregonlive, 30 Oct. 2019
• House Bill 1309 takes that rule and codifies it into state law.
  — Seth Klamann, Denver Post, 23 May 2025
• That's what this whole fight was about—the culmination of thirty-years war to codify private law for the few.
  — Maya Singer, Vogue, 6 Oct. 2018
• There was a power fantasy that the music helped codify.
  — Joshua Lamb, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025