How to Use countermand in a Sentence

countermand

verb

• Orders to blow up the bridge were countermanded.
• Trump could sue to try to get the courts to countermand Biden.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 16 Feb. 2022
• The way everything is structured, there's no way to countermand that, and it's done.
  — WIRED, 8 Sep. 2022
• Bossert countermanded a lower level manager who tried to stop the ball tossing.
  — Kirk Mitchell, The Denver Post, 23 Jan. 2017
• Captain Burke, however, countermanded the order and ordered his ship back on its course across the open lake.
  — Gabe Hauari, USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2024
• The move is unlikely to amount to much, the product of a procedural mechanism that seems easy to countermand.
  — Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 17 July 2019
• Nike finally attempted to go over Russo’s head and get a more senior judge to countermand her ruling.
  — oregonlive, 18 Nov. 2020
• Even the defense secretary, who is in the chain of command, has no legal authority to countermand the order.
  — Jamie McIntyre, Washington Examiner, 14 Jan. 2021
• The second pilot tried to countermand the order, leading to another argument between the pilots.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 18 July 2021
• The Republican witness did not rule out such a verdict -- but cautioned against rushing a process that could countermand the 2016 election.
  — Stephen Collinson and Caitlin Hu, CNN, 5 Dec. 2019
• Republican support for the lawsuit and its call to throw out millions of votes in four battleground states was rooted in baseless claims of fraud, an extraordinary display of the party’s willingness to countermand the will of voters.
  — Nomaan Merchant and Alanna Durkin Richer, baltimoresun.com, 12 Dec. 2020
• Trump’s argument by noting, among other reasons, that the former chief executive could not countermand the actual president on when executive privilege could be invoked.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 16 Nov. 2022
• Advertisement But the Secretary General cannot countermand the nations.
  — Mark Webber, Time, 24 July 2026
• But a referendum effort driven by opponents of the project will ask Newton’s Super Tuesday voters to countermand the council’s decision on the zoning change.
  — John Hilliard, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Jan. 2020
• The announcement, made yesterday by Vice President Pence, countermands a decision by the Navy to retire the carrier early to save money.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 1 May 2019
• But several policing experts said that creating that kind of training presented a challenge because countermanding orders from an incident commander went against the very orientation of most police departments.
  — Edgar Sandoval, New York Times, 24 May 2023
• The chairman oversees the communication system that connects the president with combatant commanders who execute orders, but the chairman does not have the legal authority to countermand a launch directive.
  — Loren Thompson, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2021
• The refusal to countermand organizations like the National Rifle Association that roadblock efforts to address common-sense gun laws.
  — John D'anna, azcentral, 7 Aug. 2019