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.
• No decree, just a post to social media, very much in his style.
  — Óscar Martínez & Carlos Martínez, The Dial, 16 Sep. 2025
• Both decrees said the three churches would merge to form a single parish.
  — Ted Slowik, Daily Southtown, 12 June 2019
• Abbas, who has ruled by decree for over a decade, denies this.
  — NBC News, 11 Dec. 2021
• The decree said nothing about women’s right to study and work.
  — Margherita Stancati, WSJ, 15 Dec. 2021
• Yoon lifted the decree about three hours later.
  — Helen Regan, CNN Money, 21 Feb. 2026
• The decree also clamps down on dissent.
  — Mick Krever, CNN Money, 1 Mar. 2026
• The decree was repealed when Teodoro came to power in a coup.
  — ABC News, 16 Mar. 2026
• At least one artist felt forced to respond to Ben Gvir’s decree.
  — Abeer Salman, CNN, 25 Jan. 2023
• The birthplace of the Arab revolts, it is now ruled by one-man decree.
  — New York Times, 10 Oct. 2021
• There were religious decrees about what kind of jobs women could hold.
  — Kenny Choi, CBS News, 3 Mar. 2026
• Plants do best in the conditions that nature decrees for them.
  — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Apr. 2023
• This, though, was a death decree, and Rushdie became a hunted man.
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2022
• Now, their divorce decree has come through, and Gail is filled with regret.
  — David Wiegand, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Jan. 2018
• The decree ordered the armed forces to neutralize the groups.
  — Julia Symmes Cobb and Rosalba O'Brien, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Jan. 2024
• Yet few expect the decree alone to end trafficking.
  — Rene Ebersole, Rolling Stone, 18 Nov. 2025
• The rules, the sainted Laws, decree that once a game has restarted, it cannot be stopped.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2023
• The few Black businesses near the water were forced out by city decree.
  — Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2021
• Yes, prayer can impact a decree, but that is not its primary purpose.
  — Rabbi Avi Weiss, Sun Sentinel, 13 June 2022
• 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
• And many will embrace this newfound freedom, issued by decree, and based on hope.
  — Chris Westfall, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2021
• But Allah’s will came first, and His decree is final.
  — Dan Sheehan, Literary Hub, 11 Aug. 2025
• Their divorce decree was mailed on April 25 — two days after she was killed.
  — David Gambacorta, Philly.com, 30 Apr. 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
• Women who work in government offices and do not follow the new decree will be fired.
  — Ehsan Popalzai, CNN, 7 May 2022
• Sanalla rejected the decree at the time and called on the council to revoke it.
  — Salma El Wardany, Bloomberg.com, 10 May 2017
• 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
• As a result of the decrees, many Moroccan Jews lost their jobs.
  — Theo Zenou, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Mar. 2024
• Since then, the decree has led to no material change to the city’s portfolio.
  — Alice Yin, Chicago Tribune, 16 Feb. 2026

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.
• Ginsburg decreed that a hot dog was, in fact, a sandwich.
  — Emily Heil The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 1 Mar. 2026
• The act decreed that whites were not allowed to buy land from Natives, and vice versa.
  — oregonlive, 26 Apr. 2020
• Then the king abruptly decreed that women would be allowed to drive next year, ending a decades-long ban.
  — The Economist, 5 Nov. 2017
• Turner decreed that wolves on his land were never to be hunted or lethally controlled.
  — Todd Wilkinson, Denver Post, 27 May 2026
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• At one point, Newton decreed that Agee could nurse David for only seven minutes per breast.
  — Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 14 June 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 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
• 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
• Regulators decreed setbacks from wells be at least 2,000 feet.
  — Judith Kohler, Denver Post, 18 Mar. 2026
• Maduro decreed that 12% of Venezuela’s land—much of it Amazon rainforest—would be opened to mining.
  — Helena Carpio, Time, 16 Jan. 2026
• Many of the faith decrees on climate have pointed to a need to go beyond technological solutions.
  — The Christian Science Monitor, Christian Science Monitor, 22 Apr. 2025
• Owner Joe Lacob has decreed a championship within five years.
  — Marcus Thompson Ii, New York Times, 2 July 2026
• 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
• 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
• 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 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
• 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
• Taft, maybe, or Buddy LaRosa – decreed that there was something magical about the 4th game of the year.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 26 Oct. 2017
• 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
• For over half-a-century, Moore’s Law has decreed that compute doubles every 18 months or so.
  — Charlie Campbell, Time, 24 Feb. 2026
• 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
• The perpetrators were protected by a blanket amnesty decreed in 1993 as part of a peace accord.
  — The Economist, 29 June 2019
• An outrageous ambition, given that he was stuck in an outpost whose end had been decreed a few months earlier by the very men who had created and funded it.
  — Literary Hub, 12 Jan. 2026