How to Use excise in a Sentence

excise

1 of 2 noun

• The cuts in petrol and diesel excise duties are the first in three years.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 4 Nov. 2021
• There are also state and local excise taxes, and a sales tax.
  — Mary Jane Gibson, Rolling Stone, 21 Feb. 2022
• The funds lost in sales and excise taxes will impact state and local coffers.
  — Carole Carlson, Chicago Tribune, 6 May 2026
• In July, the state increased the excise rate from 15% to 19%.
  — Barnini Chakraborty, The Washington Examiner, 22 Sep. 2025
• This came up as part of a series of issues in an excise violation which was nearly 15 pages long.
  — Claire Rafford, The Indianapolis Star, 8 Mar. 2022
• Most of the rest comes from corporate income taxes and excise taxes on goods such as gasoline and alcohol.
  — Linda Chong, Washington Post, 7 July 2023
• The second was an excise duty cut on petrol and diesel to prevent a spike in retail fuel prices that could worsen inflation.
  — Priyanka Salve, CNBC, 2 Apr. 2026
• Hunters and anglers funded wildlife restoration through licenses and excise taxes.
  — Amber Harding Outkick, FOXNews.com, 7 May 2026
• The genius of the people will ill brook the inquisitive and peremptory spirit of excise laws.
  — Marie Sapirie, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
• Superfund excise taxes have financed hazardous waste cleanup.
  — Nicolas S. Rohatyn, Mercury News, 16 Apr. 2026
• The excise gross-up payment gives the executive enough additional cash so that they are left as if the excise tax never hit them.
  — Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 9 Apr. 2026
• The sticks also have lower excise taxes than regular cigarettes in most countries.
  — NBC News, 2 Aug. 2021
• The tax credit reduces the total amount a production company owes in franchise and excise taxes.
  — Alessia Sandala, Nashville Tennessean, 14 July 2025
• New York and Connecticut levy excise taxes on cannabis that increase with potency, just as liquor is taxed at higher rates than beer.
  — Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Jan. 2024
• For example, in late March 1954 the Senate passed a bill to reduce excise taxes.
  — Christian Grose, The Conversation, 14 Oct. 2020
• Movies have long been chopped up to excise explicit scenes, sometimes including kissing, or on political or religious grounds.
  — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2023
• Under the bill, the authority could issue bonds, and the lease rental payments could be made from local excise taxes, food and beverage tax and innkeeper’s tax.
  — Alexandra Kukulka, Chicago Tribune, 22 Jan. 2026
• Under the bill, the authority could issue bonds, and the lease rental payments could be made from local excise taxes, food and beverage tax and innkeeper’s tax.
  — Michelle L. Quinn, Chicago Tribune, 29 Jan. 2026
• Under the bill, the authority could issue bonds, and the lease rental payments could be made from local excise taxes, food and beverage tax and innkeeper’s tax.
  — Michelle L. Quinn, Chicago Tribune, 20 Feb. 2026
• Australia will halve its fuel excise for three months, while Vietnamese airlines will cut flights from April on concerns around jet fuel constraints and higher prices.
  — The Dallas Morning News, Dallas Morning News, 30 Mar. 2026
• One goal of excise tariffs is to curb the harmful use of tobacco and alcohol, but airport shopping is explicitly designed to circumvent them.
  — The Economist, 27 Feb. 2021
• Department leaders requested the change because the agency does not handle excise taxes -- which tax specific goods and services -- and never has.
  — Elise Schmelzer, Denver Post, 14 Oct. 2025
• Participants would be exempt from capital gains, conveyance and general excise taxes under this two-year program.
  — Audrey McAvoy, Fortune, 23 Jan. 2024
• The money is generated through excise taxes and fees on firearms, ammunition, certain fishing and archery gear and motorboat fuel.
  — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 12 Mar. 2023
• Savings bonds are not exempt from any applicable estate, inheritance, gift or other excise taxes, whether federal or state.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 15 Feb. 2023
• More tax revenue Mecklenburg County brought in more than $219 million in state tax revenue from sales, excise, and income taxes.
  — Chase Jordan august 28, Charlotte Observer, 28 Aug. 2025
• First, the tax authorities targeted soda, plastics, and hazardous chemicals with excise taxes.
  — Nana Ama Sarfo, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
• WalletHub calculated effective state and local tax rates based on income taxes, property taxes and sales and excise taxes.
  — Marley Malenfant, Austin American Statesman, 4 Mar. 2026
• Export manager Shota Natroshvili is almost philosophical about the new excise taxes.
  — Michelle Williams, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
• Clemmons said excise police could shut down a party and the township could be held liable for any incident involving an individual who attended the event if no permit is issued.
  — Karen Caffarini, chicagotribune.com, 21 Sep. 2021

excise

2 of 2 verb

• In surgery, doctors had to remove a portion of a rib to excise the clot.
  — Christian Clark | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 22 Aug. 2020
• To excise these communities is to strip away the strength of the modern force.
  — Loree Sutton, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
• Now, the album's getting a new release that excises one of its most beloved songs.
  — Dustin Nelson, EW.com, 21 Aug. 2023
• Redstone excised Holland from his will and banished her from his home.
  — Jordan Riefe, Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2023
• Search engines such as Google have free request forms to excise them from a name search, but what about a face search?
  — WIRED, 20 Sep. 2023
• Overnight, the spiders excised her fixes, dropped them to the ground, and carried out their own fixes.
  — Vulture, 26 May 2023
• Balor excised his own demons, while Mysterio is still haunted.
  — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 20 Apr. 2026
• Lee — who was excised from Jackie’s will — gets an invite, but Berman doesn’t?
  — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 6 Mar. 2026
• All that remained was a massive pit of rubble mixed with skeletal remains excised from the blasts.
  — Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 29 Jan. 2024
• Because the spirit of Terez has at least in part been excised from the scholarship.
  — Kansas City Star, 31 Oct. 2025
• Ingram's surgery was a success, but to excise the clot, doctors had to remove a portion of one of his ribs.
  — Christian Clark | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 23 Dec. 2020
• Maybe a shorter run would have allowed the writers to excise some of the duller material.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2023
• Woody, in particular, could be excised from the story without any loss — and why this franchise is as well.
  — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 18 June 2026
• The move to excise those planks from the platform is both pragmatic and philosophical.
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Sep. 2023
• Because initially, the way it was written, there was some comic relief lines in there that were just excised in the moment.
  — Michael Schneider, Variety, 16 Aug. 2025
• Care needs to be exercised at every step in the process to check for the introduction of biases and to excise them.
  — Lee Hutchinson, Ars Technica, 19 May 2022
• The film’s darker moments have been either lightened or excised in the stage musical version.
  — David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Sep. 2023
• At least two could be excised from the season (along with their hours of screentime) without losing much more than a few colorful details.
  — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 23 Feb. 2026
• The campaign to excise Kelly's body of work still raises thorny questions about where streaming services draw the line.
  — NBC News, 28 Sep. 2021
• The point is that the user can usually easily excise the product placement.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2023
• Other subplots are excised or condensed, but the central love story remains intact.
  — Jen Juneau, Peoplemag, 22 Aug. 2023
• Once the tissues have been broken down or reduced, the remaining tissues can be debrided (scraped) or excised (cut out).
  — Heather L. Brannon, Md, Verywell Health, 7 Sep. 2023
• In between are genes for making proteins that recognize those boundaries and either excise them out in the case of transposons, leaving a gap.
  — Megan Molteni, Wired, 7 July 2020
• For the People Act to excise the more controversial portions.
  — Grace Segers, CBS News, 8 June 2021
• Then, of course, there are the right-wing campaigns to excise passages from instructional texts or simply remove books from public schools and libraries.
  — Niela Orr, New York Times, 6 July 2023
• In Mao’s day, a purge within the Party required skilled technicians to excise a comrade from photos.
  — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023
• President Richard Nixon was undone by his attempts to conceal and excise the official record.
  — Errol Morris, Star Tribune, 6 July 2021
• At the time, Pompeo’s team was busy ramping up its campaign to excise Huawei from Western telecom networks.
  — Jimmy Quinn, National Review, 11 Aug. 2021
• After Spacey was fired from the series over the allegations, two episodes had to be scrapped as the season was rewritten to excise his character.
  — Brendan Morrow, The Week, 22 Nov. 2021
• The move to excise the scene comes as several notable TV series are reappraising past uses of blackface.
  — Omar Sanchez, EW.com, 26 June 2020