How to Use legal in a Sentence

legal

adjective

• What you did was not legal.
• Do you know your legal rights?
• She has a lot of legal problems.
• The referee said it was a legal play.
• The amount of alcohol in his blood exceeded the legal limit.
• So far no one has been able to show me how this is legal.
  — James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News, 12 May 2020
• The new rule also opens the door for a fresh round of legal challenges.
  — Anne Flaherty, ABC News, 3 Jan. 2023
• Some have backed down from their claims in the face of threats of legal action.
  — Olivia Rubin, ABC News, 26 Mar. 2021
• But for now, the procedure still is legal in the state.
  — Rachel Fradette, USA TODAY, 2 July 2022
• Some of it has to do with betting on games now legal in many states.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Sep. 2019
• Congress should ensure that the same is true of cannabis in states where the drug is legal.
  — Ilya Shapiro, National Review, 10 July 2019
• To be honest with you, a lot of it with the rule changes is not legal anymore.
  — Dave Clark, Cincinnati.com, 14 May 2020
• For starters, polygamy is not legal in the state of Arizona.
  — The Editors, Good Housekeeping, 14 Apr. 2019
• Though the loophole is legal, it’s mostly used by the rich.
  — Quartz, 24 Oct. 2022
• As of now, there are no plans to take legal action to stop it, sources say.
  — Dan Rys, Billboard, 5 Aug. 2021
• Physicians may not know what is legal, or for how long.
  — Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 2 July 2022
• The fate of those funds now depends on a complex legal process that will take months to unfold.
  — New York Times, 18 Aug. 2022
• The squatters, of course, possess no legal rights at all.
  — Elliott Abrams, National Review, 11 May 2021
• With lots of cash on hand, Google is digging in for a long legal fight.
  — The Economist, 22 Oct. 2020
• But there no longer would be the legal hammer requiring them to do so.
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Dec. 2023
• Even the precise starting date for legal pot is a mystery.
  — Ian Austen, New York Times, 4 Nov. 2017
• All of those examples would be legal under the new rules.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 30 Apr. 2020
• For the past few years, Johna has been fighting a legal battle of her own.
  — Longreads, 7 Feb. 2023
• The legal world has taken note of Melody's foster case.
  — Arizona Republic, 25 May 2020
• Among cost-saving moves, the district cut down on legal fees.
  — David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 July 2019
• Running afoul of one of these laws can lead to a huge legal nightmare that takes years to untangle.
  — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 14 Mar. 2019
• That’s good news for an outlaw distiller who’d like to be legal one day.
  — Kathy Stephenson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 Apr. 2021
• But that didn’t end the chaos, confusion and legal battles.
  — latimes.com, 11 July 2018
• On top of those legal questions are big issues confronting the country.
  — Dan Balz, Ann E. Marimow, Perry Stein, Anchorage Daily News, 17 June 2023
• Before birth control was legal, all women had was the rhythm method.
  — vanityfair.com, 20 Oct. 2017

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024